
Nataliya Bezborodova is a MA student, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, Ukrainian Folklore program. She works as a Research Assistant of Kule Folklore Center and Bohdan Medwydsky Ukrainian Archive. She came to the University of Alberta from Kyiv, Ukraine. Nataliya is currently working on her thesis about Facebook’s narratives about Maidan, Ukraine. January-June 2014, she had taken part in the international research project, Contemporary Ukraine Research Forum: The Case of Euro-Maidan, http://euromaidan-researchforum.ca/. In Ukraine, she helped organize and coordinate numerous conferences, exchange seminars in Humanities. Nataliya got her previous degree in Linguistics and Translation Studies in Kharkiv Karazin University, Ukraine.
Sessions in which Nataliya Bezborodova participates
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9:00
- 10.00 Patchwork of Cultural Symbols in Ukrainian Anti-Governmental Protest (2013-2014) Based on Facebook Narratives
- Participant Nataliya Bezborodova (University of Alberta ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
Sessions in which Nataliya Bezborodova attends
12:30
12:30
- Research Development Seminar with Michael Herzfeld
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Hubert-Aquin (A) - A-1875
- 12:30 - 15:30 | 3 hours
- Workshop
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
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
9:00
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

11:00
11:00
- 14.30 Preserving Heritage Across Time and Place: A Study of German Clubs in America
- Participant Larissa Mellor |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Paper
- 15.30 Pseudo-Religious Intangible Heritage or Intangible Heritage with Religious Characteristics? Conflicts of Interpretations and Definitions in Two Ethnographic Cases
- Participant Alessandro Testa (University of Vienna) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- Paper
- 13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices
- Participant Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- 16.00 Worshipping the Past, Heritagizing Religion. How did the (Un)Holy Alliance between Churches and Heritage Come to Be?
- Participant Helena Wangefelt Ström (Umeå University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- Paper
- 12.00 "Home is Everywhere and Nowhere": The Critical Heritage of Migration and Belonging in Contemporary European Museums
- Participant Susannah Eckersley (Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK) | Participant Rhiannon Mason |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Paper
- 13.30 Landscape, Emotion and Contested Values: An Autoethnographical Case Study in Migration, Place Attachment and the Spirit of Place
- Participant Claire Johnstone (Heriot-Watt University ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Paper
- 11.00 Mixing Memory and Desire: Utopian Currents in Heritage
- Participant Elizabeth Stainforth (University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- 14.00 People, Places, and Stories: Culture, Nature, and Associations
- Participant Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo (Athabasca University - Heritage Resources Management) | Participant Manijeh Mannani (Athabasca University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Paper
- 11.00 On the Divide between Secular Values and Use Values in Heritage Conceptions of Churches
- Participant Eva Löfgren (Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- Paper
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- Cocktail
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
- 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 The Irish Language: Shifting from an Identity Marker to a Part of Cultural Heritage
- Participant Bożena Gierek (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- Paper
- 11.00 Heritage as a Symbol of Ideology in a Polarized Society: Constructing Bursa City Identity on the Ottoman Past
- Participant Emek Yilmaz (Kangwon National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- Paper
- 10.00 The "War to End War": Utopian Dreams and Lost Opportunities of First World War Heritage
- Participant David Harvey (University of Exeter, UK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II
- Paper
- 09.30 Pilgrimage in a Contested Sacred Landscape: A Case Study in Conflict between Culture, Heritage Management, and Development in Native North America
- Participant Kathleen Van Vlack (Living Heritage Anthropology) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II
- Paper
- 11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration
- Participant Rhiannon Mason |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- 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
- 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
- 09.00 Heritage Beyond Borders: Australian Approaches to External Built Heritage
- Participant Amy Clarke (University of the Sunshine Coast) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- Paper
- 10.00 Digital vs Tangible: How Museum Visitors Experience Participation and What It Means to Them
- Participant Rachael Coghlan (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Paper
- 11.40 Utter (In)Difference: On the Use of Temporality in Tourism
- Participant Anna Källén (Stockholm University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Paper
14:00
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

7:30
7:30
- 11.30 The Heritagization of Religion: Heritagization Processes in Swedish Policies on the Built Heritage of the Church of Sweden since 1920
- Participant Tobias Harding (University of Jyväskylä) |
- 7:30 - 8:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- 11.00 “The Places My Granddad Built”: Using Genealogy as a Pedagogical Segue for Heritage Preservation
- Participant Barry L. Stiefel (College of Charleston) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research III
- Paper
- 14.30 The Role of the Critical Heritage Theorist
- Participant 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
- 12.00 Muslims at the "Doors of Christendom": The Refugee Crisis and the Heritage of East-West Contact
- Participant Sandra Scham (Catholic University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 09.45 Experiencing a Maori Touring Exhibition in Paris and Québec City: Heritage as Window on the Other and Mirror on Oneself
- Participant Mélanie Roustan (Museum national d'Histoire naturelle) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflecting on the Mobile Contact Zone: Cultural Diplomacy, Touring Exhibitions and Intercultural Heritage Experiences
- Paper
- 13.30 Globalization, Migration and the Heritage of Cross-Cultural People
- Participant Laia Colomer (Linnaeus University (Sweden)) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- Paper
- 11.30 Performing Imaginary Healings: The Post-Conflict Heritage of Ebrington Barracks in Derry-Londonderry
- Participant Tom Maguire (Ulster University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- 09.00 "Like Satires of Creation, We Move North, Gazing at Europe and Brazing the Dazzling Sahara Sun": Diasporic Imagination and Heritage in the Era of Mass Migration
- Participant Anna Catalani (University of Lincoln) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- 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 The Museum of Immigration and Diversity at 19 Princelet Street in Spitalfields: Multi-Vocality in the Interpretation of the Migration Experience and Heritage
- Participant Andrea Delaplace (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- Paper
- 09.30 In Public Displays We Trust: Universal Museums and Immigrants
- Participant Andreas Pantazatos (Durham University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- Paper
- 14.30 The Mutuality of Colonial Heritage in Multiethnic Paramaribo: Reality or Illusion?
