Carleton University’s 17th Annual Graduate Student Heritage Conservation Symposium
On The Edge of Collapse: Changing Heritage for a Climate in Crisis
Saturday April 26th, 2025, Library and Archives Canada (Alfred Pellan Room, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa)
preliminary programme
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome / Opening Remarks |
| 9:15-10:15 | SESSION 1 Landscapes & Legacies |
| Dharshini Mahesh Babu. Steel City, Toxic Legacy: Reclaiming Hamilton’s Past for Justice | |
| Adrian Hutchinson. Reading the Mutable Monument: (Industrial) Heritage as Index of (Ecological) Change | |
| Eugene Henry. Naked Truths in the Climate: (Re)constructions of Viticultural Heritage and Climatic Shifts in Burgundy | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-11:45 | SESSION 2 Indigenous & Local Relations |
| Brenda Vellino. Island Kinship Relations as Heritage in (Marshall Islands) & (Inuit Greenlander) Video Poem | |
| Akbel Guzide. Addressing Climate Change Through Inuit Artists’ Knowledge & Artworks in Nunavut | |
| Erika Brandl Mouton & Véronika Brandl Mouton. Priorité et patrimoine urbain : Ré-évaluer l’agenda de conservation montréalais en temps de crises multiples | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Lunch Break |
| 12:30-13:30 | SESSION 3 Policies, Tools & Case Studies |
| Ritika Khanna. Examining the Integration of Climate Action in UNESCO’s World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions | |
| Fergus Maclaren. The Loss and Damage Conundrum: The Challenge of Preserving African UNESCO World Heritage Sites as Destinations in the Face of Climate Change | |
| Gabriel Bell-Gam. Silent Heritage: Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Face of Climate Change | |
| 13:30-13:45 | Coffee Break |
| 13:45-15:00 | SESSION 4 Reuse & Resilience |
| Lia Di Giulio. Adaptive Reuse From Below | |
| Sébastien Beauregard. Social enterprise as a vector for reuse: the case study of Quebec | |
| Carly Connor. Building Resilience: Bridging Heritage and Sustainability in Practice | |
| Miquel Reina Ortiz. Recommissioning the Fort to Defend Montreal from Climate Change: New Narratives for Cultural Resilience in the Île Sainte-Hélène | |
| 15:00-15:15 | Stefan Simon. Reflection and Closing Remarks |
| 15:15-15:30 | Intermission |
| 15:30-16:45 |
HERB STOVEL MEMORIAL LECTURE:Gabi Dollf-Bonekaemper.Lost and Found in Berlin: Three Palaces in One |
| 16:45-17:00 | Departures / Clean Up |