
Joshua Dent
PhD Candidate
University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada
Participe à 3 sessions
Joshua Dent is a doctoral candidate at Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario and a co-founder of the Archaeology Almanac Project. He currently serves as a director on the London Heritage Council and as a resource member of the London Advisory Committee on Heritage. He is author of False Frontiers: Archaeology and the Myth of the Canadian Wilderness (Totem: The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology 21(1): 59-71) and is a listed contributor on many cultural resource management (CRM) technical reports. His CRM experience includes fieldwork in the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. Both his master’s thesis and his doctoral dissertation consider the history and legacy of heritage governance and Indigenous participation in heritage management.
Sessions auxquelles Joshua Dent participe
11:00
11:00
- Heritage and the Late Modern State I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 heures
- This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...
- Regular session
- 14.00 Customizable Governance: Context-Specific Regulation and Capacity Building in Canadian Heritage Management
- Participant.e Joshua Dent (University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage and the Late Modern State I
- Canada is not just a patchwork of varying heritage governance delineated by provincial and territorial boundaries, but a maelstrom of contesting...
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- Heritage and the Late Modern State II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...
- Regular session
Sessions auxquelles Joshua Dent assiste
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

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

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
- 11.00 Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Participant.e Francesca Cominelli (IREST Paris 1) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Sc...
- Paper
- 13.30 Righting History: c̓əsnaʔəm: The City Before the City
- Participant.e Susan Rowley (Museum of Anthropology at UBC) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- c̓əsnaʔəm is an ancient Musqueam village and cemetery located in what has become contemporary Vancouver. “c̓əsnaʔəm: the city before the city” i...
- Paper
- 10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?
- Participant.e Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- This paper will explore the relevancy of the nascent critical heritage studies movement to the future of built heritage conservation. This analy...
- Paper
- 09.00 Using Deep History in Urban Planning: Urban Archaeology as Cultural Product
- Participant.e Dr. Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen (Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I
- Politicians and planners have seen the value of investing in applied research that will enhance the ability to activate the past in the planning...
- Paper
- 14.00 Cherokee Archaeological Landscapes as Community Action
- Participant.e Kathryn Sampeck (Illinois State University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- For the past seven years, the Tribal Historic Preservation Office of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and I have built together a program of...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- The Future of Heritage in Ontario Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Private sector cultural heritage evaluation, protection, and management in Ontario exists at the nexus of academic theory, legislative direction...
- Roundtable
9:00
9:00
- 10.00 Urban Waste (Places) and Heritage Values
- Participant.e Prof. Susan Ross (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- The idea of built heritage as potential waste is commonly represented by images of demolition and landfill sites. This contributes to an idea th...
- Paper
- 09.30 Wendat Archaeological Heritage: Challenging the Professionals
- Participant.e Alicia Hawkins (Laurentian University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Case Studies in Archaeology II
- Since 2011, the Ontario Standards and Guidelines for Consultant Archaeologists have required “Aboriginal Engagement” for projects impacting ance...
- Paper
- 11.00 “That’s Not a Term I Really Use": Investigating Stakeholders’ Understanding of Heritage
- Participant.e Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Indiana University (IUPUI)) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Before we can begin to understand what heritage changes, we have to understand the fields of power and significance in which it operates. In the...
- Paper
- 14.30 Sustaining Community-Led Heritage Stewardship: Co-Creating a Community-Sourcing Platform for Heritage Management
- Participant.e Harald Fredheim (University of York) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Following repeated cuts to public funding in the United Kingdom, a growing number of local councils are without heritage conservation officers, ...
- Paper
- 11.00 Archaeological Heritage as a Catalyst for Pubic Engagement, Rural Rejuvenation, and Rethinking Our Shared Past: Perspectives from a Quarter Century of Community Archaeology in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Participant.e Dr. Barry Gaulton (Memorial University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Case Studies in Archaeology II
- Archaeological research in Canada’s easternmost province enjoys a long and evolving history of community partnerships. This is due, in part, to ...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- (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
- The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...
- Roundtable