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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
11:00

Paper

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

The context of transition from authoritarian regimes to democracy post-1989 in Central and Eastern Europe impacted heritage practices, legislati...

Sessions in which Laura Demeter attends

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

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

This paper concerns the changes and modifications of Polish built heritage after 1989. For Poland, the year of the fall of the Iron Curtain mark...

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Sandra Uskoković, University of Dubrovnik (Participant)

There is a perpetual quest today for “character” of places and cities, enhanced by mass tourism, where history is becoming more and more abused....

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...

Paper

Jennie Sjöholm, Linköping University (Participant)

Urban planning means planning for the future and involves visions of how to use and develop built cultural heritage. Conceptions of built cultur...

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Johan Hegardt, Södertörn University (Participant)

The Social Democratic party was the leading political party in Sweden for more than sixty years and its politics have shaped the fundaments of S...
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

Dr Richard Hutchings, Vancouver Island University, Canada (Moderator)

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

This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...

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

Regular session

John Leroux, Canada (Participant)

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

Regular session

Dr Claudine Houbart, Université de Liège (Moderator)

Stéphane Dawans, University of Liege ULg (Moderator)

With his expression "ceci tuera cela," Hugo established almost two centuries ago a strong link between words and stones as transmission vehicles of...

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Ms. Anne MacKay, McCord Museum (Participant)

Conservation has conventionally been seen as an endeavour located at the edge of cultural heritage studies. Positioned in a zone defined by pure...

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

What is the role of the critical heritage theorist? While scholars define and debate the contours of critical heritage theory, the role of the c...

Dr Robyn Clinch, University of Melbourne (Participant)

This paper will explore the practical status and use of the Burra Charter in Australia. The Burra Charter evolved in Australia from the Venice C...

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Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant)

This paper will attempt to provide a brief critical commentary on the reimagining of heritage through the mnemonics of conflict. Regarding the p...

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

Cultural Heritage appears in both tangible and intangible forms and in many cases, it is difficult to separate the two. What role do intellectua...

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Tom Svensson (Participant)

The dedication of heritage by UNESCO has become a significant factor for many indigenous minorities. For this category, heritage emphasizes both...

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Prof. Tuuli Lähdesmäki, University of Jyväskylä (Participant)

The trans- and supranational dimensions of heritage have become topical in a new way in Europe, as the idea of a European cultural heritage has ...

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Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, University of Iceland (Participant)

This paper will examine the relationship between cultural property and cultural heritage with reference to case studies from Greece (Parthenon s...

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Dr. Jeremy Wells, Roger Williams University (Participant)

This paper will explore the relevancy of the nascent critical heritage studies movement to the future of built heritage conservation. This analy...

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Dr Tom Maguire, Ulster University (Participant)

The crucible of the violent conflict in Northern Ireland in the latter part of the twentieth century is known euphemistically as “The Troubles.”...

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Henriette Bertram, University of Kassel (Participant)

During political conflict, cities become “intensive microcosms for the wider societal tensions and fragmentations, and their diverse related dis...

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Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Theory building in heritage studies in general, and critical heritage studies in particular, has to be eclectic and wide-ranging. However, to ac...

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

Regular session

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

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

The field of heritage has emerged as a key site of reflection. Influenced by shifts in the academy (e.g., post-colonial, post-structural and femini...
13:30
13:30

Paper

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

Official accounts often trace the beginnings of Hong Kong’s public housing program to the Shek Kip Mei fire on December 24, 1953, which destroye...

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Zheng Jing, Wuhan University (Participant)

During its first two decades, the communist country, People’s Republic of China, faced severe political and economical challenges. Housing a pop...
Engaging Authenticity
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

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

Research-Creation

Prof. Austin Parsons (Participant)

This proposal makes the case that heritage’s capacity for change may be dependent on a paradigm shift in how heritage is interpreted. With this ...

Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV

Research-Creation

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

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Participant)

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

Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30
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

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant)

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Moderator)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Participant)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Moderator)

Prof. Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Participant)

The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...