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PROGRAMME

Language: English/Korean (Simultaneous Interpretation)

Day1 (9.21.Wed.)

Day1
Time Programs
14:00 ~ 14:20 Opening Ceremony Opening Speech
Kyunghoon Yi Director of the NIHC
Welcoming Speech
Eung-Chon Choi Administrator of Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea, Jisung Kim Director-General of UNESCO ICHCAP
Congratulatory Messages
UNESCO, City of Jeonju, etc.
14:12 ~ 14:50 Keynote Presentations Intangible Cultural Heritage and its challenges to the Authorised Heritage Discourse
Laurajane Smith, Professor and Director of the Centre of Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University
The Role of Traditional Knowledge in Modern Society
Kyung-koo Han
Secretary-General of Korean National Commission for UNESCO
14:50 ~ 15:50 Session 1 Safeguarding and Transmitting Traditional Knowledge as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Moderator: Chul-In Yoo
Professor Emeritus, Jeju National University
Presentation 1 UNESCO’s 2003 Convention and Indigenous Heritage: How Can the 2003 Convention Support Indigenous Communities’ Food Sovereignty?
Janet Blake
Associate Professor, Shahid Beheshti University
Presentation 2 Resource Conservation and Utilization through Indigenous Knowledge in a Tribal Community in Odisha, India
Deepak Kumar Behera
Vice-Chancellor, Kalinga Institute of Social Science
Nibedita Nath
Associate Professor, Kalahandi University
Presentation 3 Protecting Transmission of Traditional Knowledge: From Legal Perspective
Soyoung Yook
Professor and Dean of Chungnam National University
Presentation 4 Safeguarding Traditional Knowledge: International Recognition and its Role for a Sustainable Future
Peter Strasser
Professor and head of the Center for Cultural Property Protection, University for Continuing Education Krems
15:50 ~ 16:30 Panel Discussion 1

Day2 (9.22.Thu.)

Day2
Time Programs
14:00 ~ 14:30 Special Lecture 1 The Systematic Discovery and Understanding Traditional Knowledge as Intangible Cultural Heritage Hahn-Sok Wang
Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University
14:30 ~ 15:30 Session 2 Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Water Managemen
Moderator: Kyung-Taek Yim
Professor, Jeonbuk National University
Presentation 1 Traditional Irrigation knowledge and Water Management in Japan
Yama Yoshiyuki
Professor of Kwansei Gakuin University
Presentation 2 Implementation of Tri Hita Karana Philosophy for the Sustainability of the Subak Irrigation System in Bali, Indonesia
Wayan Windia
Professor and Head of Subak Research Centre, Universitas Udayana
Presentation 3 The Performance of Water Governance as Cultural Heritage in Peru
Michelle Nicholson-Sanz
Researcher, Leverhulme Trust
Presentation 4 Indigenous Knowledge of Farming Practices and Water Management in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka
Rekha Nianthi
Professor, University of Peradeniya
15:30 ~ 16:00 Panel Discussion 2

Day3 (9.23.Fri.)

Day3
Time Programs
14:00 ~ 14:30 Special Lecture 2 Traditional Medicine as Intangible Cultural HeritageJudith Farquhar
Max Palevsky Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
14:30 ~ 15:30 Session 3 Understanding and Developing Traditional Medicine as Traditional Knowledge
Moderator: Taewoo Kim
Associate Professor, Kyung Hee University
Presentation 1 Restoring Faith in Native Healing: Guma Yo’amte
Zita Pangelinan
Co-Founder, Håya Cultural and Heritage Preservation Foundation
Presentation 2 Traditional Healing Practice in Thailand: Nuad Thai as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Prapoj Petrakard
Advisor of Folk Healer Network Society
Presentation 3 The safeguarding of the health system associated with the Traditional Knowledge of the Jaguar Shamans of Yuruparí, in Colombia
Martín Andrade-Pérez
Researcher, Erigaie Foundation
Presentation 4 Traditional Medicinal Knowledge and Practices in Syria
Rasha Barhoum,
Executive Assistant, Syria Trust for Development
15:30 ~ 16:00 Panel Discussion 3 and Closing Ceremony