Date&Time: 22 February, 2022, 15:00 – 22:00 (Japan Time)

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Keynote Speech: Prof. Nir Avieli, Prof. Christoph Brumann

Panel 1: Heritage preservation and tourism spaces in Vietnam and Laos
Speaker: Ms. Franziska Susana Nicolaisen, Dr. Ngoc Tung Nguyen, Ms. Thuy Huong

Panel 2: How to Mediate Competing Claims for Authenticity and Development Priorities
Speaker: Dr. Edoardo Gerlini, Ms. Nevena Tatovic, Prof. Filipe Themudo Barata, Mr. Yutaka Hirako

Panel 3: Challenges to living heritage sites in China
Speaker: Dr. Mingqian Liu, Mr. Xinlin Yang, Dr. Sabine Choshen, Prof. Xiaobo Su

Program:
Opening Remarks: Prof. Yoko Hayami  15:00 – 15:05
Dr. Sabine Choshen 15:05 – 15:10

Brief introduction of all the participants
15:10 – 15:20

Keynote Speech: Prof. Nir Avieli
The good, the bad, and the obscure: 20 years of ethnographic research in two UNESCO World Heritage sites in Vietnam and Laos
15:20 – 15:50

Response and Remarks from the participants 
15:50 – 16:00

Panel 1: Heritage preservation and tourism spaces in Vietnam
Panel’s chair: Prof. Nir Avieli

Introduction of Speakers and Panel theme
16:00 – 16:10
John Mensing

Speaker 1.1 –  Ms. Franziska Susana Nicolaisen  
16:10 – 16:30 Tensions in local-global production of tourist spaces in Vietnam: heritage, global flows and local identities

Speaker 1.2 & 1.3 : Dr. Ngoc Tung Nguyen & Ms. Thuy Huong
16:30 – 17:00 Preservation of the garden houses  & French colonial architecture in Hue, Vietnam

Panel 1 Discussion:
17:00 – 17:20

Break: 17:20 – 17:30

Keynote Speech: Prof. Christoph Brumann
There’s life in the old house yet: The creative career of Kyoto’s machiya heritage
17:30 – 18:00

Panel 2: How to Mediate Competing Claims for Authenticity and Development Priorities
Panel’s chair: Prof. Christoph Brumann

Introduction of Speakers and Panel theme
18:00 – 18:10
John Mensing

Speaker 2.1: Dr. Edoardo Gerlini
18:10-18:30 Kyoto as an Intangible Palimpsest

Speakers 2.2 & 2.3: Ms. Nevena Tatovic and Prof. Filipe Themudo Barata
18:30 – 18:50 Living Heritage of One Holy Landscape: the case of the Ovcar – Kablar Gorge

Break: 18:50 – 19:00

Speaker 2.4: Mr. Yutaka Hirako
19:00 – 19:20 The Tibet Heritage Fund and Leh Old Town Initiative

Discussion
19:20 – 19:50

Panel 3: Challenges to living heritage sites in China
Introduction of Speakers and Panel theme: 19:50 – 20:00 
John Mensing

Speaker 3.1: Dr. Mingqian Liu 
20:00 – 20:20 The role of community’s museum in Dongsi Hutong’s preservation in Beijing

Speaker 3.2: Mr. Xinlin Yang
20:20 – 20:40 Immersive Theater as a Domestic Chinese Tourism Attraction

Break: 20:40 – 20:50

Speaker 3.3: Dr. Sabine Choshen
20:50 – 21:10 Heritage commodification and ‘creative destruction’ in Lijiang’s Old Town

Speaker 3.4, Prof. Xiaobo Su
21:10 – 21:30
Heritage as Home: Tourism and the Experiences of Existential Authenticity in Lijiang, China

Panel 3 Discussion
21:30 – 22:00

Concluding remarks