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Mengke Zhang

PhD Candidate
EPFL
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Mengke Zhang is a PhD candidate at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the Institute for Area and Global Studies, and is involved in the SNSF project entitled “Uses of cultural heritage at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games of 2022.” She holds a Master of Arts in China Development Studies from the Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, and a BA in Chinese from Zhejiang University. Her masters dissertation discusses the heritage discourse in urban China with a case study of the Hangzhou Section of the Grand Canal. Previously, she has been involved in research projects related to the spatial and social transformation of the Chinese danwei system, as well as live music and the digital platform in contemporary China. Her research interests span across urban, cultural and social geography, especially in the fields of urban heritage conservation, culture-led regeneration, and creative and cultural industries in cities.

Her publications: 
Zhang, M., & Lenzer Jr, J. H. (2020). Mismatched canal conservation and the authorized heritage discourse in urban China: a case of the Hangzhou Section of the Grand Canal. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26(2), 105-119.
Zhang, M., Zhang, T., Xiao, Z., & Chai, Y. (2021). Property rights redistribution and the spatial evolution of the Chinese danwei compound: a case study in Beijing. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 36(4), 1585-1602.

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Translation_fallback: domingo 28 agosto, 2022

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  • Opening ceremony
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  • UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
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  • 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

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  • Public lecture: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain
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  • UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
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  • 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...
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Gérard Beaudet
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Full Professor

Translation_fallback: martes 30 agosto, 2022

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  • Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
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  • Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...
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Translation_fallback: miércoles 31 agosto, 2022

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  • Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism
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  • In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-w...
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Prof. Laurajane Smith
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Australian National Univ...
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Translation_fallback: jueves 1 septiembre, 2022

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Alain Gelly
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Parks Canada
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Matthieu Paradis
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Agence Parcs Canada
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Daniel Trepal
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Don Lafreniere
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Sarah F Scarlett
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Michigan Technological U...
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Timothy Scarlett
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Michigan Technological U...
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  • Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives
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  • This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world ar...
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Stefan Berger
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  • Tour: A glimpse at Montreal's Centre-Sud Neigborhood
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  • The South Central district is a former industrial and working-class neighbourhood with a rich and unique heritage. The visit will allow us to di...
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Translation_fallback: viernes 2 septiembre, 2022

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  • Early bird tour: Walking the Postindustrial Lachine Canal (postponed to Friday)
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  • Walkers will meet at the entrance (there is only one) of Lionel Groulx Metro and from there walk along the canal to t...
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Steven High
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  • Lunch : barbecue event with Tout un Fumoir
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  • 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...
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  • Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
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  • 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...
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Cathy Stanton
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Tufts University
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  • Come and share the good times of the congress and celebrate your scientific and professional discoveries in a former fruit jam factory, Usine C,...
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  • Tour: The Angus shops and Rosemont with Heritage Montreal
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  • Uncover the vestiges of the Canadian Pacifie Railway tracks and the former Angus Shops, which played integral raies in the industrial and reside...
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  • Héritage Montréal
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Gracia Dorel-Ferré
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