Sub-regional Expert Meeting on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and Building Resilience to Climate Change and Its Impacts in Western and Central Asia with a special focus on the role of non-governmental actors (Isfahan, 18-19 October 2023) On 18-19 October 2023, on the 20th anniversary of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, the…
Dr Janet Blake, Director of the Persian Garden Institute for Living Heritage, recently visited Yerevan in her capacity as the UNESCO Consultant on an International Assistance project for documenting the ICH elements of the Syunik region in southern Armenia. During this visit, she held a meeting with Mr Alfred Koucharian, Deputy Minister of Culture and…
A series of expert meetings organized in the framework of the global reflection on the listing mechanisms of the 2003 Convention ended yesterday. Launched by the Intergovernmental Committee at its thirteenth session in 2018, this ongoing process led to discussions within the Committee in 2019 and during the General Assembly in 2020. The reflection continued with an…
The American Society of International Law has selected the book Janet Blake & Lucas Lixinski, eds. The 2003 UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2020) for the Certificate of Merit for High Technical Craftsmanship and Utility for Practicing Lawyers and Scholars (2020-21). This is one of the most prestigious book prizes…
The fifteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will take place for the first time online from 14 to 19 December 2020 with one three-hour session per day (1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Paris time). During the meeting, the debates will be transmitted by webcast in their…
2020 ICH NGO Conference: Grounds for Solidarity among NGOs Worldwide On 12 and 13 November 2020, ICHCAP and the ICH NGO Forum virtually held the 2020 ICH NGO Conference. The fifteen participants, including eleven selected presenters from ten countries around the world, discussed various cases and activities of each country applied under the Corona-era, and…
We are pleased to announce that, on 10 September 2020 at the 8th session of the General Assembly of States Parties to UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Persian Garden Institute for Living Heritage (PGILH) was granted accreditation to the intergovernmental Committee of the Convention under Resolution 8.GA 13 of the meeting….
Shah Mahmud. A polo game: an illustration from the poem Guy u Chawgan (the Ball and the Polo-mallet) (F1935.18, manuscript). Safavid dynasty. Color and gold on paper
This carpets on display belongs to a group known as “Polonaise.” Produced during the reign of Shah ‘Abbas I (r. 1587–1629), these carpets were not only enjoyed in Iran but also made for export to Europe, where they came to be mistakenly identified as Polish (Polonaise). The floral and saz-style ornament in this rug is…
