SPEAKERS
Day 1
9.21. (Wed.)

Laurajane Smith
Keynote Presentations
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.
Keynote Presentations
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 Studies, and has been editor of the International Journal of Heritage Studies since 2009. She is co-general editor with Dr Gönül Bozoğlu of Routledge’s Key Issues in Cultural Heritage, and author of Uses of Heritage (2006) and Emotional Heritage (2021) and editor with Natsuko Akagawa of Intangible Heritage (2009) and Safeguarding Intangible Heritage (2018).
Laurajane Smith
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Keynote Presentations
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 Studies, and has been editor of the International Journal of Heritage Studies since 2009. She is co-general editor with Dr Gönül Bozoğlu of Routledge’s Key Issues in Cultural Heritage, and author of Uses of Heritage (2006) and Emotional Heritage (2021) and editor with Natsuko Akagawa of Intangible Heritage (2009) and Safeguarding Intangible Heritage (2018). |

Kyung-Koo Han
Keynote Presentations
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.), ..
Keynote Presentations
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 International Studies at Kookmin University as its dean. In 2009, he joined the newly founded College of Liberal Studies of Seoul National University and served as its dean until 2020.
Dr. Han has served as member of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, the Policy Planning Committee of the Korea Federation for the Environmental Movement, and the Presidential Commission for Sustainable Development. He has also served on the editorial boards of the Korea Journal, Sahoewa yeoksa (Society and History), and Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, and was Editor of Hanguk munhwa inryuhak (Korean Cultural Anthropology) and of the Korean Social Science Journal. Dr. Han was President of the Korean International Migration Studies Association, the Korean Society for Education for International Understanding, and the Korean Society for the Study of Overseas Koreans, as well as Vice President of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology, and the Korean Society for Environmental Sociology
Dr. Kyung-Koo Han
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Keynote Presentations
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 International Studies at Kookmin University as its dean. In 2009, he joined the newly founded College of Liberal Studies of Seoul National University and served as its dean until 2020. |

Chul-In Yoo
Moderator
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
Moderator
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
Chul-In Yoo
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Moderator
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 International Journal of Intangible Heritage published by National Folk Museum of Korea; Member of Advisory Committee for Korea Important Fisheries Heritage Systems, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Korea; Vice-chair of Committee for Safeguarding Jeju Haenyeo Culture, Jeju Province, Korea. He was the president of several academic societies including the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology, Korean Oral History Association, and the Society for Jeju Studies. He was also a member of task force team to inscribe the Culture of Jeju Haenyeo on the UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. |

Janet Blake
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. …
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 Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the International Law Association.
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Janet Blake
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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 Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the International Law Association. |

Deepak Kumar Behera
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.
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, Sambalpur University, India. Professor Behera was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at California State University at Long Beach during 2007-08. He was also the recipient of DAAD Fellowship, Germany, Carlos Chaga Foundation Fellowship, Brazil, National Research Foundation Fellowship, South Africa, German Research Council Fellowship, Germany, Indo-French Academic Exchange Fellowship, France, Indo-Israel Academic and Cultural Exchange Fellowship, Israel. Professor Behera received the prestigious Sarat Chandra Roy Memorial Gold Medal by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata for his outstanding contribution in the field of cultural anthropology in India for the year 2016. Most of his publications are in the field of ‘tribal studies’ and ‘children and childhood’.
Professor Deepak Kumar Behera
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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, Sambalpur University, India. Professor Behera was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at California State University at Long Beach during 2007-08. He was also the recipient of DAAD Fellowship, Germany, Carlos Chaga Foundation Fellowship, Brazil, National Research Foundation Fellowship, South Africa, German Research Council Fellowship, Germany, Indo-French Academic Exchange Fellowship, France, Indo-Israel Academic and Cultural Exchange Fellowship, Israel. Professor Behera received the prestigious Sarat Chandra Roy Memorial Gold Medal by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata for his outstanding contribution in the field of cultural anthropology in India for the year 2016. Most of his publications are in the field of ‘tribal studies’ and ‘children and childhood’. |

So-Young Yook
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 the dean of CNU Law School.
So-Young Yook
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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 the dean of CNU Law School.
In addition to intellectual property law, her research includes freedom of speech and information law. She wrote articles regarding legal protection of traditional knowledge and participated in 2012 International Conference on ICH Safeguarding. Also she was a speaker for several WIPO Sub-Regional Workshops and gave lectures entitled “Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Traditional Cultural Expressions-Towards a Suitable Protection System” and “Copyright and the Public Domain: Case Study” etc. at WIPO Academy. |

Peter Strasser
Peter Strasser studied Austrian law, European ethnology and international relations at the Universities of Innsbruck (Austria) and Nottingham (UK).
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 World Heritage. He was member of drafting groups for several UNESCO legal instruments (Underwater Heritage Convention 2001, Intangible Heritage Convention 2003, Recommendation on the Protection and Promotion of Museums 2015).
His recent international assignment was with OSCE/Mission in Kosovo, where we was responsible for the protection of cultural heritage (2019-22). Since 2012 he is affiliated with the Danube University Krems, were he headed the Center for Cultural Property Protection. In summer 2022 he was appointed in Krems as Professor for World Heritage and Cultural Property Protection. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and wrote some 200 publications in the field of cultural heritage protection.
Peter Strasser
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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 World Heritage. He was member of drafting groups for several UNESCO legal instruments (Underwater Heritage Convention 2001, Intangible Heritage Convention 2003, Recommendation on the Protection and Promotion of Museums 2015). His recent international assignment was with OSCE/Mission in Kosovo, where we was responsible for the protection of cultural heritage (2019-22). Since 2012 he is affiliated with the Danube University Krems, were he headed the Center for Cultural Property Protection. In summer 2022 he was appointed in Krems as Professor for World Heritage and Cultural Property Protection. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and wrote some 200 publications in the field of cultural heritage protection. |
Day 2
9.22.(Thu.)

Hahn-Sok Wang
Special Lecture
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.
Special Lecture
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 linguaculture. He studied Korean language education and anthropology in Seoul National University, and obtained M.A and ph.D of anthropology from the UCLA Graduate School in California, U.S.A. His main academic achievements include Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Gangwon-do(2021), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Chungcheongbuk-do(2016), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Gyeongsangbuk-do(2012), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Jelllanambuk-do(2010), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea 1: Preface(2009), Another Korean: An Anthropological Study on The Language Adaptation of International Marriage-based Immigrant Women(2007), Korea, Korean Culture and Korean Society(compilation, 2010), Korean Language and Korean Society(compilation, 2008), Korean Society and Forms of Address(co-authorship, 2005), Language and Society: The Ethnography of Communication(co-translation, 2009) and so forth. He was awarded Academic Research Award by Seoul National University.
Wang, Hahn-Sok
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Special Lecture
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 linguaculture. He studied Korean language education and anthropology in Seoul National University, and obtained M.A and ph.D of anthropology from the UCLA Graduate School in California, U.S.A. His main academic achievements include Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Gangwon-do(2021), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Chungcheongbuk-do(2016), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Gyeongsangbuk-do(2012), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Jelllanambuk-do(2010), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea 1: Preface(2009), Another Korean: An Anthropological Study on The Language Adaptation of International Marriage-based Immigrant Women(2007), Korea, Korean Culture and Korean Society(compilation, 2010), Korean Language and Korean Society(compilation, 2008), Korean Society and Forms of Address(co-authorship, 2005), Language and Society: The Ethnography of Communication(co-translation, 2009) and so forth. He was awarded Academic Research Award by Seoul National University. |

Kyung Taek Yim
Moderator
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.
Moderator
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 the Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology in Jeonbuk National University in Korea. He has been studied folklore and cultural resources of East Asia such as Korea and Japan with great interest. He published many academic articles, books and translations including “Muhyeongmunhwayusaneuroseoeui Dosijerye Yeongu(A Study on Urban Rituasl as Intangible Cultural Heritage)”, “Ilboneui Babsangmunhwae Daehan Gochal(A Study on the dinning culture of Japan)”, Munhwajawongwa Jiyeoksahoe(Cultural Resources and Local Communities) (Co-authorship) and Shuriseongeuro Ganeun Eondeokgil(The hill side road to Shuri Castle) and so forth.
Kyung Taek Yim
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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 the Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology in Jeonbuk National University in Korea. He has been studied folklore and cultural resources of East Asia such as Korea and Japan with great interest. He published many academic articles, books and translations including “Muhyeongmunhwayusaneuroseoeui Dosijerye Yeongu(A Study on Urban Rituasl as Intangible Cultural Heritage)”, “Ilboneui Babsangmunhwae Daehan Gochal(A Study on the dinning culture of Japan)”, Munhwajawongwa Jiyeoksahoe(Cultural Resources and Local Communities) (Co-authorship) and Shuriseongeuro Ganeun Eondeokgil(The hill side road to Shuri Castle) and so forth. |

