
Hello! I am Professor of Heritage and Museum Studies at Ulster University. As well supervising PhD students, I am Course Director of the MA Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies and the MA Museum Practice and Management (distance learning). I also lead the Engaging the Past research cluster in the Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Ulster University.
Reflecting my work on museums, heritage and community, I have published Museums and Community: Ideas, Issues and Challenges (Routledge 2007) and Politics Archaeology and the creation of a national museum of Ireland (Irish Academic Press 2000).
I am co-investigator on the AHRC and HLF funded project Living Legacies 1914-18: From past conflict to shared future. I work closely with the museum sector in Ireland, I am Chairperson of Board of Directors Northern Ireland Museums Council and on the Board of Directors of the Irish Museums Association.
Currently I am working in the areas of community, memory and material culture. Some recent work includes:
Reflecting my work on museums, heritage and community, I have published Museums and Community: Ideas, Issues and Challenges (Routledge 2007) and Politics Archaeology and the creation of a national museum of Ireland (Irish Academic Press 2000).
I am co-investigator on the AHRC and HLF funded project Living Legacies 1914-18: From past conflict to shared future. I work closely with the museum sector in Ireland, I am Chairperson of Board of Directors Northern Ireland Museums Council and on the Board of Directors of the Irish Museums Association.
Currently I am working in the areas of community, memory and material culture. Some recent work includes:
- ‘Artefacts as Agents for Change: Commemoration and Exchange via Material Culture' in Irish Political Studies (2016 31, 1).
- 'The "active museum": How concern with community transformed the museum' in McCarthy (ed) Museum Practice in The International Handbooks of Museum Studies (eds Macdonald and Leahy) (2015) Wiley Blackwell 978-4051-9850-9
- And as an example of community engagement work, please view this short film: https://vimeo.com/164385098?lite=1
Sessions auxquelles Prof Elizabeth Crooke participe
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- 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
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
Sessions auxquelles Prof Elizabeth Crooke assiste
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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
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...
- Regular session
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
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...
- Regular session
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
- There are many different kinds of migrants in the contemporary world. They include the familiar figures of refugees or undocumented migrants, assoc...
- 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
- The field of heritage has emerged as a key site of reflection. Influenced by shifts in the academy (e.g., post-colonial, post-structural and femini...
- Regular session
- Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- This session seeks to explore the role of urban heritage in mediating and contesting political conflict in the context of divided cities. We take u...
- Regular session
- 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
13:30
13:30
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...
- 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
- 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

9:00
9:00
- 11.00 Us, Here and Now (But Not Only Us, Not Only Here and Not Only Now): Or, Scaling Affiliations of Co-Production
- Participant.e Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds) |
- 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
- Co-production has a very specific political genealogy. Gaining ground in the mid-2000s the term “co-production” was used to explore how the stat...
- Paper
- Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Heritage has multiple, concurrent origins. It is performed and produced by individuals, groups and organizations, or institutions on various scales...
- Regular session
- 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
- We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...
- Regular session
15:30
15:30
- 16.30 Have You Read "Dig Where You Stand"? Re-Imagining a 1978 Manual for Participatory Heritage Activism
- Participant.e Dr Astrid von Rosen (University of Gothenburg) | Participant.e Dr Andrew Flinn (UCL) |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Ephemeral Sites of Critical Anti-modernism: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Experimental 1970s Eco-social Communities
- While national and international heritage processes during the second half of the twentieth century can be characterized as mostly hegemonic and...
- Paper
- 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
- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable