17/04/2024

Panel Exhibition ‘ICH Resilience amid COVID-19 Pandemic’ was featured in Yomiuri Shimbun (March 2024)

The panel exhibition ‘ICH Resilience amid COVID-19 Pandemic’ organized by IRCI in cooperation with Sakai City was featured in the evening edition of the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper on 23 March 2024. As the final year of IRCI’s project ‘Research on ICH …

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12/04/2024

Workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia, was held on 18-19 March 2024

In the IRCI project, ‘Research on ICH Contribution to SDGs: Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Cities and Communities’, three case studies have been conducted in the Angkor region of Cambodia, George Town of Malaysia, and the Ma…

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08/04/2024

Final Report of the ‘Research on ICH Safeguarding and Disaster Risk Management’ project (FY 2020-2023) was published in March 2024

The final report of IRCI’s four-year research project on ICH Safeguarding and Disaster Risk Management (FY 2020-2023), ‘Natural Hazards and the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Experiences from the Asia-Pacific Region’ was published onli…

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08/04/2024

IRCI participated in the international symposium held in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, and presented its activities (1-5 March 2024)

IRCI participated in the international symposium ‘We Are Site Managers’ held in George Town, Penang, Malaysia during 1-5 March 2024, and presented its activities. The George Town World Heritage Incorporated (GTWHI) in Malaysia was responsible for org…

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01/04/2024

Upcoming call for participants! Publication Programme for Early Career Researchers (Open in May 2024)

  Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding Publication Programme for Early Career Researchers Have you conducted research on intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the Asia-Pacific region, but have little or no experience in publishing? This p…

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01/04/2024

UPCOMING! International Conference: New Frontiers of Research for Safeguarding ICH (3 days in February 2025 in Osaka, Japan)

  Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding International Conference New Frontiers of Research for Safeguarding ICH 3 Days | February 2025 | Osaka, Japan   The International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pac…

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22/03/2024

Recording of the 6th Online Seminar is now available

Video recording of the 6th Online Seminar titled “Synergizing Cultural Heritage in the Multicultural Urban Context of George Town” by Dr ANG Ming Chee (General Manager of George Town World Heritage Incorporated [GTWHI], Malaysia), held on 22 January …

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27/02/2024

Recordings of the Special Online Seminar celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Convention are now available

Video recordings of the Special Online Seminar “20 Years of the 2003 Convention: Retrospect and Prospect” held on 25 October and 1 November 2023 are now available on IRCI’s official YouTube channel. Two sessions, corresponding to the fourth and fifth…

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19/02/2024

[Deadline extended to 15 March 2024] Call for Case Studies on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Actions from Asia-Pacific Region

UNESCO has extended the deadline for interested teams and individuals to submit case studies from Asia and the Pacific that illustrate the roles of and risks to intangible cultural heritage (ICH), as well as strategies for safeguarding ICH in the con…

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16/02/2024

The sixth online seminar for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region was held on 22 January 2024

The online seminar series for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region, launched in FY 2022 to discuss various issues and the latest trends in ICH research in the Asia-Pacific region, offered its sixth seminar on 22 January 2024. At the sixth semi…

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26/01/2024

ICH specialists from Hong Kong and the Philippines visited IRCI

On 9 January 2024, IRCI received two courtesy visits of foreign ICH specialists. In the morning, a staff member of Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Heritage Office, Ms Agnes Wong, visited IRCI. We exchanged information on each other’s organizations incl…

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