Yama Yoshiyuki
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.
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 University, University of Tokyo, National Museum of Ethnology, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, University of International Relations Beijing, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Yunnan Minzu University, and Visiting Researcher at Université Paris Diderot Paris 7.
His research interests are sociological theory, sociology of disaster, and heritage studies, particularly on regional development and community-based disaster risk management in depopulated areas of Japan.
He has authored/edited more than thirty books and published numerous scholarly articles in sociology, anthropology, disaster studies, heritage studies, and the history of Japanese philosophy.
Yama Yoshiyuki
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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 University, University of Tokyo, National Museum of Ethnology, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, University of International Relations Beijing, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Yunnan Minzu University, and Visiting Researcher at Université Paris Diderot Paris 7.
His research interests are sociological theory, sociology of disaster, and heritage studies, particularly on regional development and community-based disaster risk management in depopulated areas of Japan. He has authored/edited more than thirty books and published numerous scholarly articles in sociology, anthropology, disaster studies, heritage studies, and the history of Japanese philosophy. |

Wayan Windia
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, ..
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 acknowledgement, for subak system in Bali, on 2012. His articles has been published widely in journals and books, such as : Subak Irrigation System Transformation Based on Tri Hita Karana Concept; Subak : The World Cultural Heritage; Subak : Study from Social Perspective; Subak as Agrotourism; Leadership and Democracy of Subak.
Over the last five years, he has been actively working on developing subak into agro-tourism sites, and introducing economical activities at subak organization. The goal of those activities is how to help increasing the revenue of farmers as subak members. Now he actively supervise the site of subak that has been recognized by UNESCO as world cultural heritage. And also introducing the values of subak to the students in Bali, and for other guests and foreigners who coming to Bali, especially to Udayana University.
He is working also as an expert group coordinator at Gianyar Regency on Heritage City, as a member of expert group at Denpasar City on Subak Sustainability, and also as an expert team member at Bali Province, since this year (2018) . He has been involved in some national NGO in order to sustain of Bali culture.
Wayan Windia
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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 acknowledgement, for subak system in Bali, on 2012. His articles has been published widely in journals and books, such as : Subak Irrigation System Transformation Based on Tri Hita Karana Concept; Subak : The World Cultural Heritage; Subak : Study from Social Perspective; Subak as Agrotourism; Leadership and Democracy of Subak.
Over the last five years, he has been actively working on developing subak into agro-tourism sites, and introducing economical activities at subak organization. The goal of those activities is how to help increasing the revenue of farmers as subak members. Now he actively supervise the site of subak that has been recognized by UNESCO as world cultural heritage. And also introducing the values of subak to the students in Bali, and for other guests and foreigners who coming to Bali, especially to Udayana University. He is working also as an expert group coordinator at Gianyar Regency on Heritage City, as a member of expert group at Denpasar City on Subak Sustainability, and also as an expert team member at Bali Province, since this year (2018) . He has been involved in some national NGO in order to sustain of Bali culture. |

Michelle Nicholson Sanz
Michelle Nicholson-Sanz is a Peruvian-Chilean researcher and practitioner working at the interface of applied theatre, cultural heritage, ecology and race, …
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Michelle Nicholson-Sanz
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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 Foster Environmental Sustainability Transitions’ as part of a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship held at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. The project examines collaborative performance interventions for climate transitions in Peru, Madagascar, Malawi and Scotland. She has published a number of academic articles and has disseminated her work to wider, non-academic audiences as a guest on BBC Radio Scotland and in the UK’s Being Human Festival. Her article ‘The Performance of Water Governance as Cultural Heritage in Peru’ (Contemporary Theatre Review, 30(4), 2020) was nominated for The Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2021 Award for Outstanding Article. |

