
Henrik Lindblad is an art historian and cultural heritage specialist. His main fields are ecclesiastical architecture, sustainable management and use of cultural heritage. He is now working as Cultural Heritage Strategist at the Church of Sweden's Central office, responsible for national knowledge building, strategies for extended use of church buildings and international collaboration. He has since 2012 been involved in the joint research project Old Churches, New Values – Use and Management of Churches in a changing society, coordinated by the University of Gothenburg and co-funded by the Church of Sweden.
Henrik Lindblad has previously worked as a Conservation Officer and Senior Advisor for the Swedish National Heritage Board and the Ministry of Culture. He is one of the founders of the European organization Future for Religious Heritage (FRH). He is also member of the ICOMOS working group preparing the new International Scientific Committee Places for Religion and Rituals, PRERICO.
Selected publications; 2015: “Kyrkligt kulturarv som mänsklig rättighet” (Ecclesiastical Heritage as a Human Right), article for the Church of Sweden’s forthcoming anthology on Church Heritage. 2014: “När Gud blir sambo med kulturen” (When Culture Moves in With God), essay in the national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. Co-author Eva Löfgren. 2014: “Kulturarvet i Svenska kyrkan” (The Church of Sweden’s Cultural Heritage), introduction chapter in the book “Tusen år till”. 2011: ”Delaktighet i värdering och förvaltning av det kyrkliga kulturarvet” (Participation in Valuation and management of Church Heritage), article in the anthology ”De kyrkliga kulturarven”, Department of Art History, Uppsala University.
Sessions in which Mr Henrik Lindblad participates
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- 14.00 To Use or Not To Use: A Question of Protection
- Participant Mr Henrik Lindblad (Church of Sweden) |
- 7:30 - 8:00 | 30 minutes Part of: 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
- In 2010, the Caroli Church in central Malmö, built in 1879 and protected by the Heritage Conservation Act, was deconsecrated and sold to a real-...
- Paper
Sessions in which Mr Henrik Lindblad attends
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- 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
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- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
- Workshop
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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

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- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 10:30 - 11:00 | 30 minutes
- Pause
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- 12.00 Investing Heritage Values in Religious Artifacts or Religious Values in Monuments? Evidence from the Catholic Heritage in the Iberian Peninsula
- Participant Dr Cyril Isnart (CNRS) | Participant Nathalie Cerezales (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will study the values and the role given to the Catholic cultural heritage of contemporary Spain and Portugal, which represents today...
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- 16.00 Worshipping the Past, Heritagizing Religion. How did the (Un)Holy Alliance between Churches and Heritage Come to Be?
- Participant Helena Wangefelt Ström (Umeå University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- “Why museums are the new churches.” This was the title of an essay on BBC Culture (June, 2015), where the author reflected on how museums and ar...
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- 11.30 Musealization of Religious Heritage in the French Legal Context: A Process in Progress?
- Participant Anne Fornerod (DRES (CNRS/Université de Strasbourg)) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- In the French legal context, religious heritage is undeniably characterized by its legally protected religious meaning. This protection derives ...
- Paper
- 11.00 On the Divide between Secular Values and Use Values in Heritage Conceptions of Churches
- Participant Dr Eva Löfgren (Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will address the different meanings of the concept of “use” within heritage conservation discourse and practice, and in particular as...
- Paper
- 14.30 Preservation as Salvation: Safeguarding the Church of Sweden
- Participant Prof. Ola Wetterberg (University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation) | Participant Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will investigate how claims to protect religious rites as intangible heritage have been received within heritage and religious instit...
- Paper
- 13.30 Ecclesiastical Heritage Assemblages in Post-Secular and Post-Christian Sweden
- Participant Carola Nordbäck (Södertörn University Stockholm/ The Church of Sweden Research Unit) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will examine the management of ecclesiastical heritage in post-secular and post-Christian Sweden. A large part of the cultural herita...
- Paper
- Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...
- Regular session
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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
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- 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

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- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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- ACHS 2016 General Assembly Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Talk
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- 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
- Signup required Église Saint-Michel - Église Saint-Michel
- 7:30 - 15:30 | 8 hours
- __ Please note that this session is scheduled in a distant location from the main conference; transportation will be provided to regi...
- Regular session
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- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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- “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- In exploring the broader question “What does heritage change?” this session presents work that is extending heritage policies and practices beyond ...
- Regular session
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- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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- Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Signup required Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are ...
- Regular session