Lecture: “Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Protection: International and Local Policies”

On April 8, another seminar of the Ethnography Department was held in the reading hall of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (IAE) of the NAS of the Republic of Armenia. The lecture, entitled “Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Protection: International and Local Policies,” was delivered by ethnographer Ruzanna Tsaturyan, a researcher in the same department. The event was attended by Deputy Director of the IAE Tork Dalalyan, Head of the Department of Ethnography Suren Hobosyan, and other researchers. In her lecture, the speaker addressed the 2006 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, with particular emphasis on issues related to the cultural heritage of Artsakh. At the end of the seminar, attendees posed questions to the speaker.