Dr. April Liu

UBC Museum of Anthropology

Participe à 1 Session

April Liu is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow for Asia at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC, Canada, with research interests in Chinese print culture, contemporary Asian art and visual cultures, and critical heritage studies. Since 2011, she has taught visual culture and art history at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. Liu also worked as an independent curator and event organizer in the United States, Canada, China, and Austria. In 2014, she served as a core event organizer for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s visit to UBC, Vancouver. Liu completed her PhD in East Asian Art History in 2012 from the University of British Columbia. Her PhD dissertation, titled “Living Auspiciousness: the Resurgence of Mianzhu’s New Year Picture (Nianhua) Industry,” critiqued the transformation of Mianzhu, an ancient and rural woodblock-printing center, into a site of "national heritage" for global circulation and tourism. This interdisciplinary study involved extensive field research in rural China and is situated at the intersection of anthropology and art history. Her publications include the following: “Mianzhu’s Global Travels.” In Collected Works of Mianzhu Nianhua, ed. Hou Rong. Chengdu: Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing, 2012. “The Living Word: Xu Bing and the Art of Chan Wordplay.” In Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections, eds. Hsingyuan Tsao and Roger Ames. Albany: SUNY press, July 2011, 117-146. “Karaoke Hyperspace: Gu Xiong’s Red River as a Study of Place-making.” Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 7.6 (2008): 78-87.

Sessions auxquelles Dr. April Liu participe

Mardi 7 Juin, 2016

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

9:00

10.00 To Theme a Village: The Race for China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in Mianzhu, Sichuan

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Partie de: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices

Paper

Dr. April Liu, UBC Museum of Anthropology (Participant.e)

In 2004, China officially signed UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and dedicated over 800 million R...

Sessions auxquelles Dr. April Liu assiste

Vendredi 3 Juin, 2016

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

13:00

What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum

2 heures, 13:00 - 15:00

Inscription req.

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Workshop

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant.e)

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Modérateur.rice)

Dr Adèle Esposito, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR AUSser Architecture, Urbanistique, Société, France (Participant.e)

Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant.e)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant.e)

Pedro Paulo Funari, Unicamp (Participant.e)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Participant.e)

This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...

17:00

Opening Ceremony and Cocktail

2 heures 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30

Inscription req.

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel

Cocktail

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potentiel.le)

Lucie Morisset, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Potentiel.le)

Dr Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Modérateur.rice)

Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant.e)

Luc Noppen, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Participant.e)

Hon. Serge Joyal c.p., o.c. (Participant.e)

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...

Samedi 4 Juin, 2016

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

9:00

Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)

1 heure, 9:00 - 10:00

Inscription req.

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

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Lucie Morisset, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Modérateur.rice)

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...

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...

Dimanche 5 Juin, 2016

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

7:00

Around the Université du Québec à Montréal: visit of Chinatown | Autour de l’Université du Québec à Montréal : visite du Quartier chinois

1 heure 45 minutes, 7:00 - 8:45

Inscription req.

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

(In English) Chinatown, born in the second half of the 19th century, is a hub of commercial and sociocultural activities which showcases Chinese cu...

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)

1 heure 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30

Inscription req.

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant.e)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Modérateur.rice)

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...

Lundi 6 Juin, 2016

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

15:30

Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)

1 heure 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Inscription req.

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant.e)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Modérateur.rice)

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...

18:00

Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event

1 heure, 18:00 - 19:00

Inscription req.

Concordia, LB Building - LB 123

Cocktail

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Modérateur.rice)

Gwenaelle Reyt (Participant.e)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant.e)

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

To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...