Aynur Kadir
PhD Candidate
School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University
Participates in 1 Session
Aynur Kadir is an interdisciplinary scholar, media anthropologist, a doctoral researcher at the Making Culture Lab, Simon Fraser University. She is working on her doctorate on the safeguarding of Uyghur cultural heritage in China and exploring various different digital platforms for heritage management and representation. Aynur is an award-winning ethnographic filmmaker, researcher at Xinjiang Folklore Research Center, China. She has an MA in Folklore Studies and a BA in Education Technology. She is interested in using digital media in the research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage to study how digital technology might be used to transform institutional cultures, methods, and relationships with audiences.
Sessions in which Aynur Kadir participates
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- 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
Sessions in which Aynur Kadir attends
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- 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
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9:00
- 12.00 Discussion with Michael Herzfeld
- Moderator Prof. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) |
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II
- 09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion
- Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- This paper explores the role that empathy, as both a skill and an emotion, plays in the processes of politicized and self-conscious heritage-mak...
- Paper
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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
9:00
9:00
- Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.255
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- In recent decades, the growth of the World Heritage industry has necessitated the reconsideration of scale. Formerly dominated by nation-states, so...
- Regular session
- 09.00 Emergent Heritage: From Sacred to Secular Bronze Drums in Southwest China
- Participant Prof. William Nitzky (California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II
- The earliest bronze drums in Asia date back over two thousand years and symbolized great wealth and spiritual power. Of the 2400 bronze drums fo...
- Paper
- 14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
- Participant Mr Gary Campbell (ANU) | Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Theory building in heritage studies in general, and critical heritage studies in particular, has to be eclectic and wide-ranging. However, to ac...
- Paper
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13:30
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...
- Regular session
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This proposal makes the case that heritage’s capacity for change may be dependent on a paradigm shift in how heritage is interpreted. With this ...
- Research-Creation
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9:00
- 13.30 Adopting and Adapting the New Museology Discourse: Ecomuseum Development in Rural China
- Participant Prof. William Nitzky (California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- In 1997, China established its first ecomuseum as a new heritage protection and management strategy in the rural sector. China has since experie...
- Paper
- 10.00 Authentic Kyrgyzstan: Top-Down Politics Meet Bottom-Up Heritage
- Participant Anne Pyburn (Indiana University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- The Soviet modernist policy of severing ties with the past has left the rapidly globalizing post-Soviet Kyrgyz Republic with some difficulties i...
- Paper
- 09.30 Conceptualizing Living Heritage in China: The Contested Chinese ICH Discourse
- Participant Dr Yujie Zhu | Participant Christina Maags (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)? What is that? Although the concept of ICH has been extensively discussed within UNESCO, the media, and state...
- Paper
- 16.30 The Silk Roads or Economic Belt: An Analysis of the Interaction Between China’s World Heritage and its Economic and Political Ambitions
- Participant Jieyi Xie (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- This paper aims to map how the Silk Roads World Heritage listing has been utilized in diplomatic ways to construct both internally and externall...
- Paper
- 14.00 Exploring Participatory Museum Principles in China
- Participant dr Riemer Knoop (reinwardt academie / gordion cultureel advies) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- Two Reinwardt Academy museology teachers recently presented a four-week workshop on participatory museum practices to a group of master’s studen...
- Paper
- 10.00 To Theme a Village: The Race for China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in Mianzhu, Sichuan
- Participant Dr. April Liu (UBC Museum of Anthropology) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- In 2004, China officially signed UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and dedicated over 800 million R...
- Paper
- 11.30 Everyday Narrative Singing and Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Case of Dongguan muk-jyu-go in China
- Participant Ms Cuiyan Wen |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- This paper examines the official construction of Chinese traditional performing arts as an intangible cultural heritage (ICH) project, and inter...
- Paper
- Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.401
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- To date, there has been much scholarly discussion and critique about how ideas and policies of "heritage" may be operating globally. There have als...
- Regular session