Dr Felix Girke

Post-doctoral researcher

Universität Konstanz

Participe à 2 sessions

Felix Girke is an anthropologist and post-doctoral researcher at the Center of Excellence 16 “Cultural Foundations of Social Integration” at Konstanz University, Germany. His current project focuses on the politics of heritage in contemporary Myanmar.

Selected publications:
2015. The Yangon court buildings: between thick and thin heritage. Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 30 (1): 72-104.
2013. Schnepel, Burkhard, Felix Girke und Eva-Maria Knoll (Hg.): Kultur all inclusive. Identität, Tradition und Kulturerbe im Zeitalter des Massentourismus. Bielefeld: transcript.
2011. Meyer, Christian und Felix Girke (Hg.): The rhetorical emergence of culture. Studies in rhetoric and culture vol. 4. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books.

Sessions auxquelles Dr Felix Girke participe

Dimanche 5 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage

3 heures 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2585

Regular session

Dr Felix Girke, Universität Konstanz (Modérateur.rice)

The constructed and political nature of heritage claims is now acknowledged across the disciplines, and increasingly even among heritage profession...

Mardi 7 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

13.30 Heritage Creep in Myanmar: A Problem of Translation and Subsumption

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Partie de: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

Paper

Dr Felix Girke, Universität Konstanz (Participant.e)

Only in 2014 did Myanmar receive its first World Heritage inscription. But for several years now, “heritage” has been a key word of the social t...

Sessions auxquelles Dr Felix Girke assiste

Vendredi 3 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

12:30

Welcome Coffee

5 heures, 12:30 - 17:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

Registration

5 heures, 12:30 - 17:30

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

17:00

Opening Ceremony and Cocktail

2 heures 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30

Inscription req.

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel

Cocktail

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potentiel.le)

Lucie Morisset, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Potentiel.le)

Dr Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Modérateur.rice)

Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant.e)

Luc Noppen, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Participant.e)

Hon. Serge Joyal c.p., o.c. (Participant.e)

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...

Samedi 4 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

7:00

Registration

12 heures, 7:00 - 19:00

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

8:00

Morning Coffee

2 heures, 8:00 - 10:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

9:00

Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)

1 heure, 9:00 - 10:00

Inscription req.

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Lucie Morisset, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Modérateur.rice)

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...

10:30

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

11:00

Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

6 heures, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320

Regular session

Dr Eva Löfgren, Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Ola Wetterberg, University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation (Modérateur.rice)

Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...

Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

6 heures, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950

Regular session

Jeroen Rodenberg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Modérateur.rice)

Dr. Pieter Wagenaar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Modérateur.rice)

Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 heure, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

13:30

History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

3 heures 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

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

Regular session

Prof. Raymond Montpetit, Université du Québec à Montréal (Modérateur.rice)

15:00

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 15:00 - 15:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

18:30

Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)

1 heure 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00

Inscription req.

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant.e)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Modérateur.rice)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Dimanche 5 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

Heritage and the Late Modern State II

3 heures 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

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

Regular session

Dr Richard Hutchings, Vancouver Island University, Canada (Modérateur.rice)

Joshua Dent, University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada (Modérateur.rice)

This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...

10:30

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 heure, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

14:00

Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)

1 heure 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30

Inscription req.

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant.e)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Modérateur.rice)

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...

17:00

ACHS 2016 General Assembly

1 heure 30 minutes, 17:00 - 18:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Talk

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Modérateur.rice)

Lundi 6 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

Heritage as contributor to policymaking

1 heure 30 minutes, 9:00 - 10:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Regular session

Prof. Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, University of British Columbia (Modérateur.rice)

The Manifesto of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies (2011) argues for a more critical approach to heritage: heritage from below, writ la...

Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

6 heures, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435

Regular session

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States (Modérateur.rice)

The field of heritage has emerged as a key site of reflection. Influenced by shifts in the academy (e.g., post-colonial, post-structural and femini...

An Intergenerational Conversation about Heritage Conservation Education: The Rise, Fall, and (Necessary) Redefinition of Expert Knowledge

3 heures 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430

Roundtable

Prof. Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Nobuko Inaba, University of Tsukuba (Participant.e)

Angela Garvey, ERA Architects (Participant.e)

Mardjane Amin, University of Montreal, MSc. A. Aménagement, option conservation de l'environnement bâti (Participant.e)

Prof. Claudine Déom, University of Montreal (Modérateur.rice)

John Diodati architect, Fournier Gersovitz Moss Drolet and Associates (Participant.e)

Jack Vandenberg, Heritage Conservation Directorate, Public Services and Procurement Canada (Participant.e)

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant.e)

As recent publications have demonstrated, the role of the expert in heritage conservation is a relevant, indeed imperative topic of discussion. On ...

Current Research III

3 heures 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.301

Regular session

Guillaume Ethier, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) (Modérateur.rice)

Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

6 heures, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285

Regular session

Dr Mirjana Ristic, Technical University Berlin (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Sybille Frank, Technische Universität Berlin (Modérateur.rice)

This session seeks to explore the role of urban heritage in mediating and contesting political conflict in the context of divided cities. We take u...

14.30 Reconfiguring the Civic: Urban Heritage Conservation in Yangon

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Partie de: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Ms. Kecia Fong, Western Sydney University (Participant.e)

The nascent Yangon preservation movement poses a radical paradigmatic shift in perceptions of history, national identity, and Asian urban modern...

Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II

3 heures 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.255

Regular session

In recent decades, the growth of the World Heritage industry has necessitated the reconsideration of scale. Formerly dominated by nation-states, so...

Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage

6 heures, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.445

Regular session

Dr Satu Kähkönen, University of Jyväskylä (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Kristin Kuutma (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Tuuli Lähdesmäki, University of Jyväskylä (Modérateur.rice)

Space plays a crucial role in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Although space has often been discussed in heritage studies, ...

How do Rights Change Heritage?

6 heures, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235

Regular session

Anne Laura Kraak, Deakin University (Modérateur.rice)

Questions about the repatriation of cultural property, issues of access and exclusion in the World Heritage system, intangible heritage practices i...

Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa

3 heures 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

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

Regular session

Dr Zoe Cormack, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Modérateur.rice)

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

Dr Lotte Hughes, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Modérateur.rice)

This session will address the potential and limitations of heritage as a tool for leverage, empowerment and dissent in Africa. It is widely a...

Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

6 heures, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Regular session

Dr Tod Jones, Curtin University, Australia (Modérateur.rice)

Dr Ali Mozaffari, Deakin University, Curtin University (Modérateur.rice)

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...

Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I

6 heures, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.115

Regular session

Dr. Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen, Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (Modérateur.rice)

Dr. Grete Swensen, NIKU (Modérateur.rice)

Dr Kalliopi Fouseki, University College London (Modérateur.rice)

Cities are growingly being faced by social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges imposing health and social risks. Rapid urbanization, p...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 heure, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Repas

13:30

Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening)

1 heure 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV

Research-Creation

Prof. Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, Department of Education, Canada (Participant.e)

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Participant.e)

Dr Nadine Blumer, Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship (CaPSL) (Participant.e)

Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...

Engaging Authenticity

1 heure 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Research-Creation

Prof. Austin Parsons (Participant.e)

This proposal makes the case that heritage’s capacity for change may be dependent on a paradigm shift in how heritage is interpreted. With this ...

15:00

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 15:00 - 15:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB Atrium

Pause

Mardi 7 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

11.00 There Are No Two Alike: History, Urban Heritage and Characterization of the City

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II

Paper

Liisa Seppänen, University of Turku (Participant.e)

Finland is a country that is more noted for modern architecture and contemporary design than urban history and treasures of cultural heritage. T...

Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

6 heures, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.445

Regular session

Dr Anna Källén, Stockholm University (Modérateur.rice)

Dr Anna Karlström, Uppsala University (Modérateur.rice)

As the interface between past and present, heritage is deeply involved in articulations of personal and group identity, working to unite and har...

“For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

6 heures, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Regular session

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Modérateur.rice)

In exploring the broader question “What does heritage change?” this session presents work that is extending heritage policies and practices beyond ...

Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage

6 heures, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285

Regular session

Dr Ali Mozaffari, Deakin University, Curtin University (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Nigel Westbrook, University of Western Australia (Modérateur.rice)

Heritage has multiple, concurrent origins. It is performed and produced by individuals, groups and organizations, or institutions on various scales...

10:30

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB Atrium

Pause

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 heure, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Repas

13:30

Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public

1 heure 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430

Roundtable

Dr. Angela Failler, University of Winnipeg (Participant.e)

Prof. Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Concordia University (Participant.e)

Dr Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada (Modérateur.rice)

Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University (Participant.e)

Dr. Monica Patterson, Carleton University (Participant.e)

Jennifer C. Robinson, University of Victoria (Participant.e)

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...

(in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage

1 heure 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430

Roundtable

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant.e)

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Modérateur.rice)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Participant.e)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Participant.e)

The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...