
Lecturer in the Department of Political Science III, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, she is member of the 'Space and Power' Research Group (University Complutense of Madrid), and also of 'Polarts (The Politics and the Arts)', a Standing Research Group within the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research). María is also board member of the Research Committee 15 (Political and Cultural Geography) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), and co-editor of the journal Geopolítica(s).
Her research and teaching focuses on the field of Political and Cultural Geography, in issues ranging from the geographies of nationalism to the perspective of place, including spatial interpretations of artistic processes or geopolitics of globalization. Her current work is also related to Border Studies, with special interest in cultural governance or literary geographies; particularly related to this association is her work on the heritageization of the European borders.
Sessions auxquelles María Lois participe
- 16.30 The Politics of Border Heritage: EU Cross-Border Cooperation, Scalar Politics and Cultural Governance in the Spanish-Portuguese Border
- Participant.e María Lois (University Complutense of Madrid) |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles María Lois assiste
- Welcome Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 heures
- Pause
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 7:00 - 19:00 | 12 heures
- 11.00 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage
- Participant.e Geir Vestheim (University College of Southeast Norway) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Paper
- 12.00 Before and After Definition: Transformation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Policy in Xinjiang
- Participant.e Kate Hennessy ( Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Canada) | Participant.e Aynur Kadir (School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Paper
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant.e Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Paper
- Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- Cocktail
- At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée
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- 11.20 The Rhetoric of Looking: The Case of the National Gallery in London after WWII
- Participant.e Ana Baeza-Ruiz (University of Leeds) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- Paper
- 11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an
- Participant.e Yujie Zhu |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Paper
- 11.00 The Case of the Missing "ism"? Modernism and Heritage: A Reflection
- Participant.e Robyn Bushell (Western Sydney University) | Participant.e Russell Staiff (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- Paper
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
- 14.30 The Role of the Critical Heritage Theorist
- Participant.e Melissa F. Baird (Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 13.30 Making Heritage Minoritarian: A Transnational Recipe for a Socially Useful Past
- Participant.e Jasper Chalcraft (University of Sussex) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
- Participant.e Gary Campbell (ANU) | Participant.e Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.445
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Inscription req. Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

- “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- (in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable
- Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable
- Leisure as Heritage: Reconceptualizing Heritage and Leisure Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable