EVENTS

Seminars

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…

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…

27/12/2023

Online Seminar ‘SYNERGIZING CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE MULTICULTURAL URBAN CONTEXT OF GEORGE TOWN’ to be held on 22 January 2024

IRCI’s Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding is hosting the sixth online seminar for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the Asia-Pacific region on 22 January 2024, inviting Ms ANG Ming Chee, General Manager of the George To…

15/11/2023

Special Online Seminar ‘20 Years of the 2003 Convention: Retrospect and Prospect’ was held

IRCI’s Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding hosted the special online seminar entitled ‘20 YEARS OF THE 2003 CONVENTION: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT’ on 25 October and 1 November 2023, as a part of UNESCO’s celebration for the 20th Anniversar…

07/03/2023

The third online seminar for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region will be held on 23 March 2023

The online seminars for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region launched in December 2022 aim to address various issues and latest trends in ICH research in the Asia-Pacific region. Its third seminar will be held on 23 March 2023. Inviting presen…

22/02/2023

The second online seminar for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region will be held on 17 March 2023

As the first programme offered by ‘Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding’, online seminar series addressing various issues and latest trends in ICH research in the Asia-Pacific region was launched by IRCI in December 2022. Its second semin…

11/01/2023

Recording of the first online seminar for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region is available online

The recording of the first online seminar held on 13 December 2022 under the Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding is now available online. It includes Opening remarks by the Director-General of IRCI, Lecture by Masami Iwasaki (Hokkai-Gaku…

23/12/2022

The first online seminar for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region was held on 13 December 2022

As an initial programme offered by ‘Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding’, a new platform launched by IRCI in this fiscal year, the first online seminar was held on 13 December 2022. Ms Masami Iwasaki (Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan) as …

25/11/2022

The first online seminar for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region will be held on 13 December 2022

As the first programme offered by ‘Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding’, online seminars addressing various issues and the latest trends in ICH research in the Asia-Pacific region will be launched on 13 December 2022. Inviting Ms Masami …

15/09/2022

IRCI researcher lectured at Sakai City’s Seminar for Understanding ICH

On 28 August 2022, the 34th Seminar for Understanding Intangible Cultural Heritage（ICH) was held at the Sakai City Museum co-hosted by Sakai city and IRCI. Under the title of “Traditional Performing Arts and People’s Lives in Java, Indone…

03/03/2022

Online Lecture on ICH to the students of ASEAN countries

Mr IWAMOTO, Director General of IRCI gave a lecture on the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) to 20 students from ASEAN countries, Timor Leste, and Japan on 24 February 2022. The lecture attracted the students by illustrating the characteristics of I…

20/08/2020

Director-General of IRCI performed at the webinar held by ICHCAP

Mr IWAMOTO Wataru, Director-General of IRCI, played a role of a moderator at the webinar held by ICHCAP (UNESCO C2 Center in Republic of Korea) on August 12th, 2020. The webinar was held under the theme of “Inter-regional Field Experience on Curricul…

08/02/2019

National Artist for literature, Virgilio S. Almario gives a lecture at Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Kyoto University

IRCI and Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University coorganised the lecture by Virgilio S. Almario ‘Reconstructing the National Memory towards Nation-Building’ on 31 January 2019 at Inamori Foundation Building, Kyoto University. Aft…

17/01/2019

Lecture by Virgilio S. Almario ‘Reconstructing the National Memory towards Nation-Building’ will be held at Kyoto University on 31 January 2019

IRCI and Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University are going to coorganise the lecture by Virgilio S. Almario ‘Reconstructing the National Memory towards Nation-Building’ on 31 January 2019 at Large Conference Room, 3F, Inamori Fou…

10/06/2015

Public lecture at the seminar on intangible cultural heritage

IRCI has been promoting intangible cultural heritage through contributing to the projects carried out by Sakai City. Akio Arata, Director-General of IRCI, gave a public lecture titled “IRCI and the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intang…

28/03/2013

Report of the 2012 International Field School Alumni Seminar on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia Pacific is published

Report of the 2012 International Field School Alumni Seminar on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia Pacific, which was co-hosted by International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI), an…

14/08/2012

IRCI and SAC Jointly organised a Research Seminar, Inviting Museum-related in Asian Communities and the 2003 Convention

The IRCI and SAC jointly held an international research seminar (International Field School Alumni Seminar: Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific) in Lamphun, Thailand. The attendants at the seminar include 13 curators and…

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