
Ioan Trifu is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for East Asian Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from both the University of Lyon (France) and Tohoku University (Japan) in 2013. He has been visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo and more recently at Kyushu University. His doctoral dissertation focused on the postwar evolution of Japanese local politics. As a member of the research project “Protecting the Weak: Entangled Processes of Framing, Mobilization and Institutionalization in East Asia”, he is currently in charge of the case-study regarding the protection of cultural heritage in Japan. His research is in the field of Japanese politics and public policy, with a particular focus on local revitalization, multilevel governance and heritage policy. He has a long-term interest in the opportunities offered by the comparative approach in heritage studies.
Sessions in which Ioan Trifu participates
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- 09.00 Where East Meets West: Comparing UNESCO’s Impact on Domestic Cultural Governance Systems
- Participant Ioan Trifu (Goethe University Frankfurt) | Participant Christina Maags (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- For decades the international heritage regime has increasingly been criticized as following a Western notion of and approach to cultural heritag...
- Paper
- 15.30 Heritage Conflicts in East Asia: Japan and the Contested Colonial Past
- Participant Ioan Trifu (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- When on May 4th, 2015, Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs announced that the “Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution,” twenty-three old f...
- Paper
Sessions in which Ioan Trifu attends
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- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
- Workshop
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- 11.00 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage
- Participant Geir Vestheim (University College of Southeast Norway) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- This paper will depart from the idea that the making of cultural policy, and heritage policy included, takes place within a political system and...
- Paper
- 11.30 Heritage Diplomacy and the Border
- Participant Prof. Tim Winter (Deakin University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine
- Borders—political, institutional and cultural—have been central to the internationalization of heritage in the modern era. The concepts of herit...
- Paper
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- Heritage as Global Challenge UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- A new Centre for Critical Heritage Studies in partnership between University College London and University of Gothenburg started in April 2016 a...
- Talk
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- 13.30 Industrial Heritage in Regions of Heavy Industry: Identity Constructions and their Relations to "Layered Temporalities" in Global Comparison
- Participant Prof. Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Industrial Heritage: Towards Comparative Perspectives
- This paper will compare ten regions of heavy industry from North America to Australia and from Japan and China to Europe, in order to find out a...
- Paper
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- 11.30 How to Protect Foods and Foodways as Intangible Properties Effectively in the Republic of Korea
- Participant Professor Gyooho Lee (Chung-Ang University School of Law (Seoul, South Korea)) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II
- Traditional foods, including their recipes, and foodways can be protected by the Cultural Heritage Protection Act, the Convention for the Safegu...
- Paper
- 10.00 Les patrimoines alimentaires à l’UNESCO : une nouvelle « marque » alimentaire à l’heure de la mondialisation ?
- Participant Prof. Julia Csergo |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II
- À partir d’une proposition de caractérisation des patrimoines alimentaires inscrits sur les listes du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’UNESCO...
- Paper
- 11.00 Defining Washoku: Japanese Food Heritage Before and After UNESCO Inscription
- Participant Voltaire Cang |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II
- “Washoku, the traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese” was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Heritage of Humanit...
- Paper
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- ACHS Chapters meetings: association des études patrimoniales UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Workshop
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- 09.05 De « l’Inventaire du patrimoine culinaire de la France » au « Repas gastronomique des Français » : l’investissement patrimonial pour quelles gastro-politiques ?
- Participant Prof. Julia Csergo |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Food as Heritage: Uses and Consequences of Food as an Object of Cultural Value
- C’est à travers la mémoire patrimoniale que nous analyserons la façon dont s’est produit et structuré le patrimoine alimentaire dans la France d...
- Paper
- 09.35 Culinary Nationalism and Food Heritage: The Case of Japan
- Participant Voltaire Cang |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Food as Heritage: Uses and Consequences of Food as an Object of Cultural Value
- Washoku (literally, “Japanese food”) is now formally designated as Intangible Heritage of Humanity under the cultural heritage inscription syste...
- Paper
- 14.15 Fighting Marginalization with Heritage: The Impact of Empathy—A Case Study of Castles in Japan
- Participant Mi Li (Kanazawa University) |
- 9:00 - 9:15 | 15 minutes Part of: Posters
- With the acceleration of modernization and globalization came urban crowding in big cities as well as devitalization and social marginalization ...
- Poster
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- 10.00 Challenging the Hegemony of European Holocaust Memory: A Study of Different Approaches to Representing Difficult Heritage in Europe, Asia and North America
- Participant Sandra Sulamith Graefenstein (ANU) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Over the past two and a half decades, a new type of museum dedicated to representing violent pasts through the lens of human rights has emerged ...
- Paper
- 11.00 Architecture exotique et développement de la métropole shanghaienne. Le retour à un patrimoine non-chinois pour se définir ?
- Participant Martin Minost (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Depuis vingt années, une nouvelle mode s’est répandue en Chine : l’imitation architecturale de bâtiments européens et américains. Le phénomène, ...
- Paper
- 16.00 Global Archive, Vying National Identities: Contested Korean Histories and UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme
- Participant Nan Kim (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- In contemporary South Korea, cosmopolitanism and global status signify the most coveted markers of identity on a personal, institutional, and na...
- Paper