
Alexandra Bounia is Professor of Museology, at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean. She has read archaeology and history of art at the University of Athens (Greece) and museum studies at the University of Leicester (UK). Alexandra teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses on museum studies, collections management and cultural theory in the University of the Aegean but also the University of Athens (joint courses). She has edited in collaboration with Prof. Susan Pearce the book Collector’s Voice: Ancient voices (Ashgate Press, 2001), part of a four-volume project. She has also written the book The Nature of Classical Collecting: Collectors and Collecting 100 BCE-100 ACE (Ashgate Press, 2004). In 2009 she published another book entitled Behind the Scenes of the Museum: Museum Collections Management, in Greek (Patakis Publications, Athens). She has also co-edited three volumes in Greek: Museum, Education, Communication (together with Sofia Dascalopoulos, Niki Nikonakou and Sofia Bakogianni, University of the Aegean, Lesvos, 2004); New Technologies in the Service of Cultural Heritage (together with Niki Nikonanou and Maria Economou, Kaleidoscope Publications, Athens, 2008); National Museums in Southern Europe. History and Perspectives (together with Andromache Gazi, Kaleidoscope Publications, Athens, 2012). Her new book, written together with Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and entitled The Political Museum: Nation, Conflict and Identity in Cyprus is published by Routledge in 2016.
Sessions auxquelles Professor Alexandra Bounia participe
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- 11.30 Community Connections and Ruptures through Memory: Grassroots Memorials as Affective Mechanisms in the City of Athens, Greece
- Participant.e Professor Alexandra Bounia (University of the Aegean) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
- Culture and memory are societal connecting threads; they are used to forge links among communities, to interpret and promote their ideas, charac...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Professor Alexandra Bounia assiste
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- Séminaire de développement de la recherche avec Dominique Poulot
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon du Faubourg (DC) - DC-2300
- 9:00 - 12:00 | 3 heures
- Les séminaires de développement de la recherche (Research Development Seminars) réunissent des jeunes chercheurs participants au congrès qui présen...
- Workshop
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- 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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- 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

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- Current Research I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 heures
- Regular session
- 11.30 De la une à la cimaise : la patrimonialisation des photographies lauréates du prix Pulitzer au Newseum de Washington
- Participant.e Claire Ducresson-Boët (UQAM—Université Paris Diderot 7) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research I
- Ma communication s’inscrit dans une recherche sur les processus de patrimonialisation du photojournalisme aux États Unis et les enjeux de cette ...
- Paper
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- 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
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- 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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- Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Digital installations and interventions have been seen as a promising ways to support and foster dialogue in museum exhibitions. How does this p...
- Regular session
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12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
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- 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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- ACHS 2016 General Assembly Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Talk
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- 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
- 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
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12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
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- 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
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- 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

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- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 heure
- To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
- Cocktail
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- Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
- Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years o...
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- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
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- (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
- 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
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- 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
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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
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- Tour