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CH5 Intangible Cultural Heritage

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Sunoikisis Digital Cultural Heritage, Spring 2021

Session 5. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Heritage

Thursday Feb 18, 16:00 UK = 17:00 CET

Convenors: Majd Al-Shihabi (American University in Beirut), Brigitte Vézina (Creative Commons), Andrea Wallace (Exeter)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/Ll9wH5V8yAE

Slides: Combined slides (PDF)

Session outline

In this session we will look at complexities arising around the preservation and management of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCE). We will think about how intellectual property rights systems can create tension or conflict when applied to traditional cultural expressions and their digital reproductions. We will also consider the epistemologies and value systems that inform the preservation, digitization, treatment and reuse of ICH and TCE in material and digital environments. We will discuss some specific initiatives, including Nomad and Palestine Open Maps.

Seminar readings

For discussion in this thread

Further Reading

Other resources

Podcasts

Exercise

  • No exercise (Reading Week). But do think about the projects we have shown and discussed, and look in detail at the geographic and name entities, changing names and historical identities, and how these are recorded in digital form.