Conference presentations

Richard Kool as granted Research and Professional Development funds to attend and present at two conferences on current research and propose two papers on heritage interpretation in Canada.

My intent through this funding is to present research I’ve been carrying out, or have carried out, at two conferences: the Canadian Communications Association (CCA) which meets as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (virtual), and at the Interpretation Canada (IC) conference (Halifax). The CCA presentation has been accepted, and is titled: "The problem of environmental, science and health communications to science-resistant religious communities". I will be proposing two papers at the IC meeting. One will be based my edited book published by the Royal BC Museum and will relate to the seminal work of the “father” of heritage interpretation in Canada, R. Yorke Edwards. The second will be a paper with my doctoral student, Dr. Jacquie Gilson, and will be based on the two papers we recently published in the Journal of Interpretation Research that explores the place of inspiration in the practice of heritage interpretation.