
Henrik Lindblad is an art historian and cultural heritage specialist. His main fields are ecclesiastical architecture, sustainable management and use of cultural heritage. He is now working as Cultural Heritage Strategist at the Church of Sweden's Central office, responsible for national knowledge building, strategies for extended use of church buildings and international collaboration. He has since 2012 been involved in the joint research project Old Churches, New Values – Use and Management of Churches in a changing society, coordinated by the University of Gothenburg and co-funded by the Church of Sweden.
Henrik Lindblad has previously worked as a Conservation Officer and Senior Advisor for the Swedish National Heritage Board and the Ministry of Culture. He is one of the founders of the European organization Future for Religious Heritage (FRH). He is also member of the ICOMOS working group preparing the new International Scientific Committee Places for Religion and Rituals, PRERICO.
Selected publications; 2015: “Kyrkligt kulturarv som mänsklig rättighet” (Ecclesiastical Heritage as a Human Right), article for the Church of Sweden’s forthcoming anthology on Church Heritage. 2014: “När Gud blir sambo med kulturen” (When Culture Moves in With God), essay in the national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. Co-author Eva Löfgren. 2014: “Kulturarvet i Svenska kyrkan” (The Church of Sweden’s Cultural Heritage), introduction chapter in the book “Tusen år till”. 2011: ”Delaktighet i värdering och förvaltning av det kyrkliga kulturarvet” (Participation in Valuation and management of Church Heritage), article in the anthology ”De kyrkliga kulturarven”, Department of Art History, Uppsala University.
Sessions auxquelles Mr Henrik Lindblad participe
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- 14.00 To Use or Not To Use: A Question of Protection
- Participant.e Mr Henrik Lindblad (Church of Sweden) |
- 7:30 - 8:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- In 2010, the Caroli Church in central Malmö, built in 1879 and protected by the Heritage Conservation Act, was deconsecrated and sold to a real-...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Mr Henrik Lindblad assiste
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- 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
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- 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
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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
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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
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
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- 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

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10:30
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 10:30 - 11:00 | 30 minutes
- Pause
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- 12.00 Investing Heritage Values in Religious Artifacts or Religious Values in Monuments? Evidence from the Catholic Heritage in the Iberian Peninsula
- Participant.e Dr Cyril Isnart (CNRS) | Participant.e Nathalie Cerezales (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will study the values and the role given to the Catholic cultural heritage of contemporary Spain and Portugal, which represents today...
- Paper
- 16.00 Worshipping the Past, Heritagizing Religion. How did the (Un)Holy Alliance between Churches and Heritage Come to Be?
- Participant.e Helena Wangefelt Ström (Umeå University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- “Why museums are the new churches.” This was the title of an essay on BBC Culture (June, 2015), where the author reflected on how museums and ar...
- Paper
- 11.30 Musealization of Religious Heritage in the French Legal Context: A Process in Progress?
- Participant.e Anne Fornerod (DRES (CNRS/Université de Strasbourg)) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- In the French legal context, religious heritage is undeniably characterized by its legally protected religious meaning. This protection derives ...
- Paper
- 11.00 On the Divide between Secular Values and Use Values in Heritage Conceptions of Churches
- Participant.e Dr Eva Löfgren (Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will address the different meanings of the concept of “use” within heritage conservation discourse and practice, and in particular as...
- Paper
- 14.30 Preservation as Salvation: Safeguarding the Church of Sweden
- Participant.e Prof. Ola Wetterberg (University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation) | Participant.e Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will investigate how claims to protect religious rites as intangible heritage have been received within heritage and religious instit...
- Paper
- 13.30 Ecclesiastical Heritage Assemblages in Post-Secular and Post-Christian Sweden
- Participant.e Carola Nordbäck (Södertörn University Stockholm/ The Church of Sweden Research Unit) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will examine the management of ecclesiastical heritage in post-secular and post-Christian Sweden. A large part of the cultural herita...
- Paper
- Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...
- Regular session
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17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
- Cocktail
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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

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12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
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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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- Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Inscription req. Église Saint-Michel - Église Saint-Michel
- 7:30 - 15:30 | 8 heures
- __ Please note that this session is scheduled in a distant location from the main conference; transportation will be provided to regi...
- Regular session
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
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9:00
- “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
- In exploring the broader question “What does heritage change?” this session presents work that is extending heritage policies and practices beyond ...
- Regular session
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
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- Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Inscription req. Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are ...
- Regular session