Bethany Rex

PhD Candidate

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Participates in 3 items

Bethany Rex is currently completing her doctorate in the Department of Media, Culture and Heritage at Newcastle University (UK) which examines the transfer of museums into ‘community’ ownership. These governance arrangements have been substantially energised under the austerity measures of the previous and current Conservative-led government administrations. Her work specifically investigates instances where the responsibility for the management and/or ownership of a public museum is transferred to a ‘community’ group, and the processes at work which lead to such outcomes (or don’t).

She is particularly interested in exploring the transition of people with ‘progressive’ social or political commitments into the world of the museum, and the extent to which they are able to enact new types of ‘museum work’ during the process. A focus on the otherwise often taken-for-granted materiality of museum and local government work is central to her research. This stems from her ethnographic work which has revealed moments at which material artefacts are far from passive tools or background to human work, intervening in activity, making certain worlds possible and limiting others.

Sessions in which Bethany Rex participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401

Regular session

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Nuala Morse, University of Manchester / University College London (Moderator)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...

13.30 A Change in the “Who,” a Change in the “What”: On the Material Practices of Museums in Two Cases of Co-Management

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary

Paper

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Participant)

In recent years in the UK, faced with continuing cuts to their budgets, a number of local authorities have been considering new approaches to th...

15:30

Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Roundtable

Prof Elizabeth Crooke, Ulster University (Participant)

Dr Anna Woodham, King's College London (Participant)

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Potential)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Potential)

Dr Nuala Morse, University of Manchester / University College London (Potential)

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Moderator)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Participant)

Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent (Participant)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

What is the future of the UK and what is the role of heritage in this shifting political landscape? How have debates on heritage in the UK chang...

Sessions in which Bethany Rex attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

12:30

Research Development Seminar with Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell: Heritage and Museum Studies, Sociology

3 hours, 12:30 - 15:30

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon du Faubourg (DC) - DC-2300

Workshop

The Research Development Seminars gathers young scholars who will informally present and discuss their research with one of the conference's keynot...

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...

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...

11:00

15.50 Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures: Heritage in Times of Accelerated Climate Change

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Dr Anna Woodham, King's College London (Participant)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Participant)

In response to the guiding theme of the conference “What does heritage change?” this paper will explore how changes to the way we traditionally ...

11.00 Introduction

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I

13.30 Perspectives on Past and Future in Present Tyneside

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Leonie Wieser, Northumbria University (Participant)

This paper will explore the outlook on the present and future provided by contemporary community heritage projects in Tyneside, UK. It will ask ...

13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

While it is customary to think about heritage as a series of practical fields oriented toward the past, it is perhaps less often the case that w...

11.40 They Who Debate the Past Debate the Future

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

The history of York includes many documented instances of activist resistance to the kinds of developments which remove parts of the medieval ci...

11.00 Mixing Memory and Desire: Utopian Currents in Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Participant)

There is a well-established precedent for utopian thinking around cultural heritage, particularly in the institutional context. For example, a n...

13.30 Landscape, Emotion and Contested Values: An Autoethnographical Case Study in Migration, Place Attachment and the Spirit of Place

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I

Paper

Ms Claire Johnstone, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

When put into the context of cultural heritage, the idea of the emotional value of a landscape can be defined in ICOMOS’s concept of “Spirit of ...

12.00 "Home is Everywhere and Nowhere": The Critical Heritage of Migration and Belonging in Contemporary European Museums

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I

Paper

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Participant)

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

This paper will analyze presentations of and identifications with scales of “home” and belonging in European museums, which address (hi)stories ...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.20 The Rhetoric of Looking: The Case of the National Gallery in London after WWII

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Ana Baeza-Ruiz, University of Leeds (Participant)

The discursive turn in the field of heritage studies has made a major contribution to our understanding of heritage as a set of processual pract...

11.20 How to Be an Authorized Craftsman? Exploring the Contradictions of Heritage and the Sustainability of Craft Practices in a UNESCO-Designated Ceramic Centre

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage

Paper

Dr Magdalena Buchczyk, University of Bristol (Participant)

This paper will explore the case of Horezu pottery in relationship with craft continuity, history, and heritage. Through an ethnographic study o...

11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

Paper

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Research involving display analysis and interviews with staff and visitors has shown empathy to be an important feature of interpretative strate...

09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

Paper

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Participant)

Liz Ševčenko in “The Dialogic Museum Revisited” (2011) concludes that digital media may become the platforms for dialogue around sensitive/diffi...

09.40 Archival Systems: From "Weapons of Affect" to Tools of Compassion

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

Paper

Joanne Evans, Monash University (Participant)

At recent Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) and Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) conferences, powerful presentations...

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...

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...

11.40 Crowds, Events and "Acts" of Citizenship: Heritage-Making at the Chattri Indian Memorial

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Dr Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant)

Movements such as Occupy Wall Street, embracing the immanent possibilities of the “here and now,” assert the affective presence and radical pote...

15:30

Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

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 id...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

15:30

Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Roundtable

Prof Elizabeth Crooke, Ulster University (Participant)

Dr Anna Woodham, King's College London (Participant)

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Potential)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Potential)

Dr Nuala Morse, University of Manchester / University College London (Potential)

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Moderator)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Participant)

Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent (Participant)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

What is the future of the UK and what is the role of heritage in this shifting political landscape? How have debates on heritage in the UK chang...