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Conferences and Lectures

Selected Conferences

  • September 2008: International Sociological Association Forum on Sociology, Barcelona. Presenter 'Museums and the Re-configuration of Collective Memory in Contemporary Art Worlds'
  • August 2008: Culture Section Roundtable. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, Mass. Sustainable Creative Work and Community Well-being in Culture-led, Placebased Urban Regeneration Strategies
  • May 2008: Joint session for ACCUTE, CPSA and CCA on "Neoliberalism and Provincial Cultural Industries Development", Annual Conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Council, Vancouver. Co-presenter (with Catherine Murray). "Challenges to Neo-liberal Theory: Perspectives from Two Coasts"
  • October 2007: Closing Plenary Panelist. Art Institute of Chicago/Northwestern UniversitySeries on Conservation Science, Chicago, Illinois. "Crossing Boundaries: the Impact of House Paints on the Artist's Palette"
  • October 2007: "Enclosure, Emancipatory Communication and the Global City: An international conference of the Union for Democratic Communications", Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 25-28. Time-based Media and the Re-Education of Cultural Heritage Professionals
  • October 2007: Annual Meeting on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts. New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Research Center for Leadership in Action, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York City, October 11-13, 2007. "Government Arts Support and the Politics of Redress for Racial and Linguistic Minorities".
  • March 2007: "New Frontiers in Arts Sociology", Arts Network Interim Conference, Meeting of the European Sociological Association, Lueneburg, Germany, March 28-April 1, 2007. "Sustainability, Consensus and Conflict in Contemporary Art Conservation".
  • August 2006: Teaching Culture Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal. "Questions of Context: International Perspectives on Teaching Cultural Sociology".
  • August 2006: Culture Section Round Table, Space and Place Network, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal. Sites of Memory in Rural Communities and Cultural Recognition Processes: Insights from african Cultural Heritage initiative in Atlantic Canada.
  • October 2005: "Vingt ans de sociologie de l'art: Bilan et perspectives". Meeting organized by the Centre de sociologies des représentations et des pratiques culturelles and Groupe de Recherche OPuS, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble. "De la culture matérielle au réseau social: nouvelles stratégies de constitution du patrimoine"
  • September 2005: European Sociological Association, Torun, Poland. "Museums and Memories of the Slave Route: Strategies for a Multi-Cultural Future" in thematic sessions on "Culture, Collective Memory and Public Discourse".