
Dr Tod Jones, Department of Geography and Planning, School of Built Environment, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University (email:t.jones@curtin.edu.au)
Tod Jones is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography. His publications include:
Tod Jones is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography. His publications include:
- Jones, T. S. 2013. Culture, Power and Authoritarianism in the Indonesian State. Cultural Policy Across the Twentieth Century to the Reform Era. Netherlands: Brill.
- Jones, Tod, Roy Jones, and Michael Hughes. 2016. "Heritage Designation and Scale: A World Heritage Case Study of the Ningaloo Coast." International Journal of Heritage Studies 22 (3): 242-260. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2015.1120226.
- Jones, Tod, Jessica Booth, and Tim Acker. Forthcoming. "The Changing Business of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art: Markets, Audiences, Artists and the Large Art Fairs." Journal of Arts Management Law and Society.
- Jones, T. S., and M. Talebian. 2014. “Perspectives and Prospects for Cultural Tourism in the Pasargadae Religion.” In World Heritage in Iran; Perspectives on Pasargadae, ed. Ali Mozaffari, 155-172. England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
- Jones, T. S., and C. L. Birdsall Jones. 2014. “Meeting places: drivers of change in Australian Aboriginal cultural institutions.”International Journal of Cultural Policy 20 (3): 296-317.
Sessions auxquelles Dr Tod Jones participe
15:30
15:30
- 16.00 Heritage Designation and Scale: A World Heritage Case Study of the Ningaloo Coast
- Participant.e Dr Tod Jones (Curtin University, Australia) |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I
- As heritage research has engaged with a greater plurality of heritage practices, scale has emerged as an important concept in heritage studies, ...
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...
- Regular session
- 12.00 Moral Responsibility and Resident Heritage Activism: Trowulan Residents’ Inhabitation of a Heritage Landscape in East Java, Indonesia
- Participant.e Dr Tod Jones (Curtin University, Australia) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Trowulan is a sub-district in East Java, Indonesia, and the site of the thirteenth- to fifteenth-century Majapahit Empire. As a kingdom that es...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Dr Tod Jones assiste
11:30
11:30
- Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200
- 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les r...
- Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

12:30
12:30
- 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
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 heures
13:00
13:00
- 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
17:00
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
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 heure
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

11:00
11:00
- 11.40 They Who Debate the Past Debate the Future
- Participant.e Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- The history of York includes many documented instances of activist resistance to the kinds of developments which remove parts of the medieval ci...
- Paper
- 13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices
- Participant.e Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- While it is customary to think about heritage as a series of practical fields oriented toward the past, it is perhaps less often the case that w...
- Paper
- 11.20 Quotidian Utopia: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence and the Doctrine of Heritage Significance
- Participant.e Prof. Tracy Ireland |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- The expanding use of heritage methods, governance and policy structures to produce an ever-more inclusive, visible, material heritage that parti...
- Paper
- 11.30 Heritage Diplomacy and the Border
- Participant.e Prof. Tim Winter (Deakin University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine
- Borders—political, institutional and cultural—have been central to the internationalization of heritage in the modern era. The concepts of herit...
- Paper
- 11.00 Mixing Memory and Desire: Utopian Currents in Heritage
- Participant.e Ms Elizabeth Stainforth (University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- There is a well-established precedent for utopian thinking around cultural heritage, particularly in the institutional context. For example, a n...
- Paper
15:30
15:30
- 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
- In recent decades, the growth of the World Heritage industry has necessitated the reconsideration of scale. Formerly dominated by nation-states, so...
- Regular session
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
- Cocktail
18:30
18:30
- Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 18:30 - 20:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

