
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
- The context of transition from authoritarian regimes to democracy post-1989 in Central and Eastern Europe impacted heritage practices, legislati...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Laura Demeter assiste
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- 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
- This paper concerns the changes and modifications of Polish built heritage after 1989. For Poland, the year of the fall of the Iron Curtain mark...
- 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
- There is a perpetual quest today for “character” of places and cities, enhanced by mass tourism, where history is becoming more and more abused....
- Paper
- 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
- Heritage development in historical cities is regarded as a vital ingredient of urban regeneration by state and local governments. The inner city...
- Paper
- 11.20 Urban Planning and Transformation of Heritage Values
- Participant.e Jennie Sjöholm (Linköping University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Urban planning means planning for the future and involves visions of how to use and develop built cultural heritage. Conceptions of built cultur...
- 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
- The Social Democratic party was the leading political party in Sweden for more than sixty years and its politics have shaped the fundaments of S...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- With his expression "ceci tuera cela," Hugo established almost two centuries ago a strong link between words and stones as transmission vehicles of...
- Regular session
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- 09.30 Contributions to a Critical Theory of Conservation
- Participant.e Ms. Anne MacKay (McCord Museum) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Conservation has conventionally been seen as an endeavour located at the edge of cultural heritage studies. Positioned in a zone defined by pure...
- 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
- 09.20 The Burra Charter: Evolving in Theory but Does it Have Teeth?
- Participant.e Dr Robyn Clinch (University of Melbourne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- This paper will explore the practical status and use of the Burra Charter in Australia. The Burra Charter evolved in Australia from the Venice C...
- 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
- This paper will attempt to provide a brief critical commentary on the reimagining of heritage through the mnemonics of conflict. Regarding the p...
- 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?
- Cultural Heritage appears in both tangible and intangible forms and in many cases, it is difficult to separate the two. What role do intellectua...
- 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
- The dedication of heritage by UNESCO has become a significant factor for many indigenous minorities. For this category, heritage emphasizes both...
- Paper
- 14.00 Dynamics of Scale in the Making of a European Cultural Heritage in EU Heritage Policy
- Participant.e Prof. 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
- The trans- and supranational dimensions of heritage have become topical in a new way in Europe, as the idea of a European cultural heritage has ...
- 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
- This paper will examine the relationship between cultural property and cultural heritage with reference to case studies from Greece (Parthenon s...
- Paper
- 10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?
- Participant.e Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- This paper will explore the relevancy of the nascent critical heritage studies movement to the future of built heritage conservation. This analy...
- Paper
- 11.30 Performing Imaginary Healings: The Post-Conflict Heritage of Ebrington Barracks in Derry-Londonderry
- Participant.e Dr Tom Maguire (Ulster University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- The crucible of the violent conflict in Northern Ireland in the latter part of the twentieth century is known euphemistically as “The Troubles.”...
- 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
- During political conflict, cities become “intensive microcosms for the wider societal tensions and fragmentations, and their diverse related dis...
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Official accounts often trace the beginnings of Hong Kong’s public housing program to the Shek Kip Mei fire on December 24, 1953, which destroye...
- 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
- During its first two decades, the communist country, People’s Republic of China, faced severe political and economical challenges. Housing a pop...
- Paper
- 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
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...
- Research-Creation
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- (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
- The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...
- Roundtable