
Klas Grinell, half-time associate professor in the History of Ideas at Gothenburg, half-time curator of contemporary global issues at the National Museums of World Culture, Sweden. Coordinator of Religion and heritage in the Globalizing Heritage cluster at Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg University, board member of Cultural Heritage without Borders Sweden, secretary of the Nordic Gülen Institute, web editorial board member Museum Ethnographers Group, UK.
Currently leading the Swedish Research Council funded project Museological framings of Islam in Europe.
Currently leading the Swedish Research Council funded project Museological framings of Islam in Europe.
Sessions in which Dr Klas Grinell participates
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- 14.00 Heritagization and Religionization of Islamicate Culture in Europe
- Participant Dr Klas Grinell |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will argue that European framings of Islamicate cultural heritage shows how interpretations of the secularization and re-sacralizatio...
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr Klas Grinell attends
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- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
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- 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
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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
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- 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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- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
- Regular session
- 16.00 Worshipping the Past, Heritagizing Religion. How did the (Un)Holy Alliance between Churches and Heritage Come to Be?
- Participant Helena Wangefelt Ström (Umeå University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- “Why museums are the new churches.” This was the title of an essay on BBC Culture (June, 2015), where the author reflected on how museums and ar...
- Paper
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9:00
- Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Digital installations and interventions have been seen as a promising ways to support and foster dialogue in museum exhibitions. How does this p...
- Regular session
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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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9:00
- 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
- The field of heritage has emerged as a key site of reflection. Influenced by shifts in the academy (e.g., post-colonial, post-structural and femini...
- Regular session
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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
- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
- Roundtable
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8:30
- Post-Conference Tour: À la découverte de Kahnawà :ke | Discovery of Kahnawà :ke
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 8:30 - 17:30 | 9 hours
- ||| Les Mohawks constituent la nation amérindienne la plus nombreuse parmi les dix différentes nations que compte le Québec. La nation mohawk...
- Tour