Dr Valentina Vapnarsky

Researcher

CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France

Participates in 4 items

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).

Sessions in which Dr Valentina Vapnarsky participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

11:00

11.00 Introductory words

15 minutes, 11:00 - 11:15

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

Dr Valentina Vapnarsky, CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France (Participant)

Dr Anath Ariel de Vidas, CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France (Participant)

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

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Regular session

Dr Valentina Vapnarsky, CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France (Moderator)

Dr Anath Ariel de Vidas, CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France (Moderator)

Heritagization (the various means by which cultural features—either material or immaterial—are turned into a people’s heritage) has recently become...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

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

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Regular session

Dr Valentina Vapnarsky, CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France (Moderator)

Dr Anath Ariel de Vidas, CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France (Moderator)

Heritagization (the various means by which cultural features—either material or immaterial—are turned into a people’s heritage) has recently become...

12.00 Discussion et conclusions

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Dr Valentina Vapnarsky, CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France (Participant)

La question de la « mise en patrimoine » d’éléments culturels devient depuis plusieurs années l’un des moyens par lesquels les groupes amérindie...

Sessions in which Dr Valentina Vapnarsky attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

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

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...

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)

7:30

Discovering katajjaniq – Nunavik’s Inuit throat singing | À la découverte du katajjaniq – le chant de gorge inuit du Nunavik

1 hour, 7:30 - 8:30

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle des boiseries (J-2805)

Event

In English and French The two Inuit artists Nina Segalowitz and Taqralik Partridge are offering us an initiation to katajjaniq, this thousand...