Corinna Moebius
Doctoral Candidate/Graduate Teaching Assistant
Florida International University
A cultural anthropologist, (Little Havana) tour guide and (Cuba) tour director, I am currently completing my doctorate in anthropology at Florida International University (FIU). My dissertation focuses on the intersections between local and transnational racial politics in Little Havana's heritage district. My research interests include race, public memory and public space; performances of memory; critical heritage/landscape theory; Cuban and African diasporas; commemorations. I have lived in Little Havana for a decade.
In addition to my Graduate Teaching Assistantship at FIU, I have served as a Teaching Fellow and advisor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, for a graduate-level urban planning course entirely focused on Little Havana. In 2015, I also co-authored "A History of Little Havana." This summer I am also a mentor for a Cuban tour operator through StartUp Cuba, and in 2014 I was a Latino Museum Studies Fellow with the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Previously, I was the director of Imagine Miami, a civic engagement initiative for South Florida, through the nonprofit Catalyst Miami. In Washington, DC I ran my own consulting business, focused on public participation and engagement in urban and transportation planning projects. I launched my consulting business in Los Angeles, California after leaving the Internet industry as a specialist in online content and usability (mid-1990s). I earned my M.A. in Speech Communication at California State University, Northridge and a self-designed degree in Communications and Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
On a personal note ... I have been studying Afro-Cuban sacred/folkloric dance for nearly two decades, and I love to dance rumba when I have the opportunity. My weaknesses include a good cigar every now and then. And I love used bookstores.
In addition to my Graduate Teaching Assistantship at FIU, I have served as a Teaching Fellow and advisor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, for a graduate-level urban planning course entirely focused on Little Havana. In 2015, I also co-authored "A History of Little Havana." This summer I am also a mentor for a Cuban tour operator through StartUp Cuba, and in 2014 I was a Latino Museum Studies Fellow with the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Previously, I was the director of Imagine Miami, a civic engagement initiative for South Florida, through the nonprofit Catalyst Miami. In Washington, DC I ran my own consulting business, focused on public participation and engagement in urban and transportation planning projects. I launched my consulting business in Los Angeles, California after leaving the Internet industry as a specialist in online content and usability (mid-1990s). I earned my M.A. in Speech Communication at California State University, Northridge and a self-designed degree in Communications and Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
On a personal note ... I have been studying Afro-Cuban sacred/folkloric dance for nearly two decades, and I love to dance rumba when I have the opportunity. My weaknesses include a good cigar every now and then. And I love used bookstores.
Sessions auxquelles Corinna Moebius 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
- Pre-Conference Tour: Old Montreal (2 groups) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 heures
- Tour
- Pre-Conference Tour: Mile End, the Crossroads of Three Cultures UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 13:00 - 15:30 | 2 heures 30 minutes
- Tour
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
- Cocktail
19:30
19:30
- 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
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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
10:30
10:30
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 10:30 - 11:00 | 30 minutes
- Pause
11:00
11:00
- 13.30 Cultural Policy, Heritage Logic, and Cultural Contest: Afro-Cuban Religions and Inclusionary Discrimination in Contemporary Cuba
- Participant.e Michelle Tisdel (National Library of Norway) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Paper
- 13.30 New Heritage Imaginaries: Reconsidering Race Slavery and its Political Legacies through Public Commemoration and Art in Charleston, SC
- Participant.e Stephanie E. Yuhl (College of the Holy Cross) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research I
- Paper
- 15.50 Dancing in the Vaults: Examining Brendan Fernandes’ “Lost Bodies”
- Participant.e Sarah E.K. Smith (Harvard University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Artistry of Heritage
- Paper
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- The Artistry of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- 16.00 Mitigating Cultural Contestation: The Case of Black Pete
- Participant.e Pieter Wagenaar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | Participant.e Jeroen Rodenberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Paper
- 15.30 Recognition Politics and Multicultural Heritagization in Canada
- Participant.e Susan Ashley (Northumbria University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Paper
- 11.40 Embodied Memoration: Unsettling Colonial Forms through Performative Acts in the Everyday
- Participant.e Leah Decter (Queen's University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: The Artistry of Heritage
- Paper
- 14.00 Disseminating Disgust: De-colonizing Monuments through Affective Atrategies: The Case of Cecil John Rhodes in Cape Town and Oxford
- Participant.e Britta Timm Knudsen (Aarhus University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Talk
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
15:00
15:00
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 15:00 - 15:30 | 30 minutes
- Pause
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
7:00
7:00
- Through the alleys of Saint-Henri - guided by Pohanna Pyne Feinberg
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 heures
- Tour
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 7:00 - 13:00 | 6 heures
- Morning Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 heures
- Pause
9:00
9:00
- 10.00 The Role of World Heritage Sites in Urban Revitalization
- Participant.e Julia Tétényi (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Paper
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
10:30
10:30
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 10:30 - 11:00 | 30 minutes
- Pause
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
19:00
19:00
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 heures
7:30
7:30
- Un chant yiddish au creux de l'oreille - Traversée
- Inscription req. Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.130
- 7:30 - 8:30 | 1 heure
- Event
9:00
9:00
- 09.00 Ethnoheritage: Heritage Theory from the American Anthropological Perspective
- Participant.e Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels (University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 09.30 Unless They Value our Invisibles, Their Visible Will Never Be Safe: Linking Spirits, Monumental Ruins and Baobab Trees of the Swahili Coast in Tanzania
- Participant.e Elgidius Ichumbaki (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa
- Paper
- 14.00 Just Heritage? Examining the Redevelopment of Jaffa’s Port (Israel) from a Social Justice Perspective
- Participant.e Nufar Avni (McGill University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- 11.00 Moving History and History in the Making: A Contrasting Comparison on Heritage and Memory Culture in Southern Africa
- Participant.e Matthias Schulze |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa
- 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
- Regular session
- Critical Creation series: The visits (of which there were none) Episode N. 2 Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 heures
- Event
- 11.30 Performing Imaginary Healings: The Post-Conflict Heritage of Ebrington Barracks in Derry-Londonderry
- Participant.e Tom Maguire (Ulster University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
- 11.30 Acting on the Body: Heritage as a Governing Strategy for Disciplining the Female Body in Twentieth-Century Iceland
- Participant.e Ólafur Rastrick (University of Iceland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 11.40 Crowds, Events and "Acts" of Citizenship: Heritage-Making at the Chattri Indian Memorial
- Participant.e Susan Ashley (Northumbria University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Small (ERA Architects Inc.)
- Inscription req. Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Talk
13:30
13:30
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
18:00
18:00
- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 heure
- Cocktail
7:00
7:00
- In Griffintown/ Dans le Griff and Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940-1960
- Inscription req. Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 heures
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- 11.30 The Heritage of Solidarity
- Participant.e Roman Sebastyanski (University of the West of Scotland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing
- Paper
- 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
- Paper
- 09.30 Commemoration at the Edge: From Preservation to Activism
- Participant.e Anita Bakshi (Rutgers University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Current Research IV
- Paper
- 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
- Regular session
11:00
11:00
- Critical Creation Series : LWÀZA (The Noise) Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Event
