
Voltaire Cang
Participates in 2 items
Voltaire Cang, PhD, is a specialist researcher for a social education research institute in Tokyo, Japan. He earned degrees from Kyoto, Waseda, and Rikkyo (St Paul’s) Universities through his main research in heritage studies, particularly intangible heritage in Japan. He is a member of and has presented his work in many academic societies, mainly on Japanese heritage and food studies, and has also published his work in several books and journals inside and outside Japan. His latest work, “Unmaking Japanese Food: Washoku and Intangible Heritage Designation,” will be published in Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal in late 2015.
Sessions in which Voltaire Cang participates
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- 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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- 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
Sessions in which Voltaire Cang attends
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- Pre-Conference Tour: Old Montreal (2 groups) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- Find out more about all the eras that shaped Montréal with this interesting walking tour, from the foundation of Fort Ville-Marie in 1642 to today’...
- Tour