Professor Melissa Baird presented two papers at the Association of Critical Heritage Studies biennial conference held in Canberra, Australia at Australian National University.
Baird presented her paper titled “Mining is Our Heritage”: Corporate Heritage Discourse and the Politics of Extraction in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The second paper presented, co-authored with Rosemary Coombe, is titled The Limits of Heritage: Corporate Interests and Cultural Rights on Resource Frontiers.
Baird was elected to serve on the governing board of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.