Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade
( Elle / She / Her / Hers)
Muséologue et ethnologue, Marie-Blanche Fourcade est Cheffe des collections et des expositions du Musée de l'Holocauste de Montréal. Elle est également professeure associée au département d’histoire de l’art de l’Université du Québec à Montréal où elle enseigne et mène des recherches dans le champ des études patrimoniales et la muséologie. Elle est aussi chercheure associée à la Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain. Parmi ses contributions scientifiques, elle a publié Patrimoine et patrimonialisation : entre le matériel et l’immatériel, Sainte-Foy (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2007); Patrimoines des migrations, migrations des patrimoines, Sainte-Foy, (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008) avec Caroline Legrand (dir.); Patrimoines urbains en récits, Québec, (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2013) avec Marie-Noëlle Aubertin et Muséologies. Les cahiers d’études supérieures, numéro thématique : Musées et virtualité, vol 6 (2), 2013, avec Anik Meunier. Elle a également publié Habiter l’Arménie au Québec, Québec (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2011).
Museologist and ethnologist, Marie-Blanche Fourcade is is the Head of collections and exhibitions at the Montreal Holocaust Museum. Adjunct professor at University of Quebec in Montreal Art History Department, she teaches and leads researches in heritage and museum studies. She is also associate researcher in the Canada Research Chair on Urban Heritage. Among her scientific contributions, she has edited Patrimoine et patrimonialisation: entre le matériel et l’immatériel [Heritage and Heritagization: between the tangible and the intangible] (Laval University Press, 2007); Patrimoines des migrations, migrations des patrimoines [Heritage of migrations and migrations of heritage] (in coedition with Caroline Legrand, Laval University Press, 2008) and Patrimoines urbains en récits [Narratives of urban heritage] (in coedition with Marie-Noëlle Aubertin, University of Quebec Press, 2013) and Muséologies. Les cahiers d’études supérieures, thematical issue : Museums and virtuality, vol 6 (2), 2013, with Anik Meunier. She has also published Habiter l’Arménie au Québec. Ethnographie d’un patrimoine en diaspora [Living in Armenia in Quebec. Ethnography of a diasporic heritage] (University of Quebec Press, 2011).
Sessions in which Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade participates
Saturday 4 June, 2016
Dans le cadre de cette session, nous souhaitons faire, dans une perspective multidisciplinaire et critique, un état des lieux qui interroge doublement, à la lumière de trois axes que sont la narrativité, la temporalité et la performativité, la patrimonialisation des sujets sensibles tant sur ses rôles, ses formes et ses effets sur les sociétés qui les entreprennent, que sur sa fonction révélatrice d’un monde en changement. L’espace public laisse une place grandissante aux objets, aux li...
Monday 6 June, 2016
To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United States Chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, this event will spotlight the iconic Sugar Shack, which is rooted from Quebec to New-England and which is both the place of maple syrup production and of friendly gatherings during the maple syrup season. In a festive atmosphere, delegates will be invited to taste one of the essential of...
Sessions in which Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade attends
Friday 3 June, 2016
Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail take place in the former Grey Nuns' Motherhouse, recycled into campus residence and reading rooms by Concordia University, delegates will also have the possibility to discover the video Three Grey Nuns (3 minutes, by Ron Rudin and Phil Lichti. Three Grey Nuns recount their memories of communal life in the Grey Nun’s Motherhouse. Built...
Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration with Dr Jill Didur, will curate a series of installations and performances that speak directly to the rich heritage of a specific urban landscape: the gardens of the Grey Nuns' Motherhouse, now part of the Concordia University downtown campus. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the lost working gardens of the Grey Nuns. As with other such...
Saturday 4 June, 2016
What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, states maintain their leading role in the mobilization of social and territorial histories, on the local scale, regions, neighbourhoods and parishes have changed. Citizens and communities too: they latch on to heritage to express an unprecedented range of belongings that no law seems to be able to take measures to contain, often to the discontent of...
This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. In particular, the tasting will allow a discovery of the products of the renowned international institution Schwartz's, the Hebrew Delicatessen for which Montrealers and tourists alike are willing to wait in long line-ups. During the tasting, “Chez Schwartz,” a documentary produced by Garry B...
Sunday 5 June, 2016
(In English) Chinatown, born in the second half of the 19th century, is a hub of commercial and sociocultural activities which showcases Chinese culture in Montreal. It has become, over time, an iconic landscape of the city’s cultural diversity. Jonathan Cha, urbanologist, landscape architect and doctor in both space and town planning, proposes a discovery tour allowing us to get acquainted with the history of the district and the decipherment of its landscape. _ Le Quartier chinois, né dans ...
Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and deliberately. Not because of the four old nuclear reactors on its territory, but because the Flemish government decided that the village might block projects for new docks for the Antwerp harbour, plans developed since the 1960s. In the 21st century this process of officially encouraged depopulation is coming to an end: 2500 inhabitants i...
Monday 6 June, 2016
To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United States Chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, this event will spotlight the iconic Sugar Shack, which is rooted from Quebec to New-England and which is both the place of maple syrup production and of friendly gatherings during the maple syrup season. In a festive atmosphere, delegates will be invited to taste one of the essential of...
Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years of operation, the Sparrows Point Steel Mill (Baltimore, Maryland) finally closed its doors in 2012. The film, “Mill Stories”, examines the importance of the mill from the perspectives of former workers and community members while connecting their story to the larger narrative of industrial boom and bust. The film seeks to amplify the voices of forme...
Directed by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel Presented by Michelle Stefano When the steel mills began closing on Chicago's Southeast Side, residents could feel the American Dream slipping away. Decades later, the loss of the steel industry has left permanent scars. The documentary film, Exit Zero: An Industrial Family Story, is named for the highway exit number for Chicago’s old steel mill neighbourhoods and captures the feeling of a region passed over. In poignant and some...
Tuesday 7 June, 2016
The closing dinner of the conference, called “Pawâ” according to a French-Canadian tradition borrowed from the Native American lexicon, will be an opportunity to discover, in the heart of the Old Port of Montreal, an original culinary creation by the caterer Agnus Dei, from the renowned Maison Cartier-Besson in Montreal, leader in its field for its boundless creativity and event expertise. The dinner, in the form of stations, will offer delegates an exploration of Quebecois culinary heritage,...