
Dr Cintia Velázquez Marroni
History | Museums | Research & Practice
University of Leicester graduate
Participates in 1 Session
Cintia is a graduate in History (Hons) by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She studied a MA in Museology at the National School of Conservation and Restoration “Manuel del Castillo Negrete” (ENCRyM), where she graduated with honours. She recently finished her PhD thesis in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. Her research uses qualitative methodologies in order to explore visitors’ understanding of the past and processes of history making in the museum. Cintia is particularly interested in the relationship between academic professionals and museum practitioners, in museums as agents of civic change, processes of popular-history making and heritage politics and history. Cintia started her professional career in museums in 2005 as assistant in the Registry and Loans office in the National Museum of Art. From 2006 until 2011 she worked at the Tlatelolco University Cultural Centre (CCUT), created in 2007 by UNAM, performing there both as curatorial and exhibitions assistant, and later on as Head of Education. In this role, she was responsible for a broad range of activities including community partnering, visits programme and co-curation of exhibitions. Besides museum practice, Cintia has done academic activities such as teaching and publishing. From 2010 to 2011 she lectured at UNAM a course about Public History and Museums for the BA in History. She has published in Mexican journals such as Museums Gazette (from the National Institute of Anthropology and History, INAH) and Intervention (from ENCRyM). In 2011 her thesis won the “Miguel Covarrubias National Prize” given by the INAH for the best master thesis in museum research. During her PhD at Leicester, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Museological Review journal, form 2012 to 2014.
Sessions in which Dr Cintia Velázquez Marroni participates
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- 10.00 History as Heritage: New Understandings of the Relationship between the State, “Official History” and Society in Mexico through Museum Visitor Research
- Participant Dr Cintia Velázquez Marroni (University of Leicester graduate) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- According to the University of Gothenburg, heritage can be understood as “the reworking of the past in the present.” Under these terms, history—...
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr Cintia Velázquez Marroni attends
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14:30
- Public Debate: Heritage and the City | Le Patrimoine et la Ville
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Agora
- 14:30 - 16:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Qu’est-ce que le patrimoine change à Montréal? Qu’est-ce que Montréal change au patrimoine? Ce débat vise à mettre en discussion l'évoluti...
- Talk
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
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
11:00
11:00
- 13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices
- Participant Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- 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
- 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
- This paper will provide the conceptual introduction to the panel, drawing on results and reflections stemming from a six-year project on “Fronti...
- Paper
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
- Regular session
- 12.00 “To Learn, to Feel, to Remember, to Act?”: Understanding Visitor Experiences at Sites of Genocide Through Testimony
- Participant Dr Adam Muller (University of Manitoba) | Participant Dr Donna-Lee Frieze (Deakin University) | Participant Steven Cooke (Deakin University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
- The curation of genocidal memory within museums and related heritage sites has a number of different rationales: it preserves memory and facilit...
- Paper
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13:30
- 14.30 Heritage Changes Lives: How Partnerships between Museums and Community Organizations are Making Positive Differences to People’s Lives
- Participant Laura Crossley (University of Leicester) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- 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
- 14.00 Heterotopia of a Living History House Museum: Alternative Spaces within an Urban Environment
- Participant Alevtina Naumova (Ryerson University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- This paper will ask what constitutes an experiential reality of the past as simulated by a living house museum and how this form of heritage sim...
- Paper
- 13.30 Industrial Heritage in Regions of Heavy Industry: Identity Constructions and their Relations to "Layered Temporalities" in Global Comparison
- Participant Prof. Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Industrial Heritage: Towards Comparative Perspectives
- This paper will compare ten regions of heavy industry from North America to Australia and from Japan and China to Europe, in order to find out a...
- Paper
- 13.30 The Habitus of Heritage: Class, Memory and Visitor Position-Taking
- Participant Bella Dicks |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- This paper will explore what Bourdieu’s framework of habitus, field and symbolic capital can offer museum and heritage visitor studies. Rather t...
- Paper
- Industrial Heritage: Towards Comparative Perspectives UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M240 - SALLE ANNULÉE
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- In many parts of Europe and North America, but also in Australia, Japan and parts of China, regions of heavy industry, in particular regions of coa...
- Regular session
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- 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...
- Paper
15:30
15:30
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine : Roundtable | Table ronde UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
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
- 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

9:00
9:00
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...
- Regular session
- 09.30 Documentaires et dialogues citoyens : des « artéfacts » au coeur de l'exposition muséale. L'expérience du Centre d'histoire de Montréal
- Participant Catherine Charlebois (Centre d'histoire de Montréal) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Depuis 2001, le Centre d’histoire de Montréal (CHM) a choisi de mettre le témoignage au cœur de ses projets. Ce faisant, il a pu explorer le pot...
- Paper
- 10.00 The "War to End War": Utopian Dreams and Lost Opportunities of First World War Heritage
- Participant Professor David Harvey (University of Exeter, UK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II
- In his socialist science-fiction novel, “News From Nowhere,” William Morris expresses a utopian dream of “radical nostalgia.” Heritage is deploy...
- Paper
- 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
- 10.00 "Dealing with the Past" in Northern Ireland: Empathy as Political Engagement in the Memorial Heritage Project
- Participant Prof Elizabeth Crooke (Ulster University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Now in a transitional phase between violence and established peace, Northern Ireland is dealing with the legacy of forty years of conflict. Memo...
- Paper
- 09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue
- Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason | Participant Dr Areti Galani (Newcastle University, UK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Liz Ševčenko in “The Dialogic Museum Revisited” (2011) concludes that digital media may become the platforms for dialogue around sensitive/diffi...
