
Caitlin Curtis is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research interests include sustainability and heritage, critical heritage studies, cultural heritage management, and heritage tourism. Her dissertation research in particular utilizes an ethnographic methodology to examine the different uses and understandings of sustainability in the local contexts of two archaeological sites in Turkey: Aktopraklık Höyük (Akçalar, Bursa) and Çatalhöyük (Küçükköy, Konya). Using these results, she hopes to attune heritage practice at these sites to better fit with the local fabric. It was while completing research for her Master’s thesis, Planning for Heritage Preservation in Western Turkey: A GIS Approach to Archaeotourism and Agricultural Policy, that she discerned the problematic aspects of archaeologists imposing their plans for tourism and heritage development on local communities without adequately understanding local hopes for
the future. This subsequently inspired her more critically minded dissertation research.
In 2014, she received a joint junior residential fellowship in Cultural Heritage Management from Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations and the British Institute at Ankara to pursue her dissertation research in Istanbul, Turkey from September 2014-June 2015. She was awarded further dissertation support from the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Institute for European & Mediterranean Archaeology, and the University at Buffalo. Her work has been published in the journals Chronika (“Planning for Heritage Preservation in Western Turkey: a GIS Approach to Archaeotourism and Agricultural Policy.” Chronika 2 (2012): 42-54) and Sibirica (Hulse, E., D.M. Keeler, E.B.W. Zubrow, G. J. Korosec, I.Y. Ponkratova, and C. Curtis. “A Preliminary Report on Archaeological Fieldwork in the Kamchatka Region of Russia.” Sibirica 10 (1), Spring 2011: 48–74), and she has presented at conferences of the Society for American Archaeology, European Association of Archaeologists, and
Association of American Geographers.
Sessions auxquelles Caitlin Curtis participe
9:00
9:00
- 11.00 A People-Based Approach to Sustainability in Heritage Practice: Engaging with the Local Community at Aktopraklık Höyük, Akçalar, Turkey
- Participant.e Caitlin Curtis (University at Buffalo) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Caitlin Curtis assiste
11:30
11:30
- Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200
- 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

13:00
13:00
- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 heures
- 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
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

11:00
11:00
- 15.50 Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures: Heritage in Times of Accelerated Climate Change
- Participant.e Dr Anna Woodham (King's College London) | Participant.e Dr Bryony Onciul (Univerisity of Exeter) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- 14.00 Customizable Governance: Context-Specific Regulation and Capacity Building in Canadian Heritage Management
- Participant.e Joshua Dent (University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage and the Late Modern State I
- Paper
- 13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices
- Participant.e Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- 13.30 Participatory, Value-Based Heritage Cultural Landscape Conservation for Sustainable Community Development: The Case of Milton Park in Montreal
- Participant.e Mehdi Ghafouri (Vanier College) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Paper
- 15.30 News from Nowhere: The Shepherds’ Republic and the Energy Coast
- Participant.e Dr Sarah May (Institute of Archaeology UCL) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- Heritage and the Late Modern State I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 heures
- Regular session
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 heures
- Regular session
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- 11.30 Un-Erasing the Indigenous Paleolithic: Re-Writing the Ancient Pleistocene Past of the Western Hemisphere (the Americas)
- Participant.e Paulette Steeves (UMASS Amherst) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage and the Late Modern State I
- Paper
- 11.40 They Who Debate the Past Debate the Future
- Participant.e Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Talk
13:30
13:30
- 14.30 Heritage Changes Lives: How Partnerships between Museums and Community Organizations are Making Positive Differences to People’s Lives
- Participant.e Laura Crossley (University of Leicester) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- Paper
- 13.30 The Habitus of Heritage: Class, Memory and Visitor Position-Taking
- Participant.e Bella Dicks |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- Paper
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant.e Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Paper
15:30
15:30
- Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Regular session
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- Cocktail
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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

