
Sessions in which Prof. Susan Ross participates
9:00
9:00
- 10.00 Urban Waste (Places) and Heritage Values
- Participant Prof. Susan Ross (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- The idea of built heritage as potential waste is commonly represented by images of demolition and landfill sites. This contributes to an idea th...
- Paper
Sessions in which Prof. Susan Ross attends
12:30
12:30
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
13:00
13:00
- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
- Workshop
17:00
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

10:30
10:30
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 10:30 - 11:00 | 30 minutes
- Pause
11:00
11:00
- 15.50 Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures: Heritage in Times of Accelerated Climate Change
- Participant Dr Anna Woodham (King's College London) | Participant Dr Bryony Onciul (Univerisity of Exeter) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- In response to the guiding theme of the conference “What does heritage change?” this paper will explore how changes to the way we traditionally ...
- Paper
- 15.30 L'appropriation citoyenne comme réponse à la sauvegarde de l’architecture moderne
- Participant Marie-Dina Salvione (École de design, UQAM) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Cette communication propose de questionner l’idée de patrimonialisation comme condition sine qua non pour la sauvegarde de l’architecture modern...
- Paper
- 12.00 Healing Heritage: A Case Study Toward Decolonizing Commemoration
- Participant Trina Cooper-Bolam (Carleton University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
- In anticipation of the “Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,” this paper will examine Canada’s federal place-based...
- 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
- 14.30 L’approche paysagère : de nouveaux modes d’action citoyenne pour le patrimoine et les paysages
- Participant Mathieu Dormaels Ph.D. (Université du Québec à Montréal) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Depuis les années 1990, la notion de paysage s’est développée à travers diverses approches et différentes disciplines. Objet essentiellement géo...
- Paper
- 13.30 Participatory, Value-Based Heritage Cultural Landscape Conservation for Sustainable Community Development: The Case of Milton Park in Montreal
- Participant Mehdi Ghafouri (Vanier College) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Given that heritage, tangible and intangible, is considered as a cultural/capital resource, this paper will depart from the premise that partici...
- Paper
- 11.00 Seize the Space
- Participant Jeff Thomas |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
- When I first visited the Samuel de Champlain monument in 1992, I never imagined that one day, the kneeling Indian at the base of the monument wo...
- Paper
- 12.00 Art, Activism and its Artifacts: Community Arts and the Construction of Cultural Responses to De-industrialization in Scotland c.1970-1990
- Participant Ms Lucy Brown (Scottish Oral History Centre) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland
- The community arts movement began in the early 1960s and played a significant role in urban life in Scotland throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In ...
- Paper
- 11.00 "Scrap Heap" Stories: Oral Narratives of Work Loss, Health and the Body in Deindustrializing Scotland
- Participant Prof. Arthur McIvor (Univ Strathclyde) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland
- Industrial heritage in Britain has tended to be romanticized in museum “cathedrals” and “theme parks” (like Beamish), with workers’ lived experi...
- Paper
- 16.10 “The Lure of the Local”: Unpacking Colville House, Sackville, New Brunswick
- Participant Dr Andrea Terry (Lakehead University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
- While Alex Colville’s artworks reside in private and public collections around the world, Colville himself remained grounded in primarily in Sac...
- Paper
- 12.00 Control of Indigenous Archaeological Heritage in Ontario, Canada
- Participant Gary Warrick (Wilfrid Laurier University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State I
- Few Indigenous Peoples have control over their heritage, despite international recognition that they have “the right to maintain, protect and de...
- Paper
- 14.00 People, Places, and Stories: Culture, Nature, and Associations
- Participant Dr. Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo (Athabasca University - Heritage Resources Management) | Participant Dr. Manijeh Mannani (Athabasca University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Canadian society is diverse, and in it, multiculturalism is well pronounced. Based on the Canadian Multiculturalism Act which recognizes Canadia...
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
13:30
13:30
- 16.00 Ecological Thought and Cultural Landscapes: Evolving Paradigms and their Potential Application to Heritage Conservation
- Participant Cari Goetcheus (The University of Georgia) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage vs Ecology
- Cultural landscape conservation, as influenced by the US National Park Service and UNESCO/ICOMOS philosophy and practice, has focused to date on...
- Paper
- 15.30 Le patrimoine du logement social à l’ère du tourisme : réappropriation et changement d’image. L’exemple du projet de valorisation touristique et patrimoniale de la cité-jardin de Stains
- Participant Sébastien Jacquot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Alter-Heritagization / Alter-Metropolization ? Objects, Players and Forms of Alternative Heritage Production in Contemporary Metropolises
- « Sortez vos appareils photos, nous passons de l’autre côté du périphérique »… Telle est l’accroche d’un article publié dans le journal...
