
Laura is currently a PhD Candidate in the field of Management and Development of Cultural Heritage, at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, in Italy. Here she is conducting her research on the Critical Assessment of Mechanisms of Heritisation of the Communist Past, by analysing contested case studies for preservation in Bucharest and Berlin. Her areas of interests range from mechanisms of heritigisation, value creation, preservation, conservation, museum studies, to memory and identity building discourses, Communism and Eastern Europe. She receveid her Master's Degree in World Heritage Studies (UNESCO) at the Brandenburg University in Cottbus Germany, Bachelor Degree in Arts and Italian at the Ruhr - University in Bochum, Germany and the Diploma Degree in History at the Bucharest University, Romania.
Publications:
Assessing the cultural value of the communist legacy in Romania. In: Heritage 2014:
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, pp. 531-540. ISBN 978-989-98013-6-3 (2014)
Value creation mechanisms and the heritisation of the communist legacy in Romania. In: The Right to [World] Heritage: conference proceedings. IAWHP, pp. 8-20. ISBN 978-3-00-047536-8 (2014)
Sessions in which Laura Demeter participates
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- 11.30 Understanding Transitional Heritage: Heritage-Making in Post-Authoritarian Societies
- Participant Laura Demeter (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Paper
Sessions in which Laura Demeter attends
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- 10.00 Transformation of the Political-Economic System in Poland and New Values of Built Heritage
- Participant Janusz Krawczyk (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland).) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Paper
- 12.00 Contested Heritage of Dubrovnik
- Participant Sandra Uskoković (University of Dubrovnik) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Paper
- 11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an
- Participant Dr Yujie Zhu |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Paper
- 11.20 Urban Planning and Transformation of Heritage Values
- Participant Jennie Sjöholm |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Paper
- 09.30 The Red Parentheses: Museums, Memory and the Making of [New] Nations After the Fall of the Iron Curtain
- Participant Johan Hegardt (Södertörn University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- Paper
- Heritage and the Late Modern State II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
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9:00
- 09.30 Contributions to a Critical Theory of Conservation
- Participant Ms. Anne MacKay (McCord Museum) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 14.30 The Role of the Critical Heritage Theorist
- Participant Prof. Melissa F. Baird (Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 09.20 The Burra Charter: Evolving in Theory but Does it Have Teeth?
- Participant Dr Robyn Clinch (University of Melbourne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- 10.00 Lefkosa vs Nicosia: Reimagining of Heritage in the Age of Conflict
- Participant Zeynep Gunay (Istanbul Technical University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- 11.30 Cultural Heritage, Human Rights and Intellectual Property Law: Does Three Make a Crowd?
- Participant Courtney (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Paper
- 09.30 Heritage as a Political Domain
- Participant Tom Svensson |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage
- Paper
- 10.00 Heritage vs Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field
- Participant Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?
- Participant Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- Paper
- 11.30 Performing Imaginary Healings: The Post-Conflict Heritage of Ebrington Barracks in Derry-Londonderry
- Participant Dr Tom Maguire (Ulster University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- 11.00 Commemorating Conflict or Moving on to a New Era? Dealing with the "Scars in the Urban Fabric“ in Post-Conflict Belfast
- Participant Henriette Bertram (University of Kassel) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- 14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
- Participant Mr Gary Campbell (ANU) | Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
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13:30
- 14.00 Welfare Housing in Colonial Hong Kong: The Contributions of Philanthropic Organizations
- Participant Carmen C M Tsui (City University of Hong Kong) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: The Critical Turn in Perspectives on Public Housing as Heritage
- Paper
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
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- (in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable