
Dr. Phaedra Livingstone is a museologist who has worked in, taught about and conducted research on museums and heritage settings internationally since 1990. Among her publications, she is co-editor of the book Museums and the Past: Constructing Historical Consciousness (UBC Press, 2016), which is the launching point for the roundtable she is moderating at ACHS 2016.
Sessions in which Dr Phaedra Livingstone participates
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- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable
Sessions in which Dr Phaedra Livingstone attends
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11:30
- Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200
- 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les r...
- Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

12:30
12:30
- Welcome Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
- Pause
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
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
11:00
11:00
- 15.30 Recognition Politics and Multicultural Heritagization in Canada
- Participant Dr Susan Ashley (Northumbria University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- With Co-author Caitlin Gordon-Walker Ethno-cultural groups in Canada use community centres as cultural spaces to promote a sense ...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 16.00 Objects and Communities: Re-Engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum
- Participant Silvia Forni (Royal Ontario Museum) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- This paper will address some of the historical and recent developments of a troubled exhibitionary and relational history involving African obje...
- Paper
- 13.30 The Habitus of Heritage: Class, Memory and Visitor Position-Taking
- Participant Bella Dicks |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- This paper will explore what Bourdieu’s framework of habitus, field and symbolic capital can offer museum and heritage visitor studies. Rather t...
- Paper
- At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- With sustainable development gaining momentum as a priority of UNESCO heritage policies, an increasing number of food-related nominations are being...
- Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée
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- History Museums, Heritage and Visitors UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
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

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9:00
- 11.40 Utter (In)Difference: On the Use of Temporality in Tourism
- Participant Dr Anna Källén (Stockholm University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Temporality is a key figure in contemporary tourism. Phrases and images such as “where time has stood still” or “past pristine landscapes” are c...
- Paper
- 10.00 Demolition and Reconstruction of the City’s Identity: The Heritage Project, Heart of Sharjah
- Participant Dr. Imen Ben Jemia (University of Sharjah) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies
- In a context of globalization, cities compete to be distinguished internationally for their specific peculiarities. Cities utilize their histori...
- Paper
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...
- Regular session
- 11.20 Pedagogies of Remembrance as Affective Practice: Reading Testimonial Literature of Indian Residential Schools with Future Teachers
- Participant lisa taylor (Bishops University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Heritage practices of making meaning through and with the past are inherently pedagogical, bringing the past to bear on the present in ways inte...
- Paper
- The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- In many emerging economies of the Global South, new urban mega-projects are strategically reviving heritage into simulacra, copies without original...
- Regular session
- At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- With sustainable development gaining momentum as a priority of UNESCO heritage policies, an increasing number of food-related nominations are being...
- Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée
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- 12.00 Heritage Revival and "High Islam" in Dubai
- Participant Prof. Sarah Moser (McGill University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies
- Dubai’s explosive growth over the past several decades and the proliferation of its urban spectacles have been well documented. The population h...
- Paper
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
9:00
9:00
- 09.15 Museum Practices, Indigenous Politics and Cultural Identities on Tour: A Comparative Study of a Māori Exhibition in France, Mexico and Canada
- Participant Dr Lee Davidson (Victoria University of Wtgn) | Participant Gaëlle Crenn (Université de Lorraine) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflecting on the Mobile Contact Zone: Cultural Diplomacy, Touring Exhibitions and Intercultural Heritage Experiences
- Key motivations for touring exhibitions from major museums include enhancing international reputations, sharing expertise, and strengthening ins...
- Paper
- 11.00 Intercultural Practices and Collaboration in an International Touring Exhibition: Professional Perspectives on Aztecs from New Zealand, Australia and Mexico
- Participant Leticia Pérez Castellanos (Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía) | Participant Dr Lee Davidson (Victoria University of Wtgn) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflecting on the Mobile Contact Zone: Cultural Diplomacy, Touring Exhibitions and Intercultural Heritage Experiences
- In the museum and cultural world, and also from the point of view of cultural diplomacy, international touring exhibitions have been taken for g...
- Paper
- 13.30 Righting History: c̓əsnaʔəm: The City Before the City
- Participant Susan Rowley (Museum of Anthropology at UBC) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- c̓əsnaʔəm is an ancient Musqueam village and cemetery located in what has become contemporary Vancouver. “c̓əsnaʔəm: the city before the city” i...
- Paper
- 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
- 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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- 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
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
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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
- The Future of Heritage in Ontario Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Private sector cultural heritage evaluation, protection, and management in Ontario exists at the nexus of academic theory, legislative direction...
- Roundtable
- 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
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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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9:00
- 09.20 The Role of Empathy and Affect in Pro-Social Museum Transformations
- Participant Mr Lachlan Dudley (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Significant debate has occurred in disciplines outside of a heritage framework in relation to the ability of empathy to act as a catalyst for pr...
- Paper
- 11.40 Immediate Emotion: Articulating Historical Consciousness and Heritage in Oral Histories
- Participant Ms Jessica Douthwaite (University of Strathclyde) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- In this paper I will address ACHS Conference questions surrounding the building of “critical innovations” in heritage and how heritage offers us...
- Paper
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...
- Regular session
- Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.115
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Cities are growingly being faced by social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges imposing health and social risks. Rapid urbanization, p...
- 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
13:00
13:00
- A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue) Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 13:00 - 14:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- An experiment in moving memory, this live event bridges public and academic space to re-imagine knowledge exchange, creation and impact...
- Research-Creation
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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
- 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
15:30
15:30
- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable