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Valdimar Tr. Hafstein

University of Iceland
Participates in 2 items
Valdimar Tr. Hafstein is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnology, Folklore, and Museum Studies at the University of Iceland, and current president of SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore). He has been a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, University of Gothenburg, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Georg-August Universität Göttingen, and a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at New York University. Valdimar chaired the Icelandic Commission for UNESCO from 2011-2012.

Sessions in which Valdimar Tr. Hafstein participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00
11:00

Paper

Prof. Ola Wetterberg, University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation (Participant)

Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, University of Iceland (Participant)

This paper will investigate how claims to protect religious rites as intangible heritage have been received within heritage and religious instit...

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, University of Iceland (Participant)

This paper will examine the relationship between cultural property and cultural heritage with reference to case studies from Greece (Parthenon s...

Sessions in which Valdimar Tr. Hafstein attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
17:00
17:00
Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
2 hours 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30
Signup required

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel

Cocktail

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potential)

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Potential)

Dr Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Moderator)

Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant)

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Participant)

Hon. Serge Joyal c.p., o.c. (Participant)

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00
11:00

Paper

Laurier Turgeon, Université Laval (Participant)

Prof. Dominique Poulot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France (Participant)

Dr Astrid Swenson, Brunel University London (Participant)

This paper will provide the conceptual introduction to the panel, drawing on results and reflections stemming from a six-year project on “Fronti...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320

Regular session

Dr Eva Löfgren, Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Moderator)

Prof. Ola Wetterberg, University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation (Moderator)

Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...
15:30
15:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280

Roundtable

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Participant)

Dr Astrid Swenson, Brunel University London (Moderator)

Rebecca Madgin, University of Glasgow (Participant)

Prof. Dominique Poulot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France (Moderator)

Dr Elizabeth Vlossak, Brock University (Participant)

Laurier Turgeon, Université Laval (Participant)

17:00
17:00
Smoked meat in questions
1 hour, 17:00 - 18:00

Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse

Cocktail

This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
18:30
18:30
Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518

Regular session

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée

Dr Chiara Bortolotto, Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain, France (Moderator)

Prof. Benedetta Ubertazzi, University of Milan-Bicocca (Moderator)

With sustainable development gaining momentum as a priority of UNESCO heritage policies, an increasing number of food-related nominations are being...
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)
1 hour 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30
Signup required

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Moderator)

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted  question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435

Regular session

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Moderator)

Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States (Moderator)

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...
How do Rights Change Heritage?
6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235

Regular session

Anne Laura Kraak, Deakin University (Moderator)

Questions about the repatriation of cultural property, issues of access and exclusion in the World Heritage system, intangible heritage practices i...
13:30
13:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.270

Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

Christine Bricault, Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant (Moderator)

Pierre Chartrand, Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant (Moderator)

Mme Karine Laviolette, Ministère de la Culture et des Communications (Participant)

Ghislain Picard, Assemblée des Premières Nations du Québec et du Labrador (Participant)

Dr Chiara Bortolotto, Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain, France (Participant)

Antoine Gauthier, CQPV (Participant)

L’objectif de cette table ronde est de questionner une éventuelle ratification par le Canada de cet instrument multilatéral. La réunion se tiend...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430

Roundtable

Prof. François Racine, UQAM (Moderator)

Samuel Mathieu, Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec (Moderator)

Mikael St-Pierre, Soder (Participant)

Samir Admo (Participant)

Marc-André Carignan (Moderator)

De l’ère du Maire Drapeau et de ses interventions autoritaires sur le tissu urbain de Montréal dans les années 1960 et 1970, à l’instauration d’...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Georgina Flores Mercado, UNAM (Participant)

This paper will analyze the relationship established between intangible cultural heritage and tourism, a relationship strengthened through UNESC...

Paper

Leah K. Lowthorp, Harvard University (Participant)

In recent years, global heritage policy has reflected an increasing focus upon the intangible. Part of an attempt to de-centre the hegemony of E...

Paper

Caecilia Alexandre, Université Laval, Université de Montréal, Faculté de Droit (Participant)

Alors qu’en 1945 le patrimoine était envisagé comme un instrument en faveur de la paix et de la réconciliation, d’autres préoccupations découlen...

Paper

Dr. Alessandro Testa, University of Vienna (Participant)

Je voudrais présenter certains de mes hypothèses, matériaux et conclusions de recherche relatifs à la problématique de l’impact des processus de...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.270

Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Julia Csergo (Moderator)

Dr Chiara Bortolotto, Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain, France (Moderator)

Antoine Gauthier, CQPV (Moderator)

Le concept de patrimoine culturel immatériel (PCI) a fait l’objet de nombreux colloques et publications depuis la promulgation de la Convention pou...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235

Regular session

Prof. Dominique Poulot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France (Moderator)

The second half of the 20th century saw the affirmation of national and international heritage administrations run by teams of experts that mutu...
13:30
13:30

Paper

Dr. Bahar Aykan (Participant)

This paper will explore rights-based heritage activism as a rising phenomenon in contemporary Turkey. It will do so by looking at two recent gra...
(in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430

Roundtable

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant)

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Moderator)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Participant)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Moderator)

Prof. Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Participant)

The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...