
Nicolas Beaudry est professeur d’histoire et d’archéologie à l’Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR). Ancien membre de l'École française d'Athènes spécialisé en archéologie romaine et byzantine, il a dirigé des chantiers archéologiques en Syrie et en Albanie et codirige un nouveau projet basé en Bulgarie. Depuis qu'il est en poste à l'UQAR, il s'intéresse également à l'archéologie historique de l'Est-du-Québec ainsi qu'à l'archéologie et à la culture matérielle du passé récent; il codirige actuellement un projet de recherche et de publication sur la cathédrale Saint-Germain de Rimouski. Co-fondateur et co-directeur du Laboratoire d’archéologie et de patrimoine et de l'École de fouilles archéologiques de l'UQAR, il codirige aussi le projet PATER (patrimoine, enseignement, recherche) dont l'objectif est la mise en valeur des ressources patrimoniales de l'Est-du-Québec dans l'enseignement et la recherche.
Nicolas Beaudry is Professor of History and Archaeology at the Université du Québec at Rimouski (UQAR). Former member of the French School of Archaeology at Athens, he has conducted excavations in Syria and Albania and is currently co-leading a new field project in Bulgaria. Since his tenure at UQAR, he also developed an interest in the historical archeology of Eastern Québec and in the archeology and material culture of the recent past. He currently co-directs a research and publication project on Rimouski's cathedral. Co-founder and co-director of UQAR's Laboratoire d'archéologie et de patrimoine and of its archaeological field school, he is also co-director of PATER, a project dedicated to the valorization of the heritage of Eastern Québec in education and research.
Sessions in which Prof. Nicolas Beaudry participates
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- 16.00 La cathédrale de Rimouski en transition : quelles mémoires, quelles histoires, quels patrimoines ?
- Participant Jean-René Thuot (Université du Québec à Rimouski) | Participant Prof. Nicolas Beaudry (Université du Québec à Rimouski) | Participant Kurt Vignola (Cégep de Rimouski) |
- 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
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- 12.00 Archaeology and Intangible Heritage: Digging Up a Local Myth
- Participant Prof. Manon Savard (Laboratoire d'archéologie et de patrimoine) | Participant Prof. Nicolas Beaudry (Université du Québec à Rimouski) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology II
- Paper
Sessions in which Prof. Nicolas Beaudry attends
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- 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

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11:00
- 14.30 Patrimoines et conflits à l’aube du XXIe siècle : Enjeux, acteurs, formes de destructions et réactions. Le cas de la Syrie
- Participant Laurence Gillot (Université Paris Diderot) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research I
- Paper
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Regular session
- Le patrimoine, et après? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2508
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Regular session
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Les mécanismes en œuvre dans la construction de narrations patrimoniales UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2520
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2585
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
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12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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- 15.30 Dire l’archéologie en européen – perspectives comparatives sur la gestion du patrimoine
- Participant Nathan Schlanger (Ecole nationale des chartes) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: L'odyssée des mots du patrimoine
- Paper
- Cultural Heritage and the Working Class UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Industrial Heritage: Towards Comparative Perspectives UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M240 - SALLE ANNULÉE
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
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15:30
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine : Roundtable | Table ronde UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
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- 09.30 The Rise and Fall of “Mother Canada”: Heritage Out on a Limb
- Participant Lon Dubinsky (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
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- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Vers une nouvelle lecture du patrimoine culturel. L’approche sémantique au service d’une ontologie du patrimoine UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2520
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2585
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
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12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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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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7:30
- 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
- Signup required Église Saint-Michel - Église Saint-Michel
- 7:30 - 15:30 | 8 hours
- Regular session
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- 12.00 Déchets, risques et catastrophes. Comment ruiner l’avenir avec des idées obsolètes
- Participant Post-Doc Yoann Moreau (EHESS / CNRS) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
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- 15.30 Domestic Wandering: The Photography of Edith Mather
- Participant Tanya Southcott (McGill 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
- 09.30 Reconsidérer les ruines modernes par la photographie
- Participant Pauline Jurado Barroso (Université Jean-Monnet, Saint-Etienne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- 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 L’art, le déchet, comme atteintes de la culture
- Participant Dr Octave Debary (Université Paris Descartes) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
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- 11.00 Exploring the Urban Riverfront of Gothenburg: Ruin, History or Continuous Urban Asset?
- Participant Dr Gabriella Olshammar (University of Gothenburg) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
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- 14.00 Territoires d’effondrement : désastres, ruines, friches / Collapses territories: disasters, ruins, wastelands
- Participant Prof. Jean-Louis Tornatore (univesité de Bourgogne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- Paper
- 13.30 Temps, matières, expériences : que reste-t-il après l’abandon de la ville ?
- Participant Andrea Bordoli | Participant Maude Reitz (EPFL) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
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- 09.30 Le patrimoine photographique des ordres religieux catholiques français : héritage et identité (1890-1945)
- Participant Fanny Brulhart |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Héritage religieux et patrimoine culturel religieux. Différences et affordances
- Paper
- 13.50 Montreal Mansions: Photography, Architecture, and Heritage
- Participant Prof. Cynthia Hammond (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
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- 09.10 L’art contemporain comme moyen d’appropriation du patrimoine
- Participant Laurier Lacroix (UQAM) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Qu’est-ce que l’art contemporain fait au patrimoine ?
- Paper
- 11.40 Expo 67, Revisited and Recycled
- Participant Johanne Sloan (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
- 11.00 Hydro-Quebec and the Cultural Legacies of the “Quiet Revolution”: On Photography and the Restoration of Jean-Paul Mousseau’s Lumière et mouvement dans la couleur (1962–2002)
- Participant Dr Nicola Pezolet (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
- 09.00 Introduction
- Participant Prof. Jean-Louis Tornatore (univesité de Bourgogne) | Participant Dr Octave Debary (Université Paris Descartes) |
- 9:00 - 9:05 | 5 minutes Part of: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
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- “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Héritage religieux et patrimoine culturel religieux. Différences et affordances Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.210
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.255
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Regular session
- Qu’est-ce que l’art contemporain fait au patrimoine ? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Current Research IV Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.301
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Case Studies in Archaeology II Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV 1.605
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- 11.30 Les déchets rendent-ils le monde inhabitable ?
- Participant Mr Denis Blot (Habiter le Monde - Université de Picardie Jules Verne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
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- 09.05 Curating Industrial Wastelands: About Urban Exploration and Ruin Photography
- Participant Sarah Rojon (Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, Centre Max Weber) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
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- 09.40 Frère Marie-Victorin, la photographie et une randonnée improbable au cœur d’un patrimoine à l’abandon
- Participant Richard Baillargeon (Université Laval) |
- 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
- 11.00 Archaeological Heritage as a Catalyst for Pubic Engagement, Rural Rejuvenation, and Rethinking Our Shared Past: Perspectives from a Quarter Century of Community Archaeology in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Participant Dr. Barry Gaulton (Memorial University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology II
- Paper
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13:30
- 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
- (in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
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- 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