
Dr Géraldine Chatelard is Associate Researcher at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Amman, Jordan. A social historian and anthropologist of the contemporary Middle East, she obtaine a doctoral degree from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) in 2000. Her work, published under the title Briser la mosaïque (Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2004) retraced and analysed the interplay between tribal, confessional and national identity building among Christians in modern Jordan. She is currently researching population displacement in the Middle East, together with the practices and politics of heritage in Iraq. She recently published "Quelques réflexions sur les traitements récents du patrimoine irakien," Les Cahiers de l'Orient (Winter 2015), and "Diversity Under Attack", World Heritage, special issue on heritage in Iraq (June 2015). She also co-edited Najaf: History and Contemporary Developments of a Sacred City (under press, Unesco and Ithaca Press). Between 2011 et 2014, she was Culture Programme Specialist with UNESCO Office for Iraq, and has been involved in several projects dealing with World Heritage and intangible cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa.
Sessions auxquelles Dr Géraldine Chatelard participe
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- 11.30 Enjeux d’un processus de patrimonialisation dans l’Irak post-Saddam : le cimetière de Wadi Al-Salam à Najaf
- Participant.e Dr Géraldine Chatelard (Institut français du Proche-Orient) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Patrimoines contestés : réceptions locales, discours, stratégies (études de cas en Bosnie, Irak, Palestine, Syrie, Liban)
- La rupture politique qu’a constitué la chute du régime de Saddam Hussein en Irak en 2003 a ouvert le champ officiel du patrimoine, jusque-là ver...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Dr Géraldine Chatelard assiste
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- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 heures
- This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
- Workshop
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11:00
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 heures
- How do borders shape heritage and its potential for change? Despite the growth of international connections in heritage studies, national, linguist...
- Regular session
- Heritage and the Late Modern State I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 heures
- This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...
- Regular session
- Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...
- 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
- Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
- Regular session
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...
- Regular session
- Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives I | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Heritagization (the various means by which cultural features—either material or immaterial—are turned into a people’s heritage) has recently become...
- Regular session
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13:30
- Heritage vs Ecology UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M540
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
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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

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- Heritage and the Late Modern State II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...
- Regular session
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
- Regular session
- Des patrimoines incarnés : les dialogues du vivant et de l’archive | Embodiment Practices of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M260 - SALLE ANNULÉE
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Les arts du spectacle, les événements festifs, les rituels, les récits oraux, les savoir-faire font désormais pleinement partie du patrimoine cu...
- Regular session
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9:00
- 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
- Patrimoines contestés : réceptions locales, discours, stratégies (études de cas en Bosnie, Irak, Palestine, Syrie, Liban) Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Dans le cadre d’une réflexion pluridisciplinaire croisant anthropologie, archéologie, architecture, géographie, histoire, politologie, cette séa...
- 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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9:00
- Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, quels nouveaux défis? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.270
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 heures
- Le concept de patrimoine culturel immatériel (PCI) a fait l’objet de nombreux colloques et publications depuis la promulgation de la Convention pou...
- Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée
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- Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Heritage has multiple, concurrent origins. It is performed and produced by individuals, groups and organizations, or institutions on various scales...
- Regular session
- L’expertise au temps de la dérégulation patrimoniale | Expertise in a time of deregulation Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- The second half of the 20th century saw the affirmation of national and international heritage administrations run by teams of experts that mutu...
- Regular session
- Héritage religieux et patrimoine culturel religieux. Différences et affordances Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.210
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Dans la tradition occidentale, le patrimoine culturel trouverait ses fondements «dans le concept chrétien de l’héritage sacré de la foi» (Babelon e...
- Regular session
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13:30
- 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
- While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are ...
- Regular session