
Eman Shokry Hesham
PhD Candidate
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus- Senftenberg, Germany
Participates in 1 Session
Eman Hesham has been a PhD student in Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus- Senftenberg, BTU since September 2014. Her research topic is about the social impact in conservation sites in Egypt. Hesham’s research interests are urban heritage conservation and heritage impact assessment. Work experience: In 2011 Hesham had worked at the German Archaeological Institute DAI in Cairo for 3 years as an architect for the project “Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online, AEGARON” before starting her PhD research. In 2010 she had worked for two semesters as an assistant lecturer at the Architectural Department in October University for Modern Sciences and Arts MSA in Cairo, after obtaining her Master’s Degree in Economics of Heritage in 2009 in University of Catania, Italy. After graduating in Cairo University, Egypt in 2004, she had worked at the National Organization for Urban Harmony NOUH, Ministry of Culture as an architect and urban planner for 4 years. In 2008, she became the Manager of “Urban Observatory” Department. Her report "Boundaries of Areas of Heritage Value in Greater Cairo" was selected to be published online on the Visual Communication's website under the section "Urban Planning". The report was a follow-up documentation as part of the Integrated Urban Planning IUP Program. An article titled “About art and Construction - Argumentative Research and Perfectionism” (in Arabic), was published in the Architecture Magazine in issue 21, May 2013.
Sessions in which Eman Shokry Hesham participates
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- 10.00 Responsible Heritage Site Management—Different Perspectives over a Century: The Case of Luxor, Egypt
- Participant Eman Shokry Hesham (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus- Senftenberg, Germany) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- In 1881, the clearance of accumulated mud that buried the ruins of Luxor Temple during many centuries was begun. A few years later, formal forei...
- Paper
Sessions in which Eman Shokry Hesham attends
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12:30
- Welcome Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
- Pause
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
13:00
13:00
- Pre-Conference Tour: Old Montreal (2 groups) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- Find out more about all the eras that shaped Montréal with this interesting walking tour, from the foundation of Fort Ville-Marie in 1642 to today’...
- Tour
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
19:30
19:30
- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
8:00
8:00
- Morning Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 8:00 - 10:00 | 2 hours
- Pause
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

10:30
10:30
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 10:30 - 11:00 | 30 minutes
- Pause
11:00
11:00
- 11.30 Heritage Diplomacy and the Border
- Participant Prof. Tim Winter (Deakin University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine
- Borders—political, institutional and cultural—have been central to the internationalization of heritage in the modern era. The concepts of herit...
- Paper
- 11.00 Mixing Memory and Desire: Utopian Currents in Heritage
- Participant Ms Elizabeth Stainforth (University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- There is a well-established precedent for utopian thinking around cultural heritage, particularly in the institutional context. For example, a n...
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
15:00
15:00
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 15:00 - 15:30 | 30 minutes
- Pause
15:30
15:30
- 16.00 Heritage Designation and Scale: A World Heritage Case Study of the Ningaloo Coast
- Participant Dr Tod Jones (Curtin University, Australia) |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I
- As heritage research has engaged with a greater plurality of heritage practices, scale has emerged as an important concept in heritage studies, ...
- Paper
- 15.30 Managed Landscapes: The Social Construction of Scale at Angkor
- Participant Rowena Butland |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I
- In constructing the scales that frame our political, social and cultural lives, we do not neutrally siphon off a particular part of the world an...
- Paper
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- 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...
- Cocktail
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

7:00
7:00
- Through the alleys of Saint-Henri - guided by Pohanna Pyne Feinberg
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Movement, stillness, and creation will be combined during this walk as participants are encouraged to attune themselves to the environment through ...
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- 09.30 Performing the Past: Reproduction and Transmission of Local Heritage through Theatre in the Community of Princes Town, Trinidad
- Participant Ms Iezora Edwards (The University of the West Indies) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Des patrimoines incarnés : les dialogues du vivant et de l’archive | Embodiment Practices of Heritage
- This paper will explore ethnography as a research paradigm and a methodology, applying performance ethnography in particular to examine whether ...
- Paper
- 11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an
- Participant Dr Yujie Zhu |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Heritage development in historical cities is regarded as a vital ingredient of urban regeneration by state and local governments. The inner city...
- Paper
- 09.30 The Dilemma between Conservation and Economic Benefit: Designation of Heritage Places as "Renewal Areas" in Turkey
- Participant Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (Middle East Technical University) | Participant Özgün Özçakır (METU) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- Conservation of cultural heritage is a “value”-based process. Since the early twentieth century, scholars in the conservation field have been aw...
- Paper
- 09.00 Social Resilience Building, a Strategy for Reintegrating Historic City Centres to the Modern Cities: The Case of Tabriz Bazaar, Iran
- Participant Solmaz Yadollahi (Coordinator-PhD candidate, IGS Heritage Studies,BTU-Cottbus) | Participant Prof. Dr. Silke Weidner (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- The social and economic disintegration and isolation of historical centres of cities from the modern areas is an important cause of their declin...
- Paper
10:30
10:30
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 10:30 - 11:00 | 30 minutes
- Pause
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
14:00
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)
- Signup required Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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
- Morning Coffee Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Pause
9:00
9:00
- 10.00 Responsible Heritage Site Management—Different Perspectives over a Century: The Case of Luxor, Egypt
- Participant Eman Shokry Hesham (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus- Senftenberg, Germany) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- In 1881, the clearance of accumulated mud that buried the ruins of Luxor Temple during many centuries was begun. A few years later, formal forei...
- Paper
- 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?
- A number of actors within the World Heritage system have, within recent years, started addressing rights, rights-based approaches and language. ...
- Paper
- Case Studies in Archaeology I Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV 1.605
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- In addressing the theme of this conference, we argue that archaeology, above and beyond the traditional goals of research and post-excavation analy...
- Regular session
- 14.30 The Highland House Site: Archaeological Pasts, Present and Future on Barbuda, West Indies
- Participant Prof. Allison Bain (CELAT, Université Laval) | Participant Perdikaris, Sophia (CUNY Brooklyn College, USA and Barbuda Research Centre) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- As a small Caribbean island-nation with a developing economy, Barbuda has struggled in accessing, documenting, and maintaining archaeological si...
- Paper
- 14.30 Reconfiguring the Civic: Urban Heritage Conservation in Yangon
- Participant Ms. Kecia Fong (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- The nascent Yangon preservation movement poses a radical paradigmatic shift in perceptions of history, national identity, and Asian urban modern...
- 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
12:30
12:30
- Small (ERA Architects Inc.)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- As Canada shifts from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, small communities that were established to service the primary sect...
- Talk
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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

