
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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11:00
- 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
- Paper
Sessions in which Aynur Kadir attends
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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

9:00
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
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
- 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
- Regular session
- 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
- Paper
13:30
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
- Regular session
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
9:00
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Regular session