
Joshua Dent
PhD Candidate
University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada
Participates in 3 items
Joshua Dent is a doctoral candidate at Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario and a co-founder of the Archaeology Almanac Project. He currently serves as a director on the London Heritage Council and as a resource member of the London Advisory Committee on Heritage. He is author of False Frontiers: Archaeology and the Myth of the Canadian Wilderness (Totem: The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology 21(1): 59-71) and is a listed contributor on many cultural resource management (CRM) technical reports. His CRM experience includes fieldwork in the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. Both his master’s thesis and his doctoral dissertation consider the history and legacy of heritage governance and Indigenous participation in heritage management.
Sessions in which Joshua Dent participates
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- Heritage and the Late Modern State I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...
- Regular session
- 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
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9:00
- Heritage and the Late Modern State II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...
- Regular session
Sessions in which Joshua Dent attends
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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
9:00
9:00
- 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

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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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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)
- 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

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17:00
- ACHS 2016 General Assembly Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Talk
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9:00
- 11.00 Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Participant Francesca Cominelli (IREST Paris 1) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Sc...
- 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
- 10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?
- Participant Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- This paper will explore the relevancy of the nascent critical heritage studies movement to the future of built heritage conservation. This analy...
- Paper
- 09.00 Using Deep History in Urban Planning: Urban Archaeology as Cultural Product
- Participant Dr. Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen (Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I
- Politicians and planners have seen the value of investing in applied research that will enhance the ability to activate the past in the planning...
- Paper
- 14.00 Cherokee Archaeological Landscapes as Community Action
- Participant Kathryn Sampeck (Illinois State University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- For the past seven years, the Tribal Historic Preservation Office of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and I have built together a program of...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 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
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9:00
- 10.00 Urban Waste (Places) and Heritage Values
- Participant Prof. Susan Ross (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- The idea of built heritage as potential waste is commonly represented by images of demolition and landfill sites. This contributes to an idea th...
- Paper
- 09.30 Wendat Archaeological Heritage: Challenging the Professionals
- Participant Alicia Hawkins (Laurentian University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology II
- Since 2011, the Ontario Standards and Guidelines for Consultant Archaeologists have required “Aboriginal Engagement” for projects impacting ance...
- Paper
- 11.00 “That’s Not a Term I Really Use": Investigating Stakeholders’ Understanding of Heritage
- Participant Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Indiana University (IUPUI)) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Before we can begin to understand what heritage changes, we have to understand the fields of power and significance in which it operates. In the...
- Paper
- 14.30 Sustaining Community-Led Heritage Stewardship: Co-Creating a Community-Sourcing Platform for Heritage Management
- Participant Harald Fredheim (University of York) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Following repeated cuts to public funding in the United Kingdom, a growing number of local councils are without heritage conservation officers, ...
- Paper
- 11.00 Archaeological Heritage as a Catalyst for Pubic Engagement, Rural Rejuvenation, and Rethinking Our Shared Past: Perspectives from a Quarter Century of Community Archaeology in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Participant Dr. Barry Gaulton (Memorial University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology II
- Archaeological research in Canada’s easternmost province enjoys a long and evolving history of community partnerships. This is due, in part, to ...
- Paper
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13:30
- (in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...
- Roundtable