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Èlia Casals Alsina

PhD student
Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture
Participates in 2 items

PhD student with a background as a cultural manager focused on performative arts; currently researching on culture-led policies developed in former industrial clusters in European urban contexts and their role in overcoming the challenges arising from deindustrialization processes. 

 

She graduated in Musical Performance at ESMuC (Barcelona) and obtained a degree in Humanities and a master's degree in Cultural Management at the UOC, in all three cases with honours in the final thesis. In 2020 she was awarded a Santander-UdL pre-doctoral scholarship and began her PhD studies at the UdL (University of Lleida) as part of the "Territory, heritage and culture" programme under the direction of Dr Paül i Agustí. Since then, she teaches the subject "Cultural and city tourism" at this university. 

She has done study stays and internships in Germany and Italy and has professional experience in the fields of music performance, teaching and cultural management.

 

Sessions in which Èlia Casals Alsina participates

Monday 29 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:30 AM
11:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Paper

Èlia Casals Alsina, Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture (Speaker)

Many cities with a highly industrial past in Europe, the US and, more recently, the Global South have developed regeneration programs to overcom...

Thursday 1 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
12:00 PM
12:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Paper

Èlia Casals Alsina, Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture (Speaker)

The concept ‘arts-led regeneration’ is nowadays one of the trendiest slogans for the transformation of contemporary cities. Despite this fact, i...

Sessions in which Èlia Casals Alsina attends

Sunday 28 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Book launch: Deindustrializing Montreal
2 hours, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Signup required

Bâtiment 7 - La Taverne

Event

You are invited to the McGill-Queen’s University Press book launch of “
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Opening ceremony
2 hours, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Signup required

UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec

Cocktail

Patrick Dieudonné, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Institut de Géoarchitecture, France (Other Participant)

Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of th...

Monday 29 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
Word of Welcome
30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Event

Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Presenter)

Christian Agbobli, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) (Presenter)

10:00 AM
10:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Roundtable

Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)

1:30 PM
1:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Paper

Hanna Kaisa Melaranta, Teollisuusperintöseura/ TICCH Finland (Speaker)

This presentation focuses on the concept of intangible industrial heritage and how its features can be recognized locally and nationally through co...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Paper

Kasper Albrektsen, Aarhus School of Archutecture (Speaker)

In this paper, I will focus on the use of urban heritage as a planning tool in the transformation of an old working-class neighbourhood in the city...
3:30 PM
3:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Paper

Michael Bianchi, Université de Liège (Speaker)

Comme l’ensemble des villes situées sur le « croissant industriel » ouest-européen, le pays de Charleroi (appelé aussi Pays Noir) a vécu l’arrêt pr...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Paper

Rossella Maspoli, Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design DAD (Speaker)

The present study analyses the high symbolic value linked to car heritage, outlines the types and technologies of conservation and reuse interventi...
4:30 PM
4:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Paper

Patrick Viaene, TICCIH-Belgium (Speaker)

Few years after closure (1989) of the coalmine in Beringen, all constructions remaining were protected as "Historical Monument". Since legal protec...
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
Pub talk
1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Pub Le Sainte-Élisabeth - terrace

Cocktail

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Paper

Sunny Han Han, Landscape Architecture Design Institute of Wuhan University (Speaker)

East Asian countries frequently consider the diversification of social power and how to balance power relations through policy formulation and i...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525

Regular session

Mark Allan Rhodes II, Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program (Moderator)

Timothy Scarlett, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)

Community lies at the heart of the processes of industrialization and de-industrialization. From labor to landscapes and from social fabric to e...
9:30 AM
9:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525

Paper

Juliette Passilly (Speaker)

This paper proposes to study the case of L'AP, an artistic and cultural association located ...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525

Paper

Mark Allan Rhodes II, Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program (Presenter)

Brooke Batterson, Michigan Technological University (Presenter)

Kathryn Hannum, Michigan Tech University (Presenter)

James Juip, Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program (Presenter)

Larissa Juip, Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program (Presenter)

Zoé Ketola, Michigan Technological University (Presenter)

Timothy Maze, Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program (Presenter)

Wandipa Mualefhe, Michigan Technological University (Presenter)

Shardul Tiwari, Michigan Technological University (Presenter)

Emma Wuepper (Presenter)

As a country ubiquitous with industry and the industrial revolution, the identity of the United Kingdom, and Wales specifically, is rooted into ...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Paper

Morgane Moello, Réunion des Musées Métropolitains Rouen Normandie (Speaker)

En Normandie, deux anciennes usines textiles reconverties en établissements culturels cristallisent les dynamiques d'impact industriel sur leur ...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Paper

Jakub Jelen, Charles University (Speaker)

Mining can be considered as one of the key human activities that affects the development of many regions, conditions the economic development of co...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525

Paper

Takashi Itoh, Japan ICOMOS, Japan Industrial Archaeology Society (Speaker)

Judging from our experience these past 30-40 years of visiting civil engineering heritage and industrial heritage, including ruins, we saw many thi...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Paper

Nathanaël Wadbled, Université de Tour (Speaker)

Le patrimoine industriel aujourd’hui abandonné est l’occasion d’interroger et de repenser la pratique même du patrimoine. La pratique normale depui...
12:00 PM
12:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Paper

Sarah F Scarlett, Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program (Presenter)

The influence of twentieth-century industrial companies on city and town planning can be traced beyond the creation of isolated company towns an...
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
"Meet the author" from DePOT
1 hour, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main Hall; DePOT table

Talk

During this lunch break, you can come and discuss with the author about his most recent book.This is happening at the DePOT Table in the ...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Paper

Allen Dieterich-Ward, Shippensburg University (Presenter)

Since 2017, I have been a participant-observer in an innovative project to use industrial heritage as a springboard for...
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Speaker)

Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
Pub talk
1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Pub Le Sainte-Élisabeth - terrace

Wednesday 31 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Paper

Markus Otto, Brandenburgische Technische Universität (Speaker)

Post industrial landscapes, esp. region such as post-mining and, even more, post open-pit mining areas do need innovative, specific and strategic p...
9:30 AM
9:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Paper

Helena Roux, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (Speaker)

Renovating and enhancing industrial sites in the context of Olympic Games is a way of showing the full integration of such sites to the neoliberal ...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Paper

Lea Brönner, IHM - Institute for Heritage Management GmbH (Presenter)

Fossil resource extraction is a phenomenon which has dominated social and economic aspects of life for many generations and which has drasticall...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520

Paper

Beatriz Takahashi, CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory» (Speaker)

This study is based on the discussion of industrial heritage developed during the final thesis of my ma...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545

Paper

Gracia Dorel-Ferré, APIC (Speaker)

Il s'agit de montrer comment l'extension de Barcelone, au XIX siècle, rend compte non seulement de sa croissance mais aussi et surtout de sa main m...
12:00 PM
12:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Paper

Mathilde Macaux, University of Namur (UNamur) (Speaker)

The rural landscape of Belgium abounds with ancient monasteries not far from which you can perceive, occasionally hidden under the vegetation, some...
1:30 PM
1:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420

Paper

Anica Draganic, University of Novi Sad (Speaker)

According to the identity process theory (Breakwell, 1986), identity is perceived as a dynamic, social product of the interaction between memory ca...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580

Paper

Anne Scheinhardt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Architecture Museum) (Speaker)

Rome Reloaded. Or Industrial Heritage Meets the ArtsSince the end of the Industrial Age, the treatm...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Paper

Robin Lesné, Laboratoire TVES (ULR 4477) (Speaker)

Qui n’a pas souvenir, dans son enfance ou après, d’être parti.e à l’aventure dans la maison « hantée », l’ancien atelier abandonné ou le bunker mil...

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Paper

Elena Clarke (Speaker)

Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) has over 800 public staircases that began to appear on its hillsides at the peak of the region’s industrial developm...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Paper

Alexandre Fauquette, Université de Lille (Speaker)

"We must raise our heads and reveal the richness of our industrial past, which is what we want to do with our food court"; "Let's not forget tha...
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism
1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Speaker)

In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-w...
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
Pub talk
1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Pub Le Sainte-Élisabeth - terrace

Thursday 1 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Paper

Elizabeth Carnegie, Northumbria University (Speaker)

Derek Bryce, University of Strathclyde (Presenter)

This paper critically assesses the phenomenon of rejuvenated post-industrial and urban spaces through the theoretical lenses of gentrification and ...
9:30 AM
9:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Paper

Yuqiu Liu, TONGJI UNIVERSITY (Speaker)

With the development of urbanism, cities in China have attached great importance on “Urban Regeneration...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Kasper Albrektsen, Aarhus School of Archutecture (Speaker)

In addition to abandoned industrial complexes, deindustrialization left its working-class neighbourhoods in an identity vacuum. Since deindustriali...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Paper

Brian Rosa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Speaker)

Though Barcelona has become a center for cultural tourism since the 1992 Olympic Games, the city has historically had an economy and identity shape...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Paper

Rafaela Citron, USP (Speaker)

In the UK and in many other European and Noth American countries, industrial sites have been regenerated over the past decades and turned into v...
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Stefan Berger (Speaker)

This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world ar...
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Social gathering at Ecomusée du fier monde and launch of the congress' souvenir stamp
2 hours, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Signup required

Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine

Cocktail

Friday 2 September, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:00 AM
7:00 AM
Early bird tour: Walking the Postindustrial Lachine Canal (postponed to Friday)
1 hour 30 minutes, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Presenter)

Walkers will meet at the entrance (there is only one) of Lionel Groulx Metro and from there walk along the canal to t...
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Lunch : barbecue event with Tout un Fumoir
1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Repas

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...
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Available

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Cathy Stanton, Tufts University (Speaker)

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...