Programme
Day 1: 17 December, 20199:40-10:00

Welcome Remarks･ Takamasa Saito (Director General, Tokyo National Research Institutefor Cultural Properties: Tobunken, Japan)
Opening Remarks･ Wataru Iwamoto (Director-General, IRCI)･ Duong Bich Hanh (Programme Specialist for Culture, UNESCO BangkokOffice)10:00-10:45 Keynote Speech“Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Communities”･ Kenji Yoshida (Director-General, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:50 Session 1: Community Development-ICH and regional development
Session Chair: Tomo Ishimura (Tobunken)
Presenter 1: Lourdes Z. Hinampas (Commission on the Filipino Language,Philippines)“Safeguarding Endangered Languages as a Component of Community
Development: A Case of Ifugao Hudhud Chants”
Presenter 2: LI Fei (Sichuan University, China)“Casting Ethnicity into Material: Cultural Identity and Tourism Consumptionof ‘Zangyin (Tibetan silver)’ in Southwest China”
Presenter 3: Vicente M. Diaz (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA)
“Sustaining Seafaring and Island Research at a Time of Rising Seas, Sinking
Islands, and Settler Colonial Knowledge Production”
Comment 1: Akiko Tashiro (Hokkaido University, Japan)“Tourism, Regional Development and Conservation of Heritage in Asia”
Comment 2: Hideki Yoshihara (Biratori Town Office, Hokkaido, Japan)“The Museums as New Industry and Utilizing Intangible Cultural Properties”
14:00-15:10 Session 2 : Community Development - environment and ICH
Session Chair: Tomo Ishimura (Tobunken)
Presenter 1: Kai Weise (ICOMOS Nepal)“Urban Continuity: Retaining identity and resilience of the Historic City ofKathmandu”
Presenter 2: Norma A. Respicio (University of Philippines, Diliman)“The Lapat System”
Comment 1: Tomoko Mori (Sapporo City University, Japan)“Astamatrika in Newar Settlements, Kathmandu Valley”

15:30-17:40 Session 3 : Discussions from education perspective
Session Chair: Wataru Iwamoto (IRCI)
Presenter 1: Sandra L. Morrison (University of Waikato, New Zealand)“Ako- A traditional Polynesia concept at the intersection between SDG 4.7
and Intangible cultural Heritage”
Presenter 2: Laretna T. Adishakti (Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia)“Education on Disaster Risk Reduction for Heritage Cultural Landscape(SAUJANA)”
Presenter 3: Munirah Ghazali (University of Science-Malaysia, Malaysia)“Intangible Cultural Heritage within the mathematics teaching methods
course for pre service teachers’: awareness and appreciation of precolonization knowledge and wisdom”
Presenter 4: Duong Bich Hanh (UNESCO Bangkok Office)“Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage and Promoting Sustainable
Development through Education”
Comment 1: Takanori Nakai (Preparatory Office for National Ainu Museum,
Hokkaido, Japan)“Lessons and Experiences Gained as a Trainee in the Fostering Transmittersof Ainu Culture Project”
Comment 2: Reita Furusawa (Chubu University, Japan)“The Traditional Knowledge Based ESD in a Bioregion”
Day 2: 18 December, 201910:00-12:00 Wrap-up Discussion
Chair: Duong Bich Hanh (UNESCO Bangkok Office)･ Facilitator: Kensaku Kikuchi (Tobunken)･ Session Report:
Tomo Ishimura (Tobunken)
Wataru Iwamoto (IRCI)･ Commentator: Masahisa Sato (Tokyo City University)
Floor Discussion
12:00-12:10 Closing Remarks･ Wataru Iwamoto (Director-General, IRCI)･ Takamasa Saito (Director General, Tobunken)
Please note that the session participants and titles of the presentations are provisional and maychange.