Xavier Greffe is Professor of Economics at the University Paris I - Sorbonne where he manages the PhD program in Economics of Arts, and President of the French National commission on Artistic Employment. He is visiting professor at the Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, in Tokyo. Before he has been successively research Assistant in Los Angles (UCLA) and professor in Paris XIII, Algiers, and Paris I. For twelve years (1982-1994), he worked with the French administration, where he was Director of New Technologies in the Department of National Education, and Director of Training and Apprenticeship in the Department of Labour and Employment. He is consultant at OECD, Unesco and Wipo. Recent books: Managing Our Cultural Heritage (Aryan Books, Delhi and London), Arts and Artists from an Economic Perspective (Unesco & Economica, 2006), French Cultural Policy (in Japanese), (Tokyo : Bookdom, 2006) Artistes et marchés (La documentation française, 2007) ; Culture Web : création, contenus et économie numérique (Dalloz, 2008) ; La politique culturelle en France (La documentation française, 2009) ; L’artiste-entreprise (Paris, Dalloz, 2012 ; forthcoming in English edition at Springer in 2005) ; Artistes et politiques (Economica,2013) ; Arte e mercado (Ilumi – Sao Paulo, 2013) ; La trace et le rhyzome : Les mises en scène du patrimoine culturel (Presses Universitaires du Québec, 2014) ; City, Culture, Creativity and Cities (co-editor with Emiko Kakiuchi, Suiyo-Cha, Tokyo, 2015)
Sessions auxquelles Prof. Xavier Greffe participe
- 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

Sessions auxquelles Prof. Xavier Greffe assiste
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
- Regular session
- 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
- 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
- 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
- This paper will explore what Bourdieu’s framework of habitus, field and symbolic capital can offer museum and heritage visitor studies. Rather t...
- Paper
- 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
