
Mélanie Roustan is anthropologist. She’s assistant professor at the National Museum of Natural History, in Paris (France). She teaches visitors studies in the Museum’s Master in Museology. She conducts researches in the PALOC laboratory (centered on heritage and territories). Her approach focuses on material culture and social production of objects and subjects. She explores museum collections and exhibitions, thanks to ethnographies of them as places for working, for visiting, but also for thinking heritage, memory and cosmology. She currently works on the indigenous paradigm in french museums, and leads research on zoological gardens from the point of view of the heritagization of alive animals.
She published several papers and some books, such as Sous l’emprise des objets? Culture matérielle et autonomie (L’Harmattan, 2007), Voyage au Musée du quai Branly, with Octave Debary, prefaced by James Clifford (La Documentation française, 2012), and El museo y sus pūblicos. El visitante tiene la palabra, (Ariel/Arte y Patrimonio, 2013 – with Jacqueline Eidelman and Bernadette Goldstein).
https://mnhn.academia.edu/MelanieRoustan
She published several papers and some books, such as Sous l’emprise des objets? Culture matérielle et autonomie (L’Harmattan, 2007), Voyage au Musée du quai Branly, with Octave Debary, prefaced by James Clifford (La Documentation française, 2012), and El museo y sus pūblicos. El visitante tiene la palabra, (Ariel/Arte y Patrimonio, 2013 – with Jacqueline Eidelman and Bernadette Goldstein).
https://mnhn.academia.edu/MelanieRoustan
Sessions auxquelles Dr Mélanie Roustan participe
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- 09.45 Experiencing a Maori Touring Exhibition in Paris and Québec City: Heritage as Window on the Other and Mirror on Oneself
- Participant.e Dr Mélanie Roustan (Museum national d'Histoire naturelle) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reflecting on the Mobile Contact Zone: Cultural Diplomacy, Touring Exhibitions and Intercultural Heritage Experiences
- The history of the Maoris' cultural appropriation of museums has been documented, but the effects of the reception of Maori touring exhibitions ...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Dr Mélanie Roustan assiste
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- 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
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- L'odyssée des mots du patrimoine UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M260 - SALLE ANNULÉE
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Le patrimoine recouvre des notions et des pratiques, et désigne des objets, dont « [la] perte constitue un sacrifice et [dont la] conservation s...
- Regular session
- History Museums, Heritage and Visitors UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Heritage vs Ecology UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M540
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 15.30 Dire l’archéologie en européen – perspectives comparatives sur la gestion du patrimoine
- Participant.e Nathan Schlanger (Ecole nationale des chartes) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: L'odyssée des mots du patrimoine
- Cette contribution se propose d’explorer les différents termes et désignations qui, essentiellement dans les langues françaises et anglaise, ont...
- Paper
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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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- Around the Université du Québec à Montréal: visit of Chinatown | Autour de l’Université du Québec à Montréal : visite du Quartier chinois
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 8:45 | 1 heure 45 minutes
- (In English) Chinatown, born in the second half of the 19th century, is a hub of commercial and sociocultural activities which showcases Chinese cu...
- Tour
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9:00
- Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Heritagization (the various means by which cultural features—either material or immaterial—are turned into a people’s heritage) has recently become...
- Regular session
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- Reflecting on the Mobile Contact Zone: Cultural Diplomacy, Touring Exhibitions and Intercultural Heritage Experiences Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.401
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- International exhibitions have long been promoted for their potential to connect people, objects and stories across political, cultural and geograp...
- Regular session
- 09.30 Architecture on Fire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Heritage Studies
- Participant.e Dr Stamatis Zografos (The Bartlett School of Architecture ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research III
- There is an assumption that architecture emerged around fire. Hestia, the Greek goddess of the hearth, or Vesta, the Roman one, were both centra...
- Paper
- 13.30 Righting History: c̓əsnaʔəm: The City Before the City
- Participant.e Susan Rowley (Museum of Anthropology at UBC) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- c̓əsnaʔəm is an ancient Musqueam village and cemetery located in what has become contemporary Vancouver. “c̓əsnaʔəm: the city before the city” i...
- Paper
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- Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.255
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Dans un texte majeur, «L’arrêt de monde», Deborah Danowski et Eduardo Viveiros de Castro explorent le thème de la fin du monde tel qu’il se déploie...
- Regular session
- 09.40 Between Intangible Cultural Heritage Studies and Intercultural Studies: Challenges and New Directions For Research
- Participant.e Laurier Turgeon (Université Laval) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- This paper will aim to re-theorize heritage studies in light of intercultural studies. Heritage has usually been conceptualized as a form of cul...
- Paper
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11:00
- "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- In November 2014, artists and thinkers including Jimmie Durham, Michael Taussig, Rebecca Belmore and Paul Chaat Smith convened in Calgary and Saska...
- Regular session
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- Post-Conference Tour: À la découverte de Kahnawà :ke | Discovery of Kahnawà :ke
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 8:30 - 17:30 | 9 heures
- ||| Les Mohawks constituent la nation amérindienne la plus nombreuse parmi les dix différentes nations que compte le Québec. La nation mohawk...
- Tour