
Dr Rebecca Madgin is Senior Lecturer in Urban Development and Management (Urban Studies).Her current research explores the relationships between the economic and emotional values of heritage and their role in urban redevelopment since 1945. Specific projects include research that examines youth heritage in London funded by the AHRC; place attachment and heritage in Glasgow and how decisions about heritage are made in the context of rapid urbanisation in China. Recently completed AHRC funded projects include How should decisions about herrtage be made?, Affective Digital Histories: Re-creating Britain's De-industrial Places, 1970s to the Present and ‘Archives, Assets and Audiences: New Modes to Engage Audiences with Archival Content and Heritage Sites’.
Sessions auxquelles Rebecca Madgin participe
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15:30
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine : Roundtable | Table ronde UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable
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9:00
- 11.00 "You Can’t Move History: You Can Secure the Future”: Young People, Activism and the Indivisible Nature of Intangible and Tangible Heritage
- Participant.e Rebecca Madgin (University of Glasgow) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Debates spanning the value of urban heritage have recently intensified with the increasing belief that tangible and intangible heritage are “ind...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Rebecca Madgin assiste
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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
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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11:00
- 13.30 Participatory, Value-Based Heritage Cultural Landscape Conservation for Sustainable Community Development: The Case of Milton Park in Montreal
- Participant.e Mehdi Ghafouri (Vanier College) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Given that heritage, tangible and intangible, is considered as a cultural/capital resource, this paper will depart from the premise that partici...
- Paper
- 11.20 Quotidian Utopia: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence and the Doctrine of Heritage Significance
- Participant.e Prof. Tracy Ireland |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- The expanding use of heritage methods, governance and policy structures to produce an ever-more inclusive, visible, material heritage that parti...
- Paper
- 11.00 Borders in Heritage: An Introduction
- Participant.e Laurier Turgeon (Université Laval) | Participant.e Prof. Dominique Poulot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) | Participant.e Dr Astrid Swenson (Brunel University London ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine
- This paper will provide the conceptual introduction to the panel, drawing on results and reflections stemming from a six-year project on “Fronti...
- Paper
- 11.30 Heritage Diplomacy and the Border
- Participant.e Prof. Tim Winter (Deakin University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine
- Borders—political, institutional and cultural—have been central to the internationalization of heritage in the modern era. The concepts of herit...
- Paper
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 heures
- How do borders shape heritage and its potential for change? Despite the growth of international connections in heritage studies, national, linguist...
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- 16.00 Industrial Remains to Industrial Heritage—Heritage Production in Booming Cities: A Critical Analysis of Waterfront Industrial Area Conservation Process in Shanghai
- Participant.e Dr Yiping Dong (Department of Architecture, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Industrial Heritage: Towards Comparative Perspectives
- Shanghai, as a typical booming city in Asia, is one of the biggest metropolises and the eldest city under the industrialization process in China...
- Paper
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
- Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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9:00
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...
- Regular session
- 09.40 Life as Heritage: Narratives, Experiences and Mediated Performances of Transmitters of Intangible Heritage in China
- Participant.e Marina Svensson (Lund University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- This paper will approach the topic “What does heritage change?” by looking at the perspectives and experiences of a special category of heritage...
- Paper
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9:00
- 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
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...
- Regular session
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

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9:00
- 11.00 Choosing Histories: Agency and Motive in the Representation of Cultural Heritage
- Participant.e John Mullen (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing
- This paper examines various uses of representations of heritage as tools for transforming post-industrial waterfront areas of Scotland and Polan...
- Paper
- 09.00 Urban Regeneration in Historic Context: King's Cross Central, London
- Participant.e Dr Kalliopi Fouseki (University College London) | Participant.e Evangelia Alverti (University College London) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- As historic cities are dynamic systems that inevitably change over time, one of the key problems that emerges in heritage management and heritag...
- Paper
- 09.30 Cultural Heritage as a Plural and Dynamic Concept between Europe and Asia
- Participant.e Dr. Marilena Vecco (EUR) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- The notion of cultural heritage is predominantly a European-based concept as it can be perceived through a scan of the literature and the intern...
- Paper
- 12.00 Developing a Pragmatic Tool for Historic Environment Practitioners: A Case Study of the Horto d’El Rey in Brazil
- Participant.e Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- In the past fifteen years, there has been an increasing call for built heritage practitioners to use the values of a broad array of stakeholders...
- Paper
- 11.40 Immediate Emotion: Articulating Historical Consciousness and Heritage in Oral Histories
- Participant.e Ms Jessica Douthwaite (University of Strathclyde) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- In this paper I will address ACHS Conference questions surrounding the building of “critical innovations” in heritage and how heritage offers us...
- 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
- For decades the international heritage regime has increasingly been criticized as following a Western notion of and approach to cultural heritag...
- Paper
- Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.115
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 heures
- Cities are growingly being faced by social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges imposing health and social risks. Rapid urbanization, p...
- Regular session
- Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- While intangible cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the face of growing globalization, there is still li...
- Regular session
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...
- Regular session
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...
- Regular session
- 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
- As the interface between past and present, heritage is deeply involved in articulations of personal and group identity, working to unite and har...
- Regular session
13:30
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
- The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...
- Roundtable
15:30
15:30
- Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- What is the future of the UK and what is the role of heritage in this shifting political landscape? How have debates on heritage in the UK chang...
- Roundtable