
Tobias Harding holds a Ph.D. in culture studies from Linköping University, Sweden, and is a University Lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research has focused on Swedish cultural policy, in terms of its relation to national identity, as well as on organization and government relations in Swedish civil society. He teaches at the International Master’s Program on Cultural Policy at the University of Jyväskylä. He is also participating in the research project How the Church of Sweden was transformed into a national cultural heritage.
Selected English publications on Swedish heritage and religion policy:
Harding, Tobias 2007. Nationalising Culture: The Reorganization of Swedish Cultural Policy 1970-2002. Linköping: Linköping University Press.
Harding, Tobias 2013. “Faith-Based Organizations and the Secular State: The Establishment of a Muslim Study Association in Sweden”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, v.33, no.3, 341-355.
Harding Tobias 2015. ”The Dawn of the Secular State: Heritage and Identity in Swedish Church and State Debates 1920-1939”. International Journal of Cultural Policy. Pre-published on the Internet, March 2015.
Sessions auxquelles Tobias Harding participe
- 11.30 The Heritagization of Religion: Heritagization Processes in Swedish Policies on the Built Heritage of the Church of Sweden since 1920
- Participant.e Tobias Harding (University of Jyväskylä) |
- 7:30 - 8:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Tobias Harding assiste
- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 heures
- Workshop
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Inscription req. Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 heures 30 minutes
- Cocktail
- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
- Morning Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 8:00 - 10:00 | 2 heures
- Pause
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

- Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- Cocktail
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

- “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
- (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
- Roundtable
- Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Inscription req. Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session