
Prof. Ola Wetterberg
Professor and Chair in Conservation of Built Heritage, at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Ola Wetterberg is engaged in the development of cross disciplinary and cross professional education and research. His research is conducted in two related directions: urban heritage and the changing role of church buildings. His present research projects regard the changing values and new uses of church heritage in contemporary society.
Recent publications (selection): 2014 Svenska kyrkans kulturarv Forskningsöversikt 2009-2014, co-authors Erika Persson & Eva Löfgren, research report Department of Conservation, 2014 ‘Integrated Conservation of Built Environments: Swedish Reflections from Three Decades of Program Development’, co-authors Lagerqvist Bosse & Ingrid Martins Holmberg, in Preservation Education: Sharing Best Practices and Finding Common Ground, University Press of New England; 2013 ’Strukturella samhällsförändringar och kulturarvsprocesser – exemplet malmfälten’, co-author Birgitta Svensson, in Mångvetenskapliga möten för ett breddat kulturarbete, Riksantikvarieämbetet; 2011 ’Conservation and the Professions: The Swedish Context 1880-1920’, in Towards World Heritage. International Origins of the Preservation Movement 1870-1930 Ashgate.
Sessions auxquelles Prof. Ola Wetterberg participe
- Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- 14.30 Preservation as Salvation: Safeguarding the Church of Sweden
- Participant.e Prof. Ola Wetterberg (University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation) | Participant.e Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- Paper
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Talk
Sessions auxquelles Prof. Ola Wetterberg assiste
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 heures
- Tour
- 11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an
- Participant.e Dr Yujie Zhu |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- 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
- 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
- 12.00 Mural, Mural on the Wall, Did Scorn and Pretense Make You Fall?
- Participant.e John Leroux (Canada) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Paper
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

- Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Inscription req. Église Saint-Michel - Église Saint-Michel
- 7:30 - 15:30 | 8 heures
- Regular session
- 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
- 12.00 Developing a Pragmatic Tool for Historic Environment Practitioners: A Case Study of the Horto d’El Rey in Brazil
- Participant.e Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- Paper
- Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Inscription req. Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session