Tammy MacDonald

Consultation Negotiation Coordinator and Historical Researcher

Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI

Tammy MacDonald has been with the Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI for 11 years. As the Consultation Negotiation Coordinator and historical researcher, she ensures all ancient, historical and traditional or “Living Memory” Mi'kmaq cultural and resource use of all PEI’s land and waterways are taken into account in proposed Federal and Provincial Government projects, on PEI. Tammy also creates and coordinates Mi'kmaq Educational Cultural Workshops for Government, academic, or private organizations.
As an historian, Tammy is passionate about sharing accurate historical knowledge with as wide an audience as possible. As an Islander, she is passionate about celebrating the cultural diversity of Prince Edward Island.

Sessions in which Tammy MacDonald attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

13:00

Pre-Conference Tour: Old Montreal (2 groups)

2 hours, 13:00 - 15:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Find out more about all the eras that shaped Montréal with this interesting walking tour, from the foundation of Fort Ville-Marie in 1642 to today’...

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

The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises

1 hour 30 minutes, 19:30 - 21:00

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)

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 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Geir Vestheim, University College of Southeast Norway (Participant)

This paper will depart from the idea that the making of cultural policy, and heritage policy included, takes place within a political system and...

Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

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

Regular session

Jeroen Rodenberg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Moderator)

Dr. Pieter Wagenaar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Moderator)

Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...

16.00 Mitigating Cultural Contestation: The Case of Black Pete

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Dr. Pieter Wagenaar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Participant)

Jeroen Rodenberg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Participant)

In current cultural heritage literature there is much emphasis on the uses of heritage in the construction of group identities. The (hi)stories ...

11.30 Understanding Transitional Heritage: Heritage-Making in Post-Authoritarian Societies

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Laura Demeter, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Participant)

The context of transition from authoritarian regimes to democracy post-1989 in Central and Eastern Europe impacted heritage practices, legislati...

12.00 Before and After Definition: Transformation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Policy in Xinjiang

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Prof. Kate Hennessy, Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Canada (Participant)

Aynur Kadir, School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University (Participant)

Based on fieldwork in Xinjiang, China, this paper will investigate the ambiguities surrounding the government policies that seek to promote econ...

15.30 Recognition Politics and Multicultural Heritagization in Canada

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Dr Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant)

With Co-author Caitlin Gordon-Walker Ethno-cultural groups in Canada use community centres as cultural spaces to promote a sense ...

14.00 Disseminating Disgust: De-colonizing Monuments through Affective Atrategies: The Case of Cecil John Rhodes in Cape Town and Oxford

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Dr. Britta Timm Knudsen, Aarhus University (Participant)

This paper argues that political mobilization and enthusiasm is created as a consequence of profane strategies of disgust rather than of anger a...

14.30 Of, By, and For Which People?: Government and Contested Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Participant)

Two government-owned and managed heritage sites in Indiana, USA, offer an opportunity to explore the role of governing in adjudicating the compe...

13.30 Cultural Policy, Heritage Logic, and Cultural Contest: Afro-Cuban Religions and Inclusionary Discrimination in Contemporary Cuba

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Dr. Michelle Tisdel, National Library of Norway (Participant)

While Afro-Cubans have benefitted, in general, from many social, economic and cultural policies implemented by the socialist government, their o...

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)

7:00

Around the Université du Québec à Montréal: visit of Chinatown | Autour de l’Université du Québec à Montréal : visite du Quartier chinois

1 hour 45 minutes, 7:00 - 8:45

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

(In English) Chinatown, born in the second half of the 19th century, is a hub of commercial and sociocultural activities which showcases Chinese cu...

9:00

Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Regular session

Dr Valentina Vapnarsky, CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France (Moderator)

Dr Anath Ariel de Vidas, CNRS, FABRIQ’AM project, France (Moderator)

Heritagization (the various means by which cultural features—either material or immaterial—are turned into a people’s heritage) has recently become...

10.00 Artifacts on Air: Cultural Coherence and Remote Access in Indigenous Collections

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II

Paper

Emily Meikle, University of Toronto (Participant)

Drawing upon recent research that I conducted, this paper will explore if and how radio can be used to promote remote access to indigenous archa...

09.30 Pilgrimage in a Contested Sacred Landscape: A Case Study in Conflict between Culture, Heritage Management, and Development in Native North America

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Paper

Dr Kathleen Van Vlack, Living Heritage Anthropology (Participant)

In many societies around the world, religious specialists engage in the act of pilgrimage. While on pilgrimage, specialists travel on long-estab...

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...

19:00

Film Series: De engel van Doel

2 hours, 19:00 - 21:00

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Prof. Marc Jacobs, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Moderator)

Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

7:00

Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal

2 hours, 7:00 - 9:00

Signup required

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)

Tour

Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...

9:00

11.30 Cultural Heritage, Human Rights and Intellectual Property Law: Does Three Make a Crowd?

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Courtney, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (Participant)

Cultural Heritage appears in both tangible and intangible forms and in many cases, it is difficult to separate the two. What role do intellectua...

