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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.

Sessions in which t s Beall participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Professor Katarzyna Kosmala, University of the West of Scotland (Participant)

t s Beall, University of Glasgow and The Riverside Museum, Glasgow Museums (Participant)

This paper takes as a point of departure the ongoing debate surrounding the reconceptualization of heritage as a process, a shift that implies a...

Paper

t s Beall, University of Glasgow and The Riverside Museum, Glasgow Museums (Participant)

This paper will take as its starting point ongoing heritage discourses related to participatory, performative, and co-curational practices withi...

Sessions in which t s Beall attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
12:30
12:30
Research Development Seminar with Michael Herzfeld
3 hours, 12:30 - 15:30
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Hubert-Aquin (A) - A-1875

Workshop

The Research Development Seminars gathers young scholars who will informally present and discuss their research with one of the conference's keynot...
17:00
17:00
Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
2 hours 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30
Signup required

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel

Cocktail

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potential)

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Potential)

Dr Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Moderator)

Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant)

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Participant)

Hon. Serge Joyal c.p., o.c. (Participant)

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
11:00
11:00

Paper

Mr Andrew Clark, Scottish Oral History Centre (Participant)

The existing literature on industrial ruination is focused primarily on sites with a direct connection with work and employment, such as abandon...

Paper

Prof. Martin Drouin, UQAM (Participant)

The Quebec Cultural Heritage Act, adopted by the province’s National Assembly, came into force in 2012, replacing the Cultural Property Act (197...

Paper

Leonie Wieser, Northumbria University (Participant)

This paper will explore the outlook on the present and future provided by contemporary community heritage projects in Tyneside, UK. It will ask ...

Paper

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

The history of York includes many documented instances of activist resistance to the kinds of developments which remove parts of the medieval ci...

Paper

Ms Claire Johnstone, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

When put into the context of cultural heritage, the idea of the emotional value of a landscape can be defined in ICOMOS’s concept of “Spirit of ...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560

Regular session

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Moderator)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Regular session

Prof. Arthur McIvor, Univ Strathclyde (Moderator)

Industrial heritage in Britain has tended to be romanticised in museum ‘cathedrals’ and ‘theme parks’ (like Beamish), with workers’ lived experi...

Paper

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Participant)

Two government-owned and managed heritage sites in Indiana, USA, offer an opportunity to explore the role of governing in adjudicating the compe...

Paper

Prof. Arthur McIvor, Univ Strathclyde (Participant)

Industrial heritage in Britain has tended to be romanticized in museum “cathedrals” and “theme parks” (like Beamish), with workers’ lived experi...

Paper

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Participant)

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

This paper will analyze presentations of and identifications with scales of “home” and belonging in European museums, which address (hi)stories ...

Paper

Martin Conlon (Participant)

As some of the last and most iconic fragments of industrial detritus along the River Clyde, the four remaining Giant cantilever cranes provide a...

Paper

Ms Lucy Brown, Scottish Oral History Centre (Participant)

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 ...
13:30
13:30

Paper

Dr David Franco, Clemson University School of Architecture (Participant)

In 1953, the Medical Office of Health of the city of Newcastle decided to tear down a good part of the old terraced houses of the inner city com...

Paper

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

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...
Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Regular session

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)

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...
18:30
18:30
Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Lon Dubinsky, Concordia University (Participant)

This paper will examine the genesis, development, and current status of the Never Forgotten National Memorial, the centrepiece of which is a hug...

Paper

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

This paper explores the role that empathy, as both a skill and an emotion, plays in the processes of politicized and self-conscious heritage-mak...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518

Regular session

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

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...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560

Regular session

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Moderator)

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...

Paper

Dr. Andrea Roberts, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (Participant)

From 1866 to 1890, in the shadow of the Civil War and the violent American race relations that followed, former slaves founded more than 500 “Fr...

