
Provost Professor of Anthropology, Indiana
Vice President, World Archaeological Congress
Research: community museums, Kyrgyzstan; women in early states; ancient Maya economies; archaeological research ethics; archaeology & sustainable develop ent
Activism: Maya land rights
Vice President, World Archaeological Congress
Research: community museums, Kyrgyzstan; women in early states; ancient Maya economies; archaeological research ethics; archaeology & sustainable develop ent
Activism: Maya land rights
Sessions in which Anne Pyburn participates
9:00
9:00
- 10.00 Authentic Kyrgyzstan: Top-Down Politics Meet Bottom-Up Heritage
- Participant Anne Pyburn (Indiana University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- The Soviet modernist policy of severing ties with the past has left the rapidly globalizing post-Soviet Kyrgyz Republic with some difficulties i...
- Paper
Sessions in which Anne Pyburn attends
12:30
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
17:00
17:00
- 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
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

11:00
11:00
- Heritage and the Late Modern State I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...
- Regular session
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
- Regular session
- What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2585
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- There is no doubt that the involvement of civil society is a key element in the history of heritage. Working upstream, in line with or against the ...
- Regular session
12:30
12:30
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- A new Centre for Critical Heritage Studies in partnership between University College London and University of Gothenburg started in April 2016 a...
- Talk
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
13:30
13:30
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Nostalgia has a bad press. For some, it is pointless and sentimental, for others reactionary and futile. Where does that leave those of us inter...
- Paper
- 14.30 Heritage Changes Lives: How Partnerships between Museums and Community Organizations are Making Positive Differences to People’s Lives
- Participant Laura Crossley (University of Leicester) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- 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...
- Paper
- 14.00 Whose Memories, Whose Heritage? Mining Heritage and the Miners in West-Germany
- Participant Dr Stefan Moitra (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM)) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Industrial Heritage: Towards Comparative Perspectives
- Industrial heritage has become a most successful concept in the Ruhr and other former German mining regions in recent years. This holds true in ...
- Paper
15:00
15:00
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 15:00 - 15:30 | 30 minutes
- Pause
15:30
15:30
- 15.30 Managed Landscapes: The Social Construction of Scale at Angkor
- Participant Rowena Butland |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I
- In constructing the scales that frame our political, social and cultural lives, we do not neutrally siphon off a particular part of the world an...
- Paper
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- 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...
- Cocktail
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

9:00
9:00
- 09.30 The Red Parentheses: Museums, Memory and the Making of [New] Nations After the Fall of the Iron Curtain
- Participant Johan Hegardt (Södertörn University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- The Social Democratic party was the leading political party in Sweden for more than sixty years and its politics have shaped the fundaments of S...
- Paper
- 09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion
- Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- This paper explores the role that empathy, as both a skill and an emotion, plays in the processes of politicized and self-conscious heritage-mak...
- 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
10:30
10:30
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 10:30 - 11:00 | 30 minutes
- Pause
11:00
11:00
- 11.30 Contradictions of Aesthetic and Economic Order in a World Heritage Site in Guatemala
- Participant Prof. Walter E. Little (University at Albany, SUNY, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, United States) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Maverick Heritages. Ugliness, Discomfort and Illegality in the Political and Social Construction of Heritage
- The UNESCO World Heritage aesthetic of Antigua Guatemala is well entrenched in the representations of the city and the collective memories of it...
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
17:00
17:00
- ACHS 2016 General Assembly Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Talk
7:00
7:00
- Morning Coffee Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Pause
9:00
9:00
- Critical Creation series: Ethical Fashion Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Milan Tanedjikov (Concordia University) and six LaSalle College students. A Material Culture & Fashion Exhibit June 6...
- Event
- 14.00 Cherokee Archaeological Landscapes as Community Action
- Participant Kathryn Sampeck (Illinois State University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- For the past seven years, the Tribal Historic Preservation Office of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and I have built together a program of...
