
Roslynn Ang works with the Sapporo Upopo Hozonkai, an Ainu performance group registered under UNESCO Intangible Heritage of Japan. Situated in the intersections of Anthropology, East Asian Studies and Settler-Colonial Studies, her research interests include performance, decolonizing methodology, indigeneity, representations of race and nation, and Japan’s colonial history with East Asia and the West. Her current book project, Performing Ainu Absence and Presence: Settler Gaze and Indigenous Be-ing in Japan, is an ethnography on the barriers and mediums that sustain the (in)visibility of the Ainu across the Pacific. Roslynn is one of the founding members of the Early Career Researchers Network at the Association of Critical Heritage Studies and a current Global Perspectives on Society Fellow at New York University Shanghai.
Sessions in which Roslynn Ang participates
- 09.00 The Limits of Liminality: A Time and a Place for Ainu Heritage Performers to Sing
- Participant Roslynn Ang (New York University Shanghai) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Des patrimoines incarnés : les dialogues du vivant et de l’archive | Embodiment Practices of Heritage
- Performances and rehearsals are fluid spaces of productive tensions and liminality that allow for potential change to structure and norms. Howev...
- Paper
Sessions in which Roslynn Ang attends
- Pre-Conference Tour: Mile End, the Crossroads of Three Cultures UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 13:00 - 15:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- The west of Mile End is the fruit of the unlikely encounter between a French-Canadian artisans’ village, a new suburb at the turn of the 20th centu...
- Tour
- 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
- 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
- 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

- History Museums, Heritage and Visitors UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 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
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
- Cocktail
- 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

- 11.00 Defining Washoku: Japanese Food Heritage Before and After UNESCO Inscription
- Participant Voltaire Cang |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II
- “Washoku, the traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese” was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Heritage of Humanit...
- Paper
- Des patrimoines incarnés : les dialogues du vivant et de l’archive | Embodiment Practices of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M260 - SALLE ANNULÉE
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Les arts du spectacle, les événements festifs, les rituels, les récits oraux, les savoir-faire font désormais pleinement partie du patrimoine cu...
- Regular session
- 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

- 09.15 Museum Practices, Indigenous Politics and Cultural Identities on Tour: A Comparative Study of a Māori Exhibition in France, Mexico and Canada
- Participant Dr 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
- Key motivations for touring exhibitions from major museums include enhancing international reputations, sharing expertise, and strengthening ins...
- Paper
- 14.15 Fighting Marginalization with Heritage: The Impact of Empathy—A Case Study of Castles in Japan
- Participant Mi Li (Kanazawa University) |
- 9:00 - 9:15 | 15 minutes Part of: Posters
- With the acceleration of modernization and globalization came urban crowding in big cities as well as devitalization and social marginalization ...
- Poster
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...
- Regular session
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...
- Regular session
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This proposal makes the case that heritage’s capacity for change may be dependent on a paradigm shift in how heritage is interpreted. With this ...
- Research-Creation
- 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

- 15.30 Heritage Conflicts in East Asia: Japan and the Contested Colonial Past
- Participant Ioan Trifu (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- When on May 4th, 2015, Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs announced that the “Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution,” twenty-three old f...
- Paper
- 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
- Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Heritage has multiple, concurrent origins. It is performed and produced by individuals, groups and organizations, or institutions on various scales...
- Regular session
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...
- Regular session
- 12.00 Unknown Ground: The Case for Ambiguity in Indigenous Architecture
- Participant Brett MacIntyre (Checkwitch Poiron Architects) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada
- What is indigenous architecture? Who is allowed to make indigenous buildings? What role do “traditional” forms play in the development of modern...
- Paper
- "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In November 2014, artists and thinkers including Jimmie Durham, Michael Taussig, Rebecca Belmore and Paul Chaat Smith convened in Calgary and Saska...
- 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
- The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...
- Roundtable
- 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
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable