Prof. Ola Wetterberg

Professor

University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation

Participates in 3 items

Professor and Chair in Conservation of Built Heritage, at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Ola Wetterberg is engaged in the development of cross disciplinary and cross professional education and research. His research is conducted in two related directions: urban heritage and the changing role of church buildings. His present research projects regard the changing values and new uses of church heritage in contemporary society.

Recent publications (selection): 2014 Svenska kyrkans kulturarv Forskningsöversikt 2009-2014, co-authors Erika Persson & Eva Löfgren, research report Department of Conservation, 2014 ‘Integrated Conservation of Built Environments: Swedish Reflections from Three Decades of Program Development’, co-authors Lagerqvist Bosse & Ingrid Martins Holmberg, in Preservation Education: Sharing Best Practices and Finding Common Ground, University Press of New England; 2013 ’Strukturella samhällsförändringar och kulturarvsprocesser – exemplet malmfälten’, co-author Birgitta Svensson, in Mångvetenskapliga möten för ett breddat kulturarbete, Riksantikvarieämbetet; 2011 ’Conservation and the Professions: The Swedish Context 1880-1920’, in Towards World Heritage. International Origins of the Preservation Movement 1870-1930 Ashgate.

Sessions in which Prof. Ola Wetterberg participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

11:00

Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320

Regular session

Dr Eva Löfgren, Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Moderator)

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

Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...

14.30 Preservation as Salvation: Safeguarding the Church of Sweden

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

Paper

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

Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, University of Iceland (Participant)

This paper will investigate how claims to protect religious rites as intangible heritage have been received within heritage and religious instit...

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...

Sessions in which Prof. Ola Wetterberg attends

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

7:00

Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal

2 hours, 7:00 - 9:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)

Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...

9:00

11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories

Paper

Dr Yujie Zhu (Participant)

Heritage development in historical cities is regarded as a vital ingredient of urban regeneration by state and local governments. The inner city...

11.30 Transformations of Place du Trône: Visualizing Narratives of Colonialism

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories

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 ...

09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

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...

12.00 Mural, Mural on the Wall, Did Scorn and Pretense Make You Fall?

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories

Paper

John Leroux, Canada (Participant)

Throughout its 175-year history, Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, has evolved into one of Canada’s most admired educational...

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)

1 hour 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30

Signup required

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Moderator)

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

7:30

Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée

8 hours, 7:30 - 15:30

Signup required

Église Saint-Michel - Église Saint-Michel

Regular session

Mrs Lilian Grootswagers-Theuns, Erfgoed.nu / council member of FRH (Future for Religious Heritage, European network for places of worship / Vice chair of Task Force Toekomst Kerkgebouwen / member of ICOMOS (Moderator)

Édith Prégent, Université du Québec à Montréal, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain, Musée régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges (Moderator)

__ Please note that this session is scheduled in a distant location from the main conference; transportation will be provided to regi...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

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...

12.00 Developing a Pragmatic Tool for Historic Environment Practitioners: A Case Study of the Horto d’El Rey in Brazil

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II

Paper

Dr. Jeremy Wells, Roger Williams University (Participant)

In the past fifteen years, there has been an increasing call for built heritage practitioners to use the values of a broad array of stakeholders...

13:30

Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés

3 hours 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

Signup required

Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier

Regular session

Chantal Turbide, L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Moderator)

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

While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are ...

19:00

Pawâ

4 hours, 19:00 - 23:00

La Scena - La Scena (intérieur)

Repas

The closing dinner of the conference, called “Pawâ” according to a French-Canadian tradition borrowed from the Native American lexicon, will be an ...