Heritage Talk by Asc. Prof. Yushi Utaka

Title: Conserving Hiroshima 'Peace Memorial' World Heritage Site.

Date : 05 October 2011 (Wednesday)

Time : 02.30pm – 04.00pm

Venue : George Town World Heritage Incorpoated

No. 116 & 118, Lebuh Acheh, 10200 George Town, Pulau Pinang

Yushi Utaka is working as an Associate Professor at the University of Hyogo. Before he joined the University of Hyogo in 2005, he taught at Hiroshima University for eight years.

His research interest is in urban planning and heritage conservation, with a special focus on built environments and cultural diversity in Asia. He has been conducting field research in Southeast Asia for the past 15 years. Yushi Utaka was researcher at University Science Malaysia in Penang state from 1995-1996 and 2001-2003, and at the National University of Singapore in 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. at Kyoto University in 1997, and has been awarded academic prizes from institutions, including the Architectural Institute of Japan and the Osaka and Nagoya City. Yushi Utaka has been teaching architecture and planning subjects since 1997.

Currently, he is involved in heritage conservation and site management projects in Japan and the Asian region under the auspices of the authorities and international organizations. While joining these field projects spend time to think and write following areas past years around the cities in Asia.

1. Globalizing Heritage Conservation: Memory, Place and Narrative

2. Cultural Diversity and Multi-ethnic Settlement in Asia

3. Reinventing Traditional Built Heritage and Community

And Salutation to a Fellow Heritage Stalwart: Encik Wan Burhanuddin

In Memory of Che Wan: 14 June 1952 - 21 July 2011

Date : 05 October 2011 (Wednesday)

Time : 04.00pm – 05.00pm

Venue : George Town World Heritage Incorpoated

No. 116 & 118, Lebuh Acheh, 10200 George Town, Pulau Pinang

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