Rekha Nianthi
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, …
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. Nianthi has been awarded a Presidential Scholarship by the Sri Lankan Government for research at Mainz University, Germany. She received an “Excellency Award” for outstanding research in the field of geography from the UGIT. Her research interests include climate change and adaptation and disaster risk reduction. She authored many research papers which were published in local and international publications. She worked as a consultant for PLAN Sri Lanka, ADRRN, UN-ISDR, and UN4DRR of the UoP, Erasmus + Programme. Prof. Nianthi is a member of the board of directors of SAADRI, the Indian Institute of Technology.
Prof. Rekha Nianthi
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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. Nianthi has been awarded a Presidential Scholarship by the Sri Lankan Government for research at Mainz University, Germany. She received an “Excellency Award” for outstanding research in the field of geography from the UGIT. Her research interests include climate change and adaptation and disaster risk reduction. She authored many research papers which were published in local and international publications. She worked as a consultant for PLAN Sri Lanka, ADRRN, UN-ISDR, and UN4DRR of the UoP, Erasmus + Programme. Prof. Nianthi is a member of the board of directors of SAADRI, the Indian Institute of Technology. |
Day 3
9.23.(Fri.)

Judith Farquhar
Special Lecture
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; and theories and practices of reading, writing, and translation.
Special Lecture
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; and theories and practices of reading, writing, and translation. She is the author of Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine (1994), Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China (2002), and Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing (2012). Several of these books have been published in Chinese. She co-edited Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (2007). Two more recent books are A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine (2020) and Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South (2021). She retired from the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology in 2019.
Judith Farquhar
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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; and theories and practices of reading, writing, and translation. She is the author of Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine (1994), Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China (2002), and Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing (2012). Several of these books have been published in Chinese. She co-edited Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (2007). Two more recent books are A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine (2020) and Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South (2021). She retired from the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology in 2019. |

Taewoo Kim
Moderator
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.
Taewoo Kim
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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, and Belize in Central America. Currently, he is a professor of the College of Oriental medicine in Kyunghee University. His works include not only books such as The Anthropology of Oriental Medical Clinics: The thinking and healing connecting Body, Mind and Nature(2021), The Things You Can See When You Are Sick: The Anthropological Report on the Pains of Korean Society(co-authorship, 2021) and The Medicine, A Window to Read the Modernity of Asia(co-authorship, 2017) but also articles such as “The Metaphysics of Pulse diagnosis: The Anthropology of East Asian Thinking”(2018), “Human–Plant Relationship as Healing: A Re-reading of East Asian Herb Medicine With Ontological Anthropology”(2018) and “Cultivating Medical Intentionality: The Phenomenology of Diagnostic Virtuosity in East Asian Medicine”(2017) and etc. |

Zita D. Pangelinan
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 …
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 influence continues with the passing of many of i man Yo’åmte (master traditional healers), many of whom did not pass on their sacred knowledge.
For the past eighteen years, Zita has listened, observed and continues to seek the guidance of the indigenous healers throughout the Marana Islands. As a result, Haya Foundation has sponsored three Åmot Conferences focused on developing strategies by the people for the people to promote, perpetuate and preserve traditional healing. Accomplishments thus far include:
- Four Community based cultural Listening institutes.
- Coordination of three strategic planning Amot Conferences with traditional healers and the community. Reports are presented to the community and plans are updated.
- The opening of Guam’s first traditional healing center, “Guma Yo’Amte” (House of a Master Healer) in May, 2016.
- Hosted traditional healers from 13 countries throughout the Pacific during the 12th Festival of the Pacific Arts on Guam, May, 2016.
- Received approval of Traditional Healing curriculum and offered the first Introductory course in Traditional Healing at the University of Guam.
- With the demand for services more than doubled, Haya Foundation was able to open 2 additional Guma Yo’Amte (House of a Master Healer) in southern and central Guam in 2017. The Centers have served over 30,000 patients.
- Sponsored “Pineksai Håya” a month cultural immersion program on traditional ways of living sustainably, guided by Kaohao Haya (our treasured elders).
Zita co-produced a documentary entitled “Åmot Para I Hinemlo’ta” (Medicine for our Well-Being) and is working on her third documentary “Re-establishing A community of Believers” soon to be premiered.
Zita currently works with Guam’s Department of Public Health and has been serving on the Covid-19 Response Team. She also served as Human Resource Consultant for over 25 years.
Zita D. Pangelinan
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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 influence continues with the passing of many of i man Yo’åmte (master traditional healers), many of whom did not pass on their sacred knowledge. For the past eighteen years, Zita has listened, observed and continues to seek the guidance of the indigenous healers throughout the Marana Islands. As a result, Haya Foundation has sponsored three Åmot Conferences focused on developing strategies by the people for the people to promote, perpetuate and preserve traditional healing. Accomplishments thus far include:
Zita co-produced a documentary entitled “Åmot Para I Hinemlo’ta” (Medicine for our Well-Being) and is working on her third documentary “Re-establishing A community of Believers” soon to be premiered. Zita currently works with Guam’s Department of Public Health and has been serving on the Covid-19 Response Team. She also served as Human Resource Consultant for over 25 years. |

