2nd session: Community participation in the safeguarding of their ICH under the Convention
Chaired by Toshiyuki Kono
• The relation between communities and their living culture as represented in audiovisual files by Wim van Zanten, Ethnomusicologist,
University of Leiden (the Netherlands)
• Communities and the Contested Politics of Representation by Kristin Kuutma, Professor, University of Tartu (Estonia)
• Cultural brokerage, heritage communities and safeguarding programs by Marc Jacobs, Director of the Flemish Interface Center for
Cultural Heritage; Professor, Free University Brussels (Belgium)
• Beyond tradition: customary views about the ownership of intangible cultural heritage by Antonio Arantes, Professor, State University
of Campinas (Brazil)