World Forum for intangible Cultural Heritage

Laurajane Smith is professor and director of the Centre of Heritage and Museum Studies, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, the Australian National University. She is a fellow of the Society for the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She founded the Association of Critical Heritage..

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Dr. Kyung-Koo Han is the Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO. As a cultural anthropologist trained at Seoul National University (M.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.), Dr. Han taught anthropology at Kangwon National University, and helped develop the Division of Internation..

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Mr. Chul-In Yoo got a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. Currently, he is a Professor of Anthropology at Jeju National University, Korea; Member of MAB(Man and the Biosphere Programme) National Committee of the Republic of Korea; Editorial Board Member of ..

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Dr. Janet Blake is Associate Professor of Human Rights Law at Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran) and is a member of the Centre of Excellence for Education for Sustainable Development based at the University. She is the Director of an NGO accredited to UNESCO’s 2003 Convention and a member of the C..

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Professor Deepak Kumar Behera is the present Vice Chancellor of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Odisha. He served as the Vice Chancellor of Sambalpur University, Berhampur University and Rajendra University, Odisha. He was a former Professor and the Head of the Department of Anthropology, Sam..

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Professor Soyoung Yook received J.S.D.(Juris Scientiae Doctoris) from Washington Univ. in St. Louis after her study Ewha Womans Univ. and Indiana Univ. at Bloomington. Since 2001, she has taught intellectual property law at Chungnam National Univ.(“CNU”) Law School in S. Korea. Currently she is th..

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Peter Strasser studied Austrian law, European ethnology and international relations at the Universities of Innsbruck (Austria) and Nottingham (UK). After serving as curator in a museum in Austria, since 1997 he joined international organisations (UNESCO, OSCE, EU) in cultural heritage, especially in..

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Han-sok Wang served as a professor of anthropology in the College of Social Sciences of Seoul National University for over 30 years, and is currently an emeritus professor. He specialized in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics and cognitive anthropology, and has widely studied on Korean lingua..

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Kyung Taek Yim received ph.D from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences in the University of Tokyo after studying English Literature in Seogang University and Anthropology from the Graduate School of Seoul National University in Korea. Currently, he is a professor of..

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Yama Yoshiyuki, Ph.D. in Sociology, is Professor and currently acts as Director of the Institute of Disaster Area Revitalization, Regrowth and Governance at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. He also serves/served as Adjunct Professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto Universit..

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Professor Wayan Windia is a researcher of the Subak Research Centre at Universitas Udayana in Bali, Indonesia. He obtained his PhD in 2002 at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, which his dissertation concerning subak system in Bali. He involved on preparations, in order to get UNESCO ..

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Michelle Nicholson-Sanz is a Peruvian-Chilean researcher and practitioner working at the interface of applied theatre, cultural heritage, ecology and race. She holds a PhD in Drama from Queen Mary, University of London, and is now completing the project ‘Earthly Interventions: How the Arts Can Fost..

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Rekha Nianthi is a Professor in Geography at the University of Peradeniya (UoP). She received her M.Sc from AIT, Thailand; Ph.D. from NEHU-India; and postdoctoral qualification from the University of Minho, Portugal. She was a visiting scholar at the IEDML-GSGES, Kyoto University, Japan. Prof. Niant..

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Judith Farquhar conducts research on traditional medicines, popular culture, and everyday life in contemporary China. Anthropological areas of interest include medical anthropology; the anthropology of knowledge and of embodiment; science and technology studies; critical theory and cultural studies;..

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Taewoo Kim, as a medical anthropologist, has studied concentrating on the topics such as the correlation between social culture and medical care, East Asian medical science, anthropology of the body, ontological turn, and so forth. He has conducted anthropological field surveys in Korea, the U.S.A, ..

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Dr. Prapoj Petrakard is advisor of Folk Healer Network Society and chairman of Federation of Traditional Thai Medicine of Thailand and chairman of Foundation for Children with Disability. Though a medical doctor by training and an Orthopedic surgeon by profession, he has been long engaged in t..

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Martín Andrade-Pérez is a researcher at the Erigaie Foundation, a Colombian NGO accredited to provide services to the UNESCO Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. He has been working on ICH-related projects for more than 15 years, conducting community-based projects like sa..

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Zita D. Pangelinan is co-founder and President of Håya Cultural Heritage & Development Foundation, established in 2004 with a focus on the revitalization of traditional healing Indigenous traditional healing served our people for over 4000 years. The risk of loss due to colonization and western inf..

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Rasha holds a Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology from the University of Damascus and a Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Resources Management. She has participated in many research papers inside and outside Syria, and recently co-authored the Cultural Tourism publication as part of the Syrian Vir..

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