Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435

Sessions

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa
3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435

Regular session

Dr Lotte Hughes, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Harriet Deacon, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University, UK (Participant)

Dr Zoe Cormack, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Moderator)

This session will address the potential and limitations of heritage as a tool for leverage, empowerment and dissent in Africa. It is widely a...
13:30
13:30
The Critical Turn in Perspectives on Public Housing as Heritage
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435

Regular session

Asst Prof. Imran bin Tajudeen, National University of Singapore (Moderator)

This session discusses the ways in which early public housing from the 1950s to 1960s in Hong Kong, China, and Singapore have emerged recently as a...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
8 hours, 9:00 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435

Regular session

Prof. Martha Langford, Concordia University, Departement of Art History, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Canada (Moderator)

Photography was recognized as an instrument of heritage preservation from the moment of its inception in the early nineteenth century, when proj...