
Dr. Jeremy Wells
Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation
Roger Williams University
Participe à 2 sessions
Dr. Jeremy C. Wells is an assistant professor in the Historic Preservation Program in the School of Art, Architecture, and Historic Preservation at Roger Williams University, USA and a Fulbright scholar. Previously, he has worked as an historic preservation planner, Main Street manager, and as an architectural materials conservator. He is the co-editor of the book, Preservation Education: Sharing Best Practices and Finding Common Ground published by the University Press of New England. Dr. Wells created the Environmental Design Research Association’s Historic Environment Knowledge Network in 2008 to work with other academics and practitioners in addressing the person/place and environment/behavior aspects of heritage conservation. Dr. Wells is interested in how people perceive, value, and interact with historic environments and how this experience is similar to the experience of natural environments with a focus on place attachment. He uses social science research methodologies, such as ethnographies, survey research, and phenomenology to answer these questions because, fundamentally, he believes that the conservation of the historic environment is an endeavor that should benefit people. He is currently in Brazil conducting research on community participation and heritage conservation planning in Olinda, Pernambuco. Primary publications: Wells, J. C. (2007). The plurality of truth in culture, context, and heritage: A (mostly) post-structuralist analysis of urban conservation charters. City and Time, 3(2:1), 1-13. Wells, J. C. (2010a). Authenticity in more than one dimension: Reevaluating a core premise of historic preservation. Forum Journal, 24(3), 36-40. Wells, J. C. (2010b). Our history is not false: Perspectives from the revitalisation culture. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 16(6), 464-485. Wells, J. C., & Baldwin, E. D. (2012). Historic preservation, significance, and age value: A comparative phenomenology of Historic Charleston and the nearby new-urbanist community of I’On. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 32(4), 384-400.
Sessions auxquelles Dr. Jeremy Wells participe
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- 10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?
- Participant.e Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage as contributor to policymaking
- This paper will explore the relevancy of the nascent critical heritage studies movement to the future of built heritage conservation. This analy...
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- 12.00 Developing a Pragmatic Tool for Historic Environment Practitioners: A Case Study of the Horto d’El Rey in Brazil
- Participant.e Dr. Jeremy Wells (Roger Williams University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- In the past fifteen years, there has been an increasing call for built heritage practitioners to use the values of a broad array of stakeholders...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Dr. Jeremy Wells assiste
13:00
13:00
- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 heures
- This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
- Workshop
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
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
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
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

11:00
11:00
- 13.30 Participatory, Value-Based Heritage Cultural Landscape Conservation for Sustainable Community Development: The Case of Milton Park in Montreal
- Participant.e Mehdi Ghafouri (Vanier College) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Given that heritage, tangible and intangible, is considered as a cultural/capital resource, this paper will depart from the premise that partici...
- Paper
- 11.00 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage
- Participant.e Geir Vestheim (University College of Southeast Norway) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- This paper will depart from the idea that the making of cultural policy, and heritage policy included, takes place within a political system and...
- Paper
- 16.00 Citizen Groups and Their Vision of Heritage in the Making of the 2012 Quebec Cultural Heritage Act
- Participant.e Prof. Martin Drouin (UQAM) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- The Quebec Cultural Heritage Act, adopted by the province’s National Assembly, came into force in 2012, replacing the Cultural Property Act (197...
- Paper
- 14.30 L’approche paysagère : de nouveaux modes d’action citoyenne pour le patrimoine et les paysages
- Participant.e Mathieu Dormaels Ph.D. (Université du Québec à Montréal) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Depuis les années 1990, la notion de paysage s’est développée à travers diverses approches et différentes disciplines. Objet essentiellement géo...
- Paper
- 12.00 Before and After Definition: Transformation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Policy in Xinjiang
- Participant.e Prof. Kate Hennessy ( Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Canada) | Participant.e Aynur Kadir (School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Based on fieldwork in Xinjiang, China, this paper will investigate the ambiguities surrounding the government policies that seek to promote econ...
- Paper
- 14.30 Of, By, and For Which People?: Government and Contested Heritage
- Participant.e Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Indiana University (IUPUI)) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Two government-owned and managed heritage sites in Indiana, USA, offer an opportunity to explore the role of governing in adjudicating the compe...
- Paper
- 13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices
- Participant.e Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- While it is customary to think about heritage as a series of practical fields oriented toward the past, it is perhaps less often the case that w...
- Paper
- 15.30 L'appropriation citoyenne comme réponse à la sauvegarde de l’architecture moderne
- Participant.e Marie-Dina Salvione (École de design, UQAM) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Cette communication propose de questionner l’idée de patrimonialisation comme condition sine qua non pour la sauvegarde de l’architecture modern...
- Paper
- 11.30 When Citizens Are Involved in Heritage: A Case Study in Laon (France)
- Participant.e Manon Istasse (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- As a member of a research group, I investigate the role of associations and scholarly societies in the construction and the promotion of heritag...
- Paper
- 14.00 The Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour Heritage Project: Contestation or Contentment?
- Participant.e Laura Murray (Queen's University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?
- Kingston, Ontario, is known for its nineteenth-century limestone buildings and its associations with home-town boy Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada...
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- A new Centre for Critical Heritage Studies in partnership between University College London and University of Gothenburg started in April 2016 a...
- Talk
13:30
13:30
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant.e Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Nostalgia has a bad press. For some, it is pointless and sentimental, for others reactionary and futile. Where does that leave those of us inter...
- Paper
- 16.00 Ecological Thought and Cultural Landscapes: Evolving Paradigms and their Potential Application to Heritage Conservation
- Participant.e Cari Goetcheus (The University of Georgia) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage vs Ecology
- Cultural landscape conservation, as influenced by the US National Park Service and UNESCO/ICOMOS philosophy and practice, has focused to date on...
- Paper
15:30
15:30
- 15.30 Managed Landscapes: The Social Construction of Scale at Angkor
- Participant.e Rowena Butland |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I
- In constructing the scales that frame our political, social and cultural lives, we do not neutrally siphon off a particular part of the world an...
- Paper
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
- Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
- 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
- Movement, stillness, and creation will be combined during this walk as participants are encouraged to attune themselves to the environment through ...
- Tour
9:00
9:00
- 11.30 Patrimonialisation et mise en tourisme des centres anciens des petites villes françaises. Un cadre spatial d'analyse qui interroge le lien patrimonialisation / gentrification
- Participant.e Annie Ouellet (Université d'Angers - UMR CNRS 6590 ESO) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- Les quartiers historiques centraux des grandes villes et des métropoles, souvent très dégradés jusque dans les années soixante et soixante-dix s...
- Paper
- 11.30 Tango: Production and Circulations of Heritage Meanings
- Participant.e Sébastien Jacquot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Des patrimoines incarnés : les dialogues du vivant et de l’archive | Embodiment Practices of Heritage
- The Argentinian and Uruguayan tradition of the Tango was inscribed in 2009 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Hum...
- Paper
- 09.40 A Conceptual Framework for Built Environment Cultural Values
- Participant.e Mr Colm Murray (The Heritage Council of Ireland) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- You can only manage what you see and understand. For this reason, the values we ascribe to the built environment and the “architectural” heritag...
- Paper
- 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
- This paper will approach the topic “What does heritage change?” by looking at the perspectives and experiences of a special category of heritage...
- Paper
- 09.20 For a Transdisciplinary Approach to Heritage Conservation: Memory, Aesthetics and the Issue of Authenticity
- Participant.e prof. Bianca Gioia Marino (DIARC Department of Architecture - University of Naples Federico II) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- The issue of authenticity seems to be currently a real focal point for understanding and also identifying the challenges of historic heritage. D...
- Paper
- 10.00 Une ontologie du patrimoine : apport de la sémantique pour une construction argumentative de l’artefact patrimonialisé. Le cas de la base de données de Topic-Topos
- Participant.e Valérie Rochaix (Université de Nantes - CoDiRe (EA 4643)) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Vers une nouvelle lecture du patrimoine culturel. L’approche sémantique au service d’une ontologie du patrimoine
- Comme la visite guidée d’un site patrimonial s’appuie sur un récit mettant en œuvre des mécanismes énonciatifs et discursifs dont les enjeux son...
- Paper
- 11.00 Les châteaux en France et au Québec
- Participant.e Dr. Stephanie Doyle-Lerat (université de Nantes) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Vers une nouvelle lecture du patrimoine culturel. L’approche sémantique au service d’une ontologie du patrimoine
- En France et au Québec, les châteaux représentent des lieux reconnus comme des sites de patrimoine par excellence. Cependant, la fonction premiè...
- Paper
- 11.00 Dilemmas of Living: Uses of Heritage in Dispute—The Case of Vila Itororó, São Paulo
- Participant.e Ms Vivian Legname Barbour (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the process that turned Vila Itororó, an architectural site in São Paulo, Brazil, into heritage and o...
- Paper
- 11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration
- Participant.e Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Research involving display analysis and interviews with staff and visitors has shown empathy to be an important feature of interpretative strate...
- Paper
- 11.00 The Case of the Missing "ism"? Modernism and Heritage: A Reflection
- Participant.e Prof Robyn Bushell (Western Sydney University) | Participant.e Dr Russell Staiff (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- While “heritage and modernity” has deservedly received considerable critical attention, we have been struck by the fact that this has not been t...
- Paper
- 11.40 Favela as a Brazilian Heritage Site: Complexities and Shifting Realities
- Participant.e Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti (Tu Delft) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- On July 1st, 2012, the Brazilian favelas were considered a world heritage site by UNESCO. What does it imply to those living in these places? Ou...
- Paper
- 11.20 Urban Planning and Transformation of Heritage Values
- Participant.e Jennie Sjöholm (Linköping University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage
- Urban planning means planning for the future and involves visions of how to use and develop built cultural heritage. Conceptions of built cultur...
- Paper
- 11.30 Bases de données en ligne et visions du patrimoine. L’exemple de l’hospice en France et au Québec
- Participant.e Ana-Maria Cozma |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Vers une nouvelle lecture du patrimoine culturel. L’approche sémantique au service d’une ontologie du patrimoine
- La nouvelle lecture du patrimoine visée par le projet ANTIMOINE – projet associant linguistique, bases de données et réalité virtuelle – sera il...
- Paper
- 11.00 Heritage, Stakeholders and Empathetic Interaction in Chinese Cultural Heritage Sites (cancelled)
- Participant.e Rouran Zhang (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- The tension between tourism and heritage has existed for a long time. From practical-based understanding of heritage, most literature concerned ...
- Paper
- 09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion
- Participant.e Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- This paper explores the role that empathy, as both a skill and an emotion, plays in the processes of politicized and self-conscious heritage-mak...
- Paper
- 10.00 Imported Definitions for Heritage: Development of the Western Idea of Heritage in Turkey since the 1960s
- Participant.e Mesut Dinler (Politecnico di Torino) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- The strong dominance of European architects in the Turkey Republic, both in academia and professional practice, started in the early decades of ...
- Paper
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
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- 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
15:30
15:30
- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Inscription req. Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son id...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
