
Dr. Jeremy Wells
Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation
Roger Williams University
Participates in 2 items
Dr. Jeremy C. Wells is an assistant professor in the Historic Preservation Program in the School of Art, Architecture, and Historic Preservation at Roger Williams University, USA and a Fulbright scholar. Previously, he has worked as an historic preservation planner, Main Street manager, and as an architectural materials conservator. He is the co-editor of the book, Preservation Education: Sharing Best Practices and Finding Common Ground published by the University Press of New England. Dr. Wells created the Environmental Design Research Association’s Historic Environment Knowledge Network in 2008 to work with other academics and practitioners in addressing the person/place and environment/behavior aspects of heritage conservation. Dr. Wells is interested in how people perceive, value, and interact with historic environments and how this experience is similar to the experience of natural environments with a focus on place attachment. He uses social science research methodologies, such as ethnographies, survey research, and phenomenology to answer these questions because, fundamentally, he believes that the conservation of the historic environment is an endeavor that should benefit people. He is currently in Brazil conducting research on community participation and heritage conservation planning in Olinda, Pernambuco. Primary publications: Wells, J. C. (2007). The plurality of truth in culture, context, and heritage: A (mostly) post-structuralist analysis of urban conservation charters. City and Time, 3(2:1), 1-13. Wells, J. C. (2010a). Authenticity in more than one dimension: Reevaluating a core premise of historic preservation. Forum Journal, 24(3), 36-40. Wells, J. C. (2010b). Our history is not false: Perspectives from the revitalisation culture. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 16(6), 464-485. Wells, J. C., & Baldwin, E. D. (2012). Historic preservation, significance, and age value: A comparative phenomenology of Historic Charleston and the nearby new-urbanist community of I’On. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 32(4), 384-400.
Sessions in which Dr. Jeremy Wells participates
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- 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
- Paper
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Sessions in which Dr. Jeremy Wells attends
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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
17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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11:00
- 13.30 Participatory, Value-Based Heritage Cultural Landscape Conservation for Sustainable Community Development: The Case of Milton Park in Montreal
- Participant Mehdi Ghafouri (Vanier College) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- 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
- 16.00 Citizen Groups and Their Vision of Heritage in the Making of the 2012 Quebec Cultural Heritage Act
- Participant Prof. Martin Drouin (UQAM) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
- 14.30 L’approche paysagère : de nouveaux modes d’action citoyenne pour le patrimoine et les paysages
- Participant Mathieu Dormaels Ph.D. (Université du Québec à Montréal) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 15.30 L'appropriation citoyenne comme réponse à la sauvegarde de l’architecture moderne
- Participant Marie-Dina Salvione (École de design, UQAM) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
- 11.30 When Citizens Are Involved in Heritage: A Case Study in Laon (France)
- Participant Manon Istasse (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
- 14.00 The Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour Heritage Project: Contestation or Contentment?
- Participant Laura Murray (Queen's University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Talk
13:30
13:30
- 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
- 16.00 Ecological Thought and Cultural Landscapes: Evolving Paradigms and their Potential Application to Heritage Conservation
- Participant Cari Goetcheus (The University of Georgia) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage vs Ecology
- Paper
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15:30
- 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
18:30
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

7:00
7:00
- Through the alleys of Saint-Henri - guided by Pohanna Pyne Feinberg
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- 11.30 Patrimonialisation et mise en tourisme des centres anciens des petites villes françaises. Un cadre spatial d'analyse qui interroge le lien patrimonialisation / gentrification
- Participant Annie Ouellet (Université d'Angers - UMR CNRS 6590 ESO) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- Paper
- 11.30 Tango: Production and Circulations of Heritage Meanings
- Participant Sébastien Jacquot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Des patrimoines incarnés : les dialogues du vivant et de l’archive | Embodiment Practices of Heritage
- Paper
- 09.40 A Conceptual Framework for Built Environment Cultural Values
- Participant Mr Colm Murray (The Heritage Council of Ireland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Paper
- 09.20 For a Transdisciplinary Approach to Heritage Conservation: Memory, Aesthetics and the Issue of Authenticity
- Participant prof. Bianca Gioia Marino (DIARC Department of Architecture - University of Naples Federico II) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Paper
- 10.00 Une ontologie du patrimoine : apport de la sémantique pour une construction argumentative de l’artefact patrimonialisé. Le cas de la base de données de Topic-Topos
- Participant Valérie Rochaix (Université de Nantes - CoDiRe (EA 4643)) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Vers une nouvelle lecture du patrimoine culturel. L’approche sémantique au service d’une ontologie du patrimoine
- Paper
- 11.00 Les châteaux en France et au Québec
- Participant Dr. Stephanie Doyle-Lerat (université de Nantes) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Vers une nouvelle lecture du patrimoine culturel. L’approche sémantique au service d’une ontologie du patrimoine
- Paper
- 11.00 Dilemmas of Living: Uses of Heritage in Dispute—The Case of Vila Itororó, São Paulo
- Participant Ms Vivian Legname Barbour (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- 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 Case of the Missing "ism"? Modernism and Heritage: A Reflection
- Participant Prof Robyn Bushell (Western Sydney University) | Participant Dr Russell Staiff (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- Paper
- 11.40 Favela as a Brazilian Heritage Site: Complexities and Shifting Realities
- Participant Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti (Tu Delft) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Paper
- 11.20 Urban Planning and Transformation of Heritage Values
- Participant Jennie Sjöholm |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Paper
- 10.00 Imported Definitions for Heritage: Development of the Western Idea of Heritage in Turkey since the 1960s
- Participant Mesut Dinler (Politecnico di Torino) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- 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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15:30
- 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
