
t s Beall
Artist and Collaborative Doctoral Award recipient
University of Glasgow and The Riverside Museum, Glasgow Museums
Participates in 2 items
Tara S. Beall is an artist and doctoral researcher based in Glasgow, working on a diverse range of projects that share socially-engaged methods. Recent public artworks include A Stone's Throw Away in 2010, and Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us (with Matt Baker) in 2012, both part of The Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. She is currently the recipient of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) based at University of Glasgow Theatre Studies, working with the Riverside Museum of Transport and Travel, Glasgow Museums. Her practice-led research develops new engagement strategies for heritage institutions using creative events and participatory performance practices, working collaboratively with local publics. Her research conceptualises museums as permeable and adaptive – and asserts a reconceptualisation of heritage as networked activity, where authorship of historical narratives are shared.
Beall’s co-authored, practice-led projects with the Riverside Museum include Govan’s Hidden Histories and the ongoing Strong Women of the Clydeside: Protests and Suffragettes project (2013-), researching sublimated histories of women in protest movements in Govan including the 1915 Rent Strikes and the 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In. The Fair Glasgow project (2013, collaborations ongoing), co-devised with artist, researcher, and Showman Mitch Miller, highlighted the impact of Traveling Showpeople and Fairground heritage on Glasgow and Scotland, and developed a participatory 'living-history' exhibit and working funfair in December 2013 titled Behind the Scenes at the Fair.
Beall’s co-authored, practice-led projects with the Riverside Museum include Govan’s Hidden Histories and the ongoing Strong Women of the Clydeside: Protests and Suffragettes project (2013-), researching sublimated histories of women in protest movements in Govan including the 1915 Rent Strikes and the 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In. The Fair Glasgow project (2013, collaborations ongoing), co-devised with artist, researcher, and Showman Mitch Miller, highlighted the impact of Traveling Showpeople and Fairground heritage on Glasgow and Scotland, and developed a participatory 'living-history' exhibit and working funfair in December 2013 titled Behind the Scenes at the Fair.
Sessions in which t s Beall participates
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- 09.00 Problematizing Silences in Intangible Heritage: Unsettling Historical Records of Women in Protests
- Participant Professor Katarzyna Kosmala (University of the West of Scotland) | Participant t s Beall (University of Glasgow and The Riverside Museum, Glasgow Museums) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing
- Paper
- 10.00 All the Fun of the Fairground: Challenges Representing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Scotland’s Travelling Showpeople
- Participant t s Beall (University of Glasgow and The Riverside Museum, Glasgow Museums) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing
- Paper
Sessions in which t s Beall attends
12:30
12:30
- Research Development Seminar with Michael Herzfeld
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Hubert-Aquin (A) - A-1875
- 12:30 - 15:30 | 3 hours
- 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
- Cocktail
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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

11:00
11:00
- 11.40 "It Wis a Healthy and Wealthy Place": The Springburn Winter Gardens as a Symbol of Economic Decline and the Conflicts of Community Regeneration
- Participant Mr Andrew Clark (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
- Paper
- 16.00 Citizen Groups and Their Vision of Heritage in the Making of the 2012 Quebec Cultural Heritage Act
- Participant Prof. Martin Drouin (UQAM) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
- 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
- Paper
- 11.40 They Who Debate the Past Debate the Future
- Participant Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- 13.30 Landscape, Emotion and Contested Values: An Autoethnographical Case Study in Migration, Place Attachment and the Spirit of Place
- Participant Ms Claire Johnstone (Heriot-Watt University ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Paper
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Regular session
- 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
- Regular session
- 14.30 Of, By, and For Which People?: Government and Contested Heritage
- Participant Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Indiana University (IUPUI)) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- 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
- Paper
- 12.00 "Home is Everywhere and Nowhere": The Critical Heritage of Migration and Belonging in Contemporary European Museums
- Participant Dr Susannah Eckersley (Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK) | Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Paper
- 11.20 The Material and the Immaterial: The Curious Case of Clydeside’s Industrial Leftovers
- Participant Martin Conlon |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland
- 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
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 14.30 The Architectural Invention of Working Class Memory in Byker, Newcastle
- Participant Dr David Franco (Clemson University School of Architecture) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- 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
- Paper
- Cultural Heritage and the Working Class UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