- Paper
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Nostalgia has a bad press. For some, it is pointless and sentimental, for others reactionary and futile. Where does that leave those of us inter...
- Paper
- 13.50 File Under “Disaster Area, Incredible Ruins”: Landscape as Heritage in Thetford Mines, Québec
- Participant Heather Braiden (University of Montreal) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Thetford Mines is a town build upon the shoulders of generations of men, women, and families, interwoven by asbestos, at varying intervals betwe...
- 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

9:00
9:00
- 12.00 Mural, Mural on the Wall, Did Scorn and Pretense Make You Fall?
- Participant John Leroux (Canada) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Throughout its 175-year history, Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, has evolved into one of Canada’s most admired educational...
- Paper
- 09.20 Imported Ghosts and Figurative Bodies: Mobilizing Heritage in Ottawa
- Participant Dr Jerzy (Jurek) Elżanowski (Carleton University) | Participant Dr Rebecca Dolgoy (University of Ottawa) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- While the topography of Canada’s capital city has always included imported “ghosts”—symbols of bodies from perceived foundational conflicts that...
- Paper
- La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- La conservation des quartiers anciens ne se réalise probablement jamais sans être accompagnée de tensions sociales de différentes sortes. Si, dans ...
- Regular session
9:00
9:00
- 11.00 “The Places My Granddad Built”: Using Genealogy as a Pedagogical Segue for Heritage Preservation
- Participant Dr. Barry L. Stiefel (College of Charleston) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research III
- While teaching heritage preservation courses for several years I struggled with how to give an equal balance to the research and preservation of...
- Paper
- 13.30 Approaching Rights in the World Heritage Arena: Methodological Considerations
- Participant Peter Larsen (University of Lucerne) | Participant Ms Kristal Buckley AM (Deakin University Australia) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- A number of actors within the World Heritage system have, within recent years, started addressing rights, rights-based approaches and language. ...
- Paper
- 09.20 The Burra Charter: Evolving in Theory but Does it Have Teeth?
- Participant Dr Robyn Clinch (University of Melbourne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- This paper will explore the practical status and use of the Burra Charter in Australia. The Burra Charter evolved in Australia from the Venice C...
- Charting New Directions: Heritage, Architecture and the Decorative Arts Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Architectural historian John R. Stubbs suggests that architectural conservation is concerned with historic buildings and their sites as well as ...
- Roundtable
- An Intergenerational Conversation about Heritage Conservation Education: The Rise, Fall, and (Necessary) Redefinition of Expert Knowledge Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- As recent publications have demonstrated, the role of the expert in heritage conservation is a relevant, indeed imperative topic of discussion. On ...
- Roundtable
- 12.00 Tuning into Canada’s Radio Heritage
- Participant Michael Windover (Carleton University) | Participant Hilary Grant (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage
- When radio entered Canadian homes beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, it produced a new socio–spatial experience for listeners and became a key co...
- Paper
- 09.00 Labour Mobility in Newfoundland’s Forest Industry, 1909-1929
- Participant Dustin Valen (McGill University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Labour, Mobility and Heritage
- In 1909, Newfoundland’s first pulp and paper mill was opened at Grand Falls by the British newspaper magnate Alfred Harmsworth. Virtually overni...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- The Future of Heritage in Ontario Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Private sector cultural heritage evaluation, protection, and management in Ontario exists at the nexus of academic theory, legislative direction...
- Roundtable
9:00
9:00
- 11:30 Liminality of Porches
- Participant Prof. Thomas Visser (University of Vermont - Historic Preservation Program) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage
- This paper will provide a structured examination of implied symbolic and functional liminal qualities of porches and similar features of heritag...
- Paper
- 09.30 The Limits of the Frontier: Historic Sites and Sustainability in Western Canada
- Participant Claire Campbell (Bucknell University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- Can historic sites serve as places to discuss the roots of contemporary environmental issues? Since the 1970s, we have acknowledged the...
- Paper
- 14.00 Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation and Research by Indicators: For an Open Approach to Discourse Analysis. The Case of the Historic District of Quebec City
- Participant Prof. Étienne Berthold (Université Laval, Department of Geography / Département de géographie ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- For a few years now, sustainable urban heritage conservation has been arousing a growing interest in the scientific community. Numerous studies ...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
- Roundtable
- (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
15:30
15:30
- Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What is the future of the UK and what is the role of heritage in this shifting political landscape? How have debates on heritage in the UK chang...
- Roundtable
- 16.00 Modernism and Anti-modernism in 1970s “Green” Architecture: The Case of the Ark for Prince Edward Island
- Participant Prof. Steven Mannell (Dalhousie University) |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Ephemeral Sites of Critical Anti-modernism: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Experimental 1970s Eco-social Communities
- The emergence of “Green” approaches to environmentally-conscious architecture in the 1970s reflects and responds to a number of then-current eve...
- Paper