ICH 20 Years – 20 Dialogues. 2003-2023: twenty years after the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of ICH
How has the protection of cultural heritage changed? A Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) with experts from around the world discussing it in 20 dialogues, in English or French.
The UNESCO Chair has produced a series of 20 virtual dialogues, each about 30 minutes long, to verify the impact of the UNESCO Convention on intangible cultural heritage in 19 different countries. The dialogues will be followed by anyone, in open source, freely and for free.
For those who wish, a certificate of participation can be issued to those who follow all the dialogues in MOOC version. To obtain it, it is necessary to send a registration email to unescochair@unitelmasapienza.it by Jan. 30, 2023, indicating one’s personal data, educational qualification, and the email address at which to receive communications and from which to access the dialogues.
- 9 January 2023 • Introduction
Pier Luigi Petrillo, UNESCO Chair Professor on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Comparative Law, University of Rome Unitelma Sapienza
- 10 January 2023 • The role of 2003 Convention
Tullio Scovazzi, Former Professor of International Law, in the University of Milan-Bicocca
- 11 January 2023 • The role of communities and NGO
Valentina Lapiccirella Zingari, SIMBDEA NGO and UNESCO ICH Facilitators
- 16 January 2023 • France
Thomas Mouzard, ICH Office, Ministry of Culture
- 30 January 2023 • Spain
Carmen Cabrera, ICH Focal Point, Ministry of Culture
- 13 February 2023 • Austria
Cristina Biasetto, ICH Focal Point, National Commission for UNESCO
- 27 February 2023 • Portugal
Filipe Themudo Barata, UNESCO Chair Professor on Intangible Heritage and Traditional know-how, University of Évora
- 13 March 2023 • Belgium
Marc Jacobs, UNESCO Chair Professor on Critical Heritage Studies and the Safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 27 March 2023 • Italy
Leandro Ventura, Director of National Institute for ICH, Ministry of Culture
- 27 March 2023 • Italy
Lia Luchetti, ICH Focal Point for agro-food tradition, Ministry of Agriculture and Food
- 27 March 2023 • Italy
Maria Agostina Lavagnino, General Directorate for Culture, Region Lombardia
- 10 April 2023 • Latvia
Anita Vaivade, UNESCO Chair on Intangible, Cultural Heritage Policy and Law, Latvian Academy of Culture
- 24 April 2023 • Colombia
Martín Andrade-Pérez, Researcher at the Erigaie Foundation
- 8 May 2023 • Brazil
Humberto Cunha Filho, Professor of Cultural Rights, University of Fortaleza
- 22 May 2023 • Singapore
Kirk Siang Yeo, Director of Heritage Research, National Heritage Board
- 5 June 2023 • Japan
Toshiyuki Kono, Professor of Law, Kyushu University
- 19 June 2023 • Korea
Soyoung Yook, Professor of Chungnam National Univ. Law School
- 3 July 2023 • Türkiye
Ahmet Erman Aral, UNESCO Chair on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Formal and Informal Education, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University
- 17 July 2023 • Iran
Janet Blake, Professor of Law at the University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran
- 31 July 2023 • Jordan
Hani Hayajneh, Professor, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University
- 7 August 2023 • Burkina Faso
Léonce Ki, Executive Secretary of the Association for the Safeguarding of Masks (ASAMA)
Text as provided by the organiser(s).