Symposiums/Forums

21/11/2024

International Symposium ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Cities and Communities: Perspectives for Integrated Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region’ and related events were held in Kyoto (10-12 October 2024)

As the final event under the research project ‘Research on ICH Contributing to SDGs: Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Cities and Communities (FY 2022–2024)’, IRCI held the international symposium ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage for Su…

10/09/2024

[Deadline extended to 10 October 2024] International Symposium ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Cities and Communities: Perspectives for Integrated Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region’ to be held on 11 October 2024

**The registration deadline has been extended until Thursday 10 October 2024. Please click here to register (by 10 October, 2024). Registration is strongly encouraged by the closing date, however, we will also accept registration at the reception des…

12/01/2024

＜Call for Participation> UNESCO week 2024 International Symposium: Building a Sustainable Future Together (Organized by MEXT Japan, Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, ACCU)

UNESCO Future Cooperation Platform (The Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU)) has announced a call for participants for the above upcoming event scheduled on 19 January 2024. ———————————— Interested to learn more about how we can build a mo…

04/12/2023

＜Call for Participation＞JCIC-Heritage 2023 Symposium “50 Years of World Cultural Heritage: Past and Future of Japan’s contribution”

Japan Consortium for International Cooperation in Cultural Heritage (JCIC) has announced a call for participants for the above upcoming event scheduled for 20 January 2024. ● Date ： 20 January 2024 (Sat.） 13:00 〜17:30 （Venue opens at 12:30…

18/10/2023

Keynote lecture on the Fusion of Intangible and Tangible heritage is now available online

A keynote lecture titled ‘Fusion of “Intangible” and “Tangible”’ by Mr Motonaka Makoto, Director General of Nara National Research Institutes for Cultural Properties, Japan, is now available on IRCI’s official YouTube channel. This lecture was given …

22/02/2023

ICH’s contribution to SDGs project: the first international symposium was held (February 2023)

The International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) held the first symposium in Nara, Japan on 1–2 February 2023 as a kick-off event of its new project “Research on ICH Contributing to SDGs – Intangibl…

23/12/2022

Symposium on SDGs Project to be held on 1st February 2023

The International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) is holding an international symposium under its research project “Research on ICH Contributing to SDGs: Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable …

24/01/2022

ICH’s contribution to SDGs project: an expert meeting and international symposium were held (December 2021)

International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) held an expert meeting and a public symposium online on 21–22 December 2021 to summarize the two-year project “ICH’s contribution to SDGs – Educati…

30/11/2021

Public Symposium on SDGs Project to be held on 22 December 2021

The International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) is holding an online public symposium entitled “ICH Contribution to Better Education and Sustainable Communities” on 22 December 2021 as …

06/10/2021

Presentation Abstracts for IRCI Researchers Forum are now available

Presentation Abstracts for the IRCI Researchers Forum “Progress and Challenges in the Research for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage – Towards a Sustainable Future –” (29 October) are now available on the website. For…

10/09/2021

The IRCI Researchers Forum will be held on 29 Oct 2021

Taking the opportunity of its 10th anniversary, IRCI is holding the IRCI Researchers Forum “Progress and Challenges in the Research for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage – Towards a Sustainable Future -” on 29 October 2021. 1. Ob…

16/02/2021

SDGs – International Symposium held online (January 2021)

IRCI organised an online international symposium by inviting experts from UNESCO Bangkok office, Japan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Viet Nam and the Philippines under the project of “ICH’s contribution to SDGs” on 28th and 29th January 2021. I…

12/02/2019

IRCI’s International Symposium was held for ICH’s contribution to education (January 2019)

IRCI organised an International Symposium on “Multi-disciplinary study on intangible cultural heritage’s contribution to sustainable development: Focusing on education” on 21 and 22 January 2019 at Nara University of Education in cooperation with Nar…

02/08/2017

24 Specialists of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) from 7 countries discussed on current safeguarding situation (July 2017)

IRCI hosted an international symposium ‘Glocal Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage: Local Communities, Researchers, States and UNESCO’ from 7th to 9th July in Tokyo under the joint sponsorship of Global Study Centre of Seijo Univ…

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