Canada: 600 participants attended the conference “What does heritage change?”

Canada: 600 participants attended the conference “What does heritage change?”

FRH has participated in the third biennial conference of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies. The event was held in Montréal, Canada from June 3rd to June 8th 2016. More than 600 participants from all five continents attended this conference under the theme: “What does heritage change?”.

The 2016 conference was an initiative of UQAM’s Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage, in collaboration with Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.

Conference website

FRH Member Professor Luc Noppen (Université du Québec) was amongst the Conference organizers.

FRH has supported two important events:

  1. Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society (6 June)
  2. Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places (7 June)

Contributions explored the reconstruction of narratives, the reconfiguration of social relations, knowledge production and cultural expressions, the transformation of the environment, the (de)valuation of the land, etc. This conference aimed at continuing important debates about heritage as a domain of politics and citizenship, a living environment, a source of identity and an assemblage of human-non-human relations.

FRH Council Honorary Secretary Lilian Grootwagers participated as a speaker in the event “Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society” that took place in the Saint-Michel de Vaudreuil Church.

This session has provided the opportunity to discuss experiments conducted through the Western World and bring together different viewpoints on the economy, the interpretation and the in-situ preservation of works of art, notably to grasp the legal, financial and societal implications and means of heritage-making when it puts into question the consistency of monuments previously thought to be “untouchable.”

Please find below more information about our members’ speeches:

Peter Breukink

Professor Thomas Coomans

Lilian Grootswagers

Henrik Lindblad

Professor Luc Noppen

Professor Ola Wettemberg

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