
Valdimar Tr. Hafstein is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnology, Folklore, and Museum Studies at the University of Iceland, and current president of SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore). He has been a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, University of Gothenburg, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Georg-August Universität Göttingen, and a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at New York University. Valdimar chaired the Icelandic Commission for UNESCO from 2011-2012.
Sessions auxquelles Valdimar Tr. Hafstein participe
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- 14.30 Preservation as Salvation: Safeguarding the Church of Sweden
- Participant.e Prof. Ola Wetterberg (University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation) | Participant.e Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will investigate how claims to protect religious rites as intangible heritage have been received within heritage and religious instit...
- Paper
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9:00
- 10.00 Heritage vs Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field
- Participant.e Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- This paper will examine the relationship between cultural property and cultural heritage with reference to case studies from Greece (Parthenon s...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Valdimar Tr. Hafstein assiste
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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
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11:00
- 11.00 Borders in Heritage: An Introduction
- Participant.e Laurier Turgeon (Université Laval) | Participant.e Prof. Dominique Poulot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) | Participant.e Dr Astrid Swenson (Brunel University London ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine
- This paper will provide the conceptual introduction to the panel, drawing on results and reflections stemming from a six-year project on “Fronti...
- Paper
- Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...
- Regular session
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15:30
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine : Roundtable | Table ronde UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable
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17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
- 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
- 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

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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
- At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- With sustainable development gaining momentum as a priority of UNESCO heritage policies, an increasing number of food-related nominations are being...
- Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée
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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

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9:00
- 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
- How do Rights Change Heritage? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Questions about the repatriation of cultural property, issues of access and exclusion in the World Heritage system, intangible heritage practices i...
- Regular session
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13:30
- Le Canada doit-il signer la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.270
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- L’objectif de cette table ronde est de questionner une éventuelle ratification par le Canada de cet instrument multilatéral. La réunion se tiend...
- Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée
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- Le patrimoine comme enjeu de la participation citoyenne à Montréal Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- De l’ère du Maire Drapeau et de ses interventions autoritaires sur le tissu urbain de Montréal dans les années 1960 et 1970, à l’instauration d’...
- Roundtable
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9:00
- 10.00 After Five Years as Intangible Cultural Heritage: What Has Changed for the Pirekua?
- Participant.e Georgina Flores Mercado (UNAM) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, quels nouveaux défis?
- This paper will analyze the relationship established between intangible cultural heritage and tourism, a relationship strengthened through UNESC...
- Paper
- 12.00 The Tangibility of Intangible Heritage: UNESCO ICH and Material Culture in India
- Participant.e Leah K. Lowthorp (Harvard University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, quels nouveaux défis?
- In recent years, global heritage policy has reflected an increasing focus upon the intangible. Part of an attempt to de-centre the hegemony of E...
- Paper
- 11.00 Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, un facteur de développement durable des communautés et des groupes
- Participant.e Caecilia Alexandre (Université Laval, Université de Montréal, Faculté de Droit) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, quels nouveaux défis?
- Alors qu’en 1945 le patrimoine était envisagé comme un instrument en faveur de la paix et de la réconciliation, d’autres préoccupations découlen...
- 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?
- Je voudrais présenter certains de mes hypothèses, matériaux et conclusions de recherche relatifs à la problématique de l’impact des processus de...
- Paper
- Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, quels nouveaux défis? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.270
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 heures
- Le concept de patrimoine culturel immatériel (PCI) a fait l’objet de nombreux colloques et publications depuis la promulgation de la Convention pou...
- Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée
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- L’expertise au temps de la dérégulation patrimoniale | Expertise in a time of deregulation Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- The second half of the 20th century saw the affirmation of national and international heritage administrations run by teams of experts that mutu...
- Regular session
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13:30
- 13.30 Rights-Based Heritage Claims in Contemporary Turkey: The Cases of Hasankeyf and Sulukule
- Participant.e Dr. Bahar Aykan |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations
- This paper will explore rights-based heritage activism as a rising phenomenon in contemporary Turkey. It will do so by looking at two recent gra...
- Paper
- (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