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 JURY
The
International Jury for proclamation by UNESCO of Masterpieces of
Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity is composed of 18 members.
Nominated every four years by the Director-General of UNESCO, they
meet every two years in order to designate the cultural spaces of
forms of cultural expression which deserve to be proclaimed
“masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity”.
After the Jury’s deliberations, the
masterpieces are proclaimed by the Director-General of
UNESCO at a public ceremony. The Jury is currently chaired by the
Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo, one of the pioneers of the
Proclamation project.
Hasan
M. AL-NABOODAH
Professor
at the University of the United Arab Emirates, Director of Zayed
Centre for Heritage and History
Following
studies in Arab history and culture in his own country and at the
University of Exeter (UK), Hasan Al-Naboodah has held several
positions within the University of the United Arab Emirates, and
in the Council of Research and the Ministry of Education where he
was responsible for the development of programmes in the
Humanities. A specialist of medieval Islamic history, he is
currently Director of the Zayed Centre for Heritage and History.
Aziza
BENNANI
University
Professor, Ambassador for Morocco to UNESCO
Born
in Rabat, Aziza Bennani is the author of a doctoral thesis on the
fictional world of Carlos Fuentes. She has also written several works in Arabic,
French and Spanish on Hispano-Moroccan and Hispano-American
literature and civilization, as well as on issues of tolerance and
women’s rights. She successively held the positions of Dean of
the Faculty of Literature and Humanities at the Hassan II
University of Mohammedia, High Commissioner for the Disabled
and Secretary of State for Culture. She is currently Ambassador of
Morocco to UNESCO.
Basma
BINT TALAL
Princess
of Jordan
Princess
Basma was born in Amman, and studied languages and development
studies at Oxford University (UK). Over the last twenty years she
has worked on the role of women and the rights of children in the
context of development. She founded the Queen Alia Fund for Social
Development, at the request of her brother, King Hussein, in 1977
and the Jordanian National Commission for Women in 1992. She
subsequently played an important role in the 1995 United Nations
Conference on Women in Beijing. She was special advisor on
sustainable development to United Nations Secretary-General,
Boutros Boutros-Ghali from 1995 to 1997. She has also worked for
UNDP, WHO and UNESCO.
Georges
CONDOMINAS
Cultural
Anthropologist
Georges
Condominas is a French cultural anthropologist and a specialist of
oral culture. After completing his Ph.D., he was elected to a
Chair of ethnology and sociology of South-East Asia
at the Ecole pratique
des Hautes Etudes
(EPHE, France), VIth section, and was a visiting
professor at Yale and Columbia (USA). He has been a professor at
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales for many years. He is the author of the
renowned book, We have Eaten
the Forest. The story of a Montagnard Village in the Central
Highlands of Vietnam. He has also been Vice-president of the
Union of Anthropologists.
Anzor
ERKOMAICHVILI
Folklorist,
Choir Director, Professor at the State Institute of Culture of
Georgia
Anzor
Erkomaichvili comes from a family of traditional Georgian
musicians. After studying at the State Conservatory of Tbilissi
(Georgia), he founded and still directs several groups of Georgian
polyphonic singing, including the Rustavi
choir, with which he has toured over 50 countries, and the
youth choir Martvé. He
has collected a vast number of recordings of traditional songs
throughout the regions of Georgia. He has written several books on
the subject, and was the initiator of the restoration of the
Archives of Georgian Polyphonic Songs.
Carlos
FUENTES
Writer
Born
in Mexico, Carlos Fuentes grew up in the United States, Chile and
Argentina. After studying Law at the Autonomous University of
Mexico, he started writing and became professor of
English-language and Hispanic literature in several universities
in Europe and the United States. In 1958, he published Where
the Air is Clear, a huge fresco relating the life of Mexico
City in the 1940s and 1950s. In The
Death of Artemio Cruz, published in 1962, he tells the history
of Mexico’s independence. Carlos Fuentes was Ambassador of
Mexico to France from 1974 to 1977 and received the Miguel de
Cervantes Prize in 1987.
Juan
GOYTISOLO
Writer
After
studies in Barcelona and Madrid, Juan Goytisolo left Spain, under
Franco’s dictatorship, at the end of the 1950s to live in Paris
and Marrakech. He is the author of numerous novels, many of them
autobiographical, among them Forbidden
Territory, and Realm of Strife, some
of them influenced by Moroccan storytellers, like The Garden of Secrets. With a passion for traditional Moroccan
culture, and as a fervent defender of the cultural heritage of
Marrakech, he was one of the pioneers of the “Proclamation of
Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage” project.
Hideki
HAYASHIDA
Director
General of the National Science Museum of Japan
After
completing his studies at Kyoto University, Hideki Hayashida
worked for many years at the Japanese Ministry for Education,
Science, Sports and Culture. There he held several positions
within the Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau. He was
subsequently appointed Director General of the Cultural Properties
Protection Department, and then Commissioner for Cultural Affairs.
Since July 2000, he has been Director General of the National
Science Museum of Japan.
Ugné
KARVELIS
Writer,
Ambassador of Lithuania to UNESCO
Ugné
Karvelis, who had to leave Lithuania in 1944, studied in Germany,
France and the United States. She worked for twenty years with the
publishing house Editions
Gallimard in Paris and has helped many writers to be published
in France, including Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortazar, Carlos
Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz and Mario Vargas Losa, as well
as Milan Kundera and Vassilis Vassilikos. A literary critic (notably
in the Figaro littéraire), translator and novelist, she has recently
devoted herself to promoting Lithuanian culture. She is the
Lithuanian Ambassador to UNESCO and has been a member of the
Executive Board of UNESCO since 1997.
Alpha
Oumar KONARÉ
President
of Mali
Born
in 1946, Alpha Oumar Konaré studied history in Mali and Poland.
He was Director of the Division of Historical and Ethnographic
Heritage within the Ministry of Culture, and later Minister for
Youth, Culture and Sports from 1978 to 1980. In 1990, he founded
the Alliance for Democracy in Mali. Following the fall of Moussa
Traoré and the setting-up of a new constitution, Alpha Oumar
Konaré was elected President of Mali in 1992 for a five-year term,
and re-elected in 1997. He is currently also acting President
of the Economic Community of the Western African States (ECOWAS).
Richard
KURIN
Director
of the Center for Folklore and Cultural Heritage of the
Smithsonian Institution (USA)
Richard
Kurin has headed the Center
for Folklore and Cultural Heritage of the Smithsonian
Institution since 1990. He organizes the Smithsonian Festival for
Folklore which is held every summer in Washington D.C. He also
runs the Institution’s collection of traditional music and
several other cultural programmes. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural
Anthropology from the University of Chicago, has lectured at Johns
Hopkins University, and currently teaches at George Washington
University. He has published several books, particularly on
traditional culture in India and Pakistan.
Olive
LEWIN
Pianist,
ethnomusicologist, Director of the Jamaica Orchestra for Youth
Olive
Lewin was born in Jamaica and studied music and ethnomusicology in
the United Kingdom. She is a Fellow of Trinity College, and an
Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal School of
Music. She has also held the positions of Director of Arts and
Culture at the office of the Prime Minister of Jamaica and of
Director of the Jamaica Institute of Folk Culture. In 1983, she
founded the Jamaica Orchestra for Youth, which she continues to
direct today.
Ronald
Muwenda MUTEBI II
The
Kabaka of Buganda
The
Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi was born in Uganda and studied law in
England. He was forced into exile from his country from 1966 to
1986, during which time he supported the opponents of the
authoritarian regime of Uganda, and worked with newspapers such as
the African Concord.
After his return to Uganda and the proclamation of a new
constitution, he was crowned 37th Kabaka of Buganda in 1993. He is
the creator of the Kabaka Foundation, which is devoted to poverty
relief, providing access to health care for the disadvantaged,
formal and informal education, and to the protection of
biodiversity.
J.
H. Kwabena NKETIA
President
of the Africa Section of the International Council of Music
Born
in Ghana, J.H. Kwabena Nketia studied linguistics and music in
England and the United States, notably at the Julliard School of
Music. He has held professorial posts at several European and
American universities, including UCLA and the University of
Pittsburgh, as well as at the University of Ghana to which he
returned in 1992 as Emeritus Professor and Director of the
International Centre for African Music and Dance. Prof. Nketia is
a member of the International Council of Music and of the
International Commission for a New Edition of the History of the
Scientific and Cultural Development of Humanity.
Ralph
REGENVANU
Anthropologist,
Director of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre
After
studying development, anthropology and archaeology in Australia,
Ralph Regenvanu was appointed curator at the National Museum of
Vanuatu before becoming Director of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre.
He is Secretary of the Executive Council of the Pacific Islands
Museum Association (PIMA). He has represented his country at
several international conferences which he attended as a member of
the indigenous community of Vanuatu. Since 1998, he has worked
with UNESCO as a delegate of the Pacific and as a member of the
Vanuatu National Commission for UNESCO.
Dawnhee
YIM
Professor
of History, Dean of the Department of Women’s studies at the
University of Dongguk (Korea)
Dawnhee
Yim has published several works on folklore, cultural anthropology
and the position of women in Korean society. After obtaining a
Ph.D. in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania, she taught
anthropology in the United States and Korea. She has presided over
the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology and is a member of
several other associations for anthropological studies. She is
currently Dean of the Department of Women’s Studies at the
University of Dongguk.
Zulmar
YUGAR
Singer,
Honorary President of the Bolivian National Council of Popular and
Traditional Culture
A
true ambassador for traditional Bolivian singing, Zulma Yugar has
received many national and international prizes, and has produced
a very rich discography. She has also been Director for the
Promotion of Culture at the Ministry of Culture, President of the
Bolivian Association of Artists and Musicians and president of a
society for composers’ rights. She also heads the Zulmar Yugar
Foundation for Traditional Culture.
Munojat
YULCHIEVA
Singer
of traditional Uzbek music
Munojat
Yulchieva holds a diploma in traditional Uzbek singing from the
State Conservatory of Tashkent. A well-known and highly respected
artist, she has participated in numerous traditional music
festivals throughout Europe as well as
Morocco, Brazil and the United States. Munojat Yulchieva
has received several distinguished awards, and has recorded many
albums, notably in France and in Germany.
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