
Helena Wangefelt Ström is a PhD Candidate in Museology at Umeå University, Sweden. She is working on a thesis on heritagisation of religion as an act of control, employing a case study on early modern Swedish travellers to Rome and Venice. Her Master degree from Uppsala University in History of Ideas and Science (2011) explored the relation to Catholic artefacts and memories in 17th century Lutheran Orthodox Sweden. During past years she has been awarded the C M Lerici scholarship which allowed her to spend one academic year in Rome and Venice.
In the late 1990’s she was part of a cataloguing project on Queen Christina’s manuscript collection in the Vatican library. She has had several bursaries and scholarships from, among others, the Swedish Institute in Rome and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, to work in libraries and archives in Rome and Venice.
Helena has co-arranged international workshops in Rome and Umeå connected to topics on religion, heritage and cultural contexts. She has presented papers in international conferences in various fields such as sociology of religion, cultural history and critical heritage studies, and arranged a session in the ACHS conference in Canberra (2014) on sacredness, heritage and authenticity. She is a member of research groups EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissent and Radicalism, www.emodir.net) and UGPS (Umeå Group for Premodern Studies).
Helena has published articles in Swedish academic peer-reviewed journals, among which ”Heligt – Hotfullt – Historiskt. Kulturarvifieringen av det katolska i 1600-talets Sverige” (2011) in Lychnos, annual for History of Science and Ideas in Sweden. She has articles accepted and under preparation for an international anthology (planned for publication in 2016).
Research interests include contemporary heritage politics, uses of the sacred past, religious heritage in conflicts, religious controversy, early modern history, history of collections and museums, relics and sacred materiality, and Italian – Scandinavian relations in the early modern period.
In the late 1990’s she was part of a cataloguing project on Queen Christina’s manuscript collection in the Vatican library. She has had several bursaries and scholarships from, among others, the Swedish Institute in Rome and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, to work in libraries and archives in Rome and Venice.
Helena has co-arranged international workshops in Rome and Umeå connected to topics on religion, heritage and cultural contexts. She has presented papers in international conferences in various fields such as sociology of religion, cultural history and critical heritage studies, and arranged a session in the ACHS conference in Canberra (2014) on sacredness, heritage and authenticity. She is a member of research groups EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissent and Radicalism, www.emodir.net) and UGPS (Umeå Group for Premodern Studies).
Helena has published articles in Swedish academic peer-reviewed journals, among which ”Heligt – Hotfullt – Historiskt. Kulturarvifieringen av det katolska i 1600-talets Sverige” (2011) in Lychnos, annual for History of Science and Ideas in Sweden. She has articles accepted and under preparation for an international anthology (planned for publication in 2016).
Research interests include contemporary heritage politics, uses of the sacred past, religious heritage in conflicts, religious controversy, early modern history, history of collections and museums, relics and sacred materiality, and Italian – Scandinavian relations in the early modern period.
Sessions in which Helena Wangefelt Ström participates
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Pause
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Pre-Conference Tour: Mile End, the Crossroads of Three Cultures
2 hours 30 minutes
13:00
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15:30
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UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS)
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DS Registration table (meeting point)
Tour
17:00
17:00
Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
2 hours 30 minutes
17:00
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19:30
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Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN)
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Former Chapel
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Potential
Tim Winter (Deakin University)
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Potential
Lucie K. Morisset (Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain)
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Moderator
Clarence Epstein (Concordia University)
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Participant
Christine Zachary-Deom
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Participant
Luc Noppen (Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain)
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Participant
Serge Joyal
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Cocktail
9:00
9:00
Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
1 hour
9:00
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10:00
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UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J)
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Salle Alfred-Laliberté
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Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
11:00
11:00
13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices
30 minutes
11:00
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11:30
Part of:
Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
Participant
Rodney Harrison (University College London)
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Paper
Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
6 hours
11:00
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17:00
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UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS)
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DS-M320
Moderator
Eva Löfgren (Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
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Moderator
Ola Wetterberg (University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation)
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Regular session
16.00 Worshipping the Past, Heritagizing Religion. How did the (Un)Holy Alliance between Churches and Heritage Come to Be?
30 minutes
11:00
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11:30
Part of:
Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
Participant
Helena Wangefelt Ström (Umeå University)
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Paper
14.00 Heritagization and Religionization of Islamicate Culture in Europe
30 minutes
11:00
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11:30
Part of:
Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
Participant
Klas Grinell
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Paper
18:30
18:30
Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
1 hour 30 minutes
18:30
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20:00
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UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J)
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Salle Alfred-Laliberté
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Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University)
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Moderator
Laurajane Smith (Australian National University)
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Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
9:00
9:00
09.30 Making and Re-making Russian Old Believers' Heritage
30 minutes
9:00
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9:30
Part of:
Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II
Participant
Cristina Clopot (Heriot Watt University)
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Paper
14:00
14:00
Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
1 hour 30 minutes
14:00
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15:30
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Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal
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Cummings Auditorium
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Participant
James Count Early (Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States)
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Moderator
Michelle L. Stefano (University of Maryland, American Studies, United States)
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Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
7:30
7:30
Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
8 hours
7:30
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15:30
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Église Saint-Michel
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Église Saint-Michel
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Édith Prégent (Université du Québec à Montréal, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain, Musée régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges)
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Moderator
Lilian Grootswagers-Theuns (Erfgoed.nu / council member of FRH (Future for Religious Heritage, European network for places of worship / Vice chair of Task Force Toekomst Kerkgebouwen / member of ICOMOS )
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Regular session
11.30 The Heritagization of Religion: Heritagization Processes in Swedish Policies on the Built Heritage of the Church of Sweden since 1920
30 minutes
7:30
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8:00
Part of:
Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
Participant
Tobias Harding (University of Jyväskylä)
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Paper
9:00
9:00
09.30 Cultural Heritage as a Means of Development in the Wake of Ethnic Conflict: Kosovo, 2000–2008
30 minutes
9:00
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9:30
Part of:
Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
Participant
Mattias Legnér (Uppsala University)
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Paper
13:30
13:30
Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
3 hours 30 minutes
13:30
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17:00
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Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory)
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Salle Raoul-Gauthier
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Moderator
Luc Noppen (Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain)
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Moderator
Chantal Turbide (L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal)
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Regular session
9:00
9:00
Post-Conference Tour: Les églises converties de Montréal | Recycled Churches in Montreal
7 hours
9:00
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16:00
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UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS)
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DS Registration table (meeting point)
Tour