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Prof. Dorit Kluge

Professor in Business Studies (Marketing and Tourism) and Art Historian
HWTK Berlin
Participates in 1 Session
She studied art history, journalism, French and Italian literature in Leipzig (Germany), Metz (France) and Pavia (Italy). Her PhD thesis in art history deals with the very beginning of modern art criticism in France and analyses the writings of Etienne de La Font de Saint-Yenne. She also holds a Master’s degree in business administration with a specialization in service management, marketing, and human resources. She worked in the tourism industry for Thomas Cook in Germany for seven years before she came to France via a governmental exchange programme. From 2006 until 2014 she taught Tourism, Art History, and German language in the department of culture professions as well as in the German department at Blaise Pascal University Clermont-Ferrand where she was appointed maître de conférences in art history in 2013. In April 2014 she was appointed professor at the University of Applied Sciences HWTK Berlin where she is currently teaching business administration, tourism and marketing. A major part of her research work is dedicated to the interaction of art and economics in the 18th century and she is responsible for the research cluster 4 of the HWTK Berlin: “Economic aspects in cultural and artistic processes”. Another main research focus is on didactics and methods of teaching art history, culture, management, and languages in applied contexts such as in tourism studies.

Publications:
Monograph:
  • Kritik als Spiegel der Kunst. Die Kunstreflexionen des La Font de Saint-Yenne im Kontext der Entstehung der Kunstkritik im 18. Jahrhundert, Kunst- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungen, Bd. 7, VDG, Weimar, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89739-622-7
Recent articles (2013-2016):
  • When art criticism enters early tourist guidebooks. Two case studies from the late 18th century. In: La guida turistica. Luogo d’incontro tra lessico e immagini dei Beni Culturali, Pisa/Florence, 2016. [in preparation]
  • La genèse de la critique d’art et son impact sur la peinture. In: Genres littéraires et peintures, ed. by Anne-Sophie Gomez and Nelson Charest, Clermont-Ferrand, Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2015, p. 246-262.
  • Kunst und Kunstgeschichte im Deutsch-Unterricht. In: Visuelle Medien im DaF-Unterricht, ed. by Marc Hieronimus, Fachverband Deutsch als Fremdsprache (FaDaF), Göttingen, Universitätsverlag, 2014, p. 195-222.
  • Inspiration française et/ou création autonome ? Le réseau des dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle. In: Le Salon de l’Académie royale de peinture et sculpture : archéologie d’une institution, ed. by Isabelle Pichet, Paris, Hermann, 2014, p. 57-78.
  • Frankreich als Inspirationsquelle oder längst überholtes Modell ? Die Berichterstattung zu den Dresdner Kunstausstellungen 1764-1806. In: Aufklärung und Hofkultur in Dresden, ed. by Roland Kanz and Johannes Süßmann, Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert 37 (2013) 2. Göttingen, Wallenstein Verlag, p. 262-270.
  • „Es sollte Porträt seyn, und war Ideal“ Das Bildnis der Johanna Friederike Karoline von Hohenthal, geb. Gräfin Rex. In: Anton Graff – Porträts eines Porträtisten. Berlin, Wolff Verlag, 2013, p. 72-76, 196.
  • La Font de Saint-Yenne (1688-1771) – un penseur des Lumières. In: Penser l’art dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle : théorie, critique, philosophie, histoire, ed. by Christian Michel and Carl Magnusson, collection d’histoire de l’art de l’Académie de France à Rome, n° 15, Rom, 2013, p. 205-219.
  • Une œuvre d’art comme bien économique ? La politique artistique, les arts et la critique d’art en Saxe dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle. In: Circulations et réseaux transnationaux en Europe (XVIIIe-XXe siècles). Acteurs, pratiques, modèles, ed. by Landry Charrier, Karine Rance, Friederike Spitzl-Dupic, Collection Convergences vol. 72, Bern, Peter Lang, 2013, p. 145-155.

Sessions in which Prof. Dorit Kluge participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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Sessions in which Prof. Dorit Kluge attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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13:00
13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
Tour/ExcursionPublic event

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’s modern city.  The historic heart of the city and its adjacent Old Port will help illuminate the story of one of the greatest cities in the Americas. Your guide will lead you through a maze of narrow streets where you can find a multitude of historic buildings. Explore the birthplace of our metropolis and experience a special voyage back in time! ...

17:00
17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
Festive Event

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail take place in the former Grey Nuns' Motherhouse, recycled into campus residence and reading rooms by Concordia University,  delegates will also have the possibility to discover the video Three Grey Nuns (3 minutes, by Ron Rudin and Phil Lichti. Three Grey Nuns recount their memories of communal life in the Grey Nun’s Motherhouse.  Built...

19:30
19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Research-Creation Installation or PerformancePublic event

Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration with Dr Jill Didur, will curate a series of installations and performances that speak directly to the rich heritage of a specific urban landscape: the gardens of the Grey Nuns' Motherhouse, now part of the Concordia University downtown campus. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the lost working gardens of the Grey Nuns. As with other such...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, states maintain their leading role in the mobilization of social and territorial histories, on the local scale, regions, neighbourhoods and parishes have changed. Citizens and communities too: they latch on to heritage to express an unprecedented range of belongings that no law seems to be able to take measures to contain, often to the discontent of...

10:30
11:00
11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
Heritage Changes the Social OrderHeritage Changes Politics
Heritage changes politicsPolitical uses of heritageUses of heritageHeritage and conflicts

Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be heritage, a certain set of social values can come to exclude other values. By formulating heritage policies which reproduce the existing AHD government may further such exclusion. Every now and then AHDs are challenged, leading to what political scientists like Ross (2007; 2009) call "cultural contestations" between groups. These are surrounded ...

13:30
13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
Changes in Heritage (New Manifestations)Notions of Heritage
17:00
17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
Festive Event

This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. In particular, the tasting will allow a discovery of the products of the renowned international institution Schwartz's, the Hebrew Delicatessen for which Montrealers and tourists alike are willing to wait in long line-ups. During the tasting, “Chez Schwartz,” a documentary produced by Garry B...

18:30
18:30 - 20:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including nationalism.  In these processes, through a variety of devices (museums, scholarly research, consumer reproduction, etc.), dualistic classifications articulate a powerful hierarchy of value and significance.  In particular, the tangible-intangible pair, given legitimacy by such international bodies as UNESCO, reproduces a selective ordering of cul...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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7:00
7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
Public event

Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet that takes listeners from the Atwater Market to the Saint Gabriel Lock, exploring the post-industrial transformation of a once heavily industrialized area. The Lachine Canal area has undergone dramatic changes, as mills and factories were closed and then demolished or converted into high-end condominiums. The adjoining working-class neighbourhoods ...

10:30
14:00
14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Co-Construction and Community Based HeritageHeritage Changes the Social OrderCitizenshipPublic event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted  question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among different groups of citizens, cultures, races, ethnic groups, sexual identities, and social classes about received, official and/or widely accepted or accomodated intangible attributes, cultural traditions, historic monuments, buildings, and other transmitted or revived historical legacies. Heritage designated by and for whom, for what motivations, an...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
Heritage Changes PlaceCo-Construction and Community Based Heritage
Heritage changes placeCo-construction of heritageCommunity-based heritageHeritage makers

In addressing the theme of this conference, we argue that archaeology, above and beyond the traditional goals of research and post-excavation analyses, may contribute to economic development, education and the creation of identities and communities. Our session "What does Heritage Change? Case Studies in Archaeology," is divided into two themes starting with archaeological practice through its legislation and management. Contract or commercial archaeology increasingly comprises the vast major...

13:30
13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Heritage Changes PlaceCo-Construction and Community Based HeritageActivists and Experts

Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global movements toward new collaborative paradigms (Golding and Modest 2013; Watson and Waterton 2011). Co-production is a highly current issue, and a proposed emancipatory solution to the authorized heritage discourse, which seemingly has reached a critical juncture. Scholarship has echoed calls from communities for more direct involvement in the presentat...

15:30
15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

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 identification ou de sa conservation. Cela peut plus profondément s’expliquer parce que, dès le départ, il célébre un événement ou conserve une mémoire qui peut être ou devenir une source de dissenssions et de conflits politiques. Enfin, sa reconnaissance suscite des gains économiques pour les uns mais des pertes pour les autres. Mais peut-être...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
Notions of HeritageHeritage Changes Itself (Geographical and Linguistic Processes of Transformation)
Heritage changes itselfHeritage and geographyLinguistic transformation of heritageNotions of heritage

As the interface between past and present, heritage is deeply involved in articulations of personal and group identity, working to unite and harmonize group relations, and, simultaneously causing frictions, fractions, and violence. Critical heritage theory reveals that values and approaches to heritage are articulated both within and across regions (such as Asia, or Europe). A vital, and as yet unanswered, question centres on the degree to which heritage in Asia fundamentally differs from ...

9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
Heritage as an Agent of Change (Epistemologies, Ontologies, Teaching)Heritage Changes the Social OrderUrban HeritageTourismArchitecture and Urbanism
Heritage as an agent of changeEpistemologiesOntologiesTeaching

Si la ville moderne occidentale se transforme, sous l'action des aménageurs, en écho à des utopies, des programmes de développement et des intérêts économiques, on néglige trop souvent l'action quotidienne d'habitants et d'acteurs sociaux qui s'approprient les lieux et contribuent à les transformer. Dans cette mutation de la ville, le patrimoine se trouve à la croisée d'enjeux économiques et sociaux singuliers: d'une part il est convoqué par les aménageurs et les acteurs de la gentrification ...

19:00
19:00 - 23:00 | 4 hours
Festive Event

The closing dinner of the conference, called “Pawâ” according to a French-Canadian tradition borrowed from the Native American lexicon, will be an opportunity to discover, in the heart of the Old Port of Montreal, an original culinary creation by the caterer Agnus Dei, from the renowned Maison Cartier-Besson in Montreal, leader in its field for its boundless creativity and event expertise. The dinner, in the form of stations, will offer delegates an exploration of Quebecois culinary heritage,...

Wednesday 8 June, 2016

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8:30
8:30 - 17:30 | 9 hours
Tour/Excursion

||| Les Mohawks constituent la nation amérindienne la plus nombreuse parmi les dix différentes nations que compte le Québec. La nation mohawk compte près de 17 350 habitants. Il y en a 2 700 qui vivent hors réserve et les autres sont dispersés dans trois grandes communautés que sont : Kanesatake, Akwasasne et Kahnawà :ke. Située à proximité de Montréal, sur la rive sud du fleuve Saint-Laurent, la communauté de Kahnawà :ke compte près de 7 300 habitants. Elle est parmi les première...