Dr Yujie Zhu

Participates in 6 items

Yujie Zhu is a Lecturer at Center for Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University. He is interested in the politics of cultural heritage, and its relation to issues like ethnic tourism, urbanisation, nationalism and religious practices. He is the vice chair of the Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and an executive committee member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.

Sessions in which Dr Yujie Zhu participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

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...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories

Paper

Dr Yujie Zhu (Participant)

Heritage development in historical cities is regarded as a vital ingredient of urban regeneration by state and local governments. The inner city...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

09.40 Politics of Scale: Cultural Heritage in China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II

Paper

Dr Yujie Zhu (Participant)

This paper will investigate the interrelation between heritage and scale. It will not only examine scale as a fixed unit and existing category w...

[WITHDRAWN| What has Critical Heritage Studies Changed? The Changing Scope and Content of IJHS

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Dr Yujie Zhu (Participant)

Established in 1994, The International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS) was, in hindsight, a landmark in the development of heritage studies. ...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

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...

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...

Sessions in which Dr Yujie Zhu attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

9:00

Séminaire de développement de la recherche avec Jean-Yves Andrieux | Research Development Seminar with Jean-Yves Andrieux

3 hours, 9:00 - 12:00

Signup required

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

Workshop

Les séminaires de développement de la recherche (Research Development Seminars) réunissent des jeunes chercheurs participants au congrès qui présen...

13:00

What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum

2 hours, 13:00 - 15:00

Signup required

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

Workshop

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

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

Dr Adèle Esposito, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR AUSser Architecture, Urbanistique, Société, France (Participant)

Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

Pedro Paulo Funari, Unicamp (Participant)

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

This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...

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...

19:30

The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises

1 hour 30 minutes, 19:30 - 21:00

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210

Research-Creation

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Moderator)

Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...

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...

Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320

Regular session

Dr Eva Löfgren, Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Moderator)

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

Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...

Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine

4 hours, 11:00 - 15:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280

Regular session

Dr Astrid Swenson, Brunel University London (Moderator)

How do borders shape heritage and its potential for change? Despite the growth of international connections in heritage studies, national, linguist...

11.30 Heritage Diplomacy and the Border

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine

Paper

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Participant)

Borders—political, institutional and cultural—have been central to the internationalization of heritage in the modern era. The concepts of herit...

13:30

13.30 At the UNESCO Feast: Introduction

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance I

Paper

Dr Chiara Bortolotto, Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain, France (Participant)

Prof. Benedetta Ubertazzi, University of Milan-Bicocca (Participant)

This introduction will present the establishment of foodways as a new field in global heritage governance outlining some of the questions that t...

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

Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

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

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...

09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

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...

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...

12:30

ACHS Chapters meetings: Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Research Group

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

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

Workshop

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...

17:00

ACHS 2016 General Assembly

1 hour 30 minutes, 17:00 - 18:30

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

Talk

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

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...

10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage as contributor to policymaking

Paper

Dr. Jeremy Wells, Roger Williams University (Participant)

This paper will explore the relevancy of the nascent critical heritage studies movement to the future of built heritage conservation. This analy...

Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

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

Regular session

Dr Satu Kähkönen, University of Jyväskylä (Moderator)

Prof. Kristin Kuutma (Moderator)

Prof. Tuuli Lähdesmäki, University of Jyväskylä (Moderator)

Space plays a crucial role in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Although space has often been discussed in heritage studies, ...

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...

Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

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...

Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

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

Regular session

Dr Mirjana Ristic, Technical University Berlin (Moderator)

Prof. Sybille Frank, Technische Universität Berlin (Moderator)

This session seeks to explore the role of urban heritage in mediating and contesting political conflict in the context of divided cities. We take u...

Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

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...

13:30

Engaging Authenticity

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

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

Research-Creation

Prof. Austin Parsons (Participant)

This proposal makes the case that heritage’s capacity for change may be dependent on a paradigm shift in how heritage is interpreted. With this ...

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...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II

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

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...

Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

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...

Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II

8 hours, 9:00 - 17:00

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

Regular session

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...

12:30

ACHS Executive Committee Meeting

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.105

Workshop

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

13:30

Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés

3 hours 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

Signup required

Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier

Regular session

Chantal Turbide, L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Moderator)

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

While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are ...