
Laia Colomer is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow with extensive professional and academic experiences in archaeological heritage management, public archaeology and applied heritage. Her current work focus on the uses of heritage for the wellbeing of migrants (i.e. identity, belonging, affection & mobility). At present, her research concerns the understanding of how new forms of contemporary cultural heritage might develop responding to the deterritorialization of people and cultures in a globalized world.
Educated in Barcelona (PhD. in Prehistoric Archaeology, UAB) and the United Kingdom (MA in Public Archaeology, UCL), she has combined an academic career in The Netherlands, the UK, and Spain, with a professional career in heritage management in Spain and Italy, including in both paths several European Commission projects. In the field of heritage management, she has been working on gender, education and archaeology, the management of urban archaeological sites, and the politics of religious conflict in archaeological heritage.
Educated in Barcelona (PhD. in Prehistoric Archaeology, UAB) and the United Kingdom (MA in Public Archaeology, UCL), she has combined an academic career in The Netherlands, the UK, and Spain, with a professional career in heritage management in Spain and Italy, including in both paths several European Commission projects. In the field of heritage management, she has been working on gender, education and archaeology, the management of urban archaeological sites, and the politics of religious conflict in archaeological heritage.
Sessions auxquelles Laia Colomer participe
9:00
9:00
- Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- 13.30 Globalization, Migration and the Heritage of Cross-Cultural People
- Participant.e Laia Colomer (Linnaeus University (Sweden)) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- Paper
- 10.00 The Challenges of Somali Cultural Heritage for the Dominant Heritage Discourse in Sweden
- Participant.e Laia Colomer (Linnaeus University (Sweden)) | Participant.e Cornelius Holtorf (Linnaeus University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Laia Colomer assiste
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
- 11.30 Community Connections and Ruptures through Memory: Grassroots Memorials as Affective Mechanisms in the City of Athens, Greece
- Participant.e Professor Alexandra Bounia (University of the Aegean) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
- Paper
- 11.00 Introduction
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- 15.30 News from Nowhere: The Shepherds’ Republic and the Energy Coast
- Participant.e Dr Sarah May (Institute of Archaeology UCL) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- 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
- 13.30 Participatory, Value-Based Heritage Cultural Landscape Conservation for Sustainable Community Development: The Case of Milton Park in Montreal
- Participant.e Mehdi Ghafouri (Vanier College) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- 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
- 14.00 People, Places, and Stories: Culture, Nature, and Associations
- Participant.e Dr. Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo (Athabasca University - Heritage Resources Management) | Participant.e Dr. Manijeh Mannani (Athabasca University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Paper
- 13.30 Landscape, Emotion and Contested Values: An Autoethnographical Case Study in Migration, Place Attachment and the Spirit of Place
- Participant.e Ms Claire Johnstone (Heriot-Watt University ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Paper
- 12.00 “To Learn, to Feel, to Remember, to Act?”: Understanding Visitor Experiences at Sites of Genocide Through Testimony
- Participant.e Dr Adam Muller (University of Manitoba) | Participant.e Dr Donna-Lee Frieze (Deakin University) | Participant.e Steven Cooke (Deakin University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
- Paper
- 11.00 Internet et la production des mémoires des pieds-noirs d’Oran. Réflexions sur la patrimonialisation et les diasporas transnationales
- Participant.e Marina Calvo (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense/ Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
- 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
- Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 heures
- Regular session
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
12:30
12:30
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Talk
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

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
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
9:00
9:00
- 12.00 Between Home and Work: A Living Heritage of Labour and Mobility
- Participant.e Dr Lachlan Barber (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Labour, Mobility and Heritage
- Paper
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

9:00
9:00
- 12.00 Co-Producing Health and Wellbeing Programmes in the Museum
- Participant.e Dr Nuala Morse (University of Manchester / University College London ) |
- 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
- 11.30 Toward Participatory Development of Museum Performance Indicators: A Means of Embedding "Shared Authority"? Experiences from Aotearoa, New Zealand
- Participant.e Dr Jane A. Legget (Auckland War Memorial Museum) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
- 14.00 Le patrimoine immatériel, ça change tout. L’impact de la création de patrimoines immatériels dans les différents domaines de la vie sociale. Quelques exemples européens
- Participant.e Dr. Alessandro Testa (University of Vienna) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, quels nouveaux défis?
- 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
- Paper
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
13:00
13:00
- 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
- Research-Creation