
Manon Savard is Professor of Human Geography of the Environment and of Archaeology at the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR). Her research interests include archaeobotany, the reciprocal relations between societies and their environment, and the emergence of agriculture in the Levant. Nicolas Beaudry is Professor of History and Archaeology at the UQAR. He is specialized in late antique archaeology and has directed field projects in Syria and Albania. Since they joined the UQAR in 2005 and 2006, both have widened their interest and they have been developing together a practice of archaeology in Eastern Québec. Their realizations include the creation of UQAR’s Laboratoire d’archéologie et de patrimoine, an archaeological field school, and a number of archaeological projects and interventions in collaboration with regional institutions.
Sessions in which Prof. Manon Savard participates
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- 12.00 Archaeology and Intangible Heritage: Digging Up a Local Myth
- Participant Prof. Manon Savard (Laboratoire d'archéologie et de patrimoine) | Participant Prof. Nicolas Beaudry (Université du Québec à Rimouski) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology II
- Since 2009 a team from the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) has been carrying out archaeological research on Saint-Barnabé Island. The isl...
- Paper
Sessions in which Prof. Manon Savard attends
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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)
- Signup required Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
