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Caitlin Curtis

PhD Candidate
University at Buffalo
Participates in 1 Session
Caitlin Curtis is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research interests include sustainability and heritage, critical heritage studies, cultural heritage management, and heritage tourism. Her dissertation research in particular utilizes an ethnographic methodology to examine the different uses and understandings of sustainability in the local contexts of two archaeological sites in Turkey: Aktopraklık Höyük (Akçalar, Bursa) and Çatalhöyük (Küçükköy, Konya). Using these results, she hopes to attune heritage practice at these sites to better fit with the local fabric. It was while completing research for her Master’s thesis, Planning for Heritage Preservation in Western Turkey: A GIS Approach to Archaeotourism and Agricultural Policy, that she discerned the problematic aspects of archaeologists imposing their plans for tourism and heritage development on local communities without adequately understanding local hopes for the future. This subsequently inspired her more critically minded dissertation research. In 2014, she received a joint junior residential fellowship in Cultural Heritage Management from Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations and the British Institute at Ankara to pursue her dissertation research in Istanbul, Turkey from September 2014-June 2015. She was awarded further dissertation support from the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Institute for European & Mediterranean Archaeology, and the University at Buffalo. Her work has been published in the journals Chronika (“Planning for Heritage Preservation in Western Turkey: a GIS Approach to Archaeotourism and Agricultural Policy.” Chronika 2 (2012): 42-54) and Sibirica (Hulse, E., D.M. Keeler, E.B.W. Zubrow, G. J. Korosec, I.Y. Ponkratova, and C. Curtis. “A Preliminary Report on Archaeological Fieldwork in the Kamchatka Region of Russia.” Sibirica 10 (1), Spring 2011: 48–74), and she has presented at conferences of the Society for American Archaeology, European Association of Archaeologists, and Association of American Geographers.

Sessions in which Caitlin Curtis participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Caitlin Curtis, University at Buffalo (Participant)

In recent years, both the academic and institutional community have called for greater focus on local participation in heritage practice. From t...

Sessions in which Caitlin Curtis attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:30
11:30
Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 - 13:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200

Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

Mr. Craig Bennett Jr., Bennett Preservation Engineering PC, Charleston, South Carolina (Participant)

Martine Lizotte, École internationale d’hôtellerie et tourisme du Collège LaSalle (Moderator)

Pierre Mathieu, Explorateur Voyages (Participant)

France Lessard (Participant)

David Mendel, Mendel Tours (Participant)

What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les r...
13:00
13:00
What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
2 hours, 13:00 - 15:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Workshop

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

Dr Adèle Esposito, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR AUSser Architecture, Urbanistique, Société, France (Participant)

Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

Pedro Paulo Funari, Unicamp (Participant)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
17:00
17:00
Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
2 hours 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30
Signup required

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel

Cocktail

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potential)

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Potential)

Dr Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Moderator)

Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant)

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Participant)

Hon. Serge Joyal c.p., o.c. (Participant)

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
11:00
11:00

Paper

Dr Anna Woodham, King's College London (Participant)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Participant)

In response to the guiding theme of the conference “What does heritage change?” this paper will explore how changes to the way we traditionally ...

Paper

Joshua Dent, University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada (Participant)

Canada is not just a patchwork of varying heritage governance delineated by provincial and territorial boundaries, but a maelstrom of contesting...

Paper

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

While it is customary to think about heritage as a series of practical fields oriented toward the past, it is perhaps less often the case that w...

Paper

Mehdi Ghafouri, Vanier College (Participant)

Given that heritage, tangible and intangible, is considered as a cultural/capital resource, this paper will depart from the premise that partici...

Paper

Dr Sarah May, Institute of Archaeology UCL (Participant)

What futures does landscape hold? The Lake District might be seen as the birthplace of heritage management, yet it has struggled to gain World H...
Heritage and the Late Modern State I
4 hours, 11:00 - 15:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Regular session

Joshua Dent, University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada (Moderator)

Dr Richard Hutchings, Vancouver Island University, Canada (Potential)

This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Regular session

Dr Valentina Vapnarsky, CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France (Moderator)

Dr Anath Ariel de Vidas, CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France (Moderator)

Heritagization (the various means by which cultural features—either material or immaterial—are turned into a people’s heritage) has recently become...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950

Regular session

Jeroen Rodenberg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Moderator)

Dr. Pieter Wagenaar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Moderator)

Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560

Regular session

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Moderator)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Regular session

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Moderator)

The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...

