18th Annual Heritage Conservation Symposium
Senses of Heritage: Accessibility, Experience & Memory
Saturday September 26th, 2026
Carleton University, Ottawa — Dunton Tower, Room 2017
Preliminary Programme
| 9:30 | Registration / Coffee and light snacks available |
| 10:00 | Welcome / Opening Remarks |
| Kathy Armstrong, Jerzy (Jurek) Elżanowski & Susan Ross, Carleton University | |
| 10:30 | SESSION 1: Emotion and Place in Imagining Collective Pasts |
| Olivia Holland, University of Toronto “Spirit in Heaven, Body in France, Memory in Canada:” Student Emotions and the “Power of Place” on Tour |
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| Amanda Skocic, University of Toronto The Politics of Palatability: Yugoslav Foodways and the Taste of Belonging |
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| Rebecca Hartley, University of Toronto Nostalgia in the Sensorial Streetscape: Feeling “Home” at the BC Provincial Museum (1972) and the Canadian Museum of Civilization (1989) |
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| 11:20 | Coffee Break |
| 11:35 | SESSION 2: Giving Voice to Local Experience |
| Andrée-Ann Langevin, Carleton University Beyond the Visual Inventory: Mapping Embodied Experience |
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| Heather Thomson, National Capital Commission; Jessica Tivy & Carolyn Bouffard Lima, Public Services and Procurement Canada Putting Words to Paper — How Oral History Can Shape Conservation Planning |
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| Walid Elgazzar, Public Services and Procurement Canada Sight, Sound and Feel: Interpretation and Commemoration in the Alexandra Bridge Replacement Project |
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| 12:25 | Lunch Break |
| 13:10 | SESSION 3: Sonic Heritage Practices |
| Morghen Jael, University of Toronto Sonic Enhancements: Case Studies in Adding Sounds to Museums and Heritage Sites |
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| Jesse Stewart, Carleton University Reimagining Heritage through Interdisciplinary Research-Creation: The Diefenbunker Artist Residency |
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| Reza Yazdanpanah, Carleton University Improvising Heritage: Cultural Mediation, Migration, and the Transformation of Oral Tradition |
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| Amy Hetletvedt, Carleton University Conservation as Riff: Musical Improvisation as Metaphor and Method in Built Heritage Preservation and Interpretation |
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| 14:15 | Coffee Break |
| 14:30 | SESSION 4: Accessing Heritage through Embodied Knowledge |
| Chloe Maignan, Carleton University The Body as Archive: Afrofuturism and the Multisensory Experience of Heritage Conservation |
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| Patrick Moore, Professional School of Practical Stereotomy The Embodied Craft: Stereotomy as a Multi-Sensory Approach to Accessible Heritage Conservation |
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| Keisha Cuffie, Carleton University Who’s in the Room? A Black Curator’s View through the Looking Glass |
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| 15:25 | Reflective Discussion and Closing Remarks |