Stephanie E. Yuhl

Professor of History

College of the Holy Cross

Participates in 1 Session

Stephanie Yuhl is Professor of History and Director of Montserrat (a first-year student interdisciplinary living/learning program) at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She earned her PhD and MA at Duke University, and her BA in American Studies at Georgetown University. Her research and teaching fields are the social and cultural history twentieth-century United States, with emphases in Southern history, public history, memory, gender/sexuality, and social justice movements. Her book-length treatment of Charleston’s cultural and touristic renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston, won two national awards in historic preservation and southern history. Stephanie is also the author of multiple articles and essays, which have most recently appeared in The Journal of Southern History and The Public Historian. Her research on the public heritage of slaver, won the Green-Ramsdell award from the Southern Historical
Association for the best article published in the Journal of Southern History over the past two years. She has also published work on oral history and memory of American women veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yuhl has served as a committee member for the National Council on Public History, a trustee and board member of multiple civic and heritage agencies, and as a research consultant for museums and preservation programs.

Sessions in which Stephanie E. Yuhl participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

11:00

13.30 New Heritage Imaginaries: Reconsidering Race Slavery and its Political Legacies through Public Commemoration and Art in Charleston, SC

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Current Research I

Paper

Stephanie E. Yuhl, College of the Holy Cross (Participant)

As the site of the first shots fired in the America Civil War (with 2015 marking the 150th anniversary of the war’s end) and, more recently, the...

Sessions in which Stephanie E. Yuhl attends

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...

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...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

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

Repas

13:30

15.30 African American Heritage and Pride: How Neighbourhood Museums Educated and Inspired Local Black Communities

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

Paper

Laura Burnham (Participant)

Until the mid-twentieth century, African Americans identified a significant omission from the mainstream American historical narrative. An entir...

14.30 Heritage Changes Lives: How Partnerships between Museums and Community Organizations are Making Positive Differences to People’s Lives

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

Paper

Laura Crossley, University of Leicester (Participant)

Research has painted an often-gloomy picture of the impact of the financial cuts on museums. A 2014 Museums Association (MA) survey found that 4...

Alter-Heritagization / Alter-Metropolization ? Objects, Players and Forms of Alternative Heritage Production in Contemporary Metropolises

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545

Regular session

Prof. Maria Gravari-Barbas, IREST Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Moderator)

Sébastien Jacquot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Moderator)

Dr Géraldine Djament-Tran, université de Strasbourg (Moderator)

The contemporary movement of heritagization, characterized by a multiple expansion (typological, chronological, spatial) of heritage and of heritag...

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...

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

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...

09.00 Speaking About the Past: Historical Discourse in Contemporary Society

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage

Paper

Ross Wilson, University of Chichester (Participant)

This paper will examine the value and function of references to heritage within political, media, and public discourse in contemporary Britain a...

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...

11:00

Maverick Heritages. Ugliness, Discomfort and Illegality in the Political and Social Construction of Heritage

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M240 - SALLE ANNULÉE

Regular session

Dr Cristiana Panella, Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (Moderator)

Prof. Walter E. Little, University at Albany, SUNY, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, United States (Moderator)

With regard to the main question of the 3rd ACHS Biennial Conference, "What does heritage change?" the convenors of this session propose ethnograph...

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...

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

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...

12.00 Intangible Cultural Heritage: The International Legal Framework for Cultural Safeguarding and Legal Protection

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Current Research III

Paper

Lisa Rogers, Deakin University (Participant)

This paper examines the ‘ownership’ and ‘possession’ of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the international legal framework. Intangible cul...

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...

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 ...