
Benedetta Serapioni
PhD Candidate
(IEG) Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz)
Participates in 1 Session
I gained my MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, in 2012. Afterwards, since August 2013, I have been a PhD researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. My research is part of a five-people project entitled: "Knowledge of the World - Heritage of Mankind: The History of UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage", which is funded by the Leibniz Competition of the Leibniz Association. The aim of the project is, firstly, to investigate, using archival sources, the history of the foundation of the UNESCO World Heritage Program. Secondly, through the work of five sub-projects, we aim to investigate the political dimensions of discussions about cultural and natural heritage and to measure the relationship between the state and civil society in the governance of the World Heritage Program. My research "Contested Heritage, Symbolic Recognition: International Experts, the Old City of Jerusalem and the beginning of UNESCO World Heritage (1971-1982)" focuses on the history of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls as World Heritage. This is a significant case study for analyzing multiple understandings and constructions of cultural heritage discourses, in the late 1960s and 1970s. Discourses that ranged from UNESCO's universal heritage paradigm and its aim to transcend the heritage logic of nation-states, to the use made by local competing actors of this international paradigm, to reinforce their national claims over the city and its urban heritage.
Sessions in which Benedetta Serapioni participates
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- 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
- Paper
Sessions in which Benedetta Serapioni attends
12:30
12:30
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
13:00
13:00
- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- Workshop
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
- Cocktail
11:00
11:00
- 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
- Paper
- 11.00 Borders in Heritage: An Introduction
- Participant Laurier Turgeon (Université Laval) | Participant Prof. Dominique Poulot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) | Participant Dr Astrid Swenson (Brunel University London ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine
- Paper
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Regular session
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Regular session
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12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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

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9:00
- At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée
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19:00
19:00
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 hours
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9:00
- 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?
- Paper
- 11.00 "You Can’t Move History: You Can Secure the Future”: Young People, Activism and the Indivisible Nature of Intangible and Tangible Heritage
- Participant Rebecca Madgin (University of Glasgow) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
- An Intergenerational Conversation about Heritage Conservation Education: The Rise, Fall, and (Necessary) Redefinition of Expert Knowledge Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Roundtable
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- How do Rights Change Heritage? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session