Book launch: Musée et écologie – Missions, engagements et pratiques

Associate Professor (Cultural Management and Organization), Department of Leisure, Culture and Tourism Studies, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) 

Aude Porcedda is an Associate Professor at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. She serves as director of the Collection 21 series at Éditions Hermann (Paris). Her research focuses on managing the transition toward sustainable development and on the relationship between health and culture, explored through the lens of universal accessibility in museums. Her approach seeks to move beyond the traditional divide between use value and exchange value, and to study the museum as an organization in its own right. 

Preventive Conservation Advisor, Canadian Conservation Institute 

Marianne Breault is a conservator-restorer who graduated from the Institut national du patrimoine in 2018 with a specialization in paintings. She joined the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) in 2019, where she conducts preventive conservation assessments and provides advisory services to heritage institutions across Canada. She also contributes to publications and training materials. 

Professor of New Museum Studies, Intangible Heritage and Cultural Objects, Department of Art History, Université du Québec 

Jennifer Carter is a Full Professor in the Department of Art History and Director of Graduate Studies in Museum Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her research focuses on three main areas: the role of museums in historical and transitional justice; museum narratives and their architectural and exhibitionary representations; and the forms and practices of critical museology, as well as the roles museums play in socioecological and economic transition. She is the author of Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice, Taylor and Francis, 2023. 

Ph.D., Curator of Art Collections, Musée de la civilisation (Quebec, Canada) 

Vincent Giguère has served as Curator of Art Collections at the Musée de la civilisation since 2009. He holds a doctorate in art history (Université Laval, 2021) and is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Sciences at Université Laval and a collaborating member of the Inter-University Centre for Early Modern Studies. His scholarly interests focus on visual culture and the history of collections and museums in Quebec.