
Laura is currently a PhD Candidate in the field of Management and Development of Cultural Heritage, at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, in Italy. Here she is conducting her research on the Critical Assessment of Mechanisms of Heritisation of the Communist Past, by analysing contested case studies for preservation in Bucharest and Berlin. Her areas of interests range from mechanisms of heritigisation, value creation, preservation, conservation, museum studies, to memory and identity building discourses, Communism and Eastern Europe. She receveid her Master's Degree in World Heritage Studies (UNESCO) at the Brandenburg University in Cottbus Germany, Bachelor Degree in Arts and Italian at the Ruhr - University in Bochum, Germany and the Diploma Degree in History at the Bucharest University, Romania.
Publications:
Assessing the cultural value of the communist legacy in Romania. In: Heritage 2014:
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, pp. 531-540. ISBN 978-989-98013-6-3 (2014)
Value creation mechanisms and the heritisation of the communist legacy in Romania. In: The Right to [World] Heritage: conference proceedings. IAWHP, pp. 8-20. ISBN 978-3-00-047536-8 (2014)
Sessions auxquelles Laura Demeter participe
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- 11.30 Understanding Transitional Heritage: Heritage-Making in Post-Authoritarian Societies
- Participant.e Laura Demeter (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Laura Demeter assiste
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9:00
- 10.00 Transformation of the Political-Economic System in Poland and New Values of Built Heritage
- Participant.e Janusz Krawczyk (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland).) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Paper
- 12.00 Contested Heritage of Dubrovnik
- Participant.e Sandra Uskoković (University of Dubrovnik) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Paper
- 11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an
- Participant.e Yujie Zhu |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Paper
- 11.20 Urban Planning and Transformation of Heritage Values
- Participant.e Jennie Sjöholm |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Paper
- 09.30 The Red Parentheses: Museums, Memory and the Making of [New] Nations After the Fall of the Iron Curtain
- Participant.e Johan Hegardt (Södertörn University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- Paper
- Heritage and the Late Modern State II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
9:00
9:00
- 09.30 Contributions to a Critical Theory of Conservation
- Participant.e Anne MacKay (McCord Museum) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 14.30 The Role of the Critical Heritage Theorist
- Participant.e 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
- Paper
- 09.20 The Burra Charter: Evolving in Theory but Does it Have Teeth?
- Participant.e Robyn Clinch (University of Melbourne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- 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
- 11.30 Cultural Heritage, Human Rights and Intellectual Property Law: Does Three Make a Crowd?
- Participant.e Courtney (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Paper
- 09.30 Heritage as a Political Domain
- Participant.e Tom Svensson |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage
- Paper
- 14.00 Dynamics of Scale in the Making of a European Cultural Heritage in EU Heritage Policy
- Participant.e Tuuli Lähdesmäki (University of Jyväskylä) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage
- Paper
- 10.00 Heritage vs Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field
- Participant.e Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?
- Participant.e Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- Paper
- 11.30 Performing Imaginary Healings: The Post-Conflict Heritage of Ebrington Barracks in Derry-Londonderry
- Participant.e Tom Maguire (Ulster University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- 11.00 Commemorating Conflict or Moving on to a New Era? Dealing with the "Scars in the Urban Fabric“ in Post-Conflict Belfast
- Participant.e Henriette Bertram (University of Kassel) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- 14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
- Participant.e Gary Campbell (ANU) | Participant.e Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 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
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- 14.00 Welfare Housing in Colonial Hong Kong: The Contributions of Philanthropic Organizations
- Participant.e Carmen C M Tsui (City University of Hong Kong) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Critical Turn in Perspectives on Public Housing as Heritage
- Paper
- 13.30 Communist Ideology, Vernacular Tradition, and Imagined Modern: Collective Housing in the Early Period of People’s Republic of China, 1949-1966
- Participant.e Zheng Jing (Wuhan University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Critical Turn in Perspectives on Public Housing as Heritage
- Paper
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
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13:30
- (in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable