Zeynep Gunay

Assoc. Prof. Dr. / Urban planning

Istanbul Technical University

Participates in 2 items

Zeynep Gunay is associate professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of ITU. Her major areas of interests are urban conservation and urban regeneration/renewal theories and policies. Through her scholarly works, she questions the vicious relationship between conservation vs regeneration with reference to globalisation and neoliberal planning agenda; and she explores heritage conceptualisations based on heritage industry, heritageisation, memory, inclusive conservation and right to the heritage. She has several international and national research and implementation projects including Prizren Municipal Development Plan under the supervision of UN-Habitat (2012) and UNESCO supported Istanbul Historic Peninsula Conservation Project (2003), which was awarded a Medal in in European Union Prize for Culture Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards 2004. She was also awarded with the Emerald Literati Network Outstanding Reviewer (2012) and ISoCaRP’s Gerd Albers Award (2015). She is the member of ICOMOS and bureau member of ISOCARP. [BCP/METU, Dipl/IHS-Rotterdam, MSc/ITU, MSc/Cardiff Unv., PhD/ITU].

Sessions in which Zeynep Gunay participates

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

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...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

10.00 Lefkosa vs Nicosia: Reimagining of Heritage in the Age of Conflict

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

Paper

Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant)

This paper will attempt to provide a brief critical commentary on the reimagining of heritage through the mnemonics of conflict. Regarding the p...

Sessions in which Zeynep Gunay attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

12:30

Registration

5 hours, 12:30 - 17:30

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

13:00

Pre-Conference Tour: Old Montreal (2 groups)

2 hours, 13:00 - 15:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Find out more about all the eras that shaped Montréal with this interesting walking tour, from the foundation of Fort Ville-Marie in 1642 to today’...

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...

10:30

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

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...

Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Regular session

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Moderator)

The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...

12:30

Heritage as Global Challenge

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518

Talk

kristian kristiansen, University of Gothenburg (Participant)

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

A new Centre for Critical Heritage Studies in partnership between University College London and University of Gothenburg started in April 2016 a...

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

15:00

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 15:00 - 15:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

17:00

Smoked meat in questions

1 hour, 17:00 - 18:00

Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse

Cocktail

This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...

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)

7:00

Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal

2 hours, 7:00 - 9:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)

Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...

9:00

Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Regular session

John Leroux, Canada (Participant)

Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Regular session

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Participant)

The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...

11.40 Favela as a Brazilian Heritage Site: Complexities and Shifting Realities

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

Paper

Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti, Tu Delft (Participant)

On July 1st, 2012, the Brazilian favelas were considered a world heritage site by UNESCO. What does it imply to those living in these places? Ou...

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...

11.30 Transformations of Place du Trône: Visualizing Narratives of Colonialism

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Robbert Jacobs, U Antwerpen (Participant)

The Democratic Republic of Congo celebrated fifty-five years of independence in 2015. The busts and equestrian statues dating from the colonial ...

10.00 The "War to End War": Utopian Dreams and Lost Opportunities of First World War Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II

Paper

Professor David Harvey, University of Exeter, UK (Participant)

In his socialist science-fiction novel, “News From Nowhere,” William Morris expresses a utopian dream of “radical nostalgia.” Heritage is deploy...

The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460

Regular session

Prof. Sarah Moser, McGill University (Moderator)

In many emerging economies of the Global South, new urban mega-projects are strategically reviving heritage into simulacra, copies without original...

Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525

Regular session

Dr Claudine Houbart, Université de Liège (Moderator)

Stéphane Dawans, University of Liege ULg (Moderator)

With his expression "ceci tuera cela," Hugo established almost two centuries ago a strong link between words and stones as transmission vehicles of...

10:30

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

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)

19:00

Film Series: De engel van Doel

2 hours, 19:00 - 21:00

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Prof. Marc Jacobs, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Moderator)

Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

14.30 Heritage Futures

15 minutes, 9:00 - 9:15

Part of: Posters

Paper

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

What do nuclear waste disposal, built heritage conservation, endangered language preservation, museum collecting, and the curation of family hei...

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...

13.30 Heritage and Hospitality: Activists as Uninvited Guests to the Heritage Table

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Evren Uzer, Parsons School of Design & University of Gothenburg HDK (Participant)

Hospitality and hostility stems from the root word “hostis,” which could mean guest or host, friend or enemy. Hostis, according to French lingui...

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...

Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Regular session

Dr Tod Jones, Curtin University, Australia (Moderator)

Dr Ali Mozaffari, Deakin University, Curtin University (Moderator)

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...

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...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Repas

13:30

Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening)

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

Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV

Research-Creation

Prof. Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, Department of Education, Canada (Participant)

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr Nadine Blumer, Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship (CaPSL) (Participant)

Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...

15:00

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 15:00 - 15:30

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

Pause

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...

18:00

Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event

1 hour, 18:00 - 19:00

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 123

Cocktail

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Moderator)

Gwenaelle Reyt (Participant)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Moderator)

To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

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...

09.30 Commemoration at the Edge: From Preservation to Activism

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Current Research IV

Paper

Anita Bakshi, Rutgers University (Participant)

With the increased focus on preserving the past has come scrutiny and criticism of commemorative practices and the “heritage crusade.” One of th...

Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

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

Regular session

Dr Anna Källén, Stockholm University (Moderator)

Dr Anna Karlström, Uppsala University (Moderator)

As the interface between past and present, heritage is deeply involved in articulations of personal and group identity, working to unite and har...

Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265

Regular session

Prof. Étienne Berthold, Université Laval, Department of Geography / Département de géographie (Moderator)

This session proposes a critical and epistemological reflection on sustainable urban heritage conservation. Recent research on the management of ur...

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...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Repas

13:00

A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue)

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:00 - 14:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Research-Creation

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Moderator)

An experiment in moving memory, this live event bridges public and academic space to re-imagine knowledge exchange, creation and impact...

13:30

Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public

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

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430

Roundtable

Dr. Angela Failler, University of Winnipeg (Participant)

Prof. Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada (Moderator)

Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr. Monica Patterson, Carleton University (Participant)

Jennifer C. Robinson, University of Victoria (Participant)

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...

(in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage

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

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430

Roundtable

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant)

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Moderator)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Participant)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Moderator)

Prof. Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Participant)

The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...

Leisure as Heritage: Reconceptualizing Heritage and Leisure

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

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430

Regular session

Prof. Huimei Liu, Zhejiang University, Institute of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies; Asian Pacific Centre for the Education and Study of Leisure (Participant)

Extant scholarly literature has been documented on heritage and tourism. However, the strong links between heritage and leisure, a broader concept ...

Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations

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

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

Regular session

Dr. Bahar Aykan (Moderator)

State dominance in heritage management has been a key area of attention in critical heritage studies. There is now a large body of work discussing ...

15:00

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 15:00 - 15:30

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

Pause