
Sarah Rojon is a PhD student in Anthropology. She is studying the role that sharing images plays in heritage awareness concerning post-industrial urban areas.
- « Images numériques et pratiques amateurs dans la révélation des friches industrielles : un phénomène de connectivité patrimoniale », Etudes de communication, n° 45, 2015, p.15-34.
- (avec Bianca Botea, dir.), « Ethnographies du changement et de l’attachement. Terrains urbains », Parcours anthropologiques, n° 10, 2015.
- « Sur les conditions d’une patrimonialisation en milieu post-industriel. Le cas de Saint-Etienne », in Anne-Céline Callens et Pauline Jurado Barroso (dir.), Art, architecture, paysage. A l’époque post-industrielle, Saint-Etienne, PUSE, 2015, p.147-160.
- (avec Michel Rautenberg), « Hedonistic Heritage: Digital Culture and Living Environment », Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology, volume 11, n°2, Peter Lang Verlag, décembre 2014, p. 59-81.
- « Postindustrial Imagery and Digital Networks: Toward New Modes of Urban Preservation? », Future Anterior, volume 11, n°1, University of Minnesota Press, septembre 2014, p. 84-98.
- « Images numériques et pratiques amateurs dans la révélation des friches industrielles : un phénomène de connectivité patrimoniale », Etudes de communication, n° 45, 2015, p.15-34.
- (avec Bianca Botea, dir.), « Ethnographies du changement et de l’attachement. Terrains urbains », Parcours anthropologiques, n° 10, 2015.
- « Sur les conditions d’une patrimonialisation en milieu post-industriel. Le cas de Saint-Etienne », in Anne-Céline Callens et Pauline Jurado Barroso (dir.), Art, architecture, paysage. A l’époque post-industrielle, Saint-Etienne, PUSE, 2015, p.147-160.
- (avec Michel Rautenberg), « Hedonistic Heritage: Digital Culture and Living Environment », Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology, volume 11, n°2, Peter Lang Verlag, décembre 2014, p. 59-81.
- « Postindustrial Imagery and Digital Networks: Toward New Modes of Urban Preservation? », Future Anterior, volume 11, n°1, University of Minnesota Press, septembre 2014, p. 84-98.
Sessions auxquelles Sarah Rojon participe
9:00
9:00
- 09.05 Curating Industrial Wastelands: About Urban Exploration and Ruin Photography
- Participant.e Sarah Rojon (Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, Centre Max Weber) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- Industrial wastelands seem to have turned into a sort of entertainment zone that attracts unpredictable visitors. By contrast with the ordered u...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Sarah Rojon assiste
12:30
12:30
- Welcome Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 heures
- Pause
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 heures
13:00
13:00
- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 heures
- This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
- Workshop
17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Inscription req. Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 heures 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
8:00
8:00
- Morning Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 8:00 - 10:00 | 2 heures
- Pause
9:00
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

11:00
11:00
- 13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices
- Participant.e Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- While it is customary to think about heritage as a series of practical fields oriented toward the past, it is perhaps less often the case that w...
- Paper
- Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Industrial heritage in Britain has tended to be romanticised in museum ‘cathedrals’ and ‘theme parks’ (like Beamish), with workers’ lived experi...
- Regular session
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
- Regular session
- Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Dans le cadre de cette session, nous souhaitons faire, dans une perspective multidisciplinaire et critique, un état des lieux qui interroge doublem...
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- Industrial Heritage: Towards Comparative Perspectives UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M240 - SALLE ANNULÉE
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- In many parts of Europe and North America, but also in Australia, Japan and parts of China, regions of heavy industry, in particular regions of coa...
- Regular session
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant.e Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Nostalgia has a bad press. For some, it is pointless and sentimental, for others reactionary and futile. Where does that leave those of us inter...
- Paper
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
- Cocktail
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

