World Forum for intangible Cultural Heritage

Jang Hyuk IM MODERATOR

With a specialization in folklore studies, the professor served for nine years as a curator at Korea Heritage Service, the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, and the National Folk Museum of Korea, contributing to the transmission and promotion of intangible and folk heritage. Followin..

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Joseph LO SPEAKER

Dr. Joseph Lo is an expert in intangible cultural heritage and cultural and creative industry development with over 25 years of field experience across Asia, including Bhutan, China (Tibet), Mongolia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste and in ASEAN. His work bridges cultural policy, traditional knowledge syst..

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Kay LIMAK SPEAKER

Kay Limak is a cultural agent, a musician, composer, producer and a music teacher. Born in TimorLeste during Indonesian occupation. At a young age, Kay and his family left Timor-Leste to take refuge in Lisbon, Portugal in 1996. A country where became a seconde home since then and later followed his ..

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Anna YAU SPEAKER

Anna Yau is the bureau member of the International Council of Monuments and Sites Intangible Cultural Heritage Scientific Committee (ICOMOS-ICH), an accredited UNESCO Global Network Facilitator of the Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, and instructor of UNESCO Living Heritage ..

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Hyun-jeong LEE SPEAKER

Hyun-jeong LEE received her PhD in Literature from Jeju National University. She is currently a Research Professor at Korea National University of Transportation and serves as a member of the Cultural Heritage Committee of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province in the field of folklore. She also works..

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Neel Kamal CHAPAGAIN DISCUSSANT

Neel Kamal Chapagain is a professor of architecture at Kathmandu University, Nepal, and a member of the UNESCO global facilitators’ network for safeguarding ICH under the 2003 convention’s framework. Until recently he was a professor of heritage management at Ahmedabad University in India, where h..

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