02:50 PM le Thursday October 2nd, 2008
The most recent newsletter from the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada has many pages about their conference held in Yellowknife this summer. The CFPRH members were atteding this conference.
You can read the newsletter it in PDF.
10:21 AM le Tuesday September 23rd, 2008
Members of the Canadian Forum for Public Research on Heritage gathered in Yellowknife to discuss the future development of the forum and to share each and everyone’s expectations and ideas. The meeting, held all day long on saturday, was instructive in many ways and should initiate the collaboration between researchers. The priority will be to setup means for everybody to share information about their projects in order to improve the research on heritage across Canada. More precisions about what has been said will be reported over the next few days, but until then, here is a photo of the meeting.
10:20 AM le Tuesday September 23rd, 2008
Le 1er avril 2008 – Luc Noppen, directeur de l’Institut du patrimoine et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain-ESG et Lucie K. Morisset, professeure au Département d’études urbaines et touristiques et présidente du Conseil scientifique de l’Institut du patrimoine, ont obtenu une subvention de 2 millions $ sur sept ans du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH), pour établir le Forum canadien de recherche publique sur le patrimoine. Ce projet, qui fédère plusieurs Chaires de recherche du Canada en patrimoine et des chercheurs de renommés internationale, du Cap-Breton à Vancouver, a reçu le soutien de nombreux partenaires, parmi lesquels Héritage Canada, la Société pour l’étude de l’architecture au Canada, la Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Society et Inuit Heritage.
Forum canadien de recherche publique sur le patrimoine
Puisqu’au Canada, en matière de patrimoine, les forces sont éparpillées, les efforts dispersés et rarement conjoints, et puisqu’il s’agit là d’un domaine d’importance – le patrimoine étant le fondement de la construction des identités collectives – le Forum canadien de recherche publique sur le patrimoine aspire à réunir décideurs et chercheurs de tous milieux dans la conception d’un dialogue entre l’expertise et les collectivités.
Créé à l’UQAM en janvier 2006, le FCRPP se veut donc un réseau national et international qui soutient la collaboration entre les chercheurs, les praticiens, les décideurs et les utilisateurs dans le domaine du patrimoine. Il est à la fois un lieu de recherche, d’observation, d’information et de concertation qui rassemble une conférence télématique, un observatoire, un wiki (wikipedia.org), une revue électronique, ainsi que des blogues. Le FCRPP rend disponible les résultats de la recherche et intègre celles sur le patrimoine, afin de résoudre des problèmes multisectoriels et pancanadiens et pouvoir être en mesure de décliner une force nationale pour résoudre des problèmes locaux. Le Forum a aussi comme projet de publier une cinquantaine d’ouvrages dans les sept prochaines années, surtout pour promouvoir les travaux des chercheurs de la relève en patrimoine.
Grâce à la subvention du CRSH, le Forum compte faire du patrimoine un objet de recherche publique s’orientant autour de trois grands « chantiers » : l’avenir du patrimoine religieux (sous la direction de Luc Noppen), l’avenir du patrimoine moderne (sous la direction de France Vanlaethem, professeure à l’École de design de l’UQAM) et la formation de la mémoire patrimoniale des Canadiens (sous la direction de Lucie K. Morisset).
Luc Noppen et Lucie K. Morisset
En plus des mentions déjà faites plus haut, Luc Noppen et Lucie K. Morisset, sont historiens d’architecture, professeurs au Département d’études urbaines et touristiques de l’École des sciences de la gestion et chercheurs au Centre interuniversitaire d’études sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions (CÉLAT-UQAM). Depuis plus de 20 ans Luc Noppen lutte entre autres pour la connaissance, la reconnaissance et la sauvegarde des églises du Québec, comprises comme des monuments déterminants de l’héritage culturel québécois. Lucie K. Morisset est une spécialiste de l’histoire de la forme urbaine et, en patrimoine, dirige des équipes de recherche sur la mémoire patrimoniale du Québec (subventions CRSH et FQRSC). Ensemble ils ont publié une trentaine de livres et quelque deux cents articles et rapports de recherche. Ils dirigent une équipe de quelque vingt-cinq jeunes chercheurs (maîtrise, doctorat, post-doctorat)
Cochercheurs
Plusieurs cochercheurs et collaborateurs se joignent à Luc Noppen, Lucie K. Morisset et France Vanlaethem pour la mise en œuvre du FCRPP, dont Yves Bergeron, professeur au Département d’histoire de l’art et Martin Drouin, professeur associé au du Département d’études urbaines et touristiques.
