
Prof. William Nitzky
Assistant Professor
California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States
Participe à 3 sessions
Dr. William Nitzky is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Chico. His research interests include cultural heritage, museum studies, rural development, and ethnicity. His previous publications include safeguarding living heritage (Museum International, UNESCOICOM), participatory approaches to heritage protection (Cultural Heritage Politics in China), and ecomuseum development in rural China (Urban Anthropology). Since 2012, he has served as a guest researcher at Guangxi Museum for Nationalities and a research consultant for the China National Committee on Ecomuseum and Community Museum Development on community museum and heritage projects.
Sessions auxquelles Prof. William Nitzky participe
9:00
9:00
- 09.00 Emergent Heritage: From Sacred to Secular Bronze Drums in Southwest China
- Participant.e Prof. William Nitzky (California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.401
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 heures
- Regular session
- 13.30 Adopting and Adapting the New Museology Discourse: Ecomuseum Development in Rural China
- Participant.e Prof. William Nitzky (California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Prof. William Nitzky 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
- Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

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
- 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
- Cocktail
19:30
19:30
- 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
- Research-Creation
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
- 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
- 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
- Paper
- Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- 12.00 Before and After Definition: Transformation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Policy in Xinjiang
- Participant.e Prof. 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
- 12.00 "Home is Everywhere and Nowhere": The Critical Heritage of Migration and Belonging in Contemporary European Museums
- Participant.e Dr Susannah Eckersley (Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK) | Participant.e Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 13.30 The Habitus of Heritage: Class, Memory and Visitor Position-Taking
- Participant.e Bella Dicks |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- Paper
- 14.30 Heritage Changes Lives: How Partnerships between Museums and Community Organizations are Making Positive Differences to People’s Lives
- Participant.e Laura Crossley (University of Leicester) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- Paper
- History Museums, Heritage and Visitors UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant.e Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Paper
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

7:00
7:00
- Around the Université du Québec à Montréal: visit of Chinatown | Autour de l’Université du Québec à Montréal : visite du Quartier chinois
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 8:45 | 1 heure 45 minutes
- Tour
8:00
8:00
- La richesse du patrimoine | The Value of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 8:00 - 13:00 | 5 heures
- Exhibition
9:00
9:00
- 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
- Paper
- 09.40 Life as Heritage: Narratives, Experiences and Mediated Performances of Transmitters of Intangible Heritage in China
- Participant.e Marina Svensson (Lund University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- Paper
- 09.40 Museum, Heritage and Craft, a Case Study: The Ceramic Collection of the Art Gallery of Burlington
- Participant.e Denis Longchamps (Art Gallery of Burlington) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage
- 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
- Paper
- 12.00 Discussion with Michael Herzfeld
- Modérateur.rice Prof. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) |
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 heure Partie de: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II
- Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue
- Participant.e Prof. Rhiannon Mason | Participant.e Dr Areti Galani (Newcastle University, UK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Paper
- 11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration
- Participant.e Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Paper
- 11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an
- Participant.e Dr Yujie Zhu |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Paper
- 12.00 The Reconstruction of Zongzu as a Cultural Heritage in China
- Participant.e Doctor Chong Zhang (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Paper
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
- 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
7:00
7:00
- Around Concordia: Griffintown | Autour de Concordia : Le quartier Griffintown
- Inscription req. Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 8:45 | 1 heure 45 minutes
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- 14.30 Reconfiguring the Civic: Urban Heritage Conservation in Yangon
- Participant.e Ms. Kecia Fong (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
- 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
- Paper
- 11.30 Museums, Immigrants and Social Justice: Addressing Issues of Language Barriers and Employment
- Participant.e Dr Sophia Labadi (University of Kent) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- Paper
- 14.30 Heritage Futures
- Participant.e Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 9:00 - 9:15 | 15 minutes Partie de: Posters
- Paper
- 10.00 Reconciling Conflicting Rights: National Indigenous Heritage in Southeast Asia
- Participant.e Dr Anna Karlström (Uppsala University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Paper
- 09.00 Ethnoheritage: Heritage Theory from the American Anthropological Perspective
- Participant.e Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels (University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- Critical Creation series: Ethical Fashion Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 heures
- Event
- Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- 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
- An Intergenerational Conversation about Heritage Conservation Education: The Rise, Fall, and (Necessary) Redefinition of Expert Knowledge Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Roundtable
- Critical Creation series: The visits (of which there were none) Episode N. 2 Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 heures
- Event
- 14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
- Participant.e Mr Gary Campbell (ANU) | Participant.e Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 10.00 Heritage of Penal Labour: Rethinking Work in Tracing Historical Movements within and Beyond Prisons
- Participant.e Shu-Mei Huang (National Taiwan University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Labour, Mobility and Heritage
- Paper
- 11.30 Revitalizing Feasts: Gastronomic Heritage as a Global Agent of Change
- Participant.e Jonathan B. Mabry (Historic Preservation Office, City of Tucson) | Participant.e Teresita Majewski (Statistical Research, Inc.) | Participant.e Dr. Michael Di Giovine (West Chester University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Food as Heritage: Uses and Consequences of Food as an Object of Cultural Value
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- ACHS Chapters meetings: ACHS US Chapter Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.255
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Workshop
13:30
13:30
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
15:30
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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

19:00
19:00
- Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
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9:00
9:00
- 09.00 The Pedagogical Benefits of Critical Heritage Studies: Helping Students to Reveal and Engage with the Complexities of Deindustrialization and Urban Change (Baltimore, USA)
- Participant.e Prof. Michelle L. Stefano (University of Maryland, American Studies, United States) |
- 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
- Paper
- 09.00 Caring (or Not) about the Beamish Museum: The Co-Production and Co-Enactment of Affective Heritage
- Participant.e Dr Sarah De Nardi (Durham University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- Paper
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 heures
- Regular session
- 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
- Paper
- 13.30 A Change in the “Who,” a Change in the “What”: On the Material Practices of Museums in Two Cases of Co-Management
- Participant.e Bethany Rex (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 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