
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
- Paper
Sessions in which Nan Kim attends
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11:30
- 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
- Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

13:00
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
- Tour
17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Cocktail
19:30
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
- 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
- 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

9:00
9:00
- 12.00 Discussion with Michael Herzfeld
- Moderator 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
- Paper
- 11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an
- Participant Yujie Zhu |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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9:00
- 13.30 Approaching Rights in the World Heritage Arena: Methodological Considerations
- Participant Peter Larsen (University of Lucerne) | Participant Kristal Buckley (Deakin University Australia) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Paper
- 11.40 Crowds, Events and "Acts" of Citizenship: Heritage-Making at the Chattri Indian Memorial
- Participant Susan Ashley (Northumbria University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- 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
- Paper
- 09.20 All and Each: The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures
- Participant Elizabeth Stainforth (University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom ) | Participant 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
- Paper
- 14.00 Cultural Diversity, Intangible Heritage and Human Rights: A Case Study from Glasgow
- Participant Máiréad Nic Craith (Heriot-Watt University ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Paper
12:30
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
15:30
15:30
- 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
- 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
- Cocktail
19:00
19:00
- Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
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9:00
- 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