
Mr. Dinler is a Ph.D. candidate at the Architectural and Landscape Heritage Program of the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He obtained his M.S. degree in 2013 in ‘Cultural Heritage Conservation Program’ in Middle East Technical University, from where he got his B.Arch. degree as well in 2009. He worked as a teaching assistant at the Restoration Department in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and he gained internships both with US/ICOMOS and the Getty Conservation Institute.
Sessions in which Mesut Dinler participates
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- 10.00 Imported Definitions for Heritage: Development of the Western Idea of Heritage in Turkey since the 1960s
- Participant Mesut Dinler (Politecnico di Torino) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- The strong dominance of European architects in the Turkey Republic, both in academia and professional practice, started in the early decades of ...
- Paper
Sessions in which Mesut Dinler attends
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12:30
- Research Development Seminar with Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell: Heritage and Museum Studies, Sociology
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon du Faubourg (DC) - DC-2300
- 12:30 - 15:30 | 3 hours
- The Research Development Seminars gathers young scholars who will informally present and discuss their research with one of the conference's keynot...
- Workshop
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9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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11:00
- 11.20 Quotidian Utopia: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence and the Doctrine of Heritage Significance
- Participant Prof. Tracy Ireland |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- The expanding use of heritage methods, governance and policy structures to produce an ever-more inclusive, visible, material heritage that parti...
- Paper
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13:30
- Cultural Heritage and the Working Class UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Many people are actively using working class heritage as a resource to reflect on the past and the present, and there is a growing tendency for the...
- Regular session
- Alter-Heritagization / Alter-Metropolization ? Objects, Players and Forms of Alternative Heritage Production in Contemporary Metropolises UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- The contemporary movement of heritagization, characterized by a multiple expansion (typological, chronological, spatial) of heritage and of heritag...
- Regular session
18:30
18:30
- Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 18:30 - 20:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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7:00
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...
- Tour
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9:00
- 11.00 Living in a Historic House: Meeting the "Other" through Heritage
- Participant Dr Banu Pekol (Ozyegin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II
- This paper will deal with how the residential urban heritage of religious minorities in Istanbul is being re-used and modified—while at the same...
- Paper
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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)
- 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

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19:00
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 hours
- Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...
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7:00
- La Pointe: L’autre bord de la track / The Other Side of the Tracks
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- La Pointe: L’autre bord de la track / The Other Side of the Tracks (COHDS /Public History Students, 2015 - bilin...
- Tour
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9:00
- Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- This session seeks to explore the role of urban heritage in mediating and contesting political conflict in the context of divided cities. We take u...
- Regular session