Kecia Fong is a conservation professional and PhD candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. She has worked internationally for the Getty Conservation Institute, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, US National Park Service, World Monuments Fund and the Yangon Heritage Trust among others. Her doctoral research is sited in Yangon and examines how discourses of heritage and international conservation practices are transforming the physical, social, and ideational city of Yangon. She is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Associate Editor for Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment.
Sessions in which Ms. Kecia Fong participates
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- 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
Sessions in which Ms. Kecia Fong attends
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 09.30 Cultural, Conflicting and Collective Rights in Bagan, Myanmar
- Participant Anne Laura Kraak (Deakin University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- 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...
- Paper
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- Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.445
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- As the interface between past and present, heritage is deeply involved in articulations of personal and group identity, working to unite and har...
- Regular session
- Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- This session proposes a critical and epistemological reflection on sustainable urban heritage conservation. Recent research on the management of ur...
- Regular session
- 12.00 Addiction By Choice? Heritage and Tourism in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
- Participant Prof Robyn Bushell (Western Sydney University) | Participant Dr Russell Staiff (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is 134th on the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Index. In other words, in ter...
- Paper
- 16.30 The Silk Roads or Economic Belt: An Analysis of the Interaction Between China’s World Heritage and its Economic and Political Ambitions
- Participant Jieyi Xie (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- This paper aims to map how the Silk Roads World Heritage listing has been utilized in diplomatic ways to construct both internally and externall...
- Paper
- 09.00 Where East Meets West: Comparing UNESCO’s Impact on Domestic Cultural Governance Systems
- Participant Ioan Trifu (Goethe University Frankfurt) | Participant Christina Maags (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- For decades the international heritage regime has increasingly been criticized as following a Western notion of and approach to cultural heritag...
- Paper
- 09.30 Conceptualizing Living Heritage in China: The Contested Chinese ICH Discourse
- Participant Dr Yujie Zhu | Participant Christina Maags (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)? What is that? Although the concept of ICH has been extensively discussed within UNESCO, the media, and state...
- Paper
- 13.30 Heritage Creep in Myanmar: A Problem of Translation and Subsumption
- Participant Dr Felix Girke (Universität Konstanz) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Only in 2014 did Myanmar receive its first World Heritage inscription. But for several years now, “heritage” has been a key word of the social t...
- Paper