Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy

Université Laval

Participates in 1 Session

Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval, QC, Canada. For the last 15 years, she has been researching Tibetan performing arts, namely ache lhamo (Tibetan opera), traditional and pop music styles, as well Tibetan media (television and Internet use). Her publications include a monograph, “Ache Lhamo : Jeux et enjeux d’une tradition théâtrale tibétaine” (Mélanges Chinois et Bouddhiques / Peeters, 2015), “Une rupture dans l’air: la télévision satellite de Chine dans la communauté tibétaine en exil à Dharamsala” (Anthropologie et Sociétés, 2012) and “Le théâtre tibétain ache lhamo: Un contenu d’héritage indien dans des formes d’héritage chinois?” in Théâtres d’Asie à l’œuvre: circulation, expression, politique (edited by H. Bouvier-Smith and G. Toffin, 2012).

Sessions in which Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.00 Heritage in Bondage: On the (Exc)use of “Intangible Cultural Heritage” in Tibet

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Université Laval (Participant)

In this ethnographic rather than theoretical paper, I intend to examine the cultural, economic, and political dynamics of a specific artistic ge...

Sessions in which Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

13:00

Pre-Conference Tour: Le Vieux-Montréal, Quartier Bonsecours

2 hours, 13:00 - 15:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Avant de s’appeler le Vieux-Montréal, la vieille ville était le cœur vivant de Montréal habité par l’ensemble de ses classes sociales : riches et p...

Pre-Conference Tour: Mile End, the Crossroads of Three Cultures

2 hours 30 minutes, 13:00 - 15:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

The west of Mile End is the fruit of the unlikely encounter between a French-Canadian artisans’ village, a new suburb at the turn of the 20th centu...

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

11.00 Preserving Difficult Heritage in a Neoliberal Context in Asia

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State I

Paper

Shu-yi Wang, Chinese Culture University (Participant)

After the First International Leprosy Conference in Berlin in 1897, many leprosy settlements in Asia were established by colonialists for medica...

11.00 Après le patrimoine : des parcs mémoriels

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Le patrimoine, et après?

Paper

Prof. Shen Shiwei, Ningbo University, China (Participant)

La Chine est marquée par une longue tradition de mémoire, mais une notion de sauvegarde assez récente. Ayant connu une série de politiques de pa...

12.00 Des « mémoires-Monde » : le cas de Lingnan Tiandi, Foshan, Chine

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Le patrimoine, et après?

Paper

LIANG (Participant)

La notion de patrimoine est-elle encore suffisante, voire pertinente, pour rendre compte des processus de mémorisation les plus contemporains ? ...

11.30 Des mémoires sans patrimoine ?

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Le patrimoine, et après?

Paper

Dr Benjamin Taunay, benjamin.taunay@univ-angers.fr (Participant)

Le Grand Canal de Chine est une construction datant du cinquième siècle, d’une longueur de 1368 kilomètres, reliant Pékin à Hangzhou. Cette mémo...

12.00 Before and After Definition: Transformation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Policy in Xinjiang

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Prof. Kate Hennessy, Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Canada (Participant)

Aynur Kadir, School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University (Participant)

Based on fieldwork in Xinjiang, China, this paper will investigate the ambiguities surrounding the government policies that seek to promote econ...

17:00

Smoked meat in questions

1 hour, 17:00 - 18:00

Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse

Cocktail

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...

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

12.00 Discussion with Michael Herzfeld

1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00

Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Moderator)

09.40 Life as Heritage: Narratives, Experiences and Mediated Performances of Transmitters of Intangible Heritage in China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Marina Svensson, Lund University (Participant)

This paper will approach the topic “What does heritage change?” by looking at the perspectives and experiences of a special category of heritage...

11.00 Heritage, Stakeholders and Empathetic Interaction in Chinese Cultural Heritage Sites (cancelled)

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Rouran Zhang, Australian National University (Participant)

The tension between tourism and heritage has existed for a long time. From practical-based understanding of heritage, most literature concerned ...

12.00 The Reconstruction of Zongzu as a Cultural Heritage in China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Doctor Chong Zhang, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology (Participant)

Zongzu (宗族, the parental lineage group) as a traditional Chinese way of holding people together by means of descent lines and blood ties, had be...

11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories

Paper

Dr Yujie Zhu (Participant)

Heritage development in historical cities is regarded as a vital ingredient of urban regeneration by state and local governments. The inner city...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

14.00 Discovering a Heritage Site: Trauma, Place, Memory

15 minutes, 9:00 - 9:15

Part of: Posters

Poster

Jianping (Elaine) Yang, Institute of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, Zhejiang University (Participant)

Trauma gains a cultural significance when it happens at a collective level. It is not “the result of a group experiencing pain,” but “the result...

11.00 How Does the Law of International Human Rights Change Heritage? Cooption, Reinforcement and Challenge (cancelled)

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Dr Lucas Lixinski, UNSW Sydney (Participant)

Cultural heritage, and international cultural heritage law (ICHL) with it, has been consistently used over time as a means to build identities, ...

09.00 Emergent Heritage: From Sacred to Secular Bronze Drums in Southwest China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II

Paper

Prof. William Nitzky, California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States (Participant)

The earliest bronze drums in Asia date back over two thousand years and symbolized great wealth and spiritual power. Of the 2400 bronze drums fo...

10.00 Reconciling Conflicting Rights: National Indigenous Heritage in Southeast Asia

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Dr Anna Karlström, Uppsala University (Participant)

Over the last decades a language of rights and human rights-based approaches have been adopted by intergovernmental organizations and are now we...

09.30 Cultural, Conflicting and Collective Rights in Bagan, Myanmar

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Anne Laura Kraak, Deakin University (Participant)

Following decades of isolation, Myanmar started to re-engage with the UNESCO’s World Heritage system in 2012 at a time when the link between her...

09.40 Politics of Scale: Cultural Heritage in China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II

Paper

Dr Yujie Zhu (Participant)

This paper will investigate the interrelation between heritage and scale. It will not only examine scale as a fixed unit and existing category w...

10.00 The Politics of Scale in the ICH-ization of Popular Religion in China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II

Paper

Ming-chun Ku (Participant)

This paper will addresse the politics of scale in issues regarding the ICH-ization of popular religion in recent China. Popular religion, symbol...

13.30 Ancestral Temples in China: Between Tangible and Intangible

15 minutes, 9:00 - 9:15

Part of: Posters

Poster

Minzhen Lu, Department of History, Zhejiang University (Participant)

Ancestral temples (or ancestral halls 祠堂), which were historically spread all over China, are given increasingly more attention nowadays. Some d...

13.45 Collapsed World Heritage Sites: The Supply Chain Effect

15 minutes, 9:00 - 9:15

Part of: Posters

Poster

Rajaram Mahat, Kathmandu Valley Heritage Preservation Center, Nepal (Participant)

Roshan Khadra (Participant)

Nepal has remained a land of diverse peoples and cultures comprising more than one hundred ethnic and caste groups and 92 different languages. E...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

13:30

16.00 Religious Leisure, Heritage and Identity Construction of Tibetan College Students

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Leisure as Heritage: Reconceptualizing Heritage and Leisure

Paper

Prof. Huimei Liu, Zhejiang University, Institute of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies; Asian Pacific Centre for the Education and Study of Leisure (Participant)

Leisure has been primarily viewed as “a measure of time, as a container of activity, and in terms of meaning,” either independently or in combin...

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 ...