7:00
7:00
- Morning Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 heures
- Pause
7:30
7:30
- Discovering katajjaniq – Nunavik’s Inuit throat singing | À la découverte du katajjaniq – le chant de gorge inuit du Nunavik
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle des boiseries (J-2805)
- 7:30 - 8:30 | 1 heure
- In English and French The two Inuit artists Nina Segalowitz and Taqralik Partridge are offering us an initiation to katajjaniq, this thousand...
- Event
8:00
8:00
- La richesse du patrimoine | The Value of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 8:00 - 13:00 | 5 heures
- Le patrimoine, ça change quoi ? Ou plutôt, qu'est-ce que c'est ? Et pour qui ? Ces questions sont à l'origine de cette exposition conçue par les...
- Exhibition
9:00
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
- Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2585
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- The constructed and political nature of heritage claims is now acknowledged across the disciplines, and increasingly even among heritage profession...
- Regular session
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
- Regular session
11:00
11:00
- Maverick Heritages. Ugliness, Discomfort and Illegality in the Political and Social Construction of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M240 - SALLE ANNULÉE
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- With regard to the main question of the 3rd ACHS Biennial Conference, "What does heritage change?" the convenors of this session propose ethnograph...
- Regular session
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
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

9:00
9:00
- 14.00 Sharing Practice and the Pratice of Sharing: Two Case Studies about Local Building Cultures and Heritage
- Participant.e Léa Génis (AE&CC CRAterre ENSAG) | Participant.e Sandra COULLENOT (CMW, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Exploring the performative question of heritage implies going beyond conventional and institutional practices, to foster on its most innovative ...
- 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
- Labour, Mobility and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Recent writing in heritage studies and related disciplines has highlighted the stories and histories of working class people as an overlooked and, ...
- Regular session
- Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Cities are growingly being faced by social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges imposing health and social risks. Rapid urbanization, p...
- Regular session
9:00
9:00
- 11.00 Exploring the Urban Riverfront of Gothenburg: Ruin, History or Continuous Urban Asset?
- Participant.e Dr Gabriella Olshammar (University of Gothenburg) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- What happens to urban plans and visions when the object for such plans/visions transforms in front of people’s very eyes? On the one hand, outsi...
- Paper
- 14.00 Territoires d’effondrement : désastres, ruines, friches / Collapses territories: disasters, ruins, wastelands
- Participant.e Prof. Jean-Louis Tornatore (univesité de Bourgogne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- « Un territoire, écrivait Bruno Latour, c’est d’abord la liste des entités dont on dépend ». S’il est vrai que son habitabilité tient aux épreuv...
- Paper
- 13.30 Temps, matières, expériences : que reste-t-il après l’abandon de la ville ?
- Participant.e Andrea Bordoli | Participant.e Maude Reitz (EPFL) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- Autant que la mort pour l’individu, l’abandon semble être le destin inéluctable de toute ville. Lieu humain (et humanisé) par excellence, celle-...
- Paper
- 12.00 Déchets, risques et catastrophes. Comment ruiner l’avenir avec des idées obsolètes
- Participant.e Post-Doc Yoann Moreau (EHESS / CNRS) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- Les résidus nucléaires provoquent une nouvelle forme de patrimonialisation, involontaire cette fois, qui menace les conditions de vie telle que ...
- Paper
- 09.00 Introduction
- Participant.e Prof. Jean-Louis Tornatore (univesité de Bourgogne) | Participant.e Dr Octave Debary (Université Paris Descartes) |
- 9:00 - 9:05 | 5 minutes Partie de: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- Paper
- 10.00 L’art, le déchet, comme atteintes de la culture
- Participant.e Dr Octave Debary (Université Paris Descartes) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- La problématique écologique est devenue une préoccupation de la société d’accumulation, annonce de l’ère d’une anthropocène où la suprématie de ...
- Paper
- 11.30 Les déchets rendent-ils le monde inhabitable ?
- Participant.e Mr Denis Blot (Habiter le Monde - Université de Picardie Jules Verne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- L’organisation de la disparition des déchets, condition nécessaire pour qu’un lieu soit habitable, peut prendre deux formes principales. La prem...
- Paper
- 09.30 Reconsidérer les ruines modernes par la photographie
- Participant.e Pauline Jurado Barroso (Université Jean-Monnet, Saint-Etienne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes
- À l’heure où l’évolution urbaine est envisagée, non plus par l’étalement en périphérie, mais par la reconstruction au sein même de la ville exis...
- Paper