
Anne MacKay is the Head, Conservation at the McCord Museum in Montreal, where she oversees all conservation and preservation activities. She has worked as a conservator in museums nationally and internationally, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of History, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, Turkey. She has published and lectured on conservation issues, is an associate editor of the Journal of the Canadian Association of Conservation and has taught courses on the history and theory of art conservation at Concordia University. Anne was accredited by the Canadian Association of Professional Conservators in 1995 in the conservation of sculpture. Her research interests include the theory and history of conservation, and the connections that can be made between conservation research and the study of history, material culture and connoisseurship. Recent publications include: “The Frame in Context: The Seagram Collection at the McCord Museum”. In The Journal of Canadian Art History, February 2015 (in progress) “When is Conservation? Object Biography and Conservation Practice” Proceedings of the conference À la recherche du savoir : nouveaux échanges sur les collections du Musée McCord / Collecting Knowledge: New Dialogues on McCord Museum (in progress) “The Removal of Metal Soaps from Brass Beads on a Leather Belt”, U. Werner, L.S. Selwyn, T. Stone, W.R. McKinnon, A. MacKay and T. Grant. In Studies in Conservation, Vol.57, No.1, 2012 “A String of Beads Unbroken: Continuity and Collaboration in an Exhibition of Iroquois Beadwork”. In ICOM-CC 15th Triennial Conference Preprints. London, England, 2008.
Sessions in which Ms. Anne MacKay participates
Monday 6 June, 2016
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09.30 Contributions to a Critical Theory of Conservation
9:00 -
9:30 |
30 minutes
Sessions in which Ms. Anne MacKay attends
Friday 3 June, 2016
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Public Debate: Heritage and the City | Le Patrimoine et la Ville
14:30 -
16:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes
157 available space(s)
Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
17:00 -
19:30 |
2 hours 30 minutes
3 waitlist space
The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises
19:30 -
21:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Saturday 4 June, 2016
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Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
9:00 -
10:00 |
1 hour
70 available space(s)
Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
18:30 -
20:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes
168 available space(s)
Sunday 5 June, 2016
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Fashioning Heritage
9:00 -
10:30 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
14:00 -
15:30 |
1 hour 30 minutes
2 waitlist space
Monday 6 June, 2016
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Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
15:30 -
17:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes
44 available space(s)
Tuesday 7 June, 2016
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Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public
13:30 -
15:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice
15:30 -
17:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes