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Özgün Özçakır

METU
Participates in 1 Session
Özgün Özçakır has received his BArch degree in 2009 from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Department of Architecture and he continued for his graduate study in the Graduate Program of Restoration and Preservation of Historical Monuments in the same institution where he received his MSc degree in 2012. Özgün Özçakır studied with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Neriman Sahin Guchan for his MSc thesis called “Interpretation and Presentation of Natural and Cultural Heritage Sites: Environmental Design Project for Göreme Open Air Museum”. The thesis he prepared for the MSc degree won the “Best Thesis of the Year” award for the 2011 – 2012 academic year which is given by the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences of METU. He is enrolled for PhD studies in Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Graduate Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage where he also work as a research assistant since 2010. He had been in Erasmus University Rotterdam, The School of History, Culture and Communication, Arts and Culture Studies Program as visiting PhD researcher between October 2015 and January 2016. Since February 2016, he is visiting PhD researcher in University of Catania, Department of Economics and Business.

Sessions in which Özgün Özçakır participates

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

Paper

Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Middle East Technical University (Participant)

Özgün Özçakır, METU (Participant)

Conservation of cultural heritage is a “value”-based process. Since the early twentieth century, scholars in the conservation field have been aw...

Sessions in which Özgün Özçakır attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
12:30
12:30
Research Development Seminar with Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell: Heritage and Museum Studies, Sociology
3 hours, 12:30 - 15:30
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon du Faubourg (DC) - DC-2300

Workshop

The Research Development Seminars gathers young scholars who will informally present and discuss their research with one of the conference's keynot...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
11:00
11:00
Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Regular session

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Moderator)

The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...

Paper

Leonie Wieser, Northumbria University (Participant)

This paper will explore the outlook on the present and future provided by contemporary community heritage projects in Tyneside, UK. It will ask ...

Paper

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

While it is customary to think about heritage as a series of practical fields oriented toward the past, it is perhaps less often the case that w...

Paper

Dr Cyril Isnart, CNRS (Participant)

Nathalie Cerezales, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Participant)

This paper will study the values and the role given to the Catholic cultural heritage of contemporary Spain and Portugal, which represents today...
18:30
18:30
Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:00
7:00
Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
2 hours, 7:00 - 9:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)

Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...
9:00
9:00
Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II
3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Regular session

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Participant)

The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460

Regular session

Prof. Sarah Moser, McGill University (Moderator)

In many emerging economies of the Global South, new urban mega-projects are strategically reviving heritage into simulacra, copies without original...
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)
1 hour 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30
Signup required

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Moderator)

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted  question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

Paper

Nataliya Bezborodova, University of Alberta (Participant)

Conflict generates new lore, and the Maidan, anti-governmental protest in Ukraine in winter 2013-2014, is no exception. Ukrainian recent digital...
12:30
12:30
Small (ERA Architects Inc.)
1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30
Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445

Talk

Philip Evans, ERA Architects (Participant)

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Moderator)

As Canada shifts from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, small communities that were established to service the primary sect...
15:30
15:30
Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00
Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

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...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265

Regular session

Prof. Étienne Berthold, Université Laval, Department of Geography / Département de géographie (Moderator)

This session proposes a critical and epistemological reflection on sustainable urban heritage conservation. Recent research on the management of ur...
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...