Laura Demeter

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Participates in 1 Session

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

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

11:00

11.30 Understanding Transitional Heritage: Heritage-Making in Post-Authoritarian Societies

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Laura Demeter, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Participant)

Sessions in which Laura Demeter attends

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

9:00

10.00 Transformation of the Political-Economic System in Poland and New Values of Built Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

Paper

Janusz Krawczyk, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). (Participant)

12.00 Contested Heritage of Dubrovnik

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

Paper

Sandra Uskoković, University of Dubrovnik (Participant)

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

Yujie Zhu (Participant)

11.20 Urban Planning and Transformation of Heritage Values

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

Paper

Jennie Sjöholm (Participant)

09.30 The Red Parentheses: Museums, Memory and the Making of [New] Nations After the Fall of the Iron Curtain

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II

Paper

Johan Hegardt, Södertörn University (Participant)

Heritage and the Late Modern State II

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Regular session

Richard Hutchings, Vancouver Island University, Canada (Moderator)

Joshua Dent, University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada (Moderator)

Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Regular session

John Leroux, Canada (Participant)

Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525

Regular session

Claudine Houbart, Université de Liège (Moderator)

Stéphane Dawans, University of Liege ULg (Moderator)

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

09.30 Contributions to a Critical Theory of Conservation

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Anne MacKay, McCord Museum (Participant)

14.30 The Role of the Critical Heritage Theorist

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Participant)

09.20 The Burra Charter: Evolving in Theory but Does it Have Teeth?

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage as contributor to policymaking

Robyn Clinch, University of Melbourne (Participant)

10.00 Lefkosa vs Nicosia: Reimagining of Heritage in the Age of Conflict

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

Paper

Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant)

11.30 Cultural Heritage, Human Rights and Intellectual Property Law: Does Three Make a Crowd?

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Courtney, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (Participant)

09.30 Heritage as a Political Domain

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage

Paper

Tom Svensson (Participant)

14.00 Dynamics of Scale in the Making of a European Cultural Heritage in EU Heritage Policy

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage

Paper

Tuuli Lähdesmäki, University of Jyväskylä (Participant)

10.00 Heritage vs Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, University of Iceland (Participant)

10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage as contributor to policymaking

Paper

Jeremy Wells, Roger Williams University (Participant)

11.30 Performing Imaginary Healings: The Post-Conflict Heritage of Ebrington Barracks in Derry-Londonderry

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

Paper

Tom Maguire, Ulster University (Participant)

11.00 Commemorating Conflict or Moving on to a New Era? Dealing with the "Scars in the Urban Fabric“ in Post-Conflict Belfast

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

Paper

Henriette Bertram, University of Kassel (Participant)

14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435

Regular session

Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Moderator)

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States (Moderator)

13:30

14.00 Welfare Housing in Colonial Hong Kong: The Contributions of Philanthropic Organizations

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: The Critical Turn in Perspectives on Public Housing as Heritage

Paper

Carmen C M Tsui, City University of Hong Kong (Participant)

13.30 Communist Ideology, Vernacular Tradition, and Imagined Modern: Collective Housing in the Early Period of People’s Republic of China, 1949-1966

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: The Critical Turn in Perspectives on Public Housing as Heritage

Paper

Zheng Jing, Wuhan University (Participant)

Engaging Authenticity

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Research-Creation

Austin Parsons (Participant)

Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening)

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV

Research-Creation

Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, Department of Education, Canada (Participant)

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Participant)

Nadine Blumer, Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship (CaPSL) (Participant)

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

13:30

(in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430

Roundtable

Tracy Ireland (Participant)

Tracy Ireland (Moderator)

Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Participant)

Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Moderator)

Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Participant)