Cynthia Scott
Independent Historian and Heritage Scholar
Dr. Cynthia Scott is an independent historian and heritage scholar who completed a Ph.D. in Modern European History, and an M.A. in Cultural Studies, at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles. Her research interests center on post-colonial cultural diplomacy and debates over heritage and memory in comparative international perspective. Her writing is guided mainly by the questions: how do groups create a sense of the shared past, how do they navigate identity in the face of historical change, and how do they negotiate relationships of cultural cooperation and exchange in the aftermath of conflict and historical injustice? Her dissertation on the history of post-colonial cultural diplomacy between the Netherlands and Indonesia, 1949–1979, focuses on how Dutch officials handled demands from Indonesian leaders for the return of cultural property and, in the process, how they gave renewed meaning to the history of Dutch colonialism in the East Indies. She is currently completing a book manuscript that compares how a decolonizing Netherlands and United Kingdom defined the renewal of cultural relations--both with and without the return of cultural property--in ways that gave new meaning to their histories of colonialism in Asia and Africa.
Recent Publications:
“Renewing the ‘Special Relationship’ and Rethinking the Return of Cultural Property: The Netherlands and Indonesia.” Journal of Contemporary History, Special Issue: Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century: Europe in Transnational and Global Perspective (forthcoming).
“Sharing the Divisions of the Colonial Past: An Assessment of the Netherlands-Indonesia Shared Cultural Heritage Project, 2003-2006.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 20, no. 4 (February 2014): 181-195. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2012.738239]
Recent Publications:
“Renewing the ‘Special Relationship’ and Rethinking the Return of Cultural Property: The Netherlands and Indonesia.” Journal of Contemporary History, Special Issue: Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century: Europe in Transnational and Global Perspective (forthcoming).
“Sharing the Divisions of the Colonial Past: An Assessment of the Netherlands-Indonesia Shared Cultural Heritage Project, 2003-2006.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 20, no. 4 (February 2014): 181-195. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2012.738239]
Sessions auxquelles Cynthia Scott assiste
12:30
12:30
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 heures
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
- La richesse du patrimoine | The Value of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 8:00 - 17:00 | 9 heures
- Exhibition
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
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 heures
- 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
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
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
- 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
17:00
17:00
- ACHS 2016 General Assembly Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Talk
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9:00
9:00
- 13.30 Making Heritage Minoritarian: A Transnational Recipe for a Socially Useful Past
- Participant.e Jasper Chalcraft (University of Sussex) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 12.00 Muslims at the "Doors of Christendom": The Refugee Crisis and the Heritage of East-West Contact
- Participant.e Sandra Scham (Catholic University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 10.00 Heritage vs Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field
- Participant.e Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas
- Inscription req. Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
- 9:00 - 10:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable
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- 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
- 14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
- Participant.e Gary Campbell (ANU) | Participant.e Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Paper
- 09.00 Using Deep History in Urban Planning: Urban Archaeology as Cultural Product
- Participant.e Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen (Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I
- Paper
- 14.30 The Mutuality of Colonial Heritage in Multiethnic Paramaribo: Reality or Illusion?
- Participant.e Eugenio Van Maanen (NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands) | Participant.e Gregory Ashworth |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
- Paper
11:00
11:00
- In-community session: Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies: Roundtable on Concordia’s ‘Right to the City’ Initiative
- Inscription req. Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable
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12:30
12:30
- ACHS Chapters meetings: ACHS US Chapter Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.255
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Workshop
13:30
13:30
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Regular session
18:00
18:00
- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 heure
- Cocktail
20:00
20:00
- Film Series: Exit Zero
- Inscription req. Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 20:00 - 21:35 | 1 heure 35 minutes
- Event
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7:30
7:30
- Film Series: Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV 1.605
- 7:30 - 8:30 | 1 heure
- Event
9:00
9:00
- 13.50 Montreal Mansions: Photography, Architecture, and Heritage
- Participant.e Cynthia Hammond (Concordia University, Department of Art History, Canada) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- 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
- 11.40 Not All Stakeholders Are Equal: Local, Municipal, and National Conflict in the Public Heritage Square in Cuzco, Peru
- Participant.e Helaine Silverman (CHAMP - University of Illinois) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- Paper
- 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
- Paper
- 16.00 Global Archive, Vying National Identities: Contested Korean Histories and UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme
- Participant.e Nan Kim (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- Paper
- 16.30 The Silk Roads or Economic Belt: An Analysis of the Interaction Between China’s World Heritage and its Economic and Political Ambitions
- Participant.e Jieyi Xie (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- Paper
13:00
13:00
- A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue) Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 13:00 - 14:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
15:30
15:30
- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable
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