
Specialist of Lowland Maya cultures and languages, Valentina Vapnarsky has been carrying out fieldwork in Guatemala and Mexico since 1991. Her work focuses on regimes of temporality, agency and memory analyzed within an interactional approach of communicative practices. She has also developed comparative analysis on grammatical aspects of Amerindian languages.
Valentina Vapnarsky has directed a number of international projects, edited books/special issues and published numerous articles on these topics. She is director of the Centre de Recherche et Enseignement en Ethnologie Amérindienne (EREA) of the LESC (CNRS & UPO) and currently teaches at the University of Paris Ouest and at the INALCO (Paris).
Valentina Vapnarsky has directed a number of international projects, edited books/special issues and published numerous articles on these topics. She is director of the Centre de Recherche et Enseignement en Ethnologie Amérindienne (EREA) of the LESC (CNRS & UPO) and currently teaches at the University of Paris Ouest and at the INALCO (Paris).
Sessions in which Dr Valentina Vapnarsky participates
11:00
11:00
- 11.00 Introductory words
- Participant Dr Valentina Vapnarsky (CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France) | Participant Dr Anath Ariel de Vidas (CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France) |
- 11:00 - 11:15 | 15 minutes Part of: Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives I | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones I
9:00
9:00
- Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 12.00 Discussion et conclusions
- Participant Dr Valentina Vapnarsky (CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr Valentina Vapnarsky attends
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

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

7:30
7:30
- Discovering katajjaniq – Nunavik’s Inuit throat singing | À la découverte du katajjaniq – le chant de gorge inuit du Nunavik
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle des boiseries (J-2805)
- 7:30 - 8:30 | 1 hour
- Event