Programme | 2025

Welcome and Opening Remarks

• remarks by Akbel Guzide and Susan Ross for the Symposium organizing committee

Session 1: Landscapes and Legacies – session chairs

• chaired by Elizabeth Harding and Susan Ross

Adrian Hutchinson, M.Arch Graduate, University of Waterloo

Reading the Mutable Monument: (Industrial) Heritage as Index of (Ecological) Change

Eugene Henry, Ph.D. Student, Carleton University

Naked Truths in the Climat: (Re)constructions of Viticultural Heritage and Climatic Shifts in Burgundy 

Miquel Reina Ortiz, Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, & Giovanni (John) Diodati, Principal, Director, EVOQ, Montreal

Recommissioning the Fort to Defend Montreal from Climate Change: New Narratives for Cultural Resilience in the Île Sainte-Hélène

Session 2: Indigenous and Local Relations

• chaired by Dylan Jozkow and Orly Lael Netzer

Brenda Vellino, Professor (English), Carleton University

Island Kinship Relations as Heritage in Kathy-Jetnil Kijiñer (Marshall Islands) & Aka Niviâna’s (Inuit Greenlander) Video Poem, “Rise: From One Island to Another.””

Akbel Guzide, M.A Canadian Studies, Carleton University

Addressing Climate Change Through Inuit Artists’ Knowledge & Artworks in Nunavut

Véronika Brandl Mouton, Héritage Montréal

Priorité et patrimoine urbain : Ré-évaluer l’agenda de conservation montréalais en temps de crises multiples

Session 3: Policies and Case Studies

• chaired by Jonathan Hinkins and Damiano Aiello

Ritika Khanna, Ph.D. Student, Université de Laval, Heritage and Ethnology

Examining the Integration of Climate Action in UNESCO’s World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions

Fergus Maclaren, ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee

The Loss and Damage Conundrum: The Challenge of Preserving African UNESCO World Heritage Sites as Destinations in the Face of Climate Change

Session 4: Reuse and Resilience

• chaired by Keisha Cuffie and Susan Ross

Lea Di Giulio, M.Arch Student, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University

Adaptive Reuse from Below

Sébastien Beauregard, Director, SURCY

Social enterprise as a vector for reuse: the case study of Quebec

Carly Connor, P.Eng. CAHP, Green Salvaged Materials, Inc.

Building Resilience: Bridging Heritage and Sustainability in Practice

Reflective Discussion / Closing Remarks

Stefan Simon, Director Rathgen-Forschungslabor, National Museums Berlin and Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair for the Arts and Social Sciences in North America 2024-25, Carleton University

HERB STOVEL MEMORIAL LECTURE

• introduction by Jerzy Elżanowski

LOST AND FOUND: THREE PALACES IN ONE IN BERLIN’S CITY CENTRE

Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, Technical University of Berlin