
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 Kecia Fong participates
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9:00
- 14.30 Reconfiguring the Civic: Urban Heritage Conservation in Yangon
- Participant Kecia Fong (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
Sessions in which Kecia Fong attends
12:30
12:30
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
13:00
13:00
- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- Workshop
9:00
9:00
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

18:30
18:30
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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9:00
- 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?
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- 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
- 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
- Regular session
- 12.00 Addiction By Choice? Heritage and Tourism in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
- Participant Robyn Bushell (Western Sydney University) | Participant Russell Staiff (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- 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
- 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
- Paper
- 09.30 Conceptualizing Living Heritage in China: The Contested Chinese ICH Discourse
- Participant 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
- Paper
- 13.30 Heritage Creep in Myanmar: A Problem of Translation and Subsumption
- Participant Felix Girke (Universität Konstanz) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Paper