- Participant Eugenio Van Maanen (NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands) | Participant Gregory Ashworth |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- 09.15 Museum Practices, Indigenous Politics and Cultural Identities on Tour: A Comparative Study of a Māori Exhibition in France, Mexico and Canada
- Participant Lee Davidson (Victoria University of Wtgn) | Participant Gaëlle Crenn (Université de Lorraine) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflecting on the Mobile Contact Zone: Cultural Diplomacy, Touring Exhibitions and Intercultural Heritage Experiences
- Paper
- 11.00 Intercultural Practices and Collaboration in an International Touring Exhibition: Professional Perspectives on Aztecs from New Zealand, Australia and Mexico
- Participant Leticia Pérez Castellanos (Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía) | Participant Lee Davidson (Victoria University of Wtgn) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflecting on the Mobile Contact Zone: Cultural Diplomacy, Touring Exhibitions and Intercultural Heritage Experiences
- Paper
- 11.00 Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Participant Francesca Cominelli (IREST Paris 1) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Small (ERA Architects Inc.)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Talk
18:00
18:00
- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
- Cocktail
9:00
9:00
- 10.00 The Role of Co-Production in Addressing Difficult Pasts and Futures
- Participant Bryony Onciul (Univerisity of Exeter) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- Paper
- 11.30 The Heritage of Solidarity
- Participant Roman Sebastyanski (University of the West of Scotland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing
- Paper
- 11.00 Genealogy, Archives and Uses of the Past
- Participant Carolina Jonsson Malm (Linnaeus University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research IV
- Paper
- 11.40 Immediate Emotion: Articulating Historical Consciousness and Heritage in Oral Histories
- Participant Jessica Douthwaite (University of Strathclyde) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Paper
- 09.30 Cultural Heritage as a Plural and Dynamic Concept between Europe and Asia
- Participant Marilena Vecco (EUR) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Paper
- 14.00 Heritage and the Creation of Rural Identity in Alberta, Canada
- Participant Lianne McTavish (University of Alberta ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
- 09.20 Is the Artist an Unreliable Heritage Archivist?
- Participant Clara Gutsche (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- Paper
- 10.00 Challenging the Hegemony of European Holocaust Memory: A Study of Different Approaches to Representing Difficult Heritage in Europe, Asia and North America
- Participant Sandra Sulamith Graefenstein (ANU) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Paper
- 11.20 Heritage, Emotional Communities, and Imaginary Childhood Landscapes
- Participant Christian Widholm (Södertörn University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 14.30 Owning Jerusalem's Past: UNESCO World Heritage and the Struggle for Symbolic Recognition
- Participant Benedetta Serapioni ((IEG) Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz)) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations
- Paper
- 14.15 Brussels’ Churches: Paradoxical Uses in an International Metropolis
- Participant Thomas Coomans (KU Leuven, Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Paper
- Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Signup required Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 13.45 Religion-to-Religion Adaptive Reuse: Retaining Sacred Use and Re-conceptualizing Built Heritage in Canada
- Participant Candace Iron (Humber College) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Paper
- 14.30 Heritagization of the Leisure Activity Dance: Does it Matter?
- Participant Siri Mæland (NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology /UBP, Université Blaise Pascal.) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Leisure as Heritage: Reconceptualizing Heritage and Leisure
- Paper
- 16.00 Religious Leisure, Heritage and Identity Construction of Tibetan College Students
- Participant Huimei Liu (Zhejiang University, Institute of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies; Asian Pacific Centre for the Education and Study of Leisure) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Leisure as Heritage: Reconceptualizing Heritage and Leisure
- Paper
15:30
15:30
- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
8:30
8:30
- Post-Conference Tour: À la découverte de Kahnawà :ke | Discovery of Kahnawà :ke UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 8:30 - 17:30 | 9 hours
- Tour