Prapoj Petrakard
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 …
Richenel Ansano is a cultural anthropologist and healer. His past positions include being Director of Culture for Curaçao, Director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University in the USA, Director of the National Archaeological and Anthropological Memory Management of Curaçao (the national focal point for implementing the 2003 Convention), and member of cultural and heritage committees. Richenel was Member of the CRIHAP Advisory Committee, previous Secretary of the Dutch Caribbean ICH Working Group. He is current President of the CaribResearch Foundation, Vice President of the Regional Memory of the World Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean, and President of the Curaçao Open Foundation. He is member of the Curaçao NATCOM, and of the Dutch Caribbean ICH Working Group. As UNESCO Facilitator for the 2003 Convention, he facilitated ICH workshops in the Caribbean, South America, Asia/Pacific, and for the NGO Forum of the Convention.
Prapoj Petrakard
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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 the advancement of knowledge and practice of Nuad Thai and Thai Traditional Knowledge. Having played an important role in developing professional training course on Nuad Thai for people with disability on visual impairment in Thailand since 2009, he initiated E-learning courses Nuad Thai for visually impaired persons in 2020 to overcome the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. |

Martín Andrade-Pérez
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. …
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 safeguarding plans, nomination files and inventories. He has been and advisor of the Heritage Section of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia for the development of laws and policies for the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2007 – 2011) and a guest professor in several Masters in cultural heritage in Colombia. Recently, he represented the Erigaie Foundation at the Evaluation Body of the 2003 Convention (2019 – 2021) and he served as an instructor of the UNESCO Massive Online Open Course on Living Heritage and Sustainable Development. He is also a guest researcher at the Meertens Institute, in the Netherlands, and a member of the Steering Committee of the ICH NGO Forum.
Martín Andrade-Pérez
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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 safeguarding plans, nomination files and inventories. He has been and advisor of the Heritage Section of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia for the development of laws and policies for the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2007 – 2011) and a guest professor in several Masters in cultural heritage in Colombia. Recently, he represented the Erigaie Foundation at the Evaluation Body of the 2003 Convention (2019 – 2021) and he served as an instructor of the UNESCO Massive Online Open Course on Living Heritage and Sustainable Development. He is also a guest researcher at the Meertens Institute, in the Netherlands, and a member of the Steering Committee of the ICH NGO Forum. |

Rasha Barhoum
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 Virtual University curriculum.
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 Virtual University curriculum.
Since 2017, she has worked in the Living Heritage program at the Syria Trust for Development- a Syrian NGO accredited by UNESCO, and worked on the project for the restoration of Aleppo Old City, and ICH safeguarding projects, including the nomination of ICH elements to UNESCO’s lists, such as the Damascene Rose and the Festival of the Cross in the Ancient City of Maaloula. Drawing on her field research on the life of Syrian’s rural communities during the war, she has extensively documented and inventoried Syria’s Intangible Cultural heritage.
Rasha Barhoum
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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 Virtual University curriculum. Since 2017, she has worked in the Living Heritage program at the Syria Trust for Development- a Syrian NGO accredited by UNESCO, and worked on the project for the restoration of Aleppo Old City, and ICH safeguarding projects, including the nomination of ICH elements to UNESCO’s lists, such as the Damascene Rose and the Festival of the Cross in the Ancient City of Maaloula. Drawing on her field research on the life of Syrian’s rural communities during the war, she has extensively documented and inventoried Syria’s Intangible Cultural heritage. |