The School of Modern Languages and Cultures is co-organizing an international symposium entitled Politics and Poetics of Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage with the Centre for Anthropological Research (Social Science) . Details are as follow: Date & Time: October 16 & 17, 2009, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Venue: Room 1121, 11/F, K. K. Leung Building For the abstracts of each paper. please see: http://www.hku.hk/smlc/files/abstracts.pdf Contact Persons: Registration - Ms. Christy Ho, Research Assistant, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts (chhristy@hku.hk) Convener - Dr. Manolete Mora, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts/Acting Director, Centre for Anthropological Research, Faculty of Social Science (mmora@hkucc.hku.hk) Presentations: Title - How safe is safeguarding? Issues of Intangible Cultural Heritage in a changing world Presenter - Shubha Chaudhuri (American Institute of Indian Studies, Delhi) Title - Tending the boundaries of Intangible Cultural Heritage: The case of the Jing minority’s Hat festival on the Sino-Vietnamese border in Guangxi, China Presenter - Cheung Siu-woo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Title - Authenticity and authority: Conflicting agendas in the preservation of Korea’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Presenter – Keith Howard (University of Sydney) Title - Lak ga Kam and Kam Intangible Cultural Heritage (China) Presenter - Catherine Ingram (University of Melbourne) Title - Transnational politics and poetics in the revival of Chinese death rituals Presenter - Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng (University of Hong Kong) Title - From habitus to heritage: The Hudhud and the Tudubulul epics (Philippines) Presenter - Manolete Mora (University of Hong Kong) Title - Cantonese opera as local Intangible Cultural Heritage: Constructing the learning experience in formal education in Hong Kong Presenters - Dorothy Ng, Joseph W. I Lam, Eva S. Y. Chan (University of Hong Kong) Title - Turning the intangible into the tangible: An experience with ‘Literature of Voice’ in the Philippines. Presenter: Nicole Revel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) Title - Politics and poetics of Intangible Cultural Heritage: The case of Hong Kong within/out China Presenter - Yu Siu Wah (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Title - Constructing past and future: Homeland, gender and technology in music of West Java, Indonesia Presenter - Wim van Zanten (Leiden University) |
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