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While acknowledging the terrible impacts of disasters and epidemics on lives, livelihoods, property and landscapes, they are also important moments or watersheds in the transmission of living heritage. Modelling how transmission operates, and understanding the importance of the three-way relationship between communities, materials and knowledge, or “people, place and story”, allows us to appreciate how living heritage can mediate and mitigate the effects of disasters and epidemics. Christopher Ballard, Professor of The Australian National University reflects on the connection between ICH and Disasters. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER BALLARD is a historian but trained as an archaeologist and anthropologist. He has thirty years of experience as a researcher in Melanesia (PNG, Vanuatu, West Papua and New Caledonia). His research interests revolve around indigenous Melanesian historicities - their transformation through crosscultural encounters; their representation through various media, including film and fiction; and their articulation with contemporary challenges such as land reform, large natural resource projects, and cultural heritage management planning. Currently, he is a Senior Fellow at the School of Culture, History & Language of The Australian National University.

14:30
Republic of Korea 2020

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In Singapore, there had been strict restrictions on social, cultural, business activites during the "Circuit Breaker" period from April to June 2020. Yeo Kirk Siang shares the ICH activies during "Circuit Breaker" period and showed the role of ICH in COVID 19 pandemic. YEO KIRK SIANG is currently the Director of the Heritage Research and Assessment Division (HRA) at the National Heritage Board (NHB) of Singapore. The division focuses on the research, documentation, and commemoration of Singapore’s tangible heritage and the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, in partnership with non-government organisations and public agencies. He is also the coordinator for the “Our SG Heritage Plan”, which outlines the broad strategies for Singapore’s heritage sector from 2018 to 2022.

16:38
Republic of Korea 2020

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Anna Yau talks about the roles of sustainability program for reviving landscape and community. This project is initiated by a local community named Lai Chi Wo which has been depopulated in the 1970s. It facilitated Lai Chi Wo to revitalize its living Socio-Economical and Associative Landscape with living heritage approach. ANNA W Y YAU is a Project Manager for HSBC Rural Sustainability Programme at the university of Hong Kong. He has BA (Japanese Studies), MA (Cultural Management) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and PgDip in Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Hong Kong. She is an accredited heritage conservationist (HKICON), Project Management Professional (PMI), as well as a member of the Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement (Docomomo) Hong Kong Chapter.

14:14
Republic of Korea 2020

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The sudden emergence of Covid19 pandemic dramatically impacted world systems. In the Philippines, the national government imposed the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and grappled with ways and means to contain the transmission of the disease and sustain the lives in communities. It promulgated the Bayanihan Heal as One Act which allowed local government units (LGUs) a latitude of protocols to implement in the town level. In the Mt. Province of the northern Cordillera Region, communities had been practicing community quarantine popularly called teer or tengao, the compulsory “rest” day according to different needs and contexts. Eric Zerrudo shares the study of Teer/Tengao, which was one of highly contextualized practice that emerged as an integral experience for a specific construct of ICH in the COVID 19. ASSOC. PROF. ERIC BABAR ZERRUDO is the Director of the University of Santo Tomas Center for Conservation of Cultural Property and the Environment in the Tropics (CCCPET) and faculty of the Graduate School-Cultural Heritage Studies program. Concurrently, he serves as the national coordinator of the CBCP Episcopal Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church and heritage consultant for Department of Tourism and NCCA Philippine Cultural Education Program.

16:34
Republic of Korea 2020

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Juliette Hopkins introduces results of a survey that launched to share living heritage experience. It was an online survey how their living heritage has been affected by the pandemic, what role their living heritage has been playing and what safeguarding initiatives have been put in place. Its aim was to create accessible platform to share information, exchange experiences, learn from each other and also to draw inspiration. JULIETTE HOPKINS is an Associate Programme Specialist in the Secretariat for UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. She currently works in the Capacity Building and Heritage Policy Unit, where she is the focal point for issues relating to intangible cultural heritage and emergencies. Before joining UNESCO in 2016, she worked as an anthropologist with indigenous communities in Australia on heritage management and community development projects. She also has professional experience as a journalist in Cambodia and France. Her academic background is in social and medical anthropology with degrees from The University of Sydney and University of Oxford.

17:09
Republic of Korea 2020