9:00
9:00
- 11.00 Heritage as a Symbol of Ideology in a Polarized Society: Constructing Bursa City Identity on the Ottoman Past
- Participant.e Emek Yilmaz (Kangwon National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- Paper
- 11.00 Rewriting Geological Time: Kanal Istanbul, a Mega-Project in Istanbul
- Participant.e Ms Meltem Al (McGill University School of Architecture) | Participant.e Prof. Ipek Türeli (McGill University, School of Architecture, Canada) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies
- Paper
- 10.00 Imported Definitions for Heritage: Development of the Western Idea of Heritage in Turkey since the 1960s
- Participant.e Mesut Dinler (Politecnico di Torino) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- Paper
- 11.00 Living in a Historic House: Meeting the "Other" through Heritage
- Participant.e Dr Banu Pekol (Ozyegin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II
- Paper
- 09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue
- Participant.e Prof. Rhiannon Mason | Participant.e Dr Areti Galani (Newcastle University, UK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Paper
- 11.00 The Case of the Missing "ism"? Modernism and Heritage: A Reflection
- Participant.e Prof Robyn Bushell (Western Sydney University) | Participant.e Dr Russell Staiff (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- Paper
- 12.00 How Does Traditional Workmanship Transform the Field of Heritage Conservation?
- Participant.e Giedre Jarulaitiene |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage
- Paper
- 11.30 Transformations of Place du Trône: Visualizing Narratives of Colonialism
- Participant.e Robbert Jacobs (U Antwerpen) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Paper
- 11.20 How to Be an Authorized Craftsman? Exploring the Contradictions of Heritage and the Sustainability of Craft Practices in a UNESCO-Designated Ceramic Centre
- Participant.e Dr Magdalena Buchczyk (University of Bristol) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage
- Paper
- 09.30 The Dilemma between Conservation and Economic Benefit: Designation of Heritage Places as "Renewal Areas" in Turkey
- Participant.e Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (Middle East Technical University) | Participant.e Özgün Özçakır (METU) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- Paper
- 10.00 Digital vs Tangible: How Museum Visitors Experience Participation and What It Means to Them
- Participant.e Rachael Coghlan (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Paper
- 09.00 Social Resilience Building, a Strategy for Reintegrating Historic City Centres to the Modern Cities: The Case of Tabriz Bazaar, Iran
- Participant.e Solmaz Yadollahi (Coordinator-PhD candidate, IGS Heritage Studies,BTU-Cottbus) | Participant.e Prof. Dr. Silke Weidner (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- Paper
- 09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion
- Participant.e Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
9:00
9:00
- 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
- Paper
- 14.30 Heritage Futures
- Participant.e Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 9:00 - 9:15 | 15 minutes Partie de: Posters
- Paper
- 09.00 Ethnoheritage: Heritage Theory from the American Anthropological Perspective
- Participant.e Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels (University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 12.00 Moral Responsibility and Resident Heritage Activism: Trowulan Residents’ Inhabitation of a Heritage Landscape in East Java, Indonesia
- Participant.e Dr Tod Jones (Curtin University, Australia) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
- 09.00 Challenges and Potentials of Traditional Urban Fabric in Terms of Cultural Tourism: A Case Study of the Historic Settlement of Sivrihisar, Turkey
- Participant.e Bilge Kose (Middle East Technical University) | Participant.e Azize Elif Yabaci (Middle East Technical University) | Participant.e Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (Middle East Technical University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- Paper
- 10.00 Lefkosa vs Nicosia: Reimagining of Heritage in the Age of Conflict
- Participant.e Zeynep Gunay (Istanbul Technical University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.255
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 13.30 Making Heritage Minoritarian: A Transnational Recipe for a Socially Useful Past
- Participant.e Dr Jasper Chalcraft (University of Sussex) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 13.30 Heritage and Hospitality: Activists as Uninvited Guests to the Heritage Table
- Participant.e Evren Uzer (Parsons School of Design & University of Gothenburg HDK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
- 14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
- Participant.e Mr Gary Campbell (ANU) | Participant.e Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.445
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- Case Studies in Archaeology I Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV 1.605
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- 11.30 Archaeology has Transformed "Stones" into "Heritage": The Production of a Heritage Site through Interactions between Archaeology, Tourism and Local Communities in Turkey
- Participant.e Dr Eisuke Tanaka (Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Case Studies in Archaeology I
- Paper
- 11.00 Urban Green Space as Cultural Heritage versus the Politics of Densification and Sustainability
- Participant.e Catharina Nolin (Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 13.30 3D Visualization, Community Collaboration and the Production of Social Value: The ACCORD Project
- Participant.e Prof Sian Jones (University of Stirling) | Participant.e Dr Stuart Jeffrey (Glasgow School of Art) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment
- Paper
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
15:30
15:30
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

9:00
9:00
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- Case Studies in Archaeology II Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV 1.605
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
13:30
13:30
- 13.30 Development of a Historic City Centre via Cultural Tourism: Hamamönü
- Participant.e Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (Middle East Technical University) | Participant.e Azize Elif Yabaci (Middle East Technical University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Leisure as Heritage: Reconceptualizing Heritage and Leisure
- Paper
- 13.30 Rights-Based Heritage Claims in Contemporary Turkey: The Cases of Hasankeyf and Sulukule
- Participant.e Dr. Bahar Aykan |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations
- Paper
- 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
- Regular session