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Candace Iron

Professor of Arts & Humanities; Program Coordinator - Liberal Studies
Humber College
Participates in 2 items
Candace Iron holds a PhD in Humanities from York University, Toronto, Canada. Although she specializes in 19th-century religious architecture in Canada, much of her current research relates to the adaptive reuse of buildings between religious traditions. She first became interested in the adaptive reuse of religious architecture while working as an Architectural Historian at the Ontario Heritage Trust, where she helped develop and implement the Ontario's Places of Worship website and database.
Candace is currently a Partial-Load Professor of Liberal Studies at Humber College, Toronto, where she teaches courses in religious history and aesthetic theory. Additionally, Candace is the Vice-President of Membership of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada. Candace has presented more than 30 scholarly papers at national and international conferences and has published several chapters and articles dealing with church architecture in Canada, adaptive reuse, and architectural theory.

Refereed Contributions:
Chapters in books: Iron, Candace. "Adapting Pugin's True Principles to Canada: William Hay's Architectural Theory." Gothic Revival Worldwide: AWN Pugin's Global Influence. (2016) Leuven: KADOC (55-63). 
Iron, Candace. "Religion to Religion: A Case Study for the Adaptive Reuse of Church Buildings by Non-Christian Religious Groups in Ontario, Canada." Le Devenir Des Églises: Patrimonialisation Ou Disparition. Ed. Jean-Sébastien Sauvé and Thomas Coomans. Québec: Presses De L'Université Du Québec, 2014. (93-113).
Refereed Contributions:
Articles in scholarly refereed journals: "Henry Langley's Catholic Church Commissions: adapting Charles Borromeo's Instructiones to the Gothic Revival in Canada." Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada. 38.1 (2013): 47-58.
“Why Such an Odd Plan? Milton Earl Beebe’s St. Thomas Anglican Church, St. Catharines, Ontario.” Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada. 31.2 (2006): 11-22.
“Thomas John Rutley: A Presbyterian Church Designer.” Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada. 30.2 (2005): 39-46. Forthcoming Contributions (accepted):Iron, Candace. "Scott-to-Hay-to-Langley: The 19th-century Apprenticeship System and the Creation of a Gothic Revival Architectural Lineage in Canada." Medieval Gothic Architecture and Its Revivals. Ed. Candice Bogdanski and Malcolm Thurlby. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, forthcoming. (23 pages).
Non-Refereed Contributions (Articles co-authored with Malcolm Thurlby):
“Two Heritage Churches in Dundas, Part 2: Knox Presbyterian Church.” Raise the Hammer. (August 20, 2010).
“Two Heritage Churches in Dundas, Part 1: St Augustine's Roman Catholic Church.” Raise the Hammer. (July 30, 2010).
“John G. Howard's St James's Anglican Church, Dundas.” Raise the Hammer. (July 11, 2010).
“Gothic Traditions and Ontario Churches.” Heritage Matters Magazine. (September 2009): 22-23.
"St. John’s Anglican Church, Ancaster: An Architectural History." Raise the Hammer. (November 27, 2007).
Non-Refereed Contributions: Book Reviews
"A Review of Barry Magrill's, A Commerce of Taste: Church Architecture in Canada, 1867-1914." Letters in Canada 2012 83.2, n.pag.

Sessions in which Candace Iron participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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Sessions in which Candace Iron attends

Monday 6 June, 2016

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13:30
13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Heritage Changes the PoliciesActivists and Experts

Private sector cultural heritage evaluation, protection, and management in Ontario exists at the nexus of academic theory, legislative direction, and land-use planning. Heritage work in this context follows a conservation approach to mitigate the loss of identified resources due to urban and infrastructure development. Ideally, the process balances ‘expert knowledge’ with regular and protracted engagement with government agencies, communities, and individuals to create evaluation criteria,...

15:30
15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

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 identification ou de sa conservation. Cela peut plus profondément s’expliquer parce que, dès le départ, il célébre un événement ou conserve une mémoire qui peut être ou devenir une source de dissenssions et de conflits politiques. Enfin, sa reconnaissance suscite des gains économiques pour les uns mais des pertes pour les autres. Mais peut-être...

18:00
18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
Festive Event

To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United States Chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, this event will spotlight the iconic Sugar Shack, which is rooted from Quebec to New-England and which is both the place of maple syrup production and of friendly gatherings during the maple syrup season. In a festive atmosphere, delegates will be invited to taste one of the essential of...

19:00
19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
Public event

Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years of operation, the Sparrows Point Steel Mill (Baltimore, Maryland) finally closed its doors in 2012. The film, “Mill Stories”, examines the importance of the mill from the perspectives of former workers and community members while connecting their story to the larger narrative of industrial boom and bust. The film seeks to amplify the voices of forme...

20:00
20:00 - 21:35 | 1 hour 35 minutes
Public event

Directed by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel Presented by Michelle Stefano When the steel mills began closing on Chicago's Southeast Side, residents could feel the American Dream slipping away. Decades later, the loss of the steel industry has left permanent scars. The documentary film, Exit Zero: An Industrial Family Story, is named for the highway exit number for Chicago’s old steel mill neighbourhoods and captures the feeling of a region passed over. In poignant and some...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30
13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
Heritage Changes PlaceCo-Construction and Community Based HeritageReligious HeritageArchitecture and Urbanism
Heritage changes placeCo-construction of heritageCommunity-based heritageHeritage makers

While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are being enlarged and enhanced, whole urban districts are being developed with churches and temples boasting diverse, and often unorthodox, religious practices. Epistemologically linked to heritage, the sacred now seems to follow a path of its own, staging itself in new settings where the “religious heritage” refers mostly to common practices, however...

19:00
19:00 - 23:00 | 4 hours
Festive Event

The closing dinner of the conference, called “Pawâ” according to a French-Canadian tradition borrowed from the Native American lexicon, will be an opportunity to discover, in the heart of the Old Port of Montreal, an original culinary creation by the caterer Agnus Dei, from the renowned Maison Cartier-Besson in Montreal, leader in its field for its boundless creativity and event expertise. The dinner, in the form of stations, will offer delegates an exploration of Quebecois culinary heritage,...

Wednesday 8 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00 - 16:00 | 7 hours
Tour/Excursion

More details to come. Bus tour. Tour Guide : Luc Noppen Coût / Fees : 48$ + taxes