
Marina Svensson is Professor of Modern China Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Her research addresses human rights, media and the Internet, as well as cultural heritage issues in China. She has written extensively on cultural heritage issues in China, examples include “Heritage struggles and placemakings in Zhejiang province: Local media, cross regional media interactions, and media strategies from below,” in Sun Wanning and Jenny Chio eds., Mapping Media in China: Region, Province and Locality (Routledge 2012); “Lineages and the State: Negotiating and Re-inventing Local History and Heritage,” in Ane Bislev and Stig Thøgersen eds. Organizing Rural China (Rowman and Littlefield 2012); “Cultural Heritage Protection in the People’s Republic of China: Preservation Policies, Institutions, Laws, and Enforcement in Zhejiang,” in Mattias Burell and Marina Svensson eds. Chinese Laws in Context (Cornell University Press 2011); and “Tourist Itineraries, Spatial Management, and Hidden Temples: The Revival of Religious Sites in a Water Town,” in Tim Oakes and Donald Sutton eds. Faiths on Display: Religion and Tourism in China (Rowman and Littlefield 2010).
Sessions auxquelles Marina Svensson participe
9:00
9:00
- 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
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Marina Svensson assiste
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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

11:00
11:00
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
12:30
12:30
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Talk
15:30
15:30
- Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Regular session
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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

9:00
9:00
- Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

9:00
9:00
- Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.255
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
- Participant.e Mr Gary Campbell (ANU) | Participant.e Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- How do Rights Change Heritage? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- 14.00 Digital Democracy? Co-Production in the Digital Environment
- Participant.e Dr Katherine Lloyd (Heriot-Watt University ) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment
- Paper
18:00
18:00
- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 heure
- Cocktail
7:30
7:30
- Autour de Concordia. Au cœur du Golden Square Mile : explorations de luttes patrimoniales | Around Concordia. In the Heart of Golden Square Mile: Explorations of Heritage Struggles
- Inscription req. Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:30 - 8:45 | 1 heure 15 minutes
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- 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
- Paper
- 09.30 Conceptualizing Living Heritage in China: The Contested Chinese ICH Discourse
- Participant.e Dr Yujie Zhu | Participant.e Christina Maags (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- Paper
- 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
- Regular session
- 09.30 Spatial Narratives, Deep Mapping and Reactivating the City’s Past for the Future: A Case Study in Hangzhou, China
- Participant.e Qingkai Ma (Zhejiang University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- Paper
- What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 heures
- Regular session
- Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.401
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 heures
- Regular session
- “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