
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
- 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
- Workshop
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Paper
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Paper