
Leticia Pérez Castellanos
Coordinator of Post Graduate Studies Program in Museology
Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía
Participe à 2 sessions
She obtained her Masters Degree in Museology at the Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) in México, where she currently is a professor and Coordinator of Post Graduate Studies Program in Museology. Her research interests are focused in Visitor Studies and International Exhibitions, mainly concerning the reception and appreciation audiences in other countries may have upon encountering displays of Mexican Culture. She worked in the creation and operation of the Interactive Museum of Economy (MIDE) in Mexico City as Coordinator of Visitor Studies. She then became Sub-director of International Exhibitions at INAH´s National Museum Coordination, participating in the organization and planning of numerous exhibition projects of international scale. During an internship at Spain´s Ministerio de Cultura, she collaborated with the Ibermuseos Program in the implementation of the Observatorio Iberoamericano de Museos. She has given talks and conferences in Mexico, and recently a course for the Programa de Posgraduación Interunidades en Museología at the University of Sao Paulo, Brasil and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She currently collaborates in a joint project with Victoria University in Wellington, New Zaeland, analyzing the international exhibition “Aztecs. Conquest and Glory” which travelled through Oceania. She recently published the article Aztecs in Oceania. Researching Cross-cultural Encounters in an International Travelling Exhibition, co-authored with Lee Davidson, Revista Intervención, Año 6, Num, 12, july-december 2015.
Sessions auxquelles Leticia Pérez Castellanos participe
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- 11.00 Intercultural Practices and Collaboration in an International Touring Exhibition: Professional Perspectives on Aztecs from New Zealand, Australia and Mexico
- Participant.e Leticia Pérez Castellanos (Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía) | Participant.e Dr Lee Davidson (Victoria University of Wtgn) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reflecting on the Mobile Contact Zone: Cultural Diplomacy, Touring Exhibitions and Intercultural Heritage Experiences
- In the museum and cultural world, and also from the point of view of cultural diplomacy, international touring exhibitions have been taken for g...
- Paper
- 11.30 Intercultural Meaning-Making: Visitor Encounters with Aztecs in Oceania
- Participant.e Dr Lee Davidson (Victoria University of Wtgn) | Participant.e Leticia Pérez Castellanos (Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reflecting on the Mobile Contact Zone: Cultural Diplomacy, Touring Exhibitions and Intercultural Heritage Experiences
- Museums produce international touring exhibitions to connect with international audiences and, in turn, host them to make globally significant c...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Leticia Pérez Castellanos assiste
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9:00
- Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Digital installations and interventions have been seen as a promising ways to support and foster dialogue in museum exhibitions. How does this p...
- Regular session
- 11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration
- Participant.e Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Research involving display analysis and interviews with staff and visitors has shown empathy to be an important feature of interpretative strate...
- Paper
14:00
14:00
- Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
- Inscription req. Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

15:30
15:30
- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Inscription req. Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son id...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

9:00
9:00
- 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
- 10.00 History as Heritage: New Understandings of the Relationship between the State, “Official History” and Society in Mexico through Museum Visitor Research
- Participant.e Dr Cintia Velázquez Marroni (University of Leicester graduate) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- According to the University of Gothenburg, heritage can be understood as “the reworking of the past in the present.” Under these terms, history—...
- Paper
- 14.00 Co-Production in Heritage: Toward New Imaginaries
- Participant.e ms Kayte McSweeney (British Museum) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- “ …it’s important not to be ignorant, especially in such a public space not to be ignorant of different perspectives and to make sure you don’t ...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
- Roundtable
15:30
15:30
- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable