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School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University

12th Annual Heritage Conservation Symposium

Dynamic and Migrating Landscapes: Re-visioning Heritage Conservation

Richelieu Vanier Community Centre
- April 22, 2017

*Doors open at 8:30am

9:00-9:30-Opening Remarks

9:30-10:30 -Session 1: Changing Communities and Climates
Chair: Marie- Christine Blais, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University

1. Annette Arsenault – Managing heritage values of Quidi Vidi an evolving cultural landscape

2. Mathiew Dormaels – Cultural heritage landscapes in Quebec: challenges in local development

3. Lauren Archer – Climate Change and the Hockey Cultural Heritage Landscape

10:30-11:00-Break

11:00-12:00-Session 2: (re)routing, (re)locating, and (re)constructing place
Chair: Alison Creba, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University

1. Zeynep Ekim– Ruin-Ophilia: Preserving the Narrative without Restoration

2. Lindsay Reid– Location, location, (re)location? Moving heritage resources in the age of Ecological Bias

3. Rebecca Dolgoy, Sarah Gelbard, Amanda Montague – “But what about the…library?”: Place-Forward Place-making

4. Hélène Santoni, Odile Rompré Brodeur, Passerelles – workshop intro

12:00-1:30-Lunch

12:30-1:15- Workshop 1: The Cultural Memory Workshop-“But what about the library?”

12:30-1:15- Workshop 2: Passerelles Workshop – Retracing the Mental Stories of a Cultural Landscape

1:30-2:30- Session 3: Walking, making, healing
Chair: Heather Burton, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University

1. Workshop summary

2. Amita Sinha – Dwarka Lost and Reclaimed: Planning for a Resilient Landscape

3. Dr. Sarah Pashagumskum, Darlene Bearskin, and Laura Phillips – Exhibitions, Landscape, Community Cultural Heritage and Healing: The development of a travelling exhibition- “Footprints: A Walk Through Generations”

2:30-3:00-Break

3:00-4:00- Session 4: Moving in sound and memory
Chair: Casey Gray, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University

1. Emma Bider – Sounding the World: Imagining ontologies as mobile through sound and song

2. Marie-Paule Macdonald – Trajectories and Territories: Hendrix Soundscapes

3. Aubyn O’Grady and Ben Gallagher – Material Distance: Memories and the Poetics of Landscape

4:00-4:30- Closing remarks

  1. Rapporteur – Hilary Grant, PhD Student, Cultural Mediations