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Kimberly Berg

State University of New York at Albany
Participates in 1 Session
Kimberly Berg is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. She studies the politics of heritage construction and management, and incorporates themes of minority nationalism into her research on Welsh identity in Wales and Welsh Patagonia. Manuscripts:
(2014). Hidden Heritage: Underlying Ideologies at Three Welsh Heritage Sites. In Practicing Anthropology 36(1): 42-47. Presentations:
(2015May). Welsh Patagonia? Remnants of Colonialist Ideology in Patagonian Tourism Representations. UMass Interdisciplinary Conference, Amherst MA.
(2015April). The Front Line is Everywhere: Internal Colonialism and the Role of Place, Space, and Subjectivity. Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Conference: Decolonization in the 21st Century, UAlbany, Albany NY.
(2015March). Ethnic Collaborators: Using Tourism to Increase Minority Visibility in Chubut Province, Argentina. 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Pittsburgh PA.
(2014Dec). Chubut Valley, Argentina: A Contested Welsh First-place. 113th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C.
(2013Nov). Social-Technological Interfaces: A New Direction for Agritourism Destinations. 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago IL.
(2013Nov). Heritage and International Relations Through the Cuban Lens: A Potential Future of Tourism Studies. 2013 New England Council of Latin American Studies Conference, Wheaton College, Norton MA.
(2013April). Revitalization Rituals and Creating History: The Welsh Eisteddfod. 35th Annual Warren and Beatrice Susman Conference, Rutgers University History Department, New Brunswick NJ.
(2013March). Hidden Heritage: Underlying Ideologies at Three Welsh Heritage Sites. Society for Applied Anthropology 73rd Annual Meeting, Denver CO.

Sessions in which Kimberly Berg participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

Sessions in which Kimberly Berg attends

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
Architecture and UrbanismPublic event
9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
Heritage Changes the Local Societies
Heritage changes the local societiesheritage and mobilityPost-colonial heritageGlobal vs local
13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Research-Creation Installation or PerformanceHeritage in ConflictsOral History
15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

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 identification ou de sa conservation. Cela peut plus profondément s’expliquer parce que, dès le départ, il célébre un événement ou conserve une mémoire qui peut être ou devenir une source de dissenssions et de conflits politiques. Enfin, sa reconnaissance suscite des gains économiques pour les uns mais des pertes pour les autres. Mais peut-être...

18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
Festive Event

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:30 - 8:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
Public event

(en français) Le centre-ville a été au cœur de nombreuses luttes depuis les années 1970. Le parcours proposé par Martin Drouin, historien, professeur au département d’études urbaines et touristiques de l’Université du Québec à Montréal, présentera quelques combats qui ont marqué la scène patrimoniale et transformé le paysage urbain montréalais. _ Downtown Montreal has been at the centre of numerous struggles since the 1970’s. The itinerary proposed by Martin Drouin, historia...