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Politics of Conservation and Heritage in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia in Transition: Plastic Runs Through It
2021 Webinar Series
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Southeast Asian people have witnessed major transformations in their lives and livelihoods in recent decades. This webinar series focuses on a variety of issues, and most have a plastic connection. The first webinar introduces the expanding problem of plastic waste in the region and community and government action to reign it in. The following webinars discuss the growth of fisheries and aquaculture, the expansion of oil palm and rubber plantations, and the politics of conservation and heritage areas. Our Fall 2021 webinar series explores how communities in the region currently experienced economic, social, and cultural dislocations of these transformations.
Speakers:
- Dr. Ana LABRADOR, Deputy Director-General of Museums, National Museum of the Philippines
- Dr. Ming Chee ANG, General Manager, George Town World Heritage Incorporated
- Dr. Masanori NAGAOKA, Programme Specialist for Culture, UNESCO Phnom Penh Office
- Dr. Ajirapa PRADIT, Researcher, The Centre of Lanna Creativity and Innovation, RMUTL Chiang Mai
- Dr. Worrasit TANTINIPANKUL, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Chiang Mai University
Moderator:
- Dr. Miriam STARK, Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies & Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Dr. Ana Maria Theresa P. LABRADOR was until recently Deputy Director-General at the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP), responsible for research development, museology and technical assistance. She was a Fellow of the ICCROM in Rome, Italy in 2007, examining conservation from the perspective of traditional knowledge in Southeast Asia and from February 2008, she took up a four-month Visiting Scholarship at the University of Melbourne’s Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation in Australia. She co-authored (with Robert Balarbar, Nicole Tse and Marcelle Scott) the article “Preventive Conservation: People, Objects, Place and Time” published in 2018 in the Studies in Conservation (Routledge), as well as “Decision making, materiality and digitisation: Esteban Villanueva’s Basi Revolt Paintings of Ilocos” (co-authored with Nicole Tse and Maricor Soriano), published in 2018 in the AICCM Bulletin (Routledge).
Dr. Ming Chee ANG is the General Manager of George Town World Heritage Incorporation and an accredited facilitator for UNESCO Global Network of Facilitators on Intangible Cultural Heritage. Graduated from National University of Singapore in Doctor of Philosophy (2011), she specialized in resource mobilization, project management, and risk assessment. Born and raised in the inner city of George Town, she carries her duties with much passion and fervor, incorporating innovative ideas and holistic management on World Heritage Site for the benefit of the local people.
Dr. Masanori NAGAOKA obtained a Ph.D. in Heritage Studies from the University of Tsukuba in Japan and MA degree in Archaeology and Art History from Columbia University in New York, USA. He has 17 years of work experience since 2004 in the Culture sector of UNESCO at both headquarters (World Heritage Centre) and field offices (Afghanistan, Indonesia and Cambodia). He has been engaged in projects in all fields of the UNESCO Culture sector, which include safeguarding of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage, cultural diversity and creative industry promotion, cultural policies for sustainable development, museums development, and promotion of international legal instruments through the UNESCO Cultural Conventions. He also published a number of scientific peer-reviewed papers from Routledge, Springer, Emerald, ICOMOS, and so forth. His latest publication is The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues: Heritage Reconstruction in Theory and Practice. M. Nagaoka (Ed), Springer. Dec 2020.
Dr. Ajirapa PRADIT is a Researcher at The Centre of Lanna Creativity and Innovation, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, RMUTL Chiang Mai. She has a Master's Degree in Urban and Rural Design from Queen's University of Belfast and has been actively working with the local community in Chiang Mai and many international organizations. She is experienced in urban planning, urban design, cultural heritage, and public participation and engagement processes.
Dr. Worrasit TANTINIPANKUL holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2006) and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania (1998). He is a registered architect and landscape architect who also teaches architecture and urban planning at both Chiang Mai University and King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. He has been involved with the nomination dossier committee for proposing Chiang Mai as a UNESCO heritage site.
Full Webinar Series Schedule
Panel 1 : Sept 22 – Plastics and Environmental Trash
Panel 2 : Oct 13 – Mekong Fisheries
Panel 3 : Nov 10 – Politics of Oil Palm and Rubber
Panel 4 : Dec 8 – Politics of Conservation and Heritage
This series is made possible through funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and is co-organized by Michigan State University-James Madison College and Asian Studies Center, the East-West Center, University of Hawai'i-Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Chiang Mai University-Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development.
