
Emma Wensing’s current research explores the relationships between local arts and crafts, heritage and national identity. In particular, she focuses on the performance and practice of the Australian Anzac discourse at the individual and personal level. Emma’s earlier research has used focal points such as the Olympics and Commonwealth Games to examine intersections of national identity, race and gender in the sports media. She has published in the International Review of Sport Sociology, Australian Aboriginal Studies, the Waikato Journal of Education and the International Review of Women and Leadership. Emma holds a Masters in Sport and Leisure Studies (University of Waikato, New Zealand, 2003) and a Bachelor of Applied Science (University of Canberra, Australia, 2000). She is completing her PhD studies at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Sessions auxquelles Emma Wensing participe
9:00
9:00
- 09.00 Performing Anzac: Heritage Discourse in the Production of Commemorative Arts and Crafts
- Participant.e Emma Wensing (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage
- This paper will explore the intersection of performativity and heritage discourse that is evident in the production narratives of Australian cre...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Emma Wensing assiste
12:30
12:30
- Research Development Seminar with Michael Herzfeld
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Hubert-Aquin (A) - A-1875
- 12:30 - 15:30 | 3 heures
- The Research Development Seminars gathers young scholars who will informally present and discuss their research with one of the conference's keynot...
- Workshop
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 heures
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
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
19:30
19:30
- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
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
- 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

11:00
11:00
- 16.00 Citizen Groups and Their Vision of Heritage in the Making of the 2012 Quebec Cultural Heritage Act
- Participant.e Prof. Martin Drouin (UQAM) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- The Quebec Cultural Heritage Act, adopted by the province’s National Assembly, came into force in 2012, replacing the Cultural Property Act (197...
- Paper
- 11.00 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage
- Participant.e Geir Vestheim (University College of Southeast Norway) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- This paper will depart from the idea that the making of cultural policy, and heritage policy included, takes place within a political system and...
- Paper
- 12.00 Healing Heritage: A Case Study Toward Decolonizing Commemoration
- Participant.e Trina Cooper-Bolam (Carleton University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Artistry of Heritage
- In anticipation of the “Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,” this paper will examine Canada’s federal place-based...
- Paper
- 11.30 When Citizens Are Involved in Heritage: A Case Study in Laon (France)
- Participant.e Manon Istasse (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- As a member of a research group, I investigate the role of associations and scholarly societies in the construction and the promotion of heritag...
- 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
- While it is customary to think about heritage as a series of practical fields oriented toward the past, it is perhaps less often the case that w...
- Paper
- 11.00 Mixing Memory and Desire: Utopian Currents in Heritage
- Participant.e Ms Elizabeth Stainforth (University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- There is a well-established precedent for utopian thinking around cultural heritage, particularly in the institutional context. For example, a n...
- Paper
- 14.30 Of, By, and For Which People?: Government and Contested Heritage
- Participant.e Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Indiana University (IUPUI)) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Two government-owned and managed heritage sites in Indiana, USA, offer an opportunity to explore the role of governing in adjudicating the compe...
- Paper
- 11.40 Embodied Memoration: Unsettling Colonial Forms through Performative Acts in the Everyday
- Participant.e Leah Decter (Queen's University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Artistry of Heritage
- This paper foregrounds, as critical “artist-history exchanges,” performative interventions that act upon everyday spaces and objects with the im...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 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
- Nostalgia has a bad press. For some, it is pointless and sentimental, for others reactionary and futile. Where does that leave those of us inter...
- Paper
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
- 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

9:00
9:00
- 09.00 Speaking About the Past: Historical Discourse in Contemporary Society
- Participant.e Ross Wilson (University of Chichester) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- This paper will examine the value and function of references to heritage within political, media, and public discourse in contemporary Britain a...
- Paper
- Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Russell Staiff argues that heritage discourse and practice are tightly interwoven with the theoretical legacy of the visual arts, specifically citi...
- Regular session
14:00
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)
- 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

17:00
17:00
- ACHS 2016 General Assembly Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Talk
9:00
9:00
- 11.00 Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Participant.e Francesca Cominelli (IREST Paris 1) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Sc...
- Paper
- 14.30 The Role of the Critical Heritage Theorist
- Participant.e Prof. Melissa F. Baird (Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- What is the role of the critical heritage theorist? While scholars define and debate the contours of critical heritage theory, the role of the c...
- 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
- Theory building in heritage studies in general, and critical heritage studies in particular, has to be eclectic and wide-ranging. However, to ac...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- This proposal makes the case that heritage’s capacity for change may be dependent on a paradigm shift in how heritage is interpreted. With this ...
- 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
- 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

9:00
9:00
- 09.40 Between Intangible Cultural Heritage Studies and Intercultural Studies: Challenges and New Directions For Research
- Participant.e Laurier Turgeon (Université Laval) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- This paper will aim to re-theorize heritage studies in light of intercultural studies. Heritage has usually been conceptualized as a form of cul...
- Paper
- 10.00 Challenging the Hegemony of European Holocaust Memory: A Study of Different Approaches to Representing Difficult Heritage in Europe, Asia and North America
- Participant.e Sandra Sulamith Graefenstein (ANU) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Over the past two and a half decades, a new type of museum dedicated to representing violent pasts through the lens of human rights has emerged ...
- Paper
- 12.00 Democratizing the Museum: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Politics of Participation
- Participant.e Rachael Coghlan (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Is it possible to democratize the museum experience and open it to non-expert voices through the use of participatory approaches? This paper wil...
- Paper
- 16.30 The Silk Roads or Economic Belt: An Analysis of the Interaction Between China’s World Heritage and its Economic and Political Ambitions
- Participant.e Jieyi Xie (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- This paper aims to map how the Silk Roads World Heritage listing has been utilized in diplomatic ways to construct both internally and externall...
- Paper
- 09.20 The Role of Empathy and Affect in Pro-Social Museum Transformations
- Participant.e Mr Lachlan Dudley (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Significant debate has occurred in disciplines outside of a heritage framework in relation to the ability of empathy to act as a catalyst for pr...
- Paper
15:30
15:30
- Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- What is the future of the UK and what is the role of heritage in this shifting political landscape? How have debates on heritage in the UK chang...
- Roundtable