9:00
9:00
- 09.30 The Rise and Fall of “Mother Canada”: Heritage Out on a Limb
- Participant Lon Dubinsky (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Paper
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 11.30 The Texas Freedom Colony Diaspora: The Role of Memory and Performance in African American Place-Making and Preservation in Texas (cancelled)
- Participant Dr. Andrea Roberts (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II
- Paper
- 11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration
- Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Paper
11:00
11:00
- Maverick Heritages. Ugliness, Discomfort and Illegality in the Political and Social Construction of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M240 - SALLE ANNULÉE
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

9:00
9:00
- 10.00 Lefkosa vs Nicosia: Reimagining of Heritage in the Age of Conflict
- Participant Zeynep Gunay (Istanbul Technical University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- 09.00 Ethnoheritage: Heritage Theory from the American Anthropological Perspective
- Participant Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels (University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 11.30 Acting on the Body: Heritage as a Governing Strategy for Disciplining the Female Body in Twentieth-Century Iceland
- Participant Ólafur Rastrick (University of Iceland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas
- Signup required Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
- 9:00 - 10:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
- 13.30 Heritage and Hospitality: Activists as Uninvited Guests to the Heritage Table
- Participant Evren Uzer (Parsons School of Design & University of Gothenburg HDK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
- 12.00 Heritage Changes People: Brazilian Experiences
- Participant Maria Aparecida Almeida (Unicamp) | Participant Pedro Paulo Funari (Unicamp) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- 14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
- Participant Mr Gary Campbell (ANU) | Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- 11.30 Performing Imaginary Healings: The Post-Conflict Heritage of Ebrington Barracks in Derry-Londonderry
- Participant Dr Tom Maguire (Ulster University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- 14.00 Cultural Diversity, Intangible Heritage and Human Rights: A Case Study from Glasgow
- Participant Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith (Heriot-Watt University ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Paper
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
- Roundtable
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
- Talk
13:30
13:30
- 14.00 Digital Democracy? Co-Production in the Digital Environment
- Participant Dr Katherine Lloyd (Heriot-Watt University ) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment
- Paper
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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

18:00
18:00
- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
- Cocktail
19:00
19:00
- Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
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20:00
20:00
- Film Series: Exit Zero
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 20:00 - 21:35 | 1 hour 35 minutes
- Event
9:00
9:00
- 09.10 “Home is the Streets”: Collaborative Cultural Heritage Work with Contemporary Homeless People and its Function as Advocacy
- Participant Rachael Kiddey (Independent Social Research Foundation) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
- 13.30 Adopting and Adapting the New Museology Discourse: Ecomuseum Development in Rural China
- Participant Prof. William Nitzky (California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- Paper
- 09.00 The Pedagogical Benefits of Critical Heritage Studies: Helping Students to Reveal and Engage with the Complexities of Deindustrialization and Urban Change (Baltimore, USA)
- Participant Prof. Michelle L. Stefano (University of Maryland, American Studies, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- Paper
- 09.00 Caring (or Not) about the Beamish Museum: The Co-Production and Co-Enactment of Affective Heritage
- Participant Dr Sarah De Nardi (Durham University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- Paper
- 13.30 A Change in the “Who,” a Change in the “What”: On the Material Practices of Museums in Two Cases of Co-Management
- Participant Bethany Rex (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- Paper
- 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
- Regular session
- 10.00 Humorous Becomings: Exploring Empathy Through the Use of "Craic" in Tours of Belfast's Murals
- Participant Ms Katie Markham (sskjm@leeds.ac.uk) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Paper
- Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- 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
- Regular session
- “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- 11.00 Us, Here and Now (But Not Only Us, Not Only Here and Not Only Now): Or, Scaling Affiliations of Co-Production
- Participant Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- Paper
- 11.30 Toward Participatory Development of Museum Performance Indicators: A Means of Embedding "Shared Authority"? Experiences from Aotearoa, New Zealand
- Participant Dr Jane A. Legget (Auckland War Memorial Museum) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
- 11.00 Found; Finding; Foundling, Mine: Searching for the Voice of the Historical Child in the Foundling Museum
- Participant Miss Rachel Emily Taylor (Sheffield Hallam University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Paper
- 09.30 The Legacy of Communism: Difficult Histories and Contested Narratives in Romania
- Participant Dr Sheila Watson (University of Leicester) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
13:00
13:00
- A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue) Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 13:00 - 14:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
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
- 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
- Roundtable
8:30
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