
Prof. William Nitzky
Assistant Professor
California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States
Participates in 3 items
Dr. William Nitzky is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Chico. His research interests include cultural heritage, museum studies, rural development, and ethnicity. His previous publications include safeguarding living heritage (Museum International, UNESCOICOM), participatory approaches to heritage protection (Cultural Heritage Politics in China), and ecomuseum development in rural China (Urban Anthropology). Since 2012, he has served as a guest researcher at Guangxi Museum for Nationalities and a research consultant for the China National Committee on Ecomuseum and Community Museum Development on community museum and heritage projects.
Sessions in which Prof. William Nitzky participates
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- Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.401
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Regular session
- 13.30 Adopting and Adapting the New Museology Discourse: Ecomuseum Development in Rural China
- Participant Prof. William Nitzky (California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- Paper
Sessions in which Prof. William Nitzky attends
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- 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

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13:00
- 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
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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
- Cocktail
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19:30
- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
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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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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- 11.40 They Who Debate the Past Debate the Future
- Participant Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- 13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices
- Participant Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- 12.00 Before and After Definition: Transformation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Policy in Xinjiang
- Participant Prof. Kate Hennessy ( Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Canada) | Participant Aynur Kadir (School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Paper
- 12.00 "Home is Everywhere and Nowhere": The Critical Heritage of Migration and Belonging in Contemporary European Museums
- Participant Dr Susannah Eckersley (Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK) | Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Paper
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13:30
- 13.30 The Habitus of Heritage: Class, Memory and Visitor Position-Taking
- Participant Bella Dicks |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- Paper
- 14.30 Heritage Changes Lives: How Partnerships between Museums and Community Organizations are Making Positive Differences to People’s Lives
- Participant Laura Crossley (University of Leicester) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- Paper
- History Museums, Heritage and Visitors UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Paper
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17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- Cocktail
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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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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7:00
- Around the Université du Québec à Montréal: visit of Chinatown | Autour de l’Université du Québec à Montréal : visite du Quartier chinois
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 8:45 | 1 hour 45 minutes
- Tour
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8:00
- La richesse du patrimoine | The Value of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 8:00 - 13:00 | 5 hours
- Exhibition
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9:00
- 09.40 Museum, Heritage and Craft, a Case Study: The Ceramic Collection of the Art Gallery of Burlington
- Participant Denis Longchamps (Art Gallery of Burlington) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage
- Paper
- 12.00 Discussion with Michael Herzfeld
- Moderator Prof. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) |
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II
- Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue
- Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason | Participant Dr Areti Galani (Newcastle University, UK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Paper
- 11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration
- Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Paper
- 11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an
- Participant Dr Yujie Zhu |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Paper
- 12.00 The Reconstruction of Zongzu as a Cultural Heritage in China
- Participant Doctor Chong Zhang (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Paper
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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
- 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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7:00
- Around Concordia: Griffintown | Autour de Concordia : Le quartier Griffintown
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 8:45 | 1 hour 45 minutes
- Tour
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9:00
- 14.30 Reconfiguring the Civic: Urban Heritage Conservation in Yangon
- Participant Ms. Kecia Fong (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
- 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
- Paper
- 11.30 Museums, Immigrants and Social Justice: Addressing Issues of Language Barriers and Employment
- Participant Dr Sophia Labadi (University of Kent) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- Paper
- 14.30 Heritage Futures
- Participant Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 9:00 - 9:15 | 15 minutes Part of: Posters
- Paper
- 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
- 09.00 Ethnoheritage: Heritage Theory from the American Anthropological Perspective
- Participant Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels (University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- Critical Creation series: Ethical Fashion Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Event
- 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
- Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 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
- Critical Creation series: The visits (of which there were none) Episode N. 2 Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Event
- 14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
- Participant Mr Gary Campbell (ANU) | Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 10.00 Heritage of Penal Labour: Rethinking Work in Tracing Historical Movements within and Beyond Prisons
- Participant Shu-Mei Huang (National Taiwan University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Labour, Mobility and Heritage
- Paper
- 11.30 Revitalizing Feasts: Gastronomic Heritage as a Global Agent of Change
- Participant Jonathan B. Mabry (Historic Preservation Office, City of Tucson) | Participant Teresita Majewski (Statistical Research, Inc.) | Participant Dr. Michael Di Giovine (West Chester University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Food as Heritage: Uses and Consequences of Food as an Object of Cultural Value
- Paper
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12:30
- ACHS Chapters meetings: ACHS US Chapter Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.255
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Workshop
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13:30
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
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- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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- Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
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- 09.00 The Pedagogical Benefits of Critical Heritage Studies: Helping Students to Reveal and Engage with the Complexities of Deindustrialization and Urban Change (Baltimore, USA)
- Participant Prof. Michelle L. Stefano (University of Maryland, American Studies, United States) |
- 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
- 09.00 Caring (or Not) about the Beamish Museum: The Co-Production and Co-Enactment of Affective Heritage
- Participant Dr Sarah De Nardi (Durham University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- Paper
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Regular session
- 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
- 13.30 A Change in the “Who,” a Change in the “What”: On the Material Practices of Museums in Two Cases of Co-Management
- Participant Bethany Rex (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- Paper
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13:30
- Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable