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12/02/2025

Online Seminar LEVERAGING LOCAL AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE TO ENHANCE ADAPTIVE CAPACITY: EXAMPLES FROM SOUTHEAST ASIAN COASTAL COMMUNITIES to be held on 26 February 2025

IRCI’s Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding in conjunction with its new project ‘Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region’ is hosting the 8th Online Seminar for Safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pa…

07/02/2025

Online Seminar INDIGENOUS AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE OF CHANGING WEATHER AND CLIMATE: UNESCO EXPERIENCES OF COMMUNITY-LED RESEARCH IN AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN to be held on 21 February 2025

IRCI’s Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding in conjunction with its new project ‘Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region’ is hosting the 7th Online Seminar for Safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pa…

23/12/2024

[Inviting On-site and Online Participants] INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ‘New Frontiers of Research for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage’ (13–15 February 2025, Osaka, Japan)

The Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding, a platform for research promotion and cooperation established in 2022 by the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI), is organizing its fir…

22/11/2024

Call for participants: UNESCO week 2024/25 International Symposium: Sustainable Communities for a Sustainable Future (Organized by MEXT, JNCE, and ACCU)

UNESCO Future Cooperation Platform, hosted by Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU), has announced a call for participants for the upcoming event scheduled for 29 November 2024. Please check the following information. If you have any inquiri…

21/11/2024

International Symposium ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Cities and Communities: Perspectives for Integrated Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region’ and related events were held in Kyoto (10-12 October 2024)

As the final event under the research project ‘Research on ICH Contributing to SDGs: Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Cities and Communities (FY 2022–2024)’, IRCI held the international symposium ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage for Su…

23/10/2024

The Publication Programme for Early Career Researchers was launched with the Kick-off Workshop on 1 October 2024

Through the Asia-Pacific ICH Safeguarding Research Forum, a platform established in FY 2022, IRCI has been organizing research seminars and other events. The Forum aims to encourage researchers and research institutions in the Asia-Pacific region to …

30/05/2024

Calling for Papers and Panels for the International Conference ‘New Frontiers of Research for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage’ (13-15 February 2025)

Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding International Conference New Frontiers of Research for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage The Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding, a new platform for research promotion and c…

29/06/2023

<3 July 2023> Notice of Website Maintenance

We would like to inform you about upcoming website maintenance scheduled for the following date and time: 【Maintenance Schedule】3 July 2023 (Monday) 9:00-12:00 (JST)　(scheduled) During this maintenance period, you may experience temporary unavailabil…

07/03/2023

The third online seminar for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region will be held on 23 March 2023

The online seminars for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region launched in December 2022 aim to address various issues and latest trends in ICH research in the Asia-Pacific region. Its third seminar will be held on 23 March 2023. Inviting presen…

11/01/2023

Recording of the first online seminar for safeguarding ICH in the Asia-Pacific region is available online

The recording of the first online seminar held on 13 December 2022 under the Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding is now available online. It includes Opening remarks by the Director-General of IRCI, Lecture by Masami Iwasaki (Hokkai-Gaku…

23/12/2022

Symposium on SDGs Project to be held on 1st February 2023

The International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) is holding an international symposium under its research project “Research on ICH Contributing to SDGs: Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable …

30/11/2021

Public Symposium on SDGs Project to be held on 22 December 2021

The International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) is holding an online public symposium entitled “ICH Contribution to Better Education and Sustainable Communities” on 22 December 2021 as …

29/10/2018

“Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters” will be held in Sendai from 7 to 9 December 2018

IRCI organises “Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters” from 7 to 9 December 2018 at Sendai International Center and in Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The workshop is co-organised by Tokyo Nation…

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