
Jerzy Elżanowski is Assistant Professor in Canadian Studies/Heritage Conservation at Carleton Univeristy and a Faculty Associate at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. His work explores the relationships between architecture, violence and commemoration. He investigates cartographic and photographic representations of ruins in war-damaged cities, with a particular focus on imaginations of the human body. He holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from McGill University, and a joint PhD in Heritage Conservation, Architectural History, and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia and the Bauhaus University Weimar. He has taught and practiced in the fields of architecture and heritage conservation across Canada, Germany, and Poland.
Sessions in which Dr Jerzy (Jurek) Elżanowski participates
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- 09.20 Imported Ghosts and Figurative Bodies: Mobilizing Heritage in Ottawa
- Participant Dr Jerzy (Jurek) Elżanowski (Carleton University) | Participant Dr Rebecca Dolgoy (University of Ottawa) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- While the topography of Canada’s capital city has always included imported “ghosts”—symbols of bodies from perceived foundational conflicts that...
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr Jerzy (Jurek) Elżanowski attends
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- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
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- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
- Workshop
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- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
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- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
- Regular session
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- 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

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- 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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- Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- 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...
- Regular session
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- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...
- Research-Creation
- 13.30 3D Visualization, Community Collaboration and the Production of Social Value: The ACCORD Project
- Participant Prof Sian Jones (University of Stirling) | Participant Dr Stuart Jeffrey (Glasgow School of Art) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment
- The ACCORD project explores the opportunities and implications of digital visualization technologies for community engagement and research throu...
- Paper
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17:00
- Lancement de livre / Book launch: Curatorial Dreams by Shelley Ruth Butler & Erica Lehrer Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.130
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- Event
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- 10.00 Urban Waste (Places) and Heritage Values
- Participant Prof. Susan Ross (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- The idea of built heritage as potential waste is commonly represented by images of demolition and landfill sites. This contributes to an idea th...
- Paper
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- Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
- Roundtable