- Paper
- Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Digital installations and interventions have been seen as a promising ways to support and foster dialogue in museum exhibitions. How does this p...
- Regular session
- 09.30 The Red Parentheses: Museums, Memory and the Making of [New] Nations After the Fall of the Iron Curtain
- Participant Johan Hegardt (Södertörn University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- The Social Democratic party was the leading political party in Sweden for more than sixty years and its politics have shaped the fundaments of S...
- Paper
- 09.00 Speaking About the Past: Historical Discourse in Contemporary Society
- Participant Ross Wilson (University of Chichester) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- This paper will examine the value and function of references to heritage within political, media, and public discourse in contemporary Britain a...
- Paper
- 11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration
- Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Research involving display analysis and interviews with staff and visitors has shown empathy to be an important feature of interpretative strate...
- Paper
- 10.00 Digital vs Tangible: How Museum Visitors Experience Participation and What It Means to Them
- Participant Rachael Coghlan (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- The rise of web 2.0 (including social media) motivated the museum sector’s embrace of participation, including highly interactive, co-curated ex...
- Paper
7:00
7:00
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- 11.00 Moving History and History in the Making: A Contrasting Comparison on Heritage and Memory Culture in Southern Africa
- Participant Mr Matthias Schulze M.A. |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa
- “Thank God they have taken him off. It reminds me of the colonial past.” (Interview excerpt) These were the words that expressed the gr...
- Paper
- 12.00 Heritage Changes People: Brazilian Experiences
- Participant Maria Aparecida Almeida (Unicamp) | Participant Pedro Paulo Funari (Unicamp) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- Heritage is a most controversial subject. It may be considered as a way of upholding received wisdom and conservative mores, but it may also be ...
- 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
- 09.30 Conceiving the “Deep City”: The Teaching of Aldo Rossi
- Participant David Malaud (Laboratoire de l'école d'architecture de Versailles) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I
- “In the utilisation of the ‘old bodies’ of cities, there are both economic and psychological phenomena. They constitute goods as well as refere...
- Paper
- 09.00 Using Deep History in Urban Planning: Urban Archaeology as Cultural Product
- Participant Dr. Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen (Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I
- Politicians and planners have seen the value of investing in applied research that will enhance the ability to activate the past in the planning...
- Paper
- 11.30 Intercultural Meaning-Making: Visitor Encounters with Aztecs in Oceania
- Participant Dr Lee Davidson (Victoria University of Wtgn) | Participant Leticia Pérez Castellanos (Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflecting on the Mobile Contact Zone: Cultural Diplomacy, Touring Exhibitions and Intercultural Heritage Experiences
- Museums produce international touring exhibitions to connect with international audiences and, in turn, host them to make globally significant c...
- Paper
- 09.30 Amphipolis 2.0: Authority, Archaeology and Social Media Activism
- Participant Dr Kostas Arvanitis (University of Manchester) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- In August 2014, head archaeologist Katerina Peristeri and her team unearthed the entrance to a structure in the Kasta mount near the ancient sit...
- Paper
- 11.00 Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Participant Francesca Cominelli (IREST Paris 1) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Sc...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 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
15:30
15:30
- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

17:00
17:00
- Lancement de livre / Book launch: Curatorial Dreams by Shelley Ruth Butler & Erica Lehrer Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.130
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- Event
9:00
9:00
- 11.40 Immediate Emotion: Articulating Historical Consciousness and Heritage in Oral Histories
- Participant Ms Jessica Douthwaite (University of Strathclyde) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- In this paper I will address ACHS Conference questions surrounding the building of “critical innovations” in heritage and how heritage offers us...
- Paper
- 14.00 Abandoned Cultural Landscapes and the Problem of Integrity and Authenticity
- Participant Juan Antonio García-Esparza (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: L’expertise au temps de la dérégulation patrimoniale | Expertise in a time of deregulation
- One dimension that is often commented on is the tension between authentic conservation and commodification. However, there are also issues aroun...
- Paper
- 11.00 L’art contemporain à la rescousse de l’histoire ?
- Participant Prof. Bernard Haumont (CRH/LAVUE, UMR CNRS 7218) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Qu’est-ce que l’art contemporain fait au patrimoine ?
- L’essor patrimonial de ces dernières décennies ne s’est que partiellement accompagné des reconnaissances historiques que les héritages patrimoni...
- Paper
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...
- Regular session
- L’expertise au temps de la dérégulation patrimoniale | Expertise in a time of deregulation Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- The second half of the 20th century saw the affirmation of national and international heritage administrations run by teams of experts that mutu...
- Regular session
- 10.00 After Five Years as Intangible Cultural Heritage: What Has Changed for the Pirekua?
- Participant Georgina Flores Mercado (UNAM) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, quels nouveaux défis?
- This paper will analyze the relationship established between intangible cultural heritage and tourism, a relationship strengthened through UNESC...
- Paper
- 12.00 The Crisis in Industrial and Labour Arrangements in Urban Everyday Life: Ethnography in Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Participant Cornelia Eckert (UFRGS) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: L'imaginaire paradoxal des villes occidentales: patrimoine, gentrification et résistances
- When considering the theme of the global crisis in the context of contemporary Brazilian cities, we cannot escape reflecting on a set of data ab...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
- Roundtable
15:30
15:30
- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable
- Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What is the future of the UK and what is the role of heritage in this shifting political landscape? How have debates on heritage in the UK chang...
- Roundtable