06/11/2025

Representative of IRCI Advisory Body visited IRCI on 23 October 2025

Dr Chris Ballard (Associate Professor of the Australian National University), who is the representative of the IRCI Advisory Body and a member of the Planning Committee of the Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding, visited IRCI on 23 Octob…

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20/08/2025

New Publication of Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding and Climate Action in Asia and the Pacific

IRCI is pleased to share the news that UNESCO has released a publication, Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding and Climate Action in Asia and the Pacific. It examines how communities across Asia and the Pacific draw on ICH, such as traditional c…

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05/08/2025

IRCI participated in the Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change, held in Chengdu, China

‘Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: Enhancing knowledge sharing and networking in Asia and the Pacific’ was held in Chengdu, China, from 29 May to 1 June 2025. The event was co-organized by UNESCO Regional Office for East As…

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09/05/2025

Online kickoff meeting of the ‘Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region’ project held on 3 April 2025

IRCI held an online kickoff meeting for its project ‘Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region’ on 3 April 2025. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce the project’s background, objectives and goals, …

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02/04/2025

Recording of the 8th Online Seminar is now available (March 2025)

Video recording of the 8th Online Seminar titled ‘Leveraging local and indigenous knowledge to enhance adaptive capacity: Examples from Southeast Asian coastal communities’ by Lisa Hiwasaki (Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Affairs, Universi…

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02/04/2025

Recording of the 7th Online Seminar is now available (March 2025)

Video recording of the 7th Online Seminar titled ‘Indigenous and Local knowledge of changing weather and climate: UNESCO experiences of community-led research in Africa and the Caribbean’ by Dr Nigel Thomas Crawhall (Chief of Section, Local and Indig…

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17/03/2025

The 7th and 8th online seminars for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region were held (21 and 26 February 2025)

IRCI’s Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding, in conjunction with IRCI’s new project ‘Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region’, hosted two online seminars dealing with topics related to local …

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