
Amy Buchan
Amy Buchan has over 20 years of experience working in nonprofit arts and cultural organizations and higher education in southwestern Pennsylvania and abroad. Before joining Rivers of Steel, Amy held positions as the Director of Development at the American University of Rome (Italy); Director of University Advancement at Central European University (Budapest, Hungary); and Senior Director of Corporate, Foundation and Government Relations at Chatham University (Pittsburgh). Amy first worked with Rivers of Steel on the Born of Fire partnership during her 12 year tenure as Associate Director / Director of Development and Finance at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art (Greensburg). That project featured a large-scale exhibition of the Museum’s industrial landscape paintings that traveled through Germany and Poland and led to major transatlantic educational partnership. She is the author of “From the Ruhr Valley to the Steel City and Back” a chapter in Museums in the Global Context, published by the American Alliance of Museums in 2013. Amy presented on the Born of Fire Project at TICCIH in Freiberg, Germany in 2009.
Amy holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Applied Piano from Westminster College (PA) and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Duquesne University.
In her role at Rivers of Steel, Amy oversees daily operations, including finances, budgets, grants, projects, programs, policies, and general business practices, among other duties. Amy’s passion for preserving the region’s industrial history is a tribute to her own heritage—her paternal grandfather was a Blacksmith at Latrobe Steel and her maternal great-grandfather was a coal miner. Amy is particularly interested in the intersection of our industrial heritage with the arts as well as the cultural traditions of the many immigrants who worked in the mines and mills.
Amy spends her free time reading and cooking, exploring the region’s parks, and biking and running on the Great Allegheny Passage. She lives in Homestead with her two world-traveling cats.
Sessions in which Amy Buchan attends
- Opening ceremony
- Signup required UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 2 hours
- Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of th...
- Cocktail
- Word of Welcome UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Event
- Experts roundtable: the future of industrial heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Roundtable
- Old beams and new norms – The conservation of steel structures I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session is about the “hard facts” of conservation. It aims to draw together technical knowledge from related fields. Industrial conserva...
- Regular session
- Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Industrialization processes have been global from their very beginning. However, their interpretation still tends to be limited to specific loca...
- Regular session
- Old beams and new norms – The conservation of steel structures II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session is about the “hard facts” of conservation. It aims to draw together technical knowledge from related fields. Industrial conserva...
- Regular session
- Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective III UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Industrialization processes have been global from their very beginning. However, their interpretation still tends to be limited to specific loca...
- Regular session
- Old beams and new norms – The conservation of steel structures III UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session is about the “hard facts” of conservation. It aims to draw together technical knowledge from related fields. Industrial conserva...
- Regular session
- Public lecture: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Si la vallée du canal de Lachine a été le berceau de l’industrialisation canadienne, la géographie industrielle métropolitaine ne s’y est pas co...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Case studies in community-led and collaborative industrial heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Community lies at the heart of the processes of industrialization and de-industrialization. From labor to landscapes and from social fabric to e...
- Regular session
- Museums and industrial culture: presentation and interpretation issues and cases II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session will allow us to explore, through nine international case studies, the different strategies for the development of industrial herit...
- Regular session
- Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Pub talk Pub Le Sainte-Élisabeth - terrace
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- The role of mega-event to enhance industrial heritage in urban (re)development I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The role of industrial heritage in urban development has been extensively acknowledged in guiding and legitimizing the policies and discourses i...
- Regular session
- Sharing industrial heritage glocally UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In this roundtable we will resume and discuss main ideas and findings from the regular session on "Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a glo...
- Roundtable
- Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session addresses a perpetuating disjunction between conceptualisation of heritage and heritage making in heritage studies vis-a-vis herita...
- Regular session
- Ruin and revival: Pittsburgh's city staircases as artifacts of alternative urban histories and contemporary narratives UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Speaker Elena Clarke |
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory III
- Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) has over 800 public staircases that began to appear on its hillsides at the peak of the region’s industrial developm...
- Paper
- Discover the shores of industrial Montreal by river boat
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 45 minutes
- This tour offers an excursion on a privatized deck of
- Tour
- Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...
- Regular session
- Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world ar...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Social gathering at Ecomusée du fier monde and launch of the congress' souvenir stamp
- Signup required Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine
- 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | 2 hours
- Cocktail
-
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- TICCIH National representatives session UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...
- Event
- TICCIH National representatives session II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...
- Event
- Lunch : barbecue event with Tout un Fumoir
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- To keep you in shape for the TICCIH General Meeting, we are offering a special lunch, prepared on site on a smokehouse by Ron Wiser. Her...
- Repas
- TICCIH General meeting of members UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- At every World Congress, the international TICCIH community celebrates a General Assembly of its members. The event is open for any registered m...
- Panel
- Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mob...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Closing dinner
- Tickets required Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket Usine C - Hall
- 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 3 hours
- Come and share the good times of the congress and celebrate your scientific and professional discoveries in a former fruit jam factory, Usine C,...
- Repas