Lire aussi sur le site de l’UQAM.
Source : Huguette Lucas, conseillère en relations de presse
Division des relations avec la presse et événements spéciaux
Service des communications
Université du Québec à Montréal
Tél. : (514) 987-3000, poste 6832
lucas.huguette@uqam.ca
10:20 AM le Tuesday September 23rd, 2008
The CFPRH/FCRPP project will be presented to the SSHRC in December 2007 in the context of the Strategic Knowledge Clusters program.
In view of the upcoming submission of the grant application in the next weeks—should I say next days—I hereby will describe the activities realized or supported by the CFPRH—those that are already underway. I will then report on our successful projects and those that could not be realized. Finally, I will briefly set forth the projects that we were able to realize with SSHRC’s support as well as your cooperation as co-researchers, collaborators, and partners.
A. Summary of activities
First of all, I will emphasize that our strategy all through spring, summer and autumn 2006 was focused on activities, as we believed we would only submit a grant application in spring of 2007. Everything unfolded very rapidly with the program’s new conditions announced in September, with very short deadlines. Everything leads us to believe that SSHRC is trying to limit the new projects applications, proposing to universities to select between the groups already funded those that would deserve a more consistent support, in the longer term.
Then, please let me remind you that the object of our request was not to generate new activities, but rather to network the heritage stakeholders and to facilitate, among other things, their participation in events and projects in Canada aimed at the enhanced mobilization of research knowledge.
1. We have established some links with the Canadian Association of Professional Heritage Consultants (CAPHC) / Association canadienne d’experts conseils en patrimoine (ACECP). On May 6th and 7th, 2006, Lucie K. Morisset and I have been invited to present the CFPRH/FCRPP project at the annual symposium of that Association that mostly brings together consultants and heritage planners, employees of governmental and municipal services. That forum has allowed us to easily get in touch with a large group of professionals with whom academic researchers do not have much contact. That group has no base in Québec and we are in the process of inviting them to a first meeting in Montréal; that will allow them to broaden their membership network while facilitating the dissemination of their activities. It is indeed important that heritage management cultures, of Canada and Québec, be more widely known, reciprocally. Moreover, that group, who each year awards a series of prizes rewarding the best preservation/restoration examples in Canada, has manifested its interest in promulgating the winning projects in the Architecture Canada journal, published by the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada / Société pour l’étude de l’architecture au Canada, partner of our Forum since the beginning. Two young Montréal researchers have also been funded to participate in that meeting.
2. As part of the Annual Congress of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada / Société pour l’étude de l’architecture au Canada held in Charlottetown June 15-17, 2006, we have organized a session to present the CFPRH/FCRPP and discuss it with some 50 networking participants.
3. We have contributed to a Symposium of Nova Scotia Heritage, organized on June 19-20, 2006 at the Université Sainte-Anne in Pointe-de-l’Église (N.S.). Taking part in that event and, above all, sharing our “address books” have made it possible to greet participants from Québec and French Ontario (SOS-Churches) in workshops on the theme of the protection of the great wooden churches of Acadia. That event has made it possible to establish the future partnership of three universities (Laval, Sainte-Anne, and UQAM) on the theme of built and immaterial religious heritage, with a sound local anchorage in Pointe-de-l’Église.
4. Following our meeting in Charlottetown, the CFPRH has sponsored one day of workshops, the Forum on the built heritage leadership, as part of the Annual Congress of the Heritage Canada Foundation, in Ottawa, Thursday October 12th, from 8:30 to 16:00. The Heritage Canada Foundation had invited thirty or so representatives of local and provincial organizations dedicated to the preservation and development of heritage. Taking into account the results of that meeting, the group, has agreed to hold an annual meeting during the Annual Congress of the Foundation, in order to develop a real heritage network. That group constitutes a first-hand interface for academic researchers. Our CFPRH project has contributed to that meeting through a $5,000 grant.
5. In order to promote the bringing together of established and young researchers in history with those in built heritage, the CFPRH has contributed to Heritage workshops held as part of the 59th Congress of the Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française, October 19-21, 2006 in Montréal. The theme of the Congress was “Day-to-day history.” Two workshops on heritage were held, one on the theme of “day-to-day heritagization”(Friday, October 20th session) and a second on the theme of “Acknowledging heritage protection in Québec” (Saturday, October 21st session). Contacts between built landscape researchers and historians are quite infrequent and that meeting opened fruitful exchanges on the themes of heritage and memory.
6. The Second International Conference of Young Researchers in Heritage will be held at Université Laval, in Québec, on December 1-2, 2006, following a similar event organized at UQAM in September 2005, with a view, specifically, to promote the mobility of young researchers and the broadening of their audiences. That symposium organized jointly by the Canada Research Chair on Ethnological Heritage, associated with Université Laval’s Institut du patrimoine culturel, and the Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage, associated with UQAM’s Institut du patrimoine, will bring together about thirty young academic researchers from Québec, Canada, France, Switzerland, and Belgium. The FRRPP’s contribution—whose two CRC holders are co-researchers —had made it possible to invite two young Canadian researchers (Vancouver et Kingston) and one of their teachers to an event up until now essentially Franco-Québecker and francophone.
7. We have also announced the implementation of the CFPRH in several other forums and publications, notably in Architecture Canada, the SEAC/SSAC journal. We are also actively involved in the development of the network’s Web site that will serve as a real discussion forum.
B. Progress Report
All these activities have already had concrete effects, in terms of networking. Several new organizations have accepted to sponsor the CFPRH, including the Heritage Canada Foundation, the Ontario Heritage Trust, the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Inuit Heritage Trust.
In addition, several academic colleagues have indicated their interest in joining the CFPRH, either as co-researchers or collaborators. We are in touch with them and are evaluating the relevancy of enlarging our circle. But opinions to that effect are divided. Neither SSHRC nor UQAM’ Research Service are much in favour of large teams that may remain artificial groups and SSHRC emphasizes that co-researchers must have been awarded research grants; in fact networking should increase the effects of various SSHRC grant programs (Chairs, standard grants, RDI, etc.).
There are some activities we were unable to realize. The late announcement of the contest results made it impossible for several co-researchers and collaborators to come to meetings held mostly in Eastern Canada. We thought we would have time to organize some activities or expand the CFPRH/FCRPP in the West, but we were unable to do so due to the lack of time, and particularly to the preparation of the new grant application. One of the strong points of the renewal request will be the development of a solid pole in the West (Winnipeg or Calgary?) that would have the initiative of some projects and their relevant funding. We shall discuss that point with our Western co-researchers in the upcoming days.
C. Projects
The level of financing of SSHRC-funded projects being clearly higher than it was at the period of start-up, we foresee a more substantial and varied programming.
1. Facilitate the mobility of young researchers. The network should provide a budget to encourage the mobility of young researchers, particularly of those who were awarded a Canada scholarship (masters and doctoral) to be used in a Canadian university. Mobility could be for a short period (presentation in a scientific forum) or medium term (field research).
2. Help for publication. Creation of two collections, coedited by Canadian editors, one on Architectural History in Canada / L’Histoire de l’architecture au Canada, the other on Heritage Studies /Patrimoine. Both collections would publish articles in English and French and would be distributed all through Canada. The CFPRH/FCRPP could also support existing publications through the financing of thematic issues and improving of the distribution of certain titles with young researchers.
3. Development of the CFPRH/FCRPP Web site. That site, presently under construction, intends to be a real forum for discussions and exchanges. It also aims to be an information portal on all teachings, trainings, and research held in universities and other Canadian institutions and organizations.
4. Symposia. Each year the CFPRH/FCRPP will offer a certain number of symposia, all through Canada. According to the strengths and expertise of co-researchers and collaborators, scientific meetings would be organized and colleagues, young researchers and field players would be invited. For example we can imagine conferences on The economics of heritage, Mixed heritage, The protection of Christian churches in native communities, etc. These symposia could be held in the context of existing activities.
5. Conferences and congresses. The aim of the CFPRH/FCRPP is not to generate new associations or organizations. So, with a global vision of heritage, it is a matter of proposing to existing organizations to add a workshop, to dedicate one day to an exchange forum on heritage, where academic researchers and field players would meet and exchange. “The Forum of heritage decision-makers” sponsored by the Heritage Canada Foundation, could become the main medium around which more thematized meetings could be organized.
The preceding list is not exhaustive and we are in the process of updating it, notably using suggestions made in this first stage. Your comments and suggestions of course are welcome. It is obvious that our grant application, covering a period of seven years, will remain general on several aspects; consequently it is bound to evolve, while remaining true to the program’s objectives.
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