Prof. Thomas Coomans

Professor

KU Leuven, Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation

Participates in 1 Session

Prof. at KU Leuven, Department of Architecture, staff member of Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation RLICC / chercheur associé à la Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain UQAM ESG / council member of Future for Religious Heritage FRH / member of ICOMOS scientific committee on Shared Built Heritage / member of 中国文物保护基金会 (China Cultural Relics Protection Foundation).

Sessions in which Prof. Thomas Coomans participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

13:30

14.15 Brussels’ Churches: Paradoxical Uses in an International Metropolis

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés

Paper

Prof. Thomas Coomans, KU Leuven, Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (Participant)

The World Migration Report 2015 revealed that 62% of Brussels’ population is not born in Belgium. Brussels, therefore, is the second migration c...

Sessions in which Prof. Thomas Coomans attends

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

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...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

13:30

Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés

3 hours 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

Signup required

Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier

Regular session

Chantal Turbide, L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Moderator)

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are ...

19:00

Pawâ

4 hours, 19:00 - 23:00

La Scena - La Scena (intérieur)

Repas

The closing dinner of the conference, called “Pawâ” according to a French-Canadian tradition borrowed from the Native American lexicon, will be an ...