Shu-Mei Huang

National Taiwan University
Participates in 1 Session
Shu-Mei Huang is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institude of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University. Her research interests include care transnationalization, knowledge exchange in planning, and postcolonial heritage. A book based on her dissertation titled “Urbanizing Carescapes of Hong Kong: Two Systems, One City” is recently published (Lexinton Books). She is also interested in teaching and researching the emegent field of dark heritage. In the past three years she has researched into prison-turned heritages in East Asia with a focus on the coloniaity of modernized punishiment. She is contributing a chapter about representation of incarceration in East Asian cities for the edited volumn “The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism” (Wilson, Jacqueline Z., Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piche and Kevin Walby, forthcoming).

Sessions in which Shu-Mei Huang participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
10.00  Heritage of Penal Labour: Rethinking Work in Tracing Historical Movements within and Beyond Prisons
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes

Sessions in which Shu-Mei Huang attends

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:00
Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
Public event

Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet that takes listeners from the Atwater Market to the Saint Gabriel Lock, exploring the post-industrial transformation of a once heavily industrialized area. The Lachine Canal area has undergone dramatic changes, as mills and factories were closed and then demolished or converted into high-end condominiums. The adjoining working-class neighbourhoods ...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:00
In Griffintown/ Dans le Griff and Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940-1960
Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
Public event

(Guided visits to Two Exhibitions, Centre d’histoire de Montréal- bilingual) – The Centre d’histoire de Montréal presents Dans le Griff that takes visitors into the neighbourhood of Griffintown, as depicted through the lives and memories of the Mercier family. Their life stories will take us down the streets of an industrial sector that has undergone quite the metamorphosis. Griffintown is one of the oldest industrial and working-class neighbourhoods in Montreal. In the forefro...

9:00
09.00  La Convention sur la sauvegarde du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel en Extrême-Orient : Effet boomerang au niveau local d’un outil mondial
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
13.30  Adopting and Adapting the New Museology Discourse: Ecomuseum Development in Rural China
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
10.00  Authentic Kyrgyzstan: Top-Down Politics Meet Bottom-Up Heritage
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
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
Heritage as an Agent of Change (Epistemologies, Ontologies, Teaching)Activists and ExpertsPublic event
Heritage as an agent of changeEpistemologiesOntologiesTeaching

The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conservation, meaningless, or without substantive power or influence. We will examine this notion in relation to the history, theory, and practical application of significance as a concept and method in heritage. In short, we will discuss the significance of insignificance. The notion of ‘significance’ is central to heritage conservation in many pa...

Wednesday 8 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:30
Post-Conference Tour: À la découverte de Kahnawà :ke | Discovery of Kahnawà :ke
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
8:30 - 17:30 | 9 hours
Tour/Excursion

||| Les Mohawks constituent la nation amérindienne la plus nombreuse parmi les dix différentes nations que compte le Québec. La nation mohawk compte près de 17 350 habitants. Il y en a 2 700 qui vivent hors réserve et les autres sont dispersés dans trois grandes communautés que sont : Kanesatake, Akwasasne et Kahnawà :ke. Située à proximité de Montréal, sur la rive sud du fleuve Saint-Laurent, la communauté de Kahnawà :ke compte près de 7 300 habitants. Elle est parmi les première...