Paper

Paulette Steeves, UMASS Amherst (Participant)

American archaeologists in service of the nation state have long denied an ancient presence of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere. Sta...

Paper

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

The history of York includes many documented instances of activist resistance to the kinds of developments which remove parts of the medieval ci...
12:30
12:30
Heritage as Global Challenge
1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518

Talk

kristian kristiansen, University of Gothenburg (Participant)

Prof. Ola Wetterberg, University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation (Participant)

A new Centre for Critical Heritage Studies in partnership between University College London and University of Gothenburg started in April 2016 a...
13:30
13:30

Paper

Laura Crossley, University of Leicester (Participant)

Research has painted an often-gloomy picture of the impact of the financial cuts on museums. A 2014 Museums Association (MA) survey found that 4...

Paper

Bella Dicks (Participant)

This paper will explore what Bourdieu’s framework of habitus, field and symbolic capital can offer museum and heritage visitor studies. Rather t...

Paper

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Nostalgia has a bad press. For some, it is pointless and sentimental, for others reactionary and futile. Where does that leave those of us inter...
15:30
15:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Regular session

Dr Yujie Zhu (Moderator)

In recent decades, the growth of the World Heritage industry has necessitated the reconsideration of scale. Formerly dominated by nation-states, so...
17:00
17:00
Smoked meat in questions
1 hour, 17:00 - 18:00

Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse

Cocktail

This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
18:30
18:30
Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Emek Yilmaz, Kangwon National University (Participant)

A speedy and laborious work on constructing city identity based on the Ottoman past as “The birth of the Ottoman Empire” (as listed in UNESCO WH...

Paper

Ms Meltem Al, McGill University School of Architecture (Participant)

Prof. Ipek Türeli, McGill University, School of Architecture, Canada (Participant)

In April 2011, in the middle of an election campaign, the then prime minister (and current president) of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced...

Paper

Mesut Dinler, Politecnico di Torino (Participant)

The strong dominance of European architects in the Turkey Republic, both in academia and professional practice, started in the early decades of ...

Paper

Dr Banu Pekol, Ozyegin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design (Participant)

This paper will deal with how the residential urban heritage of religious minorities in Istanbul is being re-used and modified—while at the same...

Paper

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Participant)

Liz Ševčenko in “The Dialogic Museum Revisited” (2011) concludes that digital media may become the platforms for dialogue around sensitive/diffi...

Paper

Prof Robyn Bushell, Western Sydney University (Participant)

Dr Russell Staiff, Western Sydney University (Participant)

While “heritage and modernity” has deservedly received considerable critical attention, we have been struck by the fact that this has not been t...

Paper

Giedre Jarulaitiene (Participant)

This paper will reveal the power games within the field of heritage conservation in Røros, Norway. A closer examination of the “reconstruction” ...

Paper

Robbert Jacobs, U Antwerpen (Participant)

The Democratic Republic of Congo celebrated fifty-five years of independence in 2015. The busts and equestrian statues dating from the colonial ...

Paper

Dr Magdalena Buchczyk, University of Bristol (Participant)

This paper will explore the case of Horezu pottery in relationship with craft continuity, history, and heritage. Through an ethnographic study o...

Paper

Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Middle East Technical University (Participant)

Özgün Özçakır, METU (Participant)

Conservation of cultural heritage is a “value”-based process. Since the early twentieth century, scholars in the conservation field have been aw...

Paper

Rachael Coghlan, Australian National University (Participant)

The rise of web 2.0 (including social media) motivated the museum sector’s embrace of participation, including highly interactive, co-curated ex...

Paper

Solmaz Yadollahi, Coordinator-PhD candidate, IGS Heritage Studies,BTU-Cottbus (Participant)

Prof. Dr. Silke Weidner, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg (Participant)

The social and economic disintegration and isolation of historical centres of cities from the modern areas is an important cause of their declin...