18:00
18:00
- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
- To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
- Cocktail
19:00
19:00
- Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
- Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years o...
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20:00
20:00
- Film Series: Exit Zero
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 20:00 - 21:35 | 1 hour 35 minutes
- Directed by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel Presented by Michelle Stefano When the steel mills began closing on Chicago's Southeast Side...
- Event
7:00
7:00
- In Griffintown/ Dans le Griff and Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940-1960
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- (Guided visits to Two Exhibitions, Centre d’histoire de Montréal- bilingual) – The Centre d’histoire de Montréal presents Dans le Griff
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- 10.00 Authentic Kyrgyzstan: Top-Down Politics Meet Bottom-Up Heritage
- Participant Anne Pyburn (Indiana University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- The Soviet modernist policy of severing ties with the past has left the rapidly globalizing post-Soviet Kyrgyz Republic with some difficulties i...
- Paper
- 12.00 The Tangibility of Intangible Heritage: UNESCO ICH and Material Culture in India
- Participant Leah K. Lowthorp (Harvard University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, quels nouveaux défis?
- In recent years, global heritage policy has reflected an increasing focus upon the intangible. Part of an attempt to de-centre the hegemony of E...
- Paper
- 14.30 Sustaining Community-Led Heritage Stewardship: Co-Creating a Community-Sourcing Platform for Heritage Management
- Participant Harald Fredheim (University of York) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Following repeated cuts to public funding in the United Kingdom, a growing number of local councils are without heritage conservation officers, ...
- Paper
- 13.30 Local Conservation and Heritage Communities of World Heritage Site Old Rauma
- Participant PhD Eeva Karhunen (University of Turku, Finland) | Participant Laura Puolamäki (Rauma Town) | Participant Riina Haanpää (University of Turku, Finland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- The origin of the internationalization of Old Rauma and its later inscription to the World Heritage List in 1991 is in the Nordic Wooden Town pr...
- Paper
- 09.20 Is the Artist an Unreliable Heritage Archivist?
- Participant Clara Gutsche (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- This presentation will include images from the Milton Park series (1970-1973) by David Miller and myself, and excerpts from my recent work (2008...
- Paper
- 11.00 A People-Based Approach to Sustainability in Heritage Practice: Engaging with the Local Community at Aktopraklık Höyük, Akçalar, Turkey
- Participant Caitlin Curtis (University at Buffalo) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- In recent years, both the academic and institutional community have called for greater focus on local participation in heritage practice. From t...
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
13:00
13:00
- A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue) Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 13:00 - 14:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- An experiment in moving memory, this live event bridges public and academic space to re-imagine knowledge exchange, creation and impact...
- Research-Creation
13:30
13:30
- 15.30 Rebalancing Tourism and Heritage: Creative Approaches and New Instruments in De-marketing Strategies
- Participant Prof. Dorit Kluge (HWTK Berlin) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Leisure as Heritage: Reconceptualizing Heritage and Leisure
- In every era of human history heritage and travel or tourism have an effect on each other. Heritage causes mobility. Travel or tourism seen from...
- Paper
- 13.30 Development of a Historic City Centre via Cultural Tourism: Hamamönü
- Participant Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (Middle East Technical University) | Participant Azize Elif Yabaci (Middle East Technical University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Leisure as Heritage: Reconceptualizing Heritage and Leisure
- Within the last decades, cultural tourism developed and became an important sector in the economic development of historic sites for the local a...
- Paper
- 14.00 Enhancing Resilience of UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Participant Estefania M. Basurto Cedeno (Universidad de Florida) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Leisure as Heritage: Reconceptualizing Heritage and Leisure
- Heritage tourism has always been a driver of visitors at the local and international levels. It is inherent among human beings to try to reconne...
- Paper
- (in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...
- Roundtable
19:00
19:00
8:30
8:30
- Post-Conference Tour: À la découverte de Kahnawà :ke | Discovery of Kahnawà :ke
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 8:30 - 17:30 | 9 hours
- ||| Les Mohawks constituent la nation amérindienne la plus nombreuse parmi les dix différentes nations que compte le Québec. La nation mohawk...
- Tour