UNSETTLING HERITAGE - CFP final · 2014-11-13 · Unsettling Heritage will be held on March 28,...
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Canadian Forces Base Rockcliffe, 2009. Photo by Susan Ross. CALL FOR PAPERS UNSETTLING HERITAGE: CRITICAL/CREATIVE CONSERVATION 10 th Annual Graduate Student Heritage Conservation Symposium Hosted by the School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University “Unsettling Heritage” is a one-day student-run symposium exploring how heritage conservation has evolved and adjusted as it expands into a range of areas not typically, or historically, associated with the discipline. Challenges arising from changing ideas and technologies have recently unsettled heritage conservation. This theme aims to attract submissions that critically address current issues in heritage fields and/or highlight creative approaches to heritage conservation. On this symposium’s tenth anniversary, we hope to ask necessary questions about how the discipline is changing and what it should become. Unsettling Heritage will be held on March 28, 2015. We encourage submissions from graduate students and heritage professionals working across disciplines. The free public Herb Stovel Memorial Lecture will be held the evening prior, on March 27, 2015. Please submit a 250-300 word abstract along with the working title, contact information and short bio (150 words) by January 5, 2015. Final papers should be a maximum of 2,000 words for a maximum 20-minute presentation. CONTACT Email submissions to: [email protected] www.carleton.ca/heritage-conservation-symposium Potential themes include: Community Approaches to Conservation • How can we engage with groups such as community gardeners and DIY movements who may not consider their activism to be ‘heritage’? • What ethical considerations are involved with community-based approaches to conservation? Abundance, Waste, and Destruction • How can heritage- and conservation-related fields respond to the sheer abundance of some types of heritage, such as suburban landscapes? • What happens to the increasing accumulation of heritage of all types and eras, when what cannot be saved is redefined as a kind of waste? Dissonant and Difficult Heritage • How can heritage conservation approach dissonant Canadian heritage? • What stories are being left out of Canada’s official heritage landscape?
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Canadian Forces Base Rockcliffe, 2009. Photo by Susan Ross.
CALL FOR PAPERS
UNSETTLING HERITAGE: CRITICAL/CREATIVE CONSERVATION
10th Annual Graduate Student Heri tage Conservation Symposium Hosted by the School of Canadian Studies, Carleton Universi ty
“Unsettling Heritage” is a one-day student-run symposium exploring how heritage conservation has evolved and adjusted as it expands into a range of areas not typically, or historically, associated with the discipline. Challenges arising from changing ideas and technologies have recently unsettled heritage conservation. This theme aims to attract submissions that critically address current issues in heritage fields and/or highlight creative approaches to heritage conservation. On this symposium’s tenth anniversary, we hope to ask necessary questions about how the discipline is changing and what it should become.
Unsettling Heritage will be held on March 28, 2015. We encourage submissions from graduate students and heritage professionals working across disciplines. The free public Herb Stovel Memorial Lecture will be held the evening prior, on March 27, 2015. Please submit a 250-300 word abstract along with the working title, contact information and short bio (150 words) by January 5, 2015. Final papers should be a maximum of 2,000 words for a maximum 20-minute presentation. CONTACT Email submissions to: [email protected] www.carleton.ca/heritage-conservation-symposium
Potential themes include: Community Approaches to Conservation
• How can we engage with groups such as community gardeners and DIY movements who may not consider their activism to be ‘heritage’?
• What ethical considerations are involved with community-based approaches to conservation? Abundance, Waste, and Destruction
• How can heritage- and conservation-related fields respond to the sheer abundance of some types of heritage, such as suburban landscapes?
• What happens to the increasing accumulation of heritage of all types and eras, when what cannot be saved is redefined as a kind of waste?
Dissonant and Difficult Heritage • How can heritage conservation approach dissonant Canadian heritage? • What stories are being left out of Canada’s official heritage landscape?