Politics of Conservation and Heritage in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia in Transition: Plastic Runs Through It
2021 Webinar Series
Click Here to Register
Southeast Asian people have witnessed major transformations in their lives and livelihoods in recent decades. This webinar series focuses on a variety of issues, and most have a plastic connection. The first webinar introduces the expanding problem of plastic waste in the region and community and government action to reign it in. The following webinars discuss the growth of fisheries and aquaculture, the expansion of oil palm and rubber plantations, and the politics of conservation and heritage areas. Our Fall 2021 webinar series explores how communities in the region currently experienced economic, social, and cultural dislocations of these transformations.
Speakers:
- Dr. Ana LABRADOR, Deputy Director-General of Museums, National Museum of the Philippines
- Dr. Ming Chee ANG, General Manager, George Town World Heritage Incorporated
- Dr. Masanori NAGAOKA, Programme Specialist for Culture, UNESCO Phnom Penh Office
- Dr. Ajirapa PRADIT, Researcher, The Centre of Lanna Creativity and Innovation, RMUTL Chiang Mai
- Dr. Worrasit TANTINIPANKUL, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Chiang Mai University
Moderator:
- Dr. Miriam STARK, Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies & Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Dr. Ana Maria Theresa P. LABRADOR was until recently Deputy Director-General at the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP), responsible for research development, museology and technical assistance. She was a Fellow of the ICCROM in Rome, Italy in 2007, examining conservation from the perspective of traditional knowledge in Southeast Asia and from February 2008, she took up a four-month Visiting Scholarship at the University of Melbourne’s Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation in Australia. She co-authored (with Robert Balarbar, Nicole Tse and Marcelle Scott) the article “Preventive Conservation: People, Objects, Place and Time” published in 2018 in the Studies in Conservation (Routledge), as well as “Decision making, materiality and digitisation: Esteban Villanueva’s Basi Revolt Paintings of Ilocos” (co-authored with Nicole Tse and Maricor Soriano), published in 2018 in the AICCM Bulletin (Routledge).
Dr. Ming Chee ANG is the General Manager of George Town World Heritage Incorporation and an accredited facilitator for UNESCO Global Network of Facilitators on Intangible Cultural Heritage. Graduated from National University of Singapore in Doctor of Philosophy (2011), she specialized in resource mobilization, project management, and risk assessment. Born and raised in the inner city of George Town, she carries her duties with much passion and fervor, incorporating innovative ideas and holistic management on World Heritage Site for the benefit of the local people.
Dr. Masanori NAGAOKA obtained a Ph.D. in Heritage Studies from the University of Tsukuba in Japan and MA degree in Archaeology and Art History from Columbia University in New York, USA. He has 17 years of work experience since 2004 in the Culture sector of UNESCO at both headquarters (World Heritage Centre) and field offices (Afghanistan, Indonesia and Cambodia). He has been engaged in projects in all fields of the UNESCO Culture sector, which include safeguarding of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage, cultural diversity and creative industry promotion, cultural policies for sustainable development, museums development, and promotion of international legal instruments through the UNESCO Cultural Conventions. He also published a number of scientific peer-reviewed papers from Routledge, Springer, Emerald, ICOMOS, and so forth. His latest publication is The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues: Heritage Reconstruction in Theory and Practice. M. Nagaoka (Ed), Springer. Dec 2020.
Dr. Ajirapa PRADIT is a Researcher at The Centre of Lanna Creativity and Innovation, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, RMUTL Chiang Mai. She has a Master's Degree in Urban and Rural Design from Queen's University of Belfast and has been actively working with the local community in Chiang Mai and many international organizations. She is experienced in urban planning, urban design, cultural heritage, and public participation and engagement processes.
Dr. Worrasit TANTINIPANKUL holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2006) and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania (1998). He is a registered architect and landscape architect who also teaches architecture and urban planning at both Chiang Mai University and King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. He has been involved with the nomination dossier committee for proposing Chiang Mai as a UNESCO heritage site.
Full Webinar Series Schedule
Panel 1 : Sept 22 – Plastics and Environmental Trash
Panel 2 : Oct 13 – Mekong Fisheries
Panel 3 : Nov 10 – Politics of Oil Palm and Rubber
Panel 4 : Dec 8 – Politics of Conservation and Heritage
This series is made possible through funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and is co-organized by Michigan State University-James Madison College and Asian Studies Center, the East-West Center, University of Hawai'i-Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Chiang Mai University-Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development.
