Tammy MacDonald
Consultation Negotiation Coordinator and Historical Researcher
Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI
Tammy MacDonald has been with the Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI for 11 years. As the Consultation Negotiation Coordinator and historical researcher, she ensures all ancient, historical and traditional or “Living Memory” Mi'kmaq cultural and resource use of all PEI’s land and waterways are taken into account in proposed Federal and Provincial Government projects, on PEI. Tammy also creates and coordinates Mi'kmaq Educational Cultural Workshops for Government, academic, or private organizations.
As an historian, Tammy is passionate about sharing accurate historical knowledge with as wide an audience as possible. As an Islander, she is passionate about celebrating the cultural diversity of Prince Edward Island.
As an historian, Tammy is passionate about sharing accurate historical knowledge with as wide an audience as possible. As an Islander, she is passionate about celebrating the cultural diversity of Prince Edward Island.
Sessions in which Tammy MacDonald attends
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- Pre-Conference Tour: Old Montreal (2 groups) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- Find out more about all the eras that shaped Montréal with this interesting walking tour, from the foundation of Fort Ville-Marie in 1642 to today’...
- Tour
17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
19:30
19:30
- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
11:00
11:00
- 11.00 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage
- Participant Geir Vestheim (University College of Southeast Norway) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- This paper will depart from the idea that the making of cultural policy, and heritage policy included, takes place within a political system and...
- Paper
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...
- Regular session
- 16.00 Mitigating Cultural Contestation: The Case of Black Pete
- Participant Dr. Pieter Wagenaar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | Participant Jeroen Rodenberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- In current cultural heritage literature there is much emphasis on the uses of heritage in the construction of group identities. The (hi)stories ...
- Paper
- 11.30 Understanding Transitional Heritage: Heritage-Making in Post-Authoritarian Societies
- Participant Laura Demeter (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- The context of transition from authoritarian regimes to democracy post-1989 in Central and Eastern Europe impacted heritage practices, legislati...
- Paper
- 12.00 Before and After Definition: Transformation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Policy in Xinjiang
- Participant Prof. Kate Hennessy ( Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Canada) | Participant Aynur Kadir (School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Based on fieldwork in Xinjiang, China, this paper will investigate the ambiguities surrounding the government policies that seek to promote econ...
- Paper
- 15.30 Recognition Politics and Multicultural Heritagization in Canada
- Participant Dr Susan Ashley (Northumbria University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- With Co-author Caitlin Gordon-Walker Ethno-cultural groups in Canada use community centres as cultural spaces to promote a sense ...
- Paper
- 14.00 Disseminating Disgust: De-colonizing Monuments through Affective Atrategies: The Case of Cecil John Rhodes in Cape Town and Oxford
- Participant Dr. Britta Timm Knudsen (Aarhus University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- This paper argues that political mobilization and enthusiasm is created as a consequence of profane strategies of disgust rather than of anger a...
- Paper
- 14.30 Of, By, and For Which People?: Government and Contested Heritage
- Participant Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Indiana University (IUPUI)) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Two government-owned and managed heritage sites in Indiana, USA, offer an opportunity to explore the role of governing in adjudicating the compe...
- Paper
- 13.30 Cultural Policy, Heritage Logic, and Cultural Contest: Afro-Cuban Religions and Inclusionary Discrimination in Contemporary Cuba
- Participant Dr. Michelle Tisdel (National Library of Norway) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- While Afro-Cubans have benefitted, in general, from many social, economic and cultural policies implemented by the socialist government, their o...
- Paper
18:30
18:30
- Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 18:30 - 20:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
7:00
7:00
- Around the Université du Québec à Montréal: visit of Chinatown | Autour de l’Université du Québec à Montréal : visite du Quartier chinois
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 8:45 | 1 hour 45 minutes
- (In English) Chinatown, born in the second half of the 19th century, is a hub of commercial and sociocultural activities which showcases Chinese cu...
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Heritagization (the various means by which cultural features—either material or immaterial—are turned into a people’s heritage) has recently become...
- Regular session
- 10.00 Artifacts on Air: Cultural Coherence and Remote Access in Indigenous Collections
- Participant Emily Meikle (University of Toronto) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II
- Drawing upon recent research that I conducted, this paper will explore if and how radio can be used to promote remote access to indigenous archa...
- Paper
- 09.30 Pilgrimage in a Contested Sacred Landscape: A Case Study in Conflict between Culture, Heritage Management, and Development in Native North America
- Participant Dr Kathleen Van Vlack (Living Heritage Anthropology) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II
- In many societies around the world, religious specialists engage in the act of pilgrimage. While on pilgrimage, specialists travel on long-estab...
- Paper
14:00
14:00
- Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
- Signup required Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
19:00
19:00
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 hours
- Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...
7:00
7:00
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- 11.30 Cultural Heritage, Human Rights and Intellectual Property Law: Does Three Make a Crowd?
- Participant Courtney (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Cultural Heritage appears in both tangible and intangible forms and in many cases, it is difficult to separate the two. What role do intellectua...
- Paper
- 11.00 How Does the Law of International Human Rights Change Heritage? Cooption, Reinforcement and Challenge (cancelled)
- Participant Dr Lucas Lixinski (UNSW Sydney) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Cultural heritage, and international cultural heritage law (ICHL) with it, has been consistently used over time as a means to build identities, ...
- Paper
- 09.20 Introduction
- 9:00 - 9:10 | 10 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- 14.00 Cultural Diversity, Intangible Heritage and Human Rights: A Case Study from Glasgow
- Participant Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith (Heriot-Watt University ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- This paper will focus on concepts of cultural diversity and intangible heritage with particular reference to the notion of human rights. The dis...
- Paper
- How do Rights Change Heritage? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Questions about the repatriation of cultural property, issues of access and exclusion in the World Heritage system, intangible heritage practices i...
- Regular session
- 12.00 Acknowledgement as a Precursor to Heritage: The Alevi Muslim Minority and the Legal Recognition of Religious Architecture in the Turkish Republic
- Participant Dr. Angela Andersen |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- The conceptualization of heritage can only resonate when a community has achieved acknowledgement of its role in society. For minority groups, t...
- Paper
- 09.30 Cultural, Conflicting and Collective Rights in Bagan, Myanmar
- Participant Anne Laura Kraak (Deakin University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Following decades of isolation, Myanmar started to re-engage with the UNESCO’s World Heritage system in 2012 at a time when the link between her...
- Paper
- 10.00 Reconciling Conflicting Rights: National Indigenous Heritage in Southeast Asia
- Participant Dr Anna Karlström (Uppsala University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Over the last decades a language of rights and human rights-based approaches have been adopted by intergovernmental organizations and are now we...
- Paper
- 13.30 Approaching Rights in the World Heritage Arena: Methodological Considerations
- Participant Peter Larsen (University of Lucerne) | Participant Ms Kristal Buckley AM (Deakin University Australia) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- A number of actors within the World Heritage system have, within recent years, started addressing rights, rights-based approaches and language. ...
- Paper
15:30
15:30
- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son id...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
18:00
18:00
- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
- To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
- Cocktail
7:00
7:00
- In Griffintown/ Dans le Griff and Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940-1960
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- (Guided visits to Two Exhibitions, Centre d’histoire de Montréal- bilingual) – The Centre d’histoire de Montréal presents Dans le Griff
- Tour
11:00
11:00
- 12.00 Unknown Ground: The Case for Ambiguity in Indigenous Architecture
- Participant Brett MacIntyre (Checkwitch Poiron Architects) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada
- What is indigenous architecture? Who is allowed to make indigenous buildings? What role do “traditional” forms play in the development of modern...
- Paper
- 11.30 Environmental Design and Cultural Continuity: On the Changing Indigenous Architectural Landscape of Canada
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada
- Increasingly, indigenous communities are choosing to showcase tradition and culture within prominent and cutting-edge planning and architectural...
- Paper
- 11.00 A Tectonic Question of Métis Centeredness
- Participant David T. Fortin (Laurentian University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada
- There is an implied collective sense of place, celebration, and assertion within the terminology of an “indigenous cultural centre.” The locatio...
- Paper
- "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In November 2014, artists and thinkers including Jimmie Durham, Michael Taussig, Rebecca Belmore and Paul Chaat Smith convened in Calgary and Saska...
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- 16.00 Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Case Study of "Pantun"
- Participant Diyana Sulaiman (Deakin University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations
- This paper will discuss the protection of intangible cultural heritage through the case study of a form of Malay literature known as “Pantun.” I...
- Paper
- 13.30 Rights-Based Heritage Claims in Contemporary Turkey: The Cases of Hasankeyf and Sulukule
- Participant Dr. Bahar Aykan |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations
- This paper will explore rights-based heritage activism as a rising phenomenon in contemporary Turkey. It will do so by looking at two recent gra...
- Paper
- 14.00 A Jurisprudence of Rights: Indigeneity, Cultural Heritage, and United States Archaeology
- Participant Hilary Soderland |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations
- Beginning with the 1906 Antiquities Act, the United States government regulated the nation’s cultural past as steward on behalf of all Americans...
- Paper
- Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- State dominance in heritage management has been a key area of attention in critical heritage studies. There is now a large body of work discussing ...
- Regular session
- 15.30 The Consequences of Adat Law on Indonesia’s Heritage Regime
- Participant Mr Rangga Dachlan (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations
- The 2003 UNESCO Convention on ICH Safeguarding (ICHC) remains the primary instrument in the international protection of intangible cultural heri...
- Paper
- 14.30 Owning Jerusalem's Past: UNESCO World Heritage and the Struggle for Symbolic Recognition
- Participant Benedetta Serapioni ((IEG) Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz)) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations
- The aim of this paper is to reflect, from an historical perspective, on the ways the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention opened a new space to...
- Paper
19:00
19:00
8:30
8:30
- Post-Conference Tour: The Mont Royal Summit UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 8:30 - 11:45 | 3 hours 15 minutes
- ||| This loop crosses the forest to the top of Mount Royal allowing a discovery of its fauna and flora. Beautiful views offer a unique perspecti...
- Tour