Dates: 19^th – 21^st January, 2011
Venue: Heiseikan Large Auditorium, TokyoNational Museum
Organizer: National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo

Registration will start in mid- October.
Details (titles of presentations, speakers, etc.) will be provided in the Second Circular.

Contact office:
Japan Center for International Cooperation in Conservation
National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo

Address:13-43 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8713 Japan
TEL: +81-3-3823-4898  FAX: +81-3-3823-4867
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Objectives:

  The culture of any social group unavoidably changes forms over time, either as a slow process, or in a sudden manner. In this process, some things may be lost, while some others may be added as new values, and it is this comprehensive totality which gives shape to the historic cultural memory of a social group at a given time. Cultural heritage actually is one component that constitutes such historic cultural memory, the very part which has been inherited in a tangible form from the past to this day, which can be shared by the people who live today, and which people wish to transmit into the future.

  Meanwhile, the expression “reconstruction process” involves strong intentions of going against the natural course of time in which things are gradually being lost, or the intention of bringing back and recovering something that had been lost already. This kind of intervention does not limit itself to mere “recovery”, and may be accompanied by new creation. Often, in such processes, cultural heritage is expected to fulfill the roles of expressing the culture’s characteristics and its permanence, or more, its superiority or excellence, as well as the role of maintaining and promoting people’s self-respect and unifying force.