
Kecia Fong is a conservation professional and PhD candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. She has worked internationally for the Getty Conservation Institute, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, US National Park Service, World Monuments Fund and the Yangon Heritage Trust among others. Her doctoral research is sited in Yangon and examines how discourses of heritage and international conservation practices are transforming the physical, social, and ideational city of Yangon. She is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Associate Editor for Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment.
Sessions auxquelles Ms. Kecia Fong participe
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9:00
- 14.30 Reconfiguring the Civic: Urban Heritage Conservation in Yangon
- Participant.e Ms. Kecia Fong (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Ms. Kecia Fong assiste
12:30
12:30
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 heures
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
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

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

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9:00
- 09.30 Cultural, Conflicting and Collective Rights in Bagan, Myanmar
- Participant.e Anne Laura Kraak (Deakin University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.445
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation in Questions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- 12.00 Addiction By Choice? Heritage and Tourism in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
- Participant.e Prof Robyn Bushell (Western Sydney University) | Participant.e Dr Russell Staiff (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- 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
- Paper
- 09.00 Where East Meets West: Comparing UNESCO’s Impact on Domestic Cultural Governance Systems
- Participant.e Ioan Trifu (Goethe University Frankfurt) | Participant.e Christina Maags (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Paper
- 09.30 Conceptualizing Living Heritage in China: The Contested Chinese ICH Discourse
- Participant.e Dr Yujie Zhu | Participant.e Christina Maags (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- Paper
- 13.30 Heritage Creep in Myanmar: A Problem of Translation and Subsumption
- Participant.e Dr Felix Girke (Universität Konstanz) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Paper