Paper

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Research involving display analysis and interviews with staff and visitors has shown empathy to be an important feature of interpretative strate...
11:00
11:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M240 - SALLE ANNULÉE

Regular session

Dr Cristiana Panella, Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (Moderator)

Prof. Walter E. Little, University at Albany, SUNY, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, United States (Moderator)

With regard to the main question of the 3rd ACHS Biennial Conference, "What does heritage change?" the convenors of this session propose ethnograph...
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)
1 hour 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30
Signup required

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Moderator)

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted  question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant)

This paper will attempt to provide a brief critical commentary on the reimagining of heritage through the mnemonics of conflict. Regarding the p...

Paper

Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States (Participant)

The discipline of anthropology has been home to some of the most productive elaborations of cultural heritage research in the United States. In ...

Paper

Ólafur Rastrick, University of Iceland (Participant)

The title of the paper refers to Tony Bennett’s article “Acting on the social” and his employment of the Foucauldian notion of governmentality e...
In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas
1 hour 30 minutes, 9:00 - 10:30
Signup required

Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette

Roundtable

Simon Bradley (Participant)

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Participant)

Toby Butler, University of East London (Participant)

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...

Paper

Evren Uzer, Parsons School of Design & University of Gothenburg HDK (Participant)

Hospitality and hostility stems from the root word “hostis,” which could mean guest or host, friend or enemy. Hostis, according to French lingui...

Maria Aparecida Almeida, Unicamp (Participant)

Pedro Paulo Funari, Unicamp (Participant)

Heritage is a most controversial subject. It may be considered as a way of upholding received wisdom and conservative mores, but it may also be ...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.115

Regular session

Dr. Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen, Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (Moderator)

Dr. Grete Swensen, NIKU (Moderator)

Dr Kalliopi Fouseki, University College London (Moderator)

Cities are growingly being faced by social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges imposing health and social risks. Rapid urbanization, p...

Paper

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Theory building in heritage studies in general, and critical heritage studies in particular, has to be eclectic and wide-ranging. However, to ac...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435

Regular session

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Moderator)

Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States (Moderator)

The field of heritage has emerged as a key site of reflection. Influenced by shifts in the academy (e.g., post-colonial, post-structural and femini...
Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Regular session

Dr Tod Jones, Curtin University, Australia (Moderator)

Dr Ali Mozaffari, Deakin University, Curtin University (Moderator)

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...

Paper

Dr Tom Maguire, Ulster University (Participant)

The crucible of the violent conflict in Northern Ireland in the latter part of the twentieth century is known euphemistically as “The Troubles.”...

Paper

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

This paper will focus on concepts of cultural diversity and intangible heritage with particular reference to the notion of human rights. The dis...
11:00
11:00
In-community session: Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies: Roundtable on Concordia’s ‘Right to the City’ Initiative
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 - 12:30
Signup required

Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette

Roundtable

Simon Bradley (Participant)

Toby Butler, University of East London (Participant)

Dr Kathleen Vaughan, Concordia University, Art Education (Moderator)

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Participant)

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Participant)

Professor Edward Little, Concordia University (Participant)

In a collaborative and image-rich conversational presentation, “Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies” outlines the potentials and ...
12:30
12:30
Small (ERA Architects Inc.)
1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30
Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445

Talk

Philip Evans, ERA Architects (Participant)

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Moderator)

As Canada shifts from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, small communities that were established to service the primary sect...
13:30
13:30

Paper

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

Digital technology has long been heralded as an important tool in the democratization of heritage. Digitization has enabled cultural institution...
15:30
15:30
Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00
Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

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...
18:00
18:00
Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
1 hour, 18:00 - 19:00
Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 123

Cocktail

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Moderator)

Gwenaelle Reyt (Participant)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Moderator)

To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
19:00
19:00
Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
35 minutes, 19:00 - 19:35
Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years o...
20:00
20:00
Film Series: Exit Zero
1 hour 35 minutes, 20:00 - 21:35
Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Event

Directed by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel Presented by Michelle Stefano When the steel mills began closing on Chicago's Southeast Side...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Rachael Kiddey, Independent Social Research Foundation (Participant)

The Homeless Heritage project (2009–2013) was a collaborative public archaeology project that sought to document contemporary homelessness from ...

Paper

ms Kayte McSweeney, British Museum (Participant)

“ …it’s important not to be ignorant, especially in such a public space not to be ignorant of different perspectives and to make sure you don’t ...

Paper

Prof. William Nitzky, California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States (Participant)

In 1997, China established its first ecomuseum as a new heritage protection and management strategy in the rural sector. China has since experie...

Paper

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

As for many cities with strong industrial legacies, including those that were once racially segregated, Baltimore provides profound opportunitie...

Paper

John Mullen, Edinburgh, Scotland (Participant)

This paper examines various uses of representations of heritage as tools for transforming post-industrial waterfront areas of Scotland and Polan...

Paper

Dr Sarah De Nardi, Durham University (Participant)

The poetics of heritage co-production works as a connective tissue between heritage publics, practitioners and heritage objects through material...

Paper

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Participant)

In recent years in the UK, faced with continuing cuts to their budgets, a number of local authorities have been considering new approaches to th...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Regular session

Professor Katarzyna Kosmala, University of the West of Scotland (Moderator)

While intangible cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the face of growing globalization, there is still li...

Paper

Ms Katie Markham, sskjm@leeds.ac.uk (Participant)

“Is it a problem . . . that the Irish is always up for the crack?” asked Ali G of Sinn Fèin MLA Sue Ramsey, a mere year after the signing of the...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285

Regular session

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Moderator)

Felix Burgos, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Moderator)

Among other aims, the Critical Heritage Studies (CHS) Movement, most exemplified by the promotional efforts of the Association of Critical Heritage...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401

Regular session

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Nuala Morse, University of Manchester / University College London (Moderator)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435

Regular session

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Moderator)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

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...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Regular session

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Moderator)

In exploring the broader question “What does heritage change?” this session presents work that is extending heritage policies and practices beyond ...

Paper

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

Co-production has a very specific political genealogy. Gaining ground in the mid-2000s the term “co-production” was used to explore how the stat...

Paper

Rachael Coghlan, Australian National University (Participant)

Is it possible to democratize the museum experience and open it to non-expert voices through the use of participatory approaches? This paper wil...

Paper

Dr Jane A. Legget, Auckland War Memorial Museum (Participant)

In Aotearoa, New Zealand, museums and Maori increasingly work together to elaborate practices for managing material culture and Indigenous knowl...

Paper

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Participant)

Before we can begin to understand what heritage changes, we have to understand the fields of power and significance in which it operates. In the...

Paper

Miss Rachel Emily Taylor, Sheffield Hallam University (Participant)

Biographical narratives are being used as vehicles for history within contemporary heritage discourse. I am interested in unravelling the dialog...

Paper

Dr Sheila Watson, University of Leicester (Participant)

This paper will explore whether it is possible for official histories in national museums and nationally important heritage sites to be democrat...

Paper

Harald Fredheim, University of York (Participant)

Following repeated cuts to public funding in the United Kingdom, a growing number of local councils are without heritage conservation officers, ...
13:00
13:00

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Research-Creation

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Moderator)

An experiment in moving memory, this live event bridges public and academic space to re-imagine knowledge exchange, creation and impact...
13:30
13:30
(in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430

Roundtable

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant)

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Moderator)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Participant)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Moderator)

Prof. Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Participant)

The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...
15:30
15:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Roundtable

Prof Elizabeth Crooke, Ulster University (Participant)

Dr Anna Woodham, King's College London (Participant)

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Potential)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Potential)

Dr Nuala Morse, University of Manchester / University College London (Potential)

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Moderator)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Participant)

Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent (Participant)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

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...

Wednesday 8 June, 2016

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8:30
8:30
Post-Conference Tour: À la découverte de Kahnawà :ke | Discovery of Kahnawà :ke
9 hours, 8:30 - 17:30
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

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