Marina Svensson

Lund University

Participates in 1 Session

Marina Svensson is Professor of Modern China Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Her research addresses human rights, media and the Internet, as well as cultural heritage issues in China. She has written extensively on cultural heritage issues in China, examples include “Heritage struggles and placemakings in Zhejiang province: Local media, cross regional media interactions, and media strategies from below,” in Sun Wanning and Jenny Chio eds., Mapping Media in China: Region, Province and Locality (Routledge 2012); “Lineages and the State: Negotiating and Re-inventing Local History and Heritage,” in Ane Bislev and Stig Thøgersen eds. Organizing Rural China (Rowman and Littlefield 2012); “Cultural Heritage Protection in the People’s Republic of China: Preservation Policies, Institutions, Laws, and Enforcement in Zhejiang,” in Mattias Burell and Marina Svensson eds. Chinese Laws in Context (Cornell University Press 2011); and “Tourist Itineraries, Spatial Management, and Hidden Temples: The Revival of Religious Sites in a Water Town,” in Tim Oakes and Donald Sutton eds. Faiths on Display: Religion and Tourism in China (Rowman and Littlefield 2010).

Sessions in which Marina Svensson participates

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

9:00

09.40 Life as Heritage: Narratives, Experiences and Mediated Performances of Transmitters of Intangible Heritage in China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage

Paper

Marina Svensson, Lund University (Participant)

This paper will approach the topic “What does heritage change?” by looking at the perspectives and experiences of a special category of heritage...

Sessions in which Marina Svensson attends

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

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

Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950

Regular session

Jeroen Rodenberg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Moderator)

Dr. Pieter Wagenaar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Moderator)

Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...

12:30

Heritage as Global Challenge

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

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

Talk

kristian kristiansen, University of Gothenburg (Participant)

Prof. Ola Wetterberg, University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation (Participant)

A new Centre for Critical Heritage Studies in partnership between University College London and University of Gothenburg started in April 2016 a...

15:30

Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Regular session

Dr Yujie Zhu (Moderator)

In recent decades, the growth of the World Heritage industry has necessitated the reconsideration of scale. Formerly dominated by nation-states, so...

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

Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Regular session

John Leroux, Canada (Participant)

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

Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.255

Regular session

In recent decades, the growth of the World Heritage industry has necessitated the reconsideration of scale. Formerly dominated by nation-states, so...

14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

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...

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...

How do Rights Change Heritage?

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235

Regular session

Anne Laura Kraak, Deakin University (Moderator)

Questions about the repatriation of cultural property, issues of access and exclusion in the World Heritage system, intangible heritage practices i...

13:30

14.00 Digital Democracy? Co-Production in the Digital Environment

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment

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...

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...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

7:30

Autour de Concordia. Au cœur du Golden Square Mile : explorations de luttes patrimoniales | Around Concordia. In the Heart of Golden Square Mile: Explorations of Heritage Struggles

1 hour 15 minutes, 7:30 - 8:45

Signup required

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

Tour

(en français) Le centre-ville a été au cœur de nombreuses luttes depuis les années 1970. Le parcours proposé par Martin Drouin, historien, pr...

9:00

09.00 Where East Meets West: Comparing UNESCO’s Impact on Domestic Cultural Governance Systems

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

Paper

Ioan Trifu, Goethe University Frankfurt (Participant)

Christina Maags, Goethe University Frankfurt (Participant)

For decades the international heritage regime has increasingly been criticized as following a Western notion of and approach to cultural heritag...

09.30 Conceptualizing Living Heritage in China: The Contested Chinese ICH Discourse

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices

Paper

Dr Yujie Zhu (Participant)

Christina Maags, Goethe University Frankfurt (Participant)

Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)? What is that? Although the concept of ICH has been extensively discussed within UNESCO, the media, and state...

Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.445

Regular session

Dr Anna Källén, Stockholm University (Moderator)

Dr Anna Karlström, Uppsala University (Moderator)

As the interface between past and present, heritage is deeply involved in articulations of personal and group identity, working to unite and har...

09.30 Spatial Narratives, Deep Mapping and Reactivating the City’s Past for the Future: A Case Study in Hangzhou, China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II

Paper

Qingkai Ma, Zhejiang University (Participant)

Historic cities in China are often characterized by long-term history and a material absence of heritage. It has caused difficulties in heritage...

What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal

8 hours, 9:00 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435

Regular session

Prof. Martha Langford, Concordia University, Departement of Art History, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Canada (Moderator)

Photography was recognized as an instrument of heritage preservation from the moment of its inception in the early nineteenth century, when proj...

Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices

8 hours, 9:00 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.401

Regular session

Dr Yujie Zhu (Moderator)

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

To date, there has been much scholarly discussion and critique about how ideas and policies of "heritage" may be operating globally. There have als...

“For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

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 ...

19:00

Pawâ

4 hours, 19:00 - 23:00

La Scena - La Scena (intérieur)

Repas

The closing dinner of the conference, called “Pawâ” according to a French-Canadian tradition borrowed from the Native American lexicon, will be an ...