
Katie is an ESRC Funded PhD student at the University of Leeds, currently entering her third year of study, where she is writing a thesis provisionally Entitled "Memory and Empathy in Northern Ireland's Museums and Memorial Sites". Her research subjects the study of heritage and to affect the gaze of postcolonial critical, critical race, and queer theories, combinined with ethnographic methods to explore the limits of empathy in relation to post-conflict heritage in Northern Ireland. Katie is a contributor to the Irish Times microsite "Re-thinking the Hunger Strikes', and has presented at a wide variety of local and international conferences, as well as being invited to speak at the Senate House IES Irish Studies seminar series. She is the co-founder of a highly successful ESRC network, the "Critical Race and Ethnicities Network", as well as the organization of a number of successful seminars, workshops and conferences across Leeds, Sheffield and York.
Sessions in which Ms Katie Markham participates
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9:00
- 10.00 Humorous Becomings: Exploring Empathy Through the Use of "Craic" in Tours of Belfast's Murals
- Participant Ms Katie Markham (sskjm@leeds.ac.uk) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Paper
Sessions in which Ms Katie Markham attends
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11:30
- 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

12:30
12:30
- 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
14:30
14:30
- Public Debate: Heritage and the City | Le Patrimoine et la Ville
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Agora
- 14:30 - 16:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Talk
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
19:30
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

11:00
11:00
- 12.00 The Construction of a Hybrid Heritage of the Jewish and Bedouin Refugee Life
- Participant Dr. Diego Rotman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research I
- 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
- 13.30 Landscape, Emotion and Contested Values: An Autoethnographical Case Study in Migration, Place Attachment and the Spirit of Place
- Participant Ms Claire Johnstone (Heriot-Watt University ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Paper
- 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
- 13.30 New Heritage Imaginaries: Reconsidering Race Slavery and its Political Legacies through Public Commemoration and Art in Charleston, SC
- Participant Stephanie E. Yuhl (College of the Holy Cross) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research I
- Paper
- 11.20 Quotidian Utopia: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence and the Doctrine of Heritage Significance
- Participant Prof. Tracy Ireland |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- 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
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
13:30
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
- Cultural Heritage and the Working Class UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 16.00 Objects and Communities: Re-Engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum
- Participant Silvia Forni (Royal Ontario Museum) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- Paper
- 15.30 African American Heritage and Pride: How Neighbourhood Museums Educated and Inspired Local Black Communities
- Participant Laura Burnham |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- 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

7:30
7:30
- Discovering katajjaniq – Nunavik’s Inuit throat singing | À la découverte du katajjaniq – le chant de gorge inuit du Nunavik
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle des boiseries (J-2805)
- 7:30 - 8:30 | 1 hour
- Event
9:00
9:00
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 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
- 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
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11:00
- 11.30 Contradictions of Aesthetic and Economic Order in a World Heritage Site in Guatemala
- Participant Prof. Walter E. Little (University at Albany, SUNY, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, United States) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Maverick Heritages. Ugliness, Discomfort and Illegality in the Political and Social Construction of Heritage
- Paper
14:00
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

19:00
19:00
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 hours
7:30
7:30
- Un chant yiddish au creux de l'oreille - Traversée
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.130
- 7:30 - 8:30 | 1 hour
- Event
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9:00
- 13.30 Making Heritage Minoritarian: A Transnational Recipe for a Socially Useful Past
- Participant Dr Jasper Chalcraft (University of Sussex) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas
- Signup required Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
- 9:00 - 10:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
- 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
- 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
- 11.00 Commemorating Conflict or Moving on to a New Era? Dealing with the "Scars in the Urban Fabric“ in Post-Conflict Belfast
- Participant Henriette Bertram (University of Kassel) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
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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

18:00
18:00
- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
- Cocktail
15:30
15:30
- Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable