Laura Demeter

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Participe à 1 Session
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

Samedi 4 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00
11:00
11.30  Understanding Transitional Heritage: Heritage-Making in Post-Authoritarian Societies
30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30
  Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Laura Demeter, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Participant.e)

The context of transition from authoritarian regimes to democracy post-1989 in Central and Eastern Europe impacted heritage practices, legislati...

Sessions auxquelles Laura Demeter assiste

Dimanche 5 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
10.00  Transformation of the Political-Economic System in Poland and New Values of Built Heritage
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

Paper

Janusz Krawczyk, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). (Participant.e)

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...
12.00  Contested Heritage of Dubrovnik
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

Paper

Sandra Uskoković, University of Dubrovnik (Participant.e)

There is a perpetual quest today for “character” of places and cities, enhanced by mass tourism, where history is becoming more and more abused....
11.00  The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories

Paper

Dr Yujie Zhu (Participant.e)

Heritage development in historical cities is regarded as a vital ingredient of urban regeneration by state and local governments. The inner city...
11.20  Urban Planning and Transformation of Heritage Values
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

Paper

Jennie Sjöholm, Linköping University (Participant.e)

Urban planning means planning for the future and involves visions of how to use and develop built cultural heritage. Conceptions of built cultur...
09.30  The Red Parentheses: Museums, Memory and the Making of [New] Nations After the Fall of the Iron Curtain
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Heritage and the Late Modern State II

Paper

Johan Hegardt, Södertörn University (Participant.e)

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...
Heritage and the Late Modern State II
3 heures 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Regular session

Dr Richard Hutchings, Vancouver Island University, Canada (Modérateur.rice)

Joshua Dent, University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada (Modérateur.rice)

This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...
Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
3 heures 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570

Regular session

John Leroux, Canada (Participant.e)

Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
3 heures 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525

Regular session

Dr Claudine Houbart, Université de Liège (Modérateur.rice)

Stéphane Dawans, University of Liege ULg (Modérateur.rice)

With his expression "ceci tuera cela," Hugo established almost two centuries ago a strong link between words and stones as transmission vehicles of...

Lundi 6 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
09.30  Contributions to a Critical Theory of Conservation
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Ms. Anne MacKay, McCord Museum (Participant.e)

Conservation has conventionally been seen as an endeavour located at the edge of cultural heritage studies. Positioned in a zone defined by pure...
14.30  The Role of the Critical Heritage Theorist
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Participant.e)

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...
09.20  The Burra Charter: Evolving in Theory but Does it Have Teeth?
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Heritage as contributor to policymaking

Dr Robyn Clinch, University of Melbourne (Participant.e)

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
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

Paper

Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant.e)

This paper will attempt to provide a brief critical commentary on the reimagining of heritage through the mnemonics of conflict. Regarding the p...
11.30  Cultural Heritage, Human Rights and Intellectual Property Law: Does Three Make a Crowd?
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Courtney, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (Participant.e)

Cultural Heritage appears in both tangible and intangible forms and in many cases, it is difficult to separate the two. What role do intellectua...
09.30  Heritage as a Political Domain
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage

Paper

Tom Svensson (Participant.e)

The dedication of heritage by UNESCO has become a significant factor for many indigenous minorities. For this category, heritage emphasizes both...
14.00  Dynamics of Scale in the Making of a European Cultural Heritage in EU Heritage Policy
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage

Paper

Prof. Tuuli Lähdesmäki, University of Jyväskylä (Participant.e)

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 ...
10.00  Heritage vs Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, University of Iceland (Participant.e)

This paper will examine the relationship between cultural property and cultural heritage with reference to case studies from Greece (Parthenon s...
10.00  Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Heritage as contributor to policymaking

Paper

Dr. Jeremy Wells, Roger Williams University (Participant.e)

This paper will explore the relevancy of the nascent critical heritage studies movement to the future of built heritage conservation. This analy...
11.30  Performing Imaginary Healings: The Post-Conflict Heritage of Ebrington Barracks in Derry-Londonderry
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

Paper

Dr Tom Maguire, Ulster University (Participant.e)

The crucible of the violent conflict in Northern Ireland in the latter part of the twentieth century is known euphemistically as “The Troubles.”...
11.00  Commemorating Conflict or Moving on to a New Era? Dealing with the "Scars in the Urban Fabric“ in Post-Conflict Belfast
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

Paper

Henriette Bertram, University of Kassel (Participant.e)

During political conflict, cities become “intensive microcosms for the wider societal tensions and fragmentations, and their diverse related dis...
14.00  Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30
  Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant.e)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant.e)

Theory building in heritage studies in general, and critical heritage studies in particular, has to be eclectic and wide-ranging. However, to ac...
Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
6 heures, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435

Regular session

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States (Modérateur.rice)

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...
13:30
13:30
14.00  Welfare Housing in Colonial Hong Kong: The Contributions of Philanthropic Organizations
30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00
  Partie de: The Critical Turn in Perspectives on Public Housing as Heritage

Paper

Carmen C M Tsui, City University of Hong Kong (Participant.e)

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...
13.30  Communist Ideology, Vernacular Tradition, and Imagined Modern: Collective Housing in the Early Period of People’s Republic of China, 1949-1966
30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00
  Partie de: The Critical Turn in Perspectives on Public Housing as Heritage

Paper

Zheng Jing, Wuhan University (Participant.e)

During its first two decades, the communist country, People’s Republic of China, faced severe political and economical challenges. Housing a pop...
Engaging Authenticity
1 heure 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Research-Creation

Prof. Austin Parsons (Participant.e)

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 ...
Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening)
1 heure 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV

Research-Creation

Prof. Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, Department of Education, Canada (Participant.e)

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Participant.e)

Dr Nadine Blumer, Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship (CaPSL) (Participant.e)

Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...

Mardi 7 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30
13:30
(in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage
1 heure 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430

Roundtable

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant.e)

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Modérateur.rice)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Participant.e)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Participant.e)

The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...