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ms Kayte McSweeney

Object Journeys Partnership Manager
British Museum
Participates in 1 Session
Kayte has worked in the museum field for the last 9 years specialising mainly in audience research and evaluation, exhibition development, co-creation and community-led research initiatives. She worked as Senior Audience Advocate at the Science Museum London for almost 8 years before taking up a post in the Learning and National Partnerships team at the British Museum. She has conducted collaborative research projects under Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts and Humanities Research Council programmes. Kayte also chairs the UK based Visitor Studies Group a professional membership network dedicated to championing rigorous audience research and engagement in visitor studies. She has a Masters in Cultural Heritage Studies from University College London and a Masters in History from Trinity College Dublin

Sessions in which ms Kayte McSweeney participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

Paper

ms Kayte McSweeney, British Museum (Participant)

“ …it’s important not to be ignorant, especially in such a public space not to be ignorant of different perspectives and to make sure you don’t ...

Sessions in which ms Kayte McSweeney attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
12:30
12:30
Registration
5 hours, 12:30 - 17:30

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

13:00
13:00
What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
2 hours, 13:00 - 15:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Workshop

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

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

Dr Adèle Esposito, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR AUSser Architecture, Urbanistique, Société, France (Participant)

Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

Pedro Paulo Funari, Unicamp (Participant)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
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...
19:30
19:30

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210

Research-Creation

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Moderator)

Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:00
8:00
Morning Coffee
2 hours, 8:00 - 10:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

9:00
9:00
Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00
Signup required

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

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
11:00
11:00
Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Regular session

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Moderator)

The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560

Regular session

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Moderator)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
13:30
13:30
History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
3 hours 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525

Regular session

Prof. Raymond Montpetit, Université du Québec à Montréal (Moderator)

15:30
15:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Regular session

Dr Yujie Zhu (Moderator)

In recent decades, the growth of the World Heritage industry has necessitated the reconsideration of scale. Formerly dominated by nation-states, so...
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-2585

Regular session

Dr Felix Girke, Universität Konstanz (Moderator)

The constructed and political nature of heritage claims is now acknowledged across the disciplines, and increasingly even among heritage profession...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950

Regular session

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Moderator)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Moderator)

Digital installations and interventions have been seen as a promising ways to support and foster dialogue in museum exhibitions. How does this p...
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 S2.401

Regular session

Dr Lee Davidson, Victoria University of Wtgn (Moderator)

International exhibitions have long been promoted for their potential to connect people, objects and stories across political, cultural and geograp...
Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Regular session

Dr Tod Jones, Curtin University, Australia (Moderator)

Dr Ali Mozaffari, Deakin University, Curtin University (Moderator)

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...
13:30
13:30
Engaging Authenticity
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Research-Creation

Prof. Austin Parsons (Participant)

This proposal makes the case that heritage’s capacity for change may be dependent on a paradigm shift in how heritage is interpreted. With this ...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401

Regular session

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Nuala Morse, University of Manchester / University College London (Moderator)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...
13:30
13:30
(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...

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430

Roundtable

Dr. Angela Failler, University of Winnipeg (Participant)

Prof. Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada (Moderator)

Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr. Monica Patterson, Carleton University (Participant)

Jennifer C. Robinson, University of Victoria (Participant)

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
15:30
15:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Roundtable

Prof Elizabeth Crooke, Ulster University (Participant)

Dr Anna Woodham, King's College London (Participant)

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Potential)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Potential)

Dr Nuala Morse, University of Manchester / University College London (Potential)

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

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Moderator)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Participant)

Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent (Participant)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

What is the future of the UK and what is the role of heritage in this shifting political landscape? How have debates on heritage in the UK chang...