
Steven High is a Professor of History and co-founder of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. He is the author of eleven books including the Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Areas, One Job Town: Work, Belonging and Betrayal in Northern Ontario, and Industrial Sunset: The Making of the North American Rust Belt. He recently co-edited a special issue of Labor with Stefan Berger on (De-)Industrial Heritage.
Sessions in which Steven High participates
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13:30
- Cultural Heritage and the Working Class UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Many people are actively using working class heritage as a resource to reflect on the past and the present, and there is a growing tendency for the...
- Regular session
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
7:00
7:00
- La Pointe: L’autre bord de la track / The Other Side of the Tracks
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- La Pointe: L’autre bord de la track / The Other Side of the Tracks (COHDS /Public History Students, 2015 - bilin...
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas
- Signup required Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
- 9:00 - 10:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In recent years, there has been a great deal of debate surrounding so-called ruin gazing and the politics of representing industrial or urban ru...
- Roundtable
11:00
11:00
- In-community session: Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies: Roundtable on Concordia’s ‘Right to the City’ Initiative
- Signup required Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In a collaborative and image-rich conversational presentation, “Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies” outlines the potentials and ...
- Roundtable
7:00
7:00
- Fleur dans le fleuve
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 8:00 | 1 hour
- Fleur dans le fleuve (COHDS, 2012 - French) – À chaque année, en avril, la communauté rwandaise de Montr...
- Tour
Sessions in which Steven High attends
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17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- 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
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
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
- Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Industrial heritage in Britain has tended to be romanticised in museum ‘cathedrals’ and ‘theme parks’ (like Beamish), with workers’ lived experi...
- Regular session
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

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

13:30
13:30
- Critical Creation Series: “Le Petit coin intact:” A Bilingual Performed Autoethnography Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Creator/performer: Lisa Ndejuru, Concordia University. Soundscape and projections: David Ward, Concordi...
- Event
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

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9:00
- Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- While intangible cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the face of growing globalization, there is still li...
- Regular session