
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
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9:00
- 09.30 The Dilemma between Conservation and Economic Benefit: Designation of Heritage Places as "Renewal Areas" in Turkey
- Participant Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (Middle East Technical University) | Participant Özgün Özçakır (METU) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- Conservation of cultural heritage is a “value”-based process. Since the early twentieth century, scholars in the conservation field have been aw...
- Paper
Sessions in which Özgün Özçakır attends
12:30
12:30
- Research Development Seminar with Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell: Heritage and Museum Studies, Sociology
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon du Faubourg (DC) - DC-2300
- 12:30 - 15:30 | 3 hours
- The Research Development Seminars gathers young scholars who will informally present and discuss their research with one of the conference's keynot...
- Workshop
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
- 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

11:00
11:00
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
- Regular session
- 13.30 Perspectives on Past and Future in Present Tyneside
- Participant Leonie Wieser (Northumbria University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- This paper will explore the outlook on the present and future provided by contemporary community heritage projects in Tyneside, UK. It will ask ...
- 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
- 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
- 12.00 Investing Heritage Values in Religious Artifacts or Religious Values in Monuments? Evidence from the Catholic Heritage in the Iberian Peninsula
- Participant Dr Cyril Isnart (CNRS) | Participant Nathalie Cerezales (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will study the values and the role given to the Catholic cultural heritage of contemporary Spain and Portugal, which represents today...
- Paper
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
- 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

7:00
7:00
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
- Regular session
- The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- In many emerging economies of the Global South, new urban mega-projects are strategically reviving heritage into simulacra, copies without original...
- Regular session
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
- "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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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
- Conflict generates new lore, and the Maidan, anti-governmental protest in Ukraine in winter 2013-2014, is no exception. Ukrainian recent digital...
- 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
- As Canada shifts from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, small communities that were established to service the primary sect...
- Talk
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
- 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

9:00
9:00
- Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- This session proposes a critical and epistemological reflection on sustainable urban heritage conservation. Recent research on the management of ur...
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- (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
- The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...
- Roundtable