Dr Adam Muller

Associate Professor, English, Film, and Theatre

University of Manitoba

Participe à 1 Session

Dr. Adam Muller is an Associate Professor in Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba, where he teaches and researches in the areas of cultural studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, museum studies, and human rights. He is the editor of Concepts of Culture: Art, Politics and Society (2005), and coeditor of Fighting Words and Images: Representing War Across the Disciplines (2012) and The Idea of a Human Rights Museum (2015).INCONNU

Sessions auxquelles Dr Adam Muller participe

Samedi 4 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:00

12.00 “To Learn, to Feel, to Remember, to Act?”: Understanding Visitor Experiences at Sites of Genocide Through Testimony

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Partie de: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance

Paper

Dr Adam Muller, University of Manitoba (Participant.e)

Dr Donna-Lee Frieze, Deakin University (Participant.e)

Steven Cooke, Deakin University (Participant.e)

The curation of genocidal memory within museums and related heritage sites has a number of different rationales: it preserves memory and facilit...

Sessions auxquelles Dr Adam Muller assiste

Samedi 4 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:00

Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance

6 heures, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525

Regular session

Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Modérateur.rice)

Dans le cadre de cette session, nous souhaitons faire, dans une perspective multidisciplinaire et critique, un état des lieux qui interroge doublem...

12.00 “To Learn, to Feel, to Remember, to Act?”: Understanding Visitor Experiences at Sites of Genocide Through Testimony

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Partie de: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance

Paper

Dr Adam Muller, University of Manitoba (Participant.e)

Dr Donna-Lee Frieze, Deakin University (Participant.e)

Steven Cooke, Deakin University (Participant.e)

The curation of genocidal memory within museums and related heritage sites has a number of different rationales: it preserves memory and facilit...

12.00 Healing Heritage: A Case Study Toward Decolonizing Commemoration

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Partie de: The Artistry of Heritage

Paper

Trina Cooper-Bolam, Carleton University (Participant.e)

In anticipation of the “Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,” this paper will examine Canada’s federal place-based...

18:30

Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)

1 heure 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00

Inscription req.

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant.e)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Modérateur.rice)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Lundi 6 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

How do Rights Change Heritage?

6 heures, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235

Regular session

Anne Laura Kraak, Deakin University (Modérateur.rice)

Questions about the repatriation of cultural property, issues of access and exclusion in the World Heritage system, intangible heritage practices i...

11.30 Cultural Heritage, Human Rights and Intellectual Property Law: Does Three Make a Crowd?

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Partie de: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Courtney, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (Participant.e)

Cultural Heritage appears in both tangible and intangible forms and in many cases, it is difficult to separate the two. What role do intellectua...

13:30

Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening)

1 heure 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV

Research-Creation

Prof. Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, Department of Education, Canada (Participant.e)

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Participant.e)

Dr Nadine Blumer, Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship (CaPSL) (Participant.e)

Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...

Mardi 7 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

13:30

Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public

1 heure 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430

Roundtable

Dr. Angela Failler, University of Winnipeg (Participant.e)

Prof. Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Concordia University (Participant.e)

Dr Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada (Modérateur.rice)

Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University (Participant.e)

Dr. Monica Patterson, Carleton University (Participant.e)

Jennifer C. Robinson, University of Victoria (Participant.e)

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...