Workshop

[ Simultaneous Japanese-English interpretation is available. ]

All presentations and discussions are based on the Nara Document, focusing on the Asia-Pacific region and Africa.

1. Dynamics of local communities and World heritage

2. Value and potential of invisible cultural heritage

3. 100 years after the registration as World heritage

4. Build Back Better and cultural heritage

5. Cultural heritage and academia

[ Hybrid Event ]
This workshop is a hybrid event.
Those who register will be contacted with the URL for the web conference.

Hiroshima University Higashi-Senda Campus SENDA LAB
1-1-89 Higashi-Senda-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima
Google Map［https://maps.app.goo.gl/45sBQ7LQHqVGdv4h8］

• Yui ARIMATSU

  有松　唯

  Associate Professor

  • Country Japan
  • Type Organiser
  • Affiliation Hiroshima University
  

  Dr Yui ARIMATSU is an Associate Professor at Hiroshima University. She obtained a PhD from Université Lumière Lyon 2 and previously worked as an associate professor at Tohoku University and an associate expert at UNESCO. Her field is Middle Eastern Archaeology. Main research area is on Iran during the pre-Achaemenid period. Her publications include: Homogénéisation de la céramique fine de la deuxième moitié de l’âge du Fer au nord de l’Iran dans le cadre de l’horizon à céramique de type de Orange ware, Iranica Antiqua 50, 2015 and The Imperial Substratum (in Japanese), Tohoku University Press, 2015.

• Akira MATSUDA

  松田　陽

  Associate Professor

  • Country Japan
  • Type Organiser
  • Affiliation University of Tokyo
  

  Dr Akira MATSUDA is an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. He obtained a PhD from University College London and previously worked as a lecturer at the University of East Anglia. His investigates the meaning, representation and use of the past in the contemporary world. His publications include: Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia (co-edited with Luisa Mengoni), Ubiquity Press, 2016 and New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology (co-edited with Katsuyuki Okamura), Springer, 2011.

• Nao HAYASHI

  林　菜央

  Programme Specialist

  • Country France
  • Type Organiser/Speaker
  • Affiliation UNESCO

• George ABUNGU

  ジョルジュ・アブング

  CEO

  • Country Kenya
  • Type Keynote Speaker
  • Affiliation Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants

• John SCHOFIELD

  ジョン・スコフィールド

  Professor

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Type Speaker
  • Affiliation University of York
  

  Professor John Schofield teaches cultural heritage management and contemporary archaeology in the Archaeology Department, University of York (UK). Prior to this he worked for Historic England’s Characterisation Team, where his work focused on how and why people valued everyday places. John holds adjunct status at the universities of Turku (Finland) and Flinders and Griffith (Australia). He is Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. John's most recent book, Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice, was published in 2024 by Oxford University Press.

• Albino JOPELA

  アルビノ・ジョペラ

  Director

  • Country South Africa
  • Type Speaker
  • Affiliation African World Heritage Fund (AWHF)
  

  Dr. Albino Jopela is the Executive Director of the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF) and a Research Fellow at the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He held the position of Chairperson of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA), co-chair of the Climate Heritage Network (CHN) for Africa and the Middle East and served as an Advisor to the International Council for Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) on World Heritage matters. Dr. Jopela, a Mozambican-born pan-Africanist heritage researcher and practitioner, specialises in heritage conservation and management systems, World Heritage, climate heritage, rock art, and liberation heritage in Africa.

• Kohei TAMURA

  田村　光平

  Associate Professor

  • Country Japan
  • Type Speaker
  • Affiliation Tohoku University
  

  Kohei Tamura, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, is an associate professor at the Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University. He also holds a concurrent position as an associate professor at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies and as the head of the Knowledge and Communication Unit at the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies, Tohoku University. His research spans a wide range of topics, including computational studies on human history and the digitization of cultural heritage, with a particular focus on the role of technologies involved with the value and preservation of disaster-affected cultural heritage.

• Alejandro MARTINEZ DE ARBULO

  アレハンドロ・マルティネス

  Associate Professor

  • Country Japan
  • Type Speaker
  • Affiliation Kyoto Institute of Technology
  

  MARTÍNEZ DE ARBULO, Alejandro (Associate Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology)

  Graduated with a PhD from The University of Tokyo in 2017. Research Fellow at the Japan Center for International Cooperation in Conservation of the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties from 2016 to 2019; worked in cooperation projects for the conservation of built heritage in Bhutan, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Assistant Professor (2019 - 2024) and Associate Professor (2024 - present) at the Faculty of Design and Architecture of the Kyoto Institute of Technology; conducting research and education on built heritage conservation theory and practice from an international perspective. Member of the Japanese National Committee of ICOMOS and the ICOMOS International Wood Committee. Recent publications include ‘The Conservation of Wooden Built Heritage: A Comparison Between Japan and Europe’ (Chuo-Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, 2019) and ‘Cultural Heritage and “Reconstructionology”: Theory and Practice of the Reconstruction of Archeological Sites, Buildings, and Gardens’ (co-authored, Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 2019).

• Yasuo NAKAMURA

  中村　泰朗

  Assistant Professor

  • Country Japan
  • Type Speaker
  • Affiliation Hiroshima University
  

  Dr. Yasuo NAKAMURA is an assistant professor of Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University. He obtained a PhD from Hiroshima University and previously worked as an assistant professor at National Institute of Technology, Hachinohe College. He is an expert on historical buildings in Japan. His main research focus is on castles from the early modern period. He is also involved in the conservation and restoration of castles. His main publications include the following: The Built Age and Characteristic of Nagato Sumiyoshi Shrine, Journal of Environmental Engineering (Transaction of AIJ) 690, 2013, A Study on the Honmaru Palace in Azuchi Castle, Journal of Environmental Engineering (Transaction of AIJ) 727, 2016, A Study of the Tenshu in Azuchi Castle Part I: A Reconstruction Study of the Floor Plan, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Japan 76, 2021.

• Hiroki YAMADA

  山田　大樹

  Senior Assistant Professor

  • Country Japan
  • Type Speaker
  • Affiliation Teikyo University
  

  Hiroki Yamada is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Teikyo University, and a Visiting Researcher at the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. He is a licensed First-Class Architect and Professional Engineer specializing in Urban and Regional Planning in Japan. Yamada has been actively involved in cultural heritage protection projects in countries such as Chile, Tajikistan, China, Iran, Vietnam, and Nepal. Since 2002, he has conducted research on Hue, Vietnam, contributing to its conservation and study.