Donna-Lee Frieze

Research Fellow

Deakin University

Participates in 1 Session

Dr Frieze is a Genocide studies scholar, specializing in memory and aftermath studies. Donna is a Research Fellow and teaches the Holocaust at Deakin University, a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University and a genocide scholar in residence at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne. She taught a graduate unit, Genocide, for over 10 years and has published widely on the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust and the Bosnian genocides in relation to testimony, film and philosophy. She has been invited to speak at Columbia University and to guest lecture at New York University.

She was the 2013-2014 Prins Senior Scholar at the Centre for Jewish History in NYC.

Donna is the editor and transcriber of Raphael Lemkin’s autobiography, Totally Unofficial(Yale University Press, 2013) and co-author with Steven Cooke of The Interior of Our Memories’: A History of Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre, (Hybrid, 2015). Donna is the past First Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and a current member of the Advisory Board.

Sessions in which Donna-Lee Frieze participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

11:00

12.00 “To Learn, to Feel, to Remember, to Act?”: Understanding Visitor Experiences at Sites of Genocide Through Testimony

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance

Paper

Adam Muller, University of Manitoba (Participant)

Donna-Lee Frieze, Deakin University (Participant)

Steven Cooke, Deakin University (Participant)

Sessions in which Donna-Lee Frieze attends

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

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)

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

Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

9:00

Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

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

Regular session

Rhiannon Mason (Moderator)

Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Moderator)

11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

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

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

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

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

13:30

Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening)

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV

Research-Creation

Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, Department of Education, Canada (Participant)

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Participant)

Nadine Blumer, Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship (CaPSL) (Participant)

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435

Regular session

Gary Campbell, ANU (Moderator)

Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

09.20 The Role of Empathy and Affect in Pro-Social Museum Transformations

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Lachlan Dudley, Australian National University (Participant)

11.40 Immediate Emotion: Articulating Historical Consciousness and Heritage in Oral Histories

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Jessica Douthwaite, University of Strathclyde (Participant)

09.40 Exploring Perceptive Experiences Through Multi-Sensory Learning

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Shauna Rak, McGill University (Participant)