16/10/2025

The 9th Online Seminar for Safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific Region was held on 18 September 2025

IRCI’s Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding hosted its 9th online seminar for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region on 18 September 2025, in conjunction with the ‘Preliminary Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Ecosystems’ …

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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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04/03/2025

Recording of the International Symposium ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Cities and Communities’ is now available

Video recording of the International Symposium ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Cities and Communities: Perspectives for Integrated Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region’, held in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 October 2024, …

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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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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 …

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15/06/2023

UNESCO’s animation series on ICH and education now available in Japanese

UNESCO Animation series: Teaching and Learning with Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific are added with a new Japanese-subtitled version. IRCI has contributed to the Japanese translation of these video clips. Please visit the followin…

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01/05/2023

IRCI official YouTube channel launched

IRCI is pleased to announce that it has just launched an official YouTube channel to enhance its outreach activities. To begin with, video recordings of three online seminars for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region held in FY 2022 are made av…

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29/03/2023

The second and the third online seminars for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region were held on 17 and 23 March 2023

The online seminar for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region launched in December 2022 aims to address various issues and the latest trends in ICH research in the Asia-Pacific region. Its second and third seminars were held on 17 and 23 March 2…

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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…

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20/08/2020

Director-General of IRCI performed at the webinar held by ICHCAP (August 2020)

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…

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