11.00 How Does the Law of International Human Rights Change Heritage? Cooption, Reinforcement and Challenge (cancelled)

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Dr Lucas Lixinski, UNSW Sydney (Participant)

Cultural heritage, and international cultural heritage law (ICHL) with it, has been consistently used over time as a means to build identities, ...

09.20 Introduction

10 minutes, 9:00 - 9:10

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

14.00 Cultural Diversity, Intangible Heritage and Human Rights: A Case Study from Glasgow

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

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

This paper will focus on concepts of cultural diversity and intangible heritage with particular reference to the notion of human rights. The dis...

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...

12.00 Acknowledgement as a Precursor to Heritage: The Alevi Muslim Minority and the Legal Recognition of Religious Architecture in the Turkish Republic

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Dr. Angela Andersen (Participant)

The conceptualization of heritage can only resonate when a community has achieved acknowledgement of its role in society. For minority groups, t...

09.30 Cultural, Conflicting and Collective Rights in Bagan, Myanmar

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Anne Laura Kraak, Deakin University (Participant)

Following decades of isolation, Myanmar started to re-engage with the UNESCO’s World Heritage system in 2012 at a time when the link between her...

10.00 Reconciling Conflicting Rights: National Indigenous Heritage in Southeast Asia

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Dr Anna Karlström, Uppsala University (Participant)

Over the last decades a language of rights and human rights-based approaches have been adopted by intergovernmental organizations and are now we...

13.30 Approaching Rights in the World Heritage Arena: Methodological Considerations

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Peter Larsen, University of Lucerne (Participant)

Ms Kristal Buckley AM, Deakin University Australia (Participant)

A number of actors within the World Heritage system have, within recent years, started addressing rights, rights-based approaches and language. ...

15:30

Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son id...

18:00

Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event

1 hour, 18:00 - 19:00

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 123

Cocktail

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Moderator)

Gwenaelle Reyt (Participant)

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

Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Moderator)

To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

7:00

In Griffintown/ Dans le Griff and Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940-1960

2 hours, 7:00 - 9:00

Signup required

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)

Tour

(Guided visits to Two Exhibitions, Centre d’histoire de Montréal- bilingual) – The Centre d’histoire de Montréal presents Dans le Griff

11:00

12.00 Unknown Ground: The Case for Ambiguity in Indigenous Architecture

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada

Paper

Brett MacIntyre, Checkwitch Poiron Architects (Participant)

What is indigenous architecture? Who is allowed to make indigenous buildings? What role do “traditional” forms play in the development of modern...

11.30 Environmental Design and Cultural Continuity: On the Changing Indigenous Architectural Landscape of Canada

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada

Paper

Increasingly, indigenous communities are choosing to showcase tradition and culture within prominent and cutting-edge planning and architectural...

11.00 A Tectonic Question of Métis Centeredness

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada

Paper

David T. Fortin, Laurentian University (Participant)

There is an implied collective sense of place, celebration, and assertion within the terminology of an “indigenous cultural centre.” The locatio...

"Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 - 12:30

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

Regular session

Rebecca Lemire, Concordia University (Moderator)

In November 2014, artists and thinkers including Jimmie Durham, Michael Taussig, Rebecca Belmore and Paul Chaat Smith convened in Calgary and Saska...

13:30

16.00 Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Case Study of "Pantun"

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations

Paper

Diyana Sulaiman, Deakin University (Participant)

This paper will discuss the protection of intangible cultural heritage through the case study of a form of Malay literature known as “Pantun.” I...

13.30 Rights-Based Heritage Claims in Contemporary Turkey: The Cases of Hasankeyf and Sulukule

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations

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...

14.00 A Jurisprudence of Rights: Indigeneity, Cultural Heritage, and United States Archaeology

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations

Paper

Hilary Soderland (Participant)

Beginning with the 1906 Antiquities Act, the United States government regulated the nation’s cultural past as steward on behalf of all Americans...

Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations

3 hours 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285

Regular session

Dr. Bahar Aykan (Moderator)

State dominance in heritage management has been a key area of attention in critical heritage studies. There is now a large body of work discussing ...

15.30 The Consequences of Adat Law on Indonesia’s Heritage Regime

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations

Paper

Mr Rangga Dachlan, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia (Participant)

The 2003 UNESCO Convention on ICH Safeguarding (ICHC) remains the primary instrument in the international protection of intangible cultural heri...

14.30 Owning Jerusalem's Past: UNESCO World Heritage and the Struggle for Symbolic Recognition

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations

Paper

Benedetta Serapioni, (IEG) Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz) (Participant)

The aim of this paper is to reflect, from an historical perspective, on the ways the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention opened a new space to...

19:00

Pawâ

4 hours, 19:00 - 23:00

La Scena - La Scena (intérieur)

Repas

The closing dinner of the conference, called “Pawâ” according to a French-Canadian tradition borrowed from the Native American lexicon, will be an ...

Wednesday 8 June, 2016

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

8:30

Post-Conference Tour: The Mont Royal Summit

3 hours 15 minutes, 8:30 - 11:45

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

||| This loop crosses the forest to the top of Mount Royal allowing a discovery of its fauna and flora. Beautiful views offer a unique perspecti...