
Qingkai Ma is a PhD candidate from Zhejiang University. Under the supervision of Professor Wu Zongjie, he has been doing critical heritage studies, aiming at finding discursive resources and proper ways of re-narrating Chinese heritage and establishing indigenous heritage discourse. He has been participating several heritage conservation projects in Zoucheng, Shandong province where Mencius was born and in Hangzhou which used to be the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 A. D.-1279 A. D.). These research projects provide opportunities for him to reach out from the Ivory Tower and participate in conserving urban heritage in these cities. The projects arise from the current needs of these cities to search for their cultural identity and to reactivate the past of the cities for future development. In his research he combines the following methodologies to make new meanings for different places by forming narratives based on different sorts of data: ethnographic field work,
historical records including local gazetteers and discourse analysis, etc. His research involves lots of ethnographic field work and negotiation with different communities, government agencies and experts from other disciplines.
Qingkai Ma has participated in writing two books entitled Interpreting the Belt and Road Intiative and 100 Questions & Answers About the Belt and Road Intiative. He wrote one chapter in the two books respectively in which he advocated deep understanding of cultures in the countries along the Belt and Road through in-depth ethnographic studies during the realization of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Sessions auxquelles Qingkai Ma participe
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- 09.30 Spatial Narratives, Deep Mapping and Reactivating the City’s Past for the Future: A Case Study in Hangzhou, China
- Participant.e Qingkai Ma (Zhejiang University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- Historic cities in China are often characterized by long-term history and a material absence of heritage. It has caused difficulties in heritage...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Qingkai Ma assiste
12:30
12:30
- Research Development Seminar with Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell: Heritage and Museum Studies, Sociology
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon du Faubourg (DC) - DC-2300
- 12:30 - 15:30 | 3 heures
- The Research Development Seminars gathers young scholars who will informally present and discuss their research with one of the conference's keynot...
- 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
- 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
- Industrial heritage in Britain has tended to be romanticised in museum ‘cathedrals’ and ‘theme parks’ (like Beamish), with workers’ lived experi...
- Regular session
- Heritage and the Late Modern State I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 heures
- This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- History Museums, Heritage and Visitors UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- 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

7:00
7:00
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 heures
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2585
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- The constructed and political nature of heritage claims is now acknowledged across the disciplines, and increasingly even among heritage profession...
- Regular session
- The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- In many emerging economies of the Global South, new urban mega-projects are strategically reviving heritage into simulacra, copies without original...
- Regular session
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
- "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

9:00
9:00
- Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- While intangible cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the face of growing globalization, there is still li...
- Regular session
- 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
- To date, there has been much scholarly discussion and critique about how ideas and policies of "heritage" may be operating globally. There have als...
- Regular session
- Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Among other aims, the Critical Heritage Studies (CHS) Movement, most exemplified by the promotional efforts of the Association of Critical Heritage...
- Regular session
- Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.445
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- As the interface between past and present, heritage is deeply involved in articulations of personal and group identity, working to unite and har...
- 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
- An experiment in moving memory, this live event bridges public and academic space to re-imagine knowledge exchange, creation and impact...
- Research-Creation
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
- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
- Roundtable
- Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- State dominance in heritage management has been a key area of attention in critical heritage studies. There is now a large body of work discussing ...
- Regular session
19:00
19:00
8:30
8:30
- Post-Conference Tour: The Mont Royal Summit UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 8:30 - 11:45 | 3 heures 15 minutes
- ||| This loop crosses the forest to the top of Mount Royal allowing a discovery of its fauna and flora. Beautiful views offer a unique perspecti...
- Tour