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Georges-Henry Laffont

Maitre de conférences
EVS UMR 5600 Université de Lyon / ENSA de Saint-Etienne
Participates in 2 items

Docteur en géographie, aménagement de l’espace et urbanisme, chercheur

à EVS UMR5600, université de Lyon et maitre de conférences à l’ENSA de Saint-Etienne. Ses recherches

portent sur la performativité des idéalités de la production des espaces habités, les formes et processus

de résilience et de conflit dans les dynamiques territoriales ou encore la matérialité des mémoires

individuelles et collectives en contextes postindustriels.

Sessions in which Georges-Henry Laffont participates

Lunes 29 agosto, 2022

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

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

Paper

Georges-Henry Laffont, EVS UMR 5600 Université de Lyon / ENSA de Saint-Etienne (Speaker)

Haut lieu de l’activité industrielle en France (Merley, 1990), le bassin industriel de Saint-Etienne, est aujourd’hui encore marqué par cette épopé...

Miércoles 31 agosto, 2022

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

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

Paper

Georges-Henry Laffont, EVS UMR 5600 Université de Lyon / ENSA de Saint-Etienne (Speaker)

Dans le paysage du premier bassin industriel français jusqu’en 1918 (Merley, 1990), à côtés des héritages en milieu urbain, l’on récence à la faveu...

Sessions in which Georges-Henry Laffont attends

Domingo 28 agosto, 2022

Zona horaria: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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...

Lunes 29 agosto, 2022

Zona horaria: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
Word of Welcome
30 minutos, 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)

10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Break
30 minutos, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Pause

11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Industrial heritages to discover: current research I
1 hour 30 minutos, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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

Regular session

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

12:30 PM
12:30 PM
Lunch
1 hour, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Repas

1:30 PM
1:30 PM

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

Regular session

Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)

Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)

Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)

Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Moderator)

During the Industrial Revolution coal was the most important energy source for both homes and industries. At the time, coal mining created stron...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Break
30 minutos, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Pause

3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Photography and Industrial Heritage
1 hour 30 minutos, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

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

Regular session

Laurent Sauvage (Moderator)

Industrial heritage and photography have a close relationship. Photography is a source for industrial archaeology. It sheds light on the links b...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Break : Sugar Shack Event
30 minutos, 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Pause

5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Public lecture: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain
1 hour 30 minutos, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Available

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

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Gérard Beaudet (Keynote speaker)

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...
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
Pub talk
1 hour, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Pub Le Sainte-Élisabeth - terrace

Cocktail

Martes 30 agosto, 2022

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

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

Regular session

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

Bode Morin, Anthracite Heritage Museum (Moderator)

This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned comm...
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Break
30 minutos, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Pause

11:00 AM
11:00 AM

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

Regular session

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

Bode Morin, Anthracite Heritage Museum (Moderator)

This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned comm...
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
Lunch
1 hour, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Repas

1:30 PM
1:30 PM
Talk: overview of industrial heritage in Canada
1 hour 30 minutos, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

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

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Alain Gelly, Parks Canada (Keynote speaker)

As a "continent” country, in which industrialization began as early as the 19th century, Canada has seen through deindustrialization ...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Break
30 minutos, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Pause

5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
1 hour 30 minutos, 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...

Miércoles 31 agosto, 2022

Zona horaria: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:00 AM
7:00 AM
Early bird tour: L'Écomusée du fier monde, musée d'histoire et musée citoyen
1 hour 30 minutos, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Signup required

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

Tour

René Binette, Écomusée du fier monde (Presenter)

Visit of the permanent exhibition : À cœur de jour, grandeurs et misères d'un quartier populaire, which traces the history of one of the oldest ...
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Uses of industrial heritage: cases in transformation I
1 hour 30 minutos, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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

Regular session

Prof. Michel Rautenberg, université jean monnet (Moderator)

Examples from several continents, in Europe, South America, North America, Turkey, show strong continuity in the objectives that govern the reus...
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Break
30 minutos, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Pause

11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory II
1 hour 30 minutos, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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

Regular session

Mário Bruno Pastor, APPI / TICCIH - UCP - CITAR - FCT (Moderator)

This session brings together a set of studies focused on the uses adaptative reuses (and even replications) of industrial heritage in the larger...
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
Lunch
1 hour, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Repas

1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Preservation and transformation of historic waterways: a challenge (III). A tour of the Soulanges Canal
6 hours, 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Signup required

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

Tour

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Speaker)

Marianne Sigouin-Lebel (Other Participant)

The Soulanges Canal is an infrastructure, located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, which was opened to maritime traffic in 1900, succeedi...
1:30 PM
1:30 PM

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

Regular session

Tomasz Jelenski, Cracow University of Technology (Moderator)

This session addresses a perpetuating disjunction between conceptualisation of heritage and heritage making in heritage studies vis-a-vis herita...
Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory III
1 hour 30 minutos, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

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

Regular session

Mário Bruno Pastor, APPI / TICCIH - UCP - CITAR - FCT (Moderator)

This session brings together a set of studies focused on the uses adaptative reuses (and even replications) of industrial heritage in the larger...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Break
30 minutos, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Pause

Jueves 1 septiembre, 2022

Zona horaria: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I?
1 hour 30 minutos, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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

Regular session

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

The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II?
1 hour 30 minutos, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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

Regular session

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

The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
Lunch
1 hour, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Repas

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

Viernes 2 septiembre, 2022

Zona horaria: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
TICCIH National representatives session
1 hour 30 minutos, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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

Event

Hildebrand de Boer, European Route of Industrial Heritage - ERIH e.V. (Participant)

In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Break
30 minutos, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Pause

11:00 AM
11:00 AM
TICCIH National representatives session II
1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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

Event

In this meeting, TICCIH representatives from around the world will present work in the field of industrial h...
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...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Break
30 minutos, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Pause