Dr Shelley Ruth Butler
Lecturer & Principal, Curatorial Dreams: Creative Workshops for Museum and Heritage Professionals, Researchers, and Community Groups
McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada
Participe à 1 Session
Shelley Ruth Butler is a cultural anthropologist who researches museums, heritage sites, and cultural politics in Canada and South Africa. Recent publications include essays on township tourism in Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power, Ethics (2012) and on reflexive museology in Museum Theory: An Expanded Field (2014). Her ethnography, Contested Representations: Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa (1999 & 2011) is widely taught in museology and public history. She is co-editor (with Erica Lehrer) of Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibition (2016). She teaches interdisciplinary courses with the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and conducts Curatorial Dreaming workshops with museum and heritage professionals, researchers, and community groups.
Sessions auxquelles Dr Shelley Ruth Butler participe
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- 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
- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
- Roundtable
Sessions auxquelles Dr Shelley Ruth Butler assiste
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- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 heures
- This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
- Workshop
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17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Inscription req. Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 heures 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
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- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
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11:00
- 14.30 Recomposer et exposer son identité : mieux connaître l’expérience immigrante des adolescents nouvellement arrivés, grâce à une activité du Centre d’histoire de Montréal
- Participant.e Jean-François Leclerc (Centre d'histoire de Montréal) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
- Le fait d'immigrer engage les individus, les familles et les groupes dans un processus de délestage et de recomposition identitaires. Comme l'a ...
- 11.00 Seize the Space
- Participant.e Jeff Thomas |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Artistry of Heritage
- When I first visited the Samuel de Champlain monument in 1992, I never imagined that one day, the kneeling Indian at the base of the monument wo...
- Paper
- 13.30 Les droits à l’œuvre : la muséalisation et la médiation des droits de la personne et de la justice sociale à l’ère néolibérale
- Participant.e Prof. Jennifer Carter (UQAM) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
- Un survol du paysage muséal global depuis les années 1980 mène au constat qu’un nombre croissant d’institutions culturelles muséalise les événem...
- 12.00 Healing Heritage: A Case Study Toward Decolonizing Commemoration
- Participant.e Trina Cooper-Bolam (Carleton University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Artistry of Heritage
- In anticipation of the “Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,” this paper will examine Canada’s federal place-based...
- Paper
- 16.30 Patrimoines en conflit : sur l’« incompatibilité » du génocide arménien (1915) avec le patrimoine lyonnais
- Participant.e Dr Analays Alvarez Hernandez (University of Toronto) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
- Le génocide arménien de 1915 est un sujet sensible. Par conséquent, ce n’est guère étonnant que la patrimonialisation de sa mémoire, par l’entre...
- Paper
- 11.40 Embodied Memoration: Unsettling Colonial Forms through Performative Acts in the Everyday
- Participant.e Leah Decter (Queen's University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Artistry of Heritage
- This paper foregrounds, as critical “artist-history exchanges,” performative interventions that act upon everyday spaces and objects with the im...
- Paper
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- 16.00 Objects and Communities: Re-Engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum
- Participant.e Silvia Forni (Royal Ontario Museum) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- This paper will address some of the historical and recent developments of a troubled exhibitionary and relational history involving African obje...
- Paper
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- 09.30 The Rise and Fall of “Mother Canada”: Heritage Out on a Limb
- Participant.e Lon Dubinsky (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- This paper will examine the genesis, development, and current status of the Never Forgotten National Memorial, the centrepiece of which is a hug...
- Paper
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9:00
- In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas
- Inscription req. Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
- 9:00 - 10:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- In recent years, there has been a great deal of debate surrounding so-called ruin gazing and the politics of representing industrial or urban ru...
- Roundtable
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15:30
- 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
- Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son id...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
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- Lancement de livre / Book launch: Curatorial Dreams by Shelley Ruth Butler & Erica Lehrer Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.130
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- Event
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- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 heure
- To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
- Cocktail
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- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
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- A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue) Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 13:00 - 14:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- An experiment in moving memory, this live event bridges public and academic space to re-imagine knowledge exchange, creation and impact...
- Research-Creation
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- 16.45 Visite guidée de l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal
- Participant.e Chantal Turbide (L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Tour
- 16.15 L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal, une mission, une vision, un futur
- Participant.e Chantal Turbide (L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Cette communication vise à présenter le projet de développement de l’Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal. À l’ère de la laïcisation de la sociét...
- Paper
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- Break | Pause Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB Atrium
- 15:00 - 15:30 | 30 minutes
- Pause
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- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable