
A.Elif Yabacı graduated from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara-Turkey with a B.Arch degree in the Department of Architecture in 2009. She started her M.Sc studies in Graduate Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at Middle East Technical University (METU) same year and; she received her master degree with her thesis titled ‘The Role and Approach of Local Authorities in the Field of ‘Conservation’: Case Study in Hamamönü/Ankara’ in 2012. Currently, she is a Ph.D. Candidate in the same program at (METU). She choses to study on the conservation of modern university campuses in her Phd thesis. Presently, she is working at TED University, Department of Architecture as a research assistant.
Sessions in which Azize Elif Yabaci participates
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- 09.00 Challenges and Potentials of Traditional Urban Fabric in Terms of Cultural Tourism: A Case Study of the Historic Settlement of Sivrihisar, Turkey
- Participant Bilge Kose (Middle East Technical University) | Participant Azize Elif Yabaci (Middle East Technical University) | Participant Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (Middle East Technical University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- Everyday, the number of tourists who are willing to experience sites and events with historical, social and cultural value is increasing. This d...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 13.30 Development of a Historic City Centre via Cultural Tourism: Hamamönü
- Participant Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (Middle East Technical University) | Participant Azize Elif Yabaci (Middle East Technical University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Leisure as Heritage: Reconceptualizing Heritage and Leisure
- Within the last decades, cultural tourism developed and became an important sector in the economic development of historic sites for the local a...
- Paper
Sessions in which Azize Elif Yabaci attends
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12:30
- Research Development Seminar with Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell: Heritage and Museum Studies, Sociology
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon du Faubourg (DC) - DC-2300
- 12:30 - 15:30 | 3 hours
- The Research Development Seminars gathers young scholars who will informally present and discuss their research with one of the conference's keynot...
- Workshop
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

18:30
18:30
- Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 18:30 - 20:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

7:00
7:00
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- 09.30 The Dilemma between Conservation and Economic Benefit: Designation of Heritage Places as "Renewal Areas" in Turkey
- Participant Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (Middle East Technical University) | Participant Özgün Özçakır (METU) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- Conservation of cultural heritage is a “value”-based process. Since the early twentieth century, scholars in the conservation field have been aw...
- Paper
- 10.00 Imported Definitions for Heritage: Development of the Western Idea of Heritage in Turkey since the 1960s
- Participant Mesut Dinler (Politecnico di Torino) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- The strong dominance of European architects in the Turkey Republic, both in academia and professional practice, started in the early decades of ...
- Paper
14:00
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)
- Signup required Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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19:00
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 hours
- Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...
7:00
7:00
- La Pointe: L’autre bord de la track / The Other Side of the Tracks
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- La Pointe: L’autre bord de la track / The Other Side of the Tracks (COHDS /Public History Students, 2015 - bilin...
- Tour
7:00
7:00
- In Griffintown/ Dans le Griff and Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940-1960
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- (Guided visits to Two Exhibitions, Centre d’histoire de Montréal- bilingual) – The Centre d’histoire de Montréal presents Dans le Griff
- Tour
13:30
13:30
- Leisure as Heritage: Reconceptualizing Heritage and Leisure Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Extant scholarly literature has been documented on heritage and tourism. However, the strong links between heritage and leisure, a broader concept ...
- Regular session