Dr Justin K.H. Tse
Justin K.H. Tse teaches geography and religious studies at the University of Washington in Seattle and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He received his PhD in Geography at the University of British Columbia and has published in Population, Space, and Place, Progress in Human Geography, and Global Networks, among other places. The project on the Highway to Heaven was funded by Metropolis British Columbia and has been published as a Metropolis working paper as well as in Social and Cultural Geography.
Sessions in which Dr Justin K.H. Tse participates
Tuesday 7 June, 2016
Sessions in which Dr Justin K.H. Tse attends
Tuesday 7 June, 2016
While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are being enlarged and enhanced, whole urban districts are being developed with churches and temples boasting diverse, and often unorthodox, religious practices. Epistemologically linked to heritage, the sacred now seems to follow a path of its own, staging itself in new settings where the “religious heritage” refers mostly to common practices, however...
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,...