Emma Wensing

PhD Student

Australian National University

Participates in 1 Session

Emma Wensing’s current research explores the relationships between local arts and crafts, heritage and national identity. In particular, she focuses on the performance and practice of the Australian Anzac discourse at the individual and personal level. Emma’s earlier research has used focal points such as the Olympics and Commonwealth Games to examine intersections of national identity, race and gender in the sports media. She has published in the International Review of Sport Sociology, Australian Aboriginal Studies, the Waikato Journal of Education and the International Review of Women and Leadership. Emma holds a Masters in Sport and Leisure Studies (University of Waikato, New Zealand, 2003) and a Bachelor of Applied Science (University of Canberra, Australia, 2000). She is completing her PhD studies at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Sessions in which Emma Wensing participates

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

9:00

09.00 Performing Anzac: Heritage Discourse in the Production of Commemorative Arts and Crafts

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage

Paper

Emma Wensing, Australian National University (Participant)

This paper will explore the intersection of performativity and heritage discourse that is evident in the production narratives of Australian cre...

Sessions in which Emma Wensing attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

12:30

Research Development Seminar with Michael Herzfeld

3 hours, 12:30 - 15:30

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Hubert-Aquin (A) - A-1875

Workshop

The Research Development Seminars gathers young scholars who will informally present and discuss their research with one of the conference's keynot...

Registration

5 hours, 12:30 - 17:30

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

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...

19:30

The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises

1 hour 30 minutes, 19:30 - 21:00

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210

Research-Creation

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Moderator)

Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...

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)

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

11:00

16.00 Citizen Groups and Their Vision of Heritage in the Making of the 2012 Quebec Cultural Heritage Act

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Prof. Martin Drouin, UQAM (Participant)

The Quebec Cultural Heritage Act, adopted by the province’s National Assembly, came into force in 2012, replacing the Cultural Property Act (197...

11.00 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Geir Vestheim, University College of Southeast Norway (Participant)

This paper will depart from the idea that the making of cultural policy, and heritage policy included, takes place within a political system and...

12.00 Healing Heritage: A Case Study Toward Decolonizing Commemoration

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: The Artistry of Heritage

Paper

Trina Cooper-Bolam, Carleton University (Participant)

In anticipation of the “Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,” this paper will examine Canada’s federal place-based...

11.30 When Citizens Are Involved in Heritage: A Case Study in Laon (France)

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Manon Istasse, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Participant)

As a member of a research group, I investigate the role of associations and scholarly societies in the construction and the promotion of heritag...

13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

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...

11.00 Mixing Memory and Desire: Utopian Currents in Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

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

There is a well-established precedent for utopian thinking around cultural heritage, particularly in the institutional context. For example, a n...

14.30 Of, By, and For Which People?: Government and Contested Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Participant)

Two government-owned and managed heritage sites in Indiana, USA, offer an opportunity to explore the role of governing in adjudicating the compe...

11.40 Embodied Memoration: Unsettling Colonial Forms through Performative Acts in the Everyday

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: The Artistry of Heritage

Paper

Leah Decter, Queen's University (Participant)

This paper foregrounds, as critical “artist-history exchanges,” performative interventions that act upon everyday spaces and objects with the im...

13:30

13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class

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...

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

09.00 Speaking About the Past: Historical Discourse in Contemporary Society

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage

Paper

Ross Wilson, University of Chichester (Participant)

This paper will examine the value and function of references to heritage within political, media, and public discourse in contemporary Britain a...

Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545

Regular session

Dr Susan Surette, NSCAD University (Moderator)

Prof. Elaine Cheasley Paterson, Department of Art History, Concordia University, Canada (Moderator)

Russell Staiff argues that heritage discourse and practice are tightly interwoven with the theoretical legacy of the visual arts, specifically citi...

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...

17:00

ACHS 2016 General Assembly

1 hour 30 minutes, 17:00 - 18:30

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

Talk

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.00 Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Francesca Cominelli, IREST Paris 1 (Participant)

The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Sc...

14.30 The Role of the Critical Heritage Theorist

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Participant)

What is the role of the critical heritage theorist? While scholars define and debate the contours of critical heritage theory, the role of the c...

14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

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...

13:30

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

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

09.40 Between Intangible Cultural Heritage Studies and Intercultural Studies: Challenges and New Directions For Research

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue

Paper

Laurier Turgeon, Université Laval (Participant)

This paper will aim to re-theorize heritage studies in light of intercultural studies. Heritage has usually been conceptualized as a form of cul...

10.00 Challenging the Hegemony of European Holocaust Memory: A Study of Different Approaches to Representing Difficult Heritage in Europe, Asia and North America

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

Paper

Sandra Sulamith Graefenstein, ANU (Participant)

Over the past two and a half decades, a new type of museum dedicated to representing violent pasts through the lens of human rights has emerged ...

12.00 Democratizing the Museum: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Politics of Participation

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

Paper

Rachael Coghlan, Australian National University (Participant)

Is it possible to democratize the museum experience and open it to non-expert voices through the use of participatory approaches? This paper wil...

16.30 The Silk Roads or Economic Belt: An Analysis of the Interaction Between China’s World Heritage and its Economic and Political Ambitions

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices

Paper

Jieyi Xie, Australian National University (Participant)

This paper aims to map how the Silk Roads World Heritage listing has been utilized in diplomatic ways to construct both internally and externall...

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

Mr Lachlan Dudley, Australian National University (Participant)

Significant debate has occurred in disciplines outside of a heritage framework in relation to the ability of empathy to act as a catalyst for pr...

15:30

Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

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

Roundtable

Prof Elizabeth Crooke, Ulster University (Participant)

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

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

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

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

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

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

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Potential)

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

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Moderator)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Participant)

Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent (Participant)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

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...

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 ...