
Ms. Erin Linn
Erin is the Founder and Director of the Integrated Heritage Project, a nonprofit ngo that seeks to preserve, protect, and promote endangered heritage sites in developing economies while strengthening local communities. A trained archaeologist and heritage professional, Erin has extensive experience working on commercial and academic archaeological and heritage management projects in seven countries. In 2015 She has worked for the Museum of London Archaeology, Heritage Watch International in Cambodia, the Earthwatch Institute, and the Centre for Heritage & Society at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
As the Project Development Officer for Heritage Watch in Cambodia, Erin oversaw the creation and implementation of a heritage protection and education program at the site of Banteay Chhmar, and contributed to the development of a national heritage protection campaign in collaboration with the Cambodian government and UNESCO.
Erin holds an MA in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and an MA in Cultural Heritage from Deakin University, Australia. Erin is currently employed as the Communications Officer for the Center for African Studies at Harvard University.
Sessions in which Ms. Erin Linn attends
- 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

- 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
- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
- Workshop
- 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
- Morning Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 8:00 - 10:00 | 2 hours
- Pause
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

- 14.00 Customizable Governance: Context-Specific Regulation and Capacity Building in Canadian Heritage Management
- Participant Joshua Dent (University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State I
- Canada is not just a patchwork of varying heritage governance delineated by provincial and territorial boundaries, but a maelstrom of contesting...
- Paper
- 11.00 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage
- Participant Geir Vestheim (University College of Southeast Norway) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- This paper will depart from the idea that the making of cultural policy, and heritage policy included, takes place within a political system and...
- Paper
- 11.30 Heritage Diplomacy and the Border
- Participant Prof. Tim Winter (Deakin University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine
- Borders—political, institutional and cultural—have been central to the internationalization of heritage in the modern era. The concepts of herit...
- Paper
- 11.30 Un-Erasing the Indigenous Paleolithic: Re-Writing the Ancient Pleistocene Past of the Western Hemisphere (the Americas)
- Participant Paulette Steeves (UMASS Amherst) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State I
- American archaeologists in service of the nation state have long denied an ancient presence of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere. Sta...
- Paper
- 13.30 Full Spectrum Management of Cultural Heritage in Archaeology
- Participant Erin Hogg (Simon Fraser University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State I
- Cultural heritage is fundamental to individual and group identity, and is therefore protected, preserved, and otherwise managed through legislat...
- Paper
- 14.30 Of, By, and For Which People?: Government and Contested Heritage
- Participant Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Indiana University (IUPUI)) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Two government-owned and managed heritage sites in Indiana, USA, offer an opportunity to explore the role of governing in adjudicating the compe...
- Paper
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- A new Centre for Critical Heritage Studies in partnership between University College London and University of Gothenburg started in April 2016 a...
- Talk
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
- 15.30 Managed Landscapes: The Social Construction of Scale at Angkor
- Participant Rowena Butland |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I
- In constructing the scales that frame our political, social and cultural lives, we do not neutrally siphon off a particular part of the world an...
- Paper
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine : Roundtable | Table ronde UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
- Cocktail
- 11.30 Engineering Identity in a New Master-Planned City: Fantasy Islam in Indonesia’s Dompak Island
- Participant Alyssa Wilbur (McGill University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies
- After struggling from over three hundred and sixty years of colonialism, Indonesia, similarly to many newly independent states, attempted to rec...
- 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
- 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
- 09.00 Stylistic Dialogue among Iconic Buildings in Vietnam
- Participant Hazel Hahn |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies
- Vietnam has one of the most dynamic emerging economies in the world, and heritage tourism plays a significant role in this regard. Tourism in Vi...
- Paper
- 11.00 Rewriting Geological Time: Kanal Istanbul, a Mega-Project in Istanbul
- Participant Ms Meltem Al (McGill University School of Architecture) | Participant Prof. Ipek Türeli (McGill University, School of Architecture, Canada) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies
- In April 2011, in the middle of an election campaign, the then prime minister (and current president) of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced...
- Paper
- 09.30 Identity and Heritage Revival in Morocco’s New Master-Planned Cities
- Participant Laurence Côté-Roy (McGill University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies
- Since the 1990s, hundreds of new master planned cities have been springing up across the global South, namely in Asia and the Middle East, but a...
- Paper
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
- Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
- Signup required Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

- ACHS 2016 General Assembly Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Talk
- 10.00 Reconciling Conflicting Rights: National Indigenous Heritage in Southeast Asia
- Participant Dr Anna Karlström (Uppsala University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Over the last decades a language of rights and human rights-based approaches have been adopted by intergovernmental organizations and are now we...
- Paper
- 13.30 Approaching Rights in the World Heritage Arena: Methodological Considerations
- Participant Peter Larsen (University of Lucerne) | Participant Ms Kristal Buckley AM (Deakin University Australia) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- A number of actors within the World Heritage system have, within recent years, started addressing rights, rights-based approaches and language. ...
- Paper
- 09.30 Cultural, Conflicting and Collective Rights in Bagan, Myanmar
- Participant Anne Laura Kraak (Deakin University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Following decades of isolation, Myanmar started to re-engage with the UNESCO’s World Heritage system in 2012 at a time when the link between her...
- Paper
- 09.00 Heritage Activism and Mass Media in Iran
- Participant Dr Ali Mozaffari (Deakin University, Curtin University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- This paper will build on and develop my previous work on heritage activism (Mozaffari 2015 and in press). I will examine instances of the repres...
- Paper
- 09.20 Introduction
- 9:00 - 9:10 | 10 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- How do Rights Change Heritage? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Questions about the repatriation of cultural property, issues of access and exclusion in the World Heritage system, intangible heritage practices i...
- Regular session
- Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- This session will address the potential and limitations of heritage as a tool for leverage, empowerment and dissent in Africa. It is widely a...
- Regular session
- Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- This session seeks to explore the role of urban heritage in mediating and contesting political conflict in the context of divided cities. We take u...
- Regular session
- An Intergenerational Conversation about Heritage Conservation Education: The Rise, Fall, and (Necessary) Redefinition of Expert Knowledge Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- As recent publications have demonstrated, the role of the expert in heritage conservation is a relevant, indeed imperative topic of discussion. On ...
- Roundtable
- ACHS Chapters meetings: ACHS US Chapter Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.255
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Workshop
- 11.40 Not All Stakeholders Are Equal: Local, Municipal, and National Conflict in the Public Heritage Square in Cuzco, Peru
- Participant Helaine Silverman (CHAMP - University of Illinois) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- In keeping with the theme of the 2016 ACHS conference, “What Does Heritage Change?,” this paper argues that it can change a society very much, a...
- Paper