9:00
9:00
- 09.20 Making Sense of the Future: Valuing Industrial Heritage in the Anthropocene
- Participant.e Dr. Inger Birkeland (University College of Southeast Norway) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II
- This paper will deal with the problem of making sense of the future and how it relates to heritage-making: how are particular images of the futu...
- Paper
- 10.00 The "War to End War": Utopian Dreams and Lost Opportunities of First World War Heritage
- Participant.e Professor David Harvey (University of Exeter, UK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II
- In his socialist science-fiction novel, “News From Nowhere,” William Morris expresses a utopian dream of “radical nostalgia.” Heritage is deploy...
- Paper
- 11.30 Engineering Identity in a New Master-Planned City: Fantasy Islam in Indonesia’s Dompak Island
- Participant.e Alyssa Wilbur (McGill University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies
- After struggling from over three hundred and sixty years of colonialism, Indonesia, similarly to many newly independent states, attempted to rec...
- Paper
- 10.00 "Dealing with the Past" in Northern Ireland: Empathy as Political Engagement in the Memorial Heritage Project
- Participant.e Prof Elizabeth Crooke (Ulster University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Now in a transitional phase between violence and established peace, Northern Ireland is dealing with the legacy of forty years of conflict. Memo...
- Paper
- 12.00 Heritage Revival and "High Islam" in Dubai
- Participant.e Prof. Sarah Moser (McGill University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies
- Dubai’s explosive growth over the past several decades and the proliferation of its urban spectacles have been well documented. The population h...
- Paper
- 09.40 Archival Systems: From "Weapons of Affect" to Tools of Compassion
- Participant.e Joanne Evans (Monash University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- At recent Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) and Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) conferences, powerful presentations...
- Paper
- 11.00 The Case of the Missing "ism"? Modernism and Heritage: A Reflection
- Participant.e Prof Robyn Bushell (Western Sydney University) | Participant.e Dr Russell Staiff (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- While “heritage and modernity” has deservedly received considerable critical attention, we have been struck by the fact that this has not been t...
- Paper
- 09.40 A Scientifically Astute Society for the Future: Heritage Perspectives in Indian Science Museums and Centres
- Participant.e Anwesha Chakraborty (University of Bologna) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II
- The classical science and technology museums, including the likes of Deutsches Museum, Munich, or Science Museum, London, have been spaces to pr...
- Paper
- 09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion
- Participant.e Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- This paper explores the role that empathy, as both a skill and an emotion, plays in the processes of politicized and self-conscious heritage-mak...
- Paper
11:00
11:00
- 11.30 Contradictions of Aesthetic and Economic Order in a World Heritage Site in Guatemala
- Participant.e Prof. Walter E. Little (University at Albany, SUNY, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, United States) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Maverick Heritages. Ugliness, Discomfort and Illegality in the Political and Social Construction of Heritage
- The UNESCO World Heritage aesthetic of Antigua Guatemala is well entrenched in the representations of the city and the collective memories of it...
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
14:00
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)
- Inscription req. Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

17:00
17:00
- ACHS 2016 General Assembly Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Talk
9:00
9:00
- 09.30 Injecting Order through Heritage Inventories: From Injunction to Social Adhesion | Inventorier le patrimoine. Insuffler un ordre culturel, entre injonction patrimoniale et adhésion sociale
- Participant.e Dr Vincent Négri (CNRS - Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique) | Participant.e Dr Adèle Esposito (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR AUSser Architecture, Urbanistique, Société, France) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: L’expertise au temps de la dérégulation patrimoniale | Expertise in a time of deregulation
- The inventory, in its broadest sense, can be summed up as follows: a cold accumulation and periodically updated layers of knowledge. Heritage in...
- Paper
- 12.00 Addiction By Choice? Heritage and Tourism in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
- Participant.e Prof Robyn Bushell (Western Sydney University) | Participant.e Dr Russell Staiff (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is 134th on the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Index. In other words, in ter...
- Paper
- 11.40 Not All Stakeholders Are Equal: Local, Municipal, and National Conflict in the Public Heritage Square in Cuzco, Peru
- Participant.e Helaine Silverman (CHAMP - University of Illinois) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- In keeping with the theme of the 2016 ACHS conference, “What Does Heritage Change?,” this paper argues that it can change a society very much, a...
- Paper
- 09.30 Trans: A New Encompassing Definition of Heritage (Transsources with Parasources/Resources) and Related Perspectives on Heritage Work and Policy in the 21st Century
- Participant.e Prof. Marc Jacobs (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage
- In this paper, a new, encompassing definition of heritage is proposed. Firstly the building blocks for the new, overarching definition of herita...
- Paper
- 14.30 Artefact Looting and Fake-Making in Thailand and Sweden: the Gotland Case
- Participant.e Dr Anna Karlström (Uppsala University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Historically, the study of heritage has been dominated by European, or Western scholars and approaches, privileging the material, the linear, th...
- Paper
- 14.00 Artefact Looting and Fake-Making in Thailand and Sweden: The Ban Chiang Case
- Participant.e Dr Anna Källén (Stockholm University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- The supplier, or looter link, is the least researched part of the chain of illicit artefact trade. Understanding the local dimensions of looting...
- Paper
- 09.00 Liminality and/in Heritage: Examining the Potentials of a Known Concept
- Participant.e Dr Ali Mozaffari (Deakin University, Curtin University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage
- There is a broad consensus in heritage studies according to which heritage is understood as a socio-cultural process. In part, this is the resul...
- Paper
15:30
15:30
- 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
- What is the future of the UK and what is the role of heritage in this shifting political landscape? How have debates on heritage in the UK chang...
- Roundtable