- Paper
- 10.00 The Challenges of Somali Cultural Heritage for the Dominant Heritage Discourse in Sweden
- Participant Laia Colomer (Linnaeus University (Sweden)) | Participant Cornelius Holtorf (Linnaeus University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- This paper is based on a recent study by Abdi-Noor Mohamed on tangible and intangible Somali cultural heritage in Sweden. Since the 1990s, about...
- Paper
- Posters Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB Atrium
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Poster
- Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.255
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- In recent decades, the growth of the World Heritage industry has necessitated the reconsideration of scale. Formerly dominated by nation-states, so...
- Regular session
- 12.00 Heritage Changes People: Brazilian Experiences
- Participant Maria Aparecida Almeida (Unicamp) | Participant Pedro Paulo Funari (Unicamp) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- Heritage is a most controversial subject. It may be considered as a way of upholding received wisdom and conservative mores, but it may also be ...
- Food as Heritage: Uses and Consequences of Food as an Object of Cultural Value Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.270
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- This session is committed to extending previous research collaborations on food and culinary systems as objects of political mobilization – ICA ...
- Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée
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- Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- There are many different kinds of migrants in the contemporary world. They include the familiar figures of refugees or undocumented migrants, assoc...
- Regular session
- How do Rights Change Heritage? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Questions about the repatriation of cultural property, issues of access and exclusion in the World Heritage system, intangible heritage practices i...
- Regular session
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...
- Regular session
- Heritage as contributor to policymaking Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 9:00 - 10:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Manifesto of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies (2011) argues for a more critical approach to heritage: heritage from below, writ la...
- Regular session
- Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- 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...
- Regular session
- Case Studies in Archaeology I Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV 1.605
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- In addressing the theme of this conference, we argue that archaeology, above and beyond the traditional goals of research and post-excavation analy...
- Regular session
- An Intergenerational Conversation about Heritage Conservation Education: The Rise, Fall, and (Necessary) Redefinition of Expert Knowledge Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- As recent publications have demonstrated, the role of the expert in heritage conservation is a relevant, indeed imperative topic of discussion. On ...
- Roundtable
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
13:30
13:30
- 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
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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 ...
- Research-Creation
- 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
15:00
15:00
- Break | Pause Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB Atrium
- 15:00 - 15:30 | 30 minutes
- Pause
7:00
7:00
- Morning Coffee Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Pause
9:00
9:00
- 11.30 Small-Scale Heritage: The Canary in the Coal Mine
- Participant Gisèle Gantois (Department of Architecture) | Participant Yves Schoonjans (Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- Flanders has a historically grown dense network of routes and paths, linking towns and villages on an average one-day walking distance. Within t...
- Paper
- “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- In exploring the broader question “What does heritage change?” this session presents work that is extending heritage policies and practices beyond ...
- Regular session
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
13:30
13:30
- 15.30 The Consequences of Adat Law on Indonesia’s Heritage Regime
- Participant Mr Rangga Dachlan (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations
- The 2003 UNESCO Convention on ICH Safeguarding (ICHC) remains the primary instrument in the international protection of intangible cultural heri...
- Paper
- Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- 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 ...
- Regular session
15:30
15:30
- 16.30 Have You Read "Dig Where You Stand"? Re-Imagining a 1978 Manual for Participatory Heritage Activism
- Participant Dr Astrid von Rosen (University of Gothenburg) | Participant Dr Andrew Flinn (UCL) |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Ephemeral Sites of Critical Anti-modernism: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Experimental 1970s Eco-social Communities
- While national and international heritage processes during the second half of the twentieth century can be characterized as mostly hegemonic and...
- Paper
8:45
8:45
- Post-Conference Tour: Gourmet Discovery Excursion in Montérégie | Sortie découverte gourmande de la Montérégie UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 8:45 - 18:45 | 10 hours
- ||| A piece of Gré des champs cheese, a bite of bread with cretons, a taste of chomeur pudding, a glass of cider and blueberry juice... th...
- Tour