Paper

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

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...
12:30
12:30
Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch
1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Dr Stamatis Zografos, The Bartlett School of Architecture (Participant)

There is an assumption that architecture emerged around fire. Hestia, the Greek goddess of the hearth, or Vesta, the Roman one, were both centra...
14.30  Heritage Futures
15 minutes, 9:00 - 9:15
  Part of: Posters

Paper

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

What do nuclear waste disposal, built heritage conservation, endangered language preservation, museum collecting, and the curation of family hei...

Paper

Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States (Participant)

The discipline of anthropology has been home to some of the most productive elaborations of cultural heritage research in the United States. In ...

Paper

Dr Tod Jones, Curtin University, Australia (Participant)

Trowulan is a sub-district in East Java, Indonesia, and the site of the thirteenth- to fifteenth-century Majapahit Empire.  As a kingdom that es...

Paper

Bilge Kose, Middle East Technical University (Participant)

Azize Elif Yabaci, Middle East Technical University (Participant)

Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Middle East Technical University (Participant)

Everyday, the number of tourists who are willing to experience sites and events with historical, social and cultural value is increasing. This d...

Paper

Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant)

This paper will attempt to provide a brief critical commentary on the reimagining of heritage through the mnemonics of conflict. Regarding the p...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.255

Regular session

In recent decades, the growth of the World Heritage industry has necessitated the reconsideration of scale. Formerly dominated by nation-states, so...

Paper

Dr Jasper Chalcraft, University of Sussex (Participant)

This paper will ask what does heritage change when it is transnational, and also as it transnationalizes? Drawing on the my work on an EU-funded...

Paper

Evren Uzer, Parsons School of Design & University of Gothenburg HDK (Participant)

Hospitality and hostility stems from the root word “hostis,” which could mean guest or host, friend or enemy. Hostis, according to French lingui...

Paper

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Theory building in heritage studies in general, and critical heritage studies in particular, has to be eclectic and wide-ranging. However, to ac...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.445

Regular session

Dr Satu Kähkönen, University of Jyväskylä (Moderator)

Prof. Kristin Kuutma (Moderator)

Prof. Tuuli Lähdesmäki, University of Jyväskylä (Moderator)

Space plays a crucial role in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Although space has often been discussed in heritage studies, ...
Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Regular session

Dr Tod Jones, Curtin University, Australia (Moderator)

Dr Ali Mozaffari, Deakin University, Curtin University (Moderator)

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...
Case Studies in Archaeology I
6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV 1.605

Regular session

Prof. Allison Bain, CELAT, Université Laval (Moderator)

Prof. Réginald Auger, Université Laval, Département des sciences historiques, Canada (Moderator)

In addressing the theme of this conference, we argue that archaeology, above and beyond the traditional goals of research and post-excavation analy...

Paper

Dr Eisuke Tanaka, Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University (Participant)

This paper explores how archaeology changes the relationship between stakeholders (archaeologists, local government, locals, tourists, etc.) and...

Paper

Catharina Nolin, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University (Participant)

Frequently used buzzwords in today’s urban environment and planning discourse are “green cities,” sustainability, and densification, often meani...
13:30
13:30

Paper

Prof Sian Jones, University of Stirling (Participant)

Dr Stuart Jeffrey, Glasgow School of Art (Participant)

The ACCORD project explores the opportunities and implications of digital visualization technologies for community engagement and research throu...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265

Regular session

Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...
Engaging Authenticity
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Research-Creation

Prof. Austin Parsons (Participant)

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 ...
15:30
15:30
Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00
Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

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 id...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401

Regular session

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Nuala Morse, University of Manchester / University College London (Moderator)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...
Case Studies in Archaeology II
3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV 1.605

Prof. Allison Bain, CELAT, Université Laval (Moderator)

Prof. Réginald Auger, Université Laval, Département des sciences historiques, Canada (Moderator)

13:30
13:30

Paper

Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Middle East Technical University (Participant)

Azize Elif Yabaci, Middle East Technical University (Participant)

Within the last decades, cultural tourism developed and became an important sector in the economic development of historic sites for the local a...

Paper

Dr. Bahar Aykan (Participant)

This paper will explore rights-based heritage activism as a rising phenomenon in contemporary Turkey. It will do so by looking at two recent gra...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285

Regular session

Dr. Bahar Aykan (Moderator)

State dominance in heritage management has been a key area of attention in critical heritage studies. There is now a large body of work discussing ...