Ms. Kecia Fong

Ph.D. candidate

Western Sydney University

Participates in 1 Session

Kecia Fong is a conservation professional and PhD candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. She has worked internationally for the Getty Conservation Institute, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, US National Park Service, World Monuments Fund and the Yangon Heritage Trust among others. Her doctoral research is sited in Yangon and examines how discourses of heritage and international conservation practices are transforming the physical, social, and ideational city of Yangon. She is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Associate Editor for Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment.

Sessions in which Ms. Kecia Fong participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

14.30 Reconfiguring the Civic: Urban Heritage Conservation in Yangon

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Ms. Kecia Fong, Western Sydney University (Participant)

The nascent Yangon preservation movement poses a radical paradigmatic shift in perceptions of history, national identity, and Asian urban modern...

Sessions in which Ms. Kecia Fong attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

12:30

Registration

5 hours, 12:30 - 17:30

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

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...

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...

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...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

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...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.445

Regular session

Dr Anna Källén, Stockholm University (Moderator)

Dr Anna Karlström, Uppsala University (Moderator)

As the interface between past and present, heritage is deeply involved in articulations of personal and group identity, working to unite and har...

Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265

Regular session

Prof. Étienne Berthold, Université Laval, Department of Geography / Département de géographie (Moderator)

This session proposes a critical and epistemological reflection on sustainable urban heritage conservation. Recent research on the management of ur...

12.00 Addiction By Choice? Heritage and Tourism in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

Paper

Prof Robyn Bushell, Western Sydney University (Participant)

Dr Russell Staiff, Western Sydney University (Participant)

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is 134th on the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Index. In other words, in ter...

16.30 The Silk Roads or Economic Belt: An Analysis of the Interaction Between China’s World Heritage and its Economic and Political Ambitions

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices

Paper

Jieyi Xie, Australian National University (Participant)

This paper aims to map how the Silk Roads World Heritage listing has been utilized in diplomatic ways to construct both internally and externall...

09.00 Where East Meets West: Comparing UNESCO’s Impact on Domestic Cultural Governance Systems

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

Paper

Ioan Trifu, Goethe University Frankfurt (Participant)

Christina Maags, Goethe University Frankfurt (Participant)

For decades the international heritage regime has increasingly been criticized as following a Western notion of and approach to cultural heritag...

09.30 Conceptualizing Living Heritage in China: The Contested Chinese ICH Discourse

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices

Paper

Dr Yujie Zhu (Participant)

Christina Maags, Goethe University Frankfurt (Participant)

Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)? What is that? Although the concept of ICH has been extensively discussed within UNESCO, the media, and state...

13.30 Heritage Creep in Myanmar: A Problem of Translation and Subsumption

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

Paper

Dr Felix Girke, Universität Konstanz (Participant)

Only in 2014 did Myanmar receive its first World Heritage inscription. But for several years now, “heritage” has been a key word of the social t...