Shelley Ruth Butler

Lecturer & Principal, Curatorial Dreams: Creative Workshops for Museum and Heritage Professionals, Researchers, and Community Groups
McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada
Participates in 1 Session
Shelley Ruth Butler is a cultural anthropologist who researches museums, heritage sites, and cultural politics in Canada and South Africa. Recent publications include essays on township tourism in Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power, Ethics (2012) and on reflexive museology in Museum Theory: An Expanded Field (2014).  Her ethnography, Contested Representations: Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa (1999 & 2011) is widely taught in museology and public history.  She is co-editor (with Erica Lehrer) of Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibition (2016).  She teaches interdisciplinary courses with the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and conducts Curatorial Dreaming workshops with museum and heritage professionals, researchers, and community groups. 
 

Sessions in which Shelley Ruth Butler participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: EDT/Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30
13:30
Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public - 1 hour 30 minutes - 13:30  -  15:00
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430 Roundtable
Angela Failler, University of Winnipeg (Participant) Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Concordia University (Participant) Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University (Participant) Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada (Moderator) Monica Patterson, Carleton University (Participant) Jennifer C. Robinson, University of Victoria (Participant)

Sessions in which Shelley Ruth Butler attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: EDT/Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:00
13:00
What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum - 2 hours - 13:00  -  15:00  |  Signup required
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520 Workshop
James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant) Adèle Esposito, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR AUSser Architecture, Urbanistique, Société, France (Participant) Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator) Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant) Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant) Pedro Paulo Funari, Unicamp (Participant) Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)
17:00
17:00
Opening Ceremony and Cocktail - 2 hours 30 minutes - 17:00  -  19:30  |  Signup required
Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel Cocktail
Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potential) Lucie K. Morisset, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Potential) Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Moderator) Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant) Luc Noppen, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Participant) Serge Joyal (Participant)
19:30
19:30
The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises - 1 hour 30 minutes - 19:30  -  21:00
Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210 Research-Creation
Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University, Department of Art History, Canada (Moderator)

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: EDT/Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00
11:00
11.40  Embodied Memoration: Unsettling Colonial Forms through Performative Acts in the Everyday - 30 minutes - 11:00  -  11:30   Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
Paper
Leah Decter, Queen's University (Participant)
11.00  Seize the Space - 30 minutes - 11:00  -  11:30   Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
Paper
Jeff Thomas (Participant)
13.30  Les droits à l’œuvre : la muséalisation et la médiation des droits de la personne et de la justice sociale à l’ère néolibérale - 30 minutes - 11:00  -  11:30   Part of: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Participant)
14.30  Recomposer et exposer son identité : mieux connaître l’expérience immigrante des adolescents nouvellement arrivés, grâce à une activité du Centre d’histoire de Montréal - 30 minutes - 11:00  -  11:30   Part of: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
Jean-François Leclerc, Centre d'histoire de Montréal (Participant)
12.00  Healing Heritage: A Case Study Toward Decolonizing Commemoration - 30 minutes - 11:00  -  11:30   Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
Paper
Trina Cooper-Bolam, Carleton University (Participant)
16.30  Patrimoines en conflit : sur l’« incompatibilité » du génocide arménien (1915) avec le patrimoine lyonnais - 30 minutes - 11:00  -  11:30   Part of: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
Paper
Analays Alvarez Hernandez, University of Toronto (Participant)
13:30
13:30
16.00  Objects and Communities: Re-Engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum - 30 minutes - 13:30  -  14:00   Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
Paper
Silvia Forni, Royal Ontario Museum (Participant)

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: EDT/Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
09.30  The Rise and Fall of “Mother Canada”: Heritage Out on a Limb - 30 minutes - 9:00  -  9:30   Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
Paper
Lon Dubinsky, Concordia University (Participant)

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: EDT/Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas - 1 hour 30 minutes - 9:00  -  10:30  |  Signup required
Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette Roundtable
Simon Bradley (Participant) Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University, Department of Art History, Canada (Participant) Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator) Toby Butler, University of East London (Participant)
15:30
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
Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant) Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)
17:00
17:00
Lancement de livre / Book launch: Curatorial Dreams by Shelley Ruth Butler & Erica Lehrer - 1 hour - 17:00  -  18:00
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.130 Event
18:00
18:00
Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event - 1 hour - 18:00  -  19:00  |  Signup required
Concordia, LB Building - LB 123 Cocktail
Gwenaëlle Reyt (Participant) Jessica Mace, UQAM (Moderator) Marie-Blanche Fourcade (Moderator) Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: EDT/Eastern Time (US & Canada)
12:30
12:30
Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch - 1 hour - 12:30  -  13:30
Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium Repas
13:00
13:00
A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue) - 1 hour 30 minutes - 13:00  -  14:30
Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium Research-Creation
Anique Vered, Concordia University (Moderator)
13:30
13:30
16.45  Visite guidée de l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal - 30 minutes - 13:30  -  14:00   Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
Tour
Chantal Turbide, L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Participant)
16.15  L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal, une mission, une vision, un futur - 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
Chantal Turbide, L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Participant)
15:00
15:00
Break | Pause - 30 minutes - 15:00  -  15:30
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB Atrium Pause
15:30
15:30
Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice - 1 hour 30 minutes - 15:30  -  17:00
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115 Roundtable
Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant) Marie-Claude Larouche, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Département des sciences de l'éducation (Participant) Phaedra Livingstone (Moderator) Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Participant)