Dr. Michelle Tisdel

Associate Professor/Research Librarian

National Library of Norway

Participe à 1 Session

Michelle A. Tisdel holds a doctorate in social anthropology from Harvard University (2006). Her research interests include cultural policy, heritage production, museums, material culture, and Afro-Cuban religions, among others. Tisdel resides in Oslo, Norway and has worked as a research librarian at the National Library of Norway since 2008. She was a member of the academic committee for cultural heritage preservation of Arts Council Norway (2009-2011) and has been a board member of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History since 2008. Publications include the dissertation Cuban Museums and Afro-Cuban Heritage: Fragments and Transitions in Daily Life (2006) and the book chapter “Three Interpretations of Materiality and Society: Afro-Cuban Heritage and the Cuban Slave Route Museum” (2008).

Sessions auxquelles Dr. Michelle Tisdel participe

Samedi 4 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:00

13.30 Cultural Policy, Heritage Logic, and Cultural Contest: Afro-Cuban Religions and Inclusionary Discrimination in Contemporary Cuba

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Dr. Michelle Tisdel, National Library of Norway (Participant.e)

While Afro-Cubans have benefitted, in general, from many social, economic and cultural policies implemented by the socialist government, their o...

Sessions auxquelles Dr. Michelle Tisdel assiste

Samedi 4 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:00

Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

6 heures, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950

Regular session

Jeroen Rodenberg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Modérateur.rice)

Dr. Pieter Wagenaar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Modérateur.rice)

Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...

What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

6 heures, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2585

Regular session

Prof. Martin Drouin, UQAM (Modérateur.rice)

There is no doubt that the involvement of civil society is a key element in the history of heritage. Working upstream, in line with or against the ...

13:30

History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

3 heures 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525

Regular session

Prof. Raymond Montpetit, Université du Québec à Montréal (Modérateur.rice)

18:30

Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)

1 heure 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00

Inscription req.

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant.e)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Modérateur.rice)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Dimanche 5 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

3 heures 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950

Regular session

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Modérateur.rice)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Modérateur.rice)

Digital installations and interventions have been seen as a promising ways to support and foster dialogue in museum exhibitions. How does this p...

09.40 Life as Heritage: Narratives, Experiences and Mediated Performances of Transmitters of Intangible Heritage in China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Partie de: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage

Paper

Marina Svensson, Lund University (Participant.e)

This paper will approach the topic “What does heritage change?” by looking at the perspectives and experiences of a special category of heritage...

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)

1 heure 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30

Inscription req.

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant.e)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Modérateur.rice)

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...

Lundi 6 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa

3 heures 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435

Regular session

Dr Zoe Cormack, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Modérateur.rice)

Dr Harriet Deacon, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University, UK (Participant.e)

Dr Lotte Hughes, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Modérateur.rice)

This session will address the potential and limitations of heritage as a tool for leverage, empowerment and dissent in Africa. It is widely a...

10.00 The Politics of Scale in the ICH-ization of Popular Religion in China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Partie de: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II

Paper

Ming-chun Ku (Participant.e)

This paper will addresse the politics of scale in issues regarding the ICH-ization of popular religion in recent China. Popular religion, symbol...

13.30 Globalization, Migration and the Heritage of Cross-Cultural People

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Partie de: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?

Paper

Laia Colomer, Linnaeus University (Sweden) (Participant.e)

Modern tradition conceptualizes spaces and territories as equivalent to state-nations and consequently frames cultural heritage in national heri...

10.00 The Challenges of Somali Cultural Heritage for the Dominant Heritage Discourse in Sweden

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Partie de: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?

Paper

Laia Colomer, Linnaeus University (Sweden) (Participant.e)

Cornelius Holtorf, Linnaeus University (Participant.e)

This paper is based on a recent study by Abdi-Noor Mohamed on tangible and intangible Somali cultural heritage in Sweden. Since the 1990s, about...

11.30 Museums, Immigrants and Social Justice: Addressing Issues of Language Barriers and Employment

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Partie de: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?

Paper

Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent (Participant.e)

In line with the New Museology approach, museums all over the world have engaged with issues of social justice for at least the past thirty year...

Mardi 7 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

11.00 A Critical Eye in the Mirror: Building a North American Research Agenda on the Preservation of Intangible Heritage within Library and Information Science

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Partie de: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue

Paper

Jerome McDonough, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Participant.e)

Intangible cultural heritage is tightly coupled with material culture in a variety of ways. Learning traditional languages is helped by access t...

15:30

Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice

1 heure 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Roundtable

Dr Phaedra Livingstone (Modérateur.rice)

Dr Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant.e)

Dr Marie-Claude Larouche, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Département des sciences de l'éducation (Participant.e)

Prof. Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Participant.e)

To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...