News related to the UNESCO Chair

26.01.2025 New international research project of the UNESCO Chair is about collective singing

22.01.2025 UNESCO Chair contributes to an open access heritage handbook

10.12.2024 The UNESCO Chair contributes to global discussion about living heritage and climate change

6.12.2024 UNESCO Chairs dedicated to living heritage met in Paraguay

23.11.2023 Join the LIVIND research webinar on December 17

11.10.2024 The RISE UP consortium met in Setomaa

11.09.2024 Seminar: Sustainable Development Seen through the Lens of Cultural Heritage

10.09.2024 Conference in honour of Kristin Kuutma 'Intangible Cultural Heritage and Inequalities'

26.06.2024 Aet Annist member of a group of experts convened by UNESCO

22.04.2024 New article about anthropological perspectives on global challenges

21.04.2024 Panel of the UNESCO Chair at the Estonian Annual Conference of Humanities

19.04.2024 New Horizon Europe project of the UNESCO Chair was kicked off with an exhibition

25.03.2024 Call for papers: international conference Heritage in the Service of Resilient Communities

20.03.2024 The UNESCO Chair convenes webinars at the University of St Andrews

11.03.2024 Guest lecture: Kaustinen fiddle playing and its journey with intangible cultural heritage

12.02.2024 New publication about sustainable development and living heritage

08.02.2024 Guest lecture on atomic heritage

26.01.2024 There are 20 UNESCO Chairs in Poland and the Baltics

17.12. 2023 Professor Kristin Kuutma represented Estonia at the meeting of the UNESCO International Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

29.11.2023 Arturs Pokšans will defend his doctoral thesis „Upbringing in places of scarcity: reproduction of violence and inequality in Latvian residential education“

18.11.2023 New international project of the UNESCO Chair

18.11.2023 The consortium of the language revitalization project RISE UP met in Spain

16.11.2023 Webinar: Living heritage and actions for sustainable development

12.10.2023 A new international master's in museums, heritage and education welcomes scholarship applications

22.08.2023 Defences of master’s theses and projects in the “Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies” programme

21.05.2023 Defence of master’s theses in Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies

20.03.2023 Meeting with fashion designer and professor of Liberal Arts Reet Aus

09.03.2023 Chahal Garg will defend her master's project on March 13

19.01.2023 MA programme “Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies” welcomes applications

20.08.2020 Defence of MA theses on Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies on June 29, 2020

24.08.2021 Defence of MA projects and theses in “Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies” on August 25, 2021

11.02.2021 Defence of MA theses on Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies on January 21, 2021

26.08.2019 Defence of Master's theses in "Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies" on Tuesday, August 27

28.05.2019 Defences of MA theses and projects in “Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies” May 27, 2019

02.05.2019 Guest lectures exploring local character stories and legal encounters on intangible cultural heritage on May 2