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Dr. Alessandro Testa

Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Vienna
Participates in 2 items

Alessandro Testa (Isernia 1983) is a Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna.
He has a background in Classics (Liceo Classico), History (Bachelor) and Religious Studies (Master) and has studied at several Italian and French Universities (Universities of Florence, Rome “Sapienza”, and Messina; École Pratique des Hautes Études and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Messina.
In 2012, he was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tallinn, Estonia, where he taught a course in Historical Anthropology, and in 2014 he was for a short period Visiting Scholar al Max Planck Institute di Halle, Germany. Between 2013 and 2015, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, where he also taught Anthropology of Religion and Anthropology of Cultural Heritage.
Alessandro Testa has so far published three books: Miti antichi e moderne mitologie(Rome 2010), Il carnevale dell’uomo-animale (Naples 2014), and Introduzione alla religiosità dei Sanniti (Isernia 2016). He is also the author of a conspicuous number of articles, chapters in volumes, and reviews. He has furthermore presented the outcomes of his research through lectures and oral contributions at universities and for conferences in numerous countries.
His main ethnographic fieldworks have been undertaken in Central Italy (2010-2011) and in the Czech Republic (2013-2014) and he is about to start a new one in Catalonia (2016-2017).

Alessandro Testa (1983) est Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Research Fellow auprès du département d’ethnologie de l’Europe à l’Université de Vienne.
Il a étudié à Isernia (Lycée Classique), à Florence (Université de Florence), à Rome (Université « La Sapienza »), à Paris (École Pratique des Hautes Études et École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) et à Messine (Université de Messine). Il a obtenu une Licence en Histoire (2007), un Master en Histoire des Religions (2009) et un Doctorat en Anthropologie (2013).
Ses travaux de recherche portent sur différents domaines tels que les religions du monde ancien, la méthodologie des sciences historiques et anthropologiques, l’anthropologie historique médiévale et moderne, l’anthropologie comparative des cultures populaires européennes, l’anthropologie des religions, l’anthropologie du patrimoine, l’anthropologie des rituels publiques et des fêtes.
Tout en continuant de s’occuper de problématiques historiques, à présent sa recherche ethnographique porte principalement sur la mémoire sociale et sur la construction des identités en Europe, et sur les phénomènes de reconfiguration, revitalisation et patrimonialisation du folklore – notamment dans l’Europe du sud et dans les pays postsocialistes. Jusqu’à maintenant, il a entrepris des enquêtes de terrain en Italie centrale (2010-2011) et en République Tchèque (2013-2014). Sa prochaine enquête ethnographique aura lieu en Catalogne (2016-2017).
Il a été Visiting Lecturer à l’Université de Tallinn en 2012. En 2014, il a passé une courte période de recherche comme Visiting Scholar auprès du Max Planck Institut for Social Anthropology de Halle/Saale. Entre 2013 et 2015, il a été chercheur postdoctoral à l’Université de Pardubice, en République Tchèque, tandis que maintenant il travaille à l’Université de Vienne.
Une liste de ses publications – qui comptent trois livres et plusieurs dizaines d’autres écrits – est consultable via le lien suivant.

Sessions in which Dr. Alessandro Testa participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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Paper

Dr. Alessandro Testa, University of Vienna (Participant)

The literature about the relationship between cultural heritage and religion, if not abundant, is indeed fast-growing. In fact, the debate seems...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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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...

Sessions in which Dr. Alessandro Testa attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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11:30
Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 - 13:00
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200

Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

Mr. Craig Bennett Jr., Bennett Preservation Engineering PC, Charleston, South Carolina (Participant)

Martine Lizotte, École internationale d’hôtellerie et tourisme du Collège LaSalle (Moderator)

Pierre Mathieu, Explorateur Voyages (Participant)

France Lessard (Participant)

David Mendel, Mendel Tours (Participant)

What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les r...
17:00
17:00
Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
2 hours 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30
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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

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

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. ...
18:30
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Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00
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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

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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
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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

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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
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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
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

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9:00
9:00

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...
13:30
13:30
Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
3 hours 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00
Signup required

Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier

Regular session

Chantal Turbide, L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Moderator)

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

While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are ...
19:00
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 ...