
Nan Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she has pursued research at the intersection of memory studies, contemporary history, and the anthropology of politics. A native of New York City, she earned her bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from Princeton University and her doctoral degree in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California - Berkeley. She is a Research Fellow and Advisory Board member of the international research project Beyond the Korean War. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Asian Studies and the Revista Arte Internacional. She is the author of Memory, Reconciliation and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide (Lexington Books, 2016), and she has contributed a chapter on Korean War memory to The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia (Routledge, 2015).
Sessions in which Nan Kim participates
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- 16.00 Global Archive, Vying National Identities: Contested Korean Histories and UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme
- Participant Nan Kim (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- In contemporary South Korea, cosmopolitanism and global status signify the most coveted markers of identity on a personal, institutional, and na...
- Paper
Sessions in which Nan Kim attends
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- Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200
- 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les r...
- Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

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13:00
- Pre-Conference Tour: Mile End, the Crossroads of Three Cultures UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 13:00 - 15:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- The west of Mile End is the fruit of the unlikely encounter between a French-Canadian artisans’ village, a new suburb at the turn of the 20th centu...
- Tour
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17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
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19:30
- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
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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
- 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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- 10.00 "Dealing with the Past" in Northern Ireland: Empathy as Political Engagement in the Memorial Heritage Project
- Participant Prof Elizabeth Crooke (Ulster University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Now in a transitional phase between violence and established peace, Northern Ireland is dealing with the legacy of forty years of conflict. Memo...
- Paper
- 12.00 Discussion with Michael Herzfeld
- Moderator Prof. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) |
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II
- 10.00 The Role of World Heritage Sites in Urban Revitalization
- Participant Julia Tétényi (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Cultural clusters seem to have a leading role in urban and cultural policy decisions. In recent years, more and more cultural clusters attract i...
- Paper
- 11.30 How to Protect Foods and Foodways as Intangible Properties Effectively in the Republic of Korea
- Participant Professor Gyooho Lee (Chung-Ang University School of Law (Seoul, South Korea)) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II
- Traditional foods, including their recipes, and foodways can be protected by the Cultural Heritage Protection Act, the Convention for the Safegu...
- Paper
- 09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion
- Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- This paper explores the role that empathy, as both a skill and an emotion, plays in the processes of politicized and self-conscious heritage-mak...
- 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
- Heritage development in historical cities is regarded as a vital ingredient of urban regeneration by state and local governments. The inner city...
- Paper
- 09.40 Archival Systems: From "Weapons of Affect" to Tools of Compassion
- Participant Joanne Evans (Monash University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- At recent Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) and Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) conferences, powerful presentations...
- Paper
- 11.00 Defining Washoku: Japanese Food Heritage Before and After UNESCO Inscription
- Participant Voltaire Cang |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II
- “Washoku, the traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese” was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Heritage of Humanit...
- Paper
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14:00
- Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
- Signup required Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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- 13.30 Approaching Rights in the World Heritage Arena: Methodological Considerations
- Participant Peter Larsen (University of Lucerne) | Participant Ms Kristal Buckley AM (Deakin University Australia) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- A number of actors within the World Heritage system have, within recent years, started addressing rights, rights-based approaches and language. ...
- Paper
- 11.40 Crowds, Events and "Acts" of Citizenship: Heritage-Making at the Chattri Indian Memorial
- Participant Dr Susan Ashley (Northumbria University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Movements such as Occupy Wall Street, embracing the immanent possibilities of the “here and now,” assert the affective presence and radical pote...
- Paper
- 11.00 "You Can’t Move History: You Can Secure the Future”: Young People, Activism and the Indivisible Nature of Intangible and Tangible Heritage
- Participant Rebecca Madgin (University of Glasgow) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Debates spanning the value of urban heritage have recently intensified with the increasing belief that tangible and intangible heritage are “ind...
- Paper
- 09.20 All and Each: The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures
- Participant Ms Elizabeth Stainforth (University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom ) | Participant Dr. Rhiannon Bettivia (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II
- Within the last ten years, open-access web-based technologies have provided new methods for fostering engagement between cultural heritage organ...
- Paper
- 14.00 Cultural Diversity, Intangible Heritage and Human Rights: A Case Study from Glasgow
- Participant Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith (Heriot-Watt University ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- This paper will focus on concepts of cultural diversity and intangible heritage with particular reference to the notion of human rights. The dis...
- Paper
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12:30
- ACHS Chapters meetings: ACHS US Chapter Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.255
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son id...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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18:00
- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
- To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
- Cocktail
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19:00
- Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
- Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years o...
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- Post-Conference Tour: Les églises converties de Montréal | Recycled Churches in Montreal UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 9:00 - 16:00 | 7 hours
- Tour