Living Heritage and Sustainable Development

This course is for:

Anyone new to the concept of intangible cultural heritage who wants to understand what intangible cultural heritage is, why it is important to people’s wellbeing and what role it plays in the lives of people, including young people;

Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students interested in the key concepts and practices of sustainability and global issues;

Key actors engaged in the field of sustainable development at a local, regional or international level , including those who work in corporate sustainability and responsibility and who want to understand the relationship between intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development;

Practitioners and professionals engaged in living heritage safeguarding , who want to refresh their knowledge on the key concepts of safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and want to learn more about the relationship between living heritage and sustainable development. 

Ahmed Skounti, Anthropologist, National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage Sciences;
Anna Wai Yu Yau, Conservationist and Project Manager, Centre for Civil Society and Governance, The University of Hong Kong;
Cristina Amescua, Professor and Chairholder, UNESCO Chair for Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Cultural Diversity, National Autonomous University of Mexico;
Deirdre Prins-Solani, Researcher and Facilitator of the UNESCO Global Network of Facilitators to support capacity building for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage;
Harriet Deacon, Honorary Research Fellow, University of South Africa;
Lucas Roque, Anthropologist and Facilitator of the UNESCO Global Network of Facilitators to support capacity building for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage;
Marc Jacobs, Professor and Chairholder, UNESCO Chair on Critical Heritage Studies and the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, University of Antwerp and Vrije Universiteit Brussel;
Martín Andrade-Pérez, Researcher at the Erigaie Foundation;
Neel Kamal, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Heritage Management at Ahmedabad University;
Nigel Encalada, Director, Institute for Social and Cultural Research, National Institute of Culture and History;
Rahul Goswami, Facilitator of the UNESCO Global Network of Facilitators to support capacity building for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage;
Sangmee Bak, Professor of Anthropology, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies;
Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Professor and Chairholder, UNESCO Chair on Transcultural Music Studies and Head of Musicology Department, University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar