HIPAMS aims to investigate how developing ‘heritage-sensitive’ IP protection strategies can give communities greater control over the commercialization of their heritage while contributing to its safeguarding and on-going viability.
Mayurbhanj Chhau is a traditional dance form popular among indigenous communities living in and around Mayurbhanj district in Odisha. The dance is tra
Chau dance is a vibrant, colourful and vigorous form of dance drama emerging from martial practice. Chau dance was inscribed in the UNESCO Representat
Patachitra, a unique cultural tradition of Bengal, draws inspiration from the mythological tales of India. The word Pata comes from the Sanskrit word
Derived from the Sanskrit word Patta (canvas) and Chitra (painting), Patachitra of Odisha originated in the 12th century. The Patachitra of Rag
Baul music is the soul of Bengal and is essentially the music of self searching. It's about 500 years old. Chaitanyadev's Bhakti Cult movement, which
Dr June Taboroff will be Evaluation and Economic Development Advisor to the project. She has a PhD in art and architectural history, studied has a degree in environmental economics, and has field experience of India and the south Asia region, including assessing culture projects for the EU, evaluating field heritage conservation projects for World Monument Fund, and developing a culture program for the Government of Denmark in Pakistan. Over the course of her career June Taboroff has worked on culture, tourism, and local economic development policy, programmes, evaluation, and training in over 65 countries for major international development institutions, including the World Bank, UNDP, Asian Development Bank, UNESCO and for agencies such as DFID/British Council, as well as Cultural Heritage without Borders, Heritage Lottery Fund and other bilateral and heritage organisations. She has been involved in the assessment and preparation of projects and activities focusing on handicraft development and performing arts in such countries as Madagascar, Macedonia, Egypt, Lebanon, and Mongolia.
Ananya Bhattacharya is Director and Vice President at banglanatak dot com ( www.banglanatak.com ) - a social enterprise working across India for fostering inclusive and sustainable development using culture based approaches. Ananya is an engineer from Jadavpur University (1989) and a Commonwealth Sccholar with Masters in Sustainable Development from Staffordshire University,UK. Ananya specializes in Communication for Development (C4D) and Culture and Development. Ananya is also a member of Executive Committee of ICOMOS, India. Ananya is a member of the Steering Committee of the ICH NGO Forum comprising of NGOs accredited to UNESCO 2003 ICH Convention Committee and also a member of the editorial board of Heritage Alive – an initiative to collect and disseminate good practices on safeguarding ICH and case studies highlighting ontribution of ICH to sustainable development. Ananya has participated in knowledge forums and symposiums organised by ICHCAP, CRIHAP, ICOMOS, UNITWIN, British Council, UNESCO etc.
Born in 1970, Babu Fakir was inspired by his father and went on to learn Fakiri and Bangla Qawwali songs in his early years. He came in touch with banglanatak dot com in 2004, was subsequently trained in Bangla Qawwali, and went on to perform in different cities of the country and abroad, including in Paris, the UK, Switzerland and Japan. He specializes in the songs of Lalan Fakir, Duddu Shah, Panju Shah as well as Kirtan (a devotional music genre). He also trains young artists. His songs also feature in many other music albums, including 'Nadia', 'Gorbhangar Gaan', 'Bangla Qawwali' and 'Compilation of Baul songs'.
Niloy Basu has a degree in information technology and a post graduate qualification in Sustainable Development from Staffordshire University, UK. He has 18 years’ work experience in the development sector including developing community-based collectives and building the entrepreneurial and business skills of ICH practitioners. He has led projects on alternative livelihoods, tourism, art and crafts across India, including West Bengal, Bihar and Odisha and managed large-scale art and culture-based livelihood and community outreach projects in West Bengal and Odisha. He gained experience on ICH through an ICHCAP workshop in Korea, the UNESCO Category II centre providing training for the region. He has also led initiatives for registration of geographical indications for five craft traditions from West Bengal. He will be the Project Manager. He will manage implementation of project activities in India, and assist in the development and implementation of HIPAMS with communities, including the registration of IP rights.
Jagannath Chaudhuri is an eminent Chau artist of Purulia. He has participated in more than 300 events and performed all over West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Gujarat, Chennai and Delhi. His performance has taken him to foreign shores like London (2010), Bangladesh (2011), Japan (2013) and i France (2015 & 2017).
Dr. Harriet Deacon has PhD in History and a MSc in Management of Intellectual Property. Since 2010, she has consulted to UNESCO on implementation of the 2003 Convention on Intangible Heritage, writing workshop training materials and facilitating capacity-building workshops with government officials, researchers, NGOs and community representatives in 16 (mostly developing) countries. She is currently advising the government of Malta on their intangible cultural heritage policy. In her research work, she has published on intangible heritage, IP and culture, including chapters in The Routledge Companion to Intangible Heritage, a paper on the link between IP protection and ICH safeguarding in Intangible Heritage(Smith and Akagawa, forthcoming) and on the Traditional Knowledge Act in Kenya (Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 2017).
Dr. Diego Rinallo has a PhD in business administration & management Bocconi University, Milan, where he later worked as an assistant professor. His multidisciplinary research interests link marketing and consumer behavior with tourism studies, anthropology, geography, history and cultural studies. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals (e.g. Journal of Marketing and Journal of Business Research) and academic publishers such as Oxford University Press, Emerald, and Routledge.
Dr. Charlotte Waelde is Professor of Intellectual Property Law in the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University. Her research interests centre on the role of intellectual property law within the cultural (heritage) sector and within the digital environment. She has written widely at the intersections of intellectual property law, digitisation and culture. She has sole and co-authored a number of articles with cross-disciplinary intersections and which have been published in a range of national and international journals. Recent and forthcoming collections and articles include: Research Handbook on Contemporary Intellectual Property: Law and Heritage (ed C Waelde, C Cumming; M Pavis, H Enright)) (Edward Elgar 2018 forthcoming) A new foundation: physical integrity, disabled dance and cultural heritage (with K Wood et al) Intellect (forthcoming 2016); Human Rights, Persons with Disabilities and Copyright, (with A Brown) Geiger (ed) Research Handbook on Human Rights and Intellectual Property, Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar (2014).
Dr. Benedetta Ubertazzi is a Professor of European Union Law at the University of Milan-Bicocca, and a Professor of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property Law at Bocconi University (Milan). She is a practicing attorney specialising in intellectual property and European Union law at Studio Ubertazzi in Milan. She has worked as a legal expert representing the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in UNESCO for the Intangible Heritage Convention since 2010. In her academic capacity, Ubertazzi has also published widely in the field of intellectual property law and on cultural heritage. Her book Exclusive Jurisdiction in Intellectual Property (Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2012) has been nominated for the 2018 St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize.
Rajat Nath is pursuing his PhD in Museum Studies and has a Masters in Science Communication from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. He has over 15 years of work experience in heritage documentation, museums and use of digital technology. He has experience of doing research and interactive presentations using new technologies for Creative Museum Designers (CMD), a company wholly owned by National Council of Science Museums (NCSM). At Contact Base, Nath has mapped oral histories, rituals, lifestyle and folk traditions of 14 ethnic communities in the Darjeeling area. He is currently working with metal workers, folk painters and storytellers and folk singers to empower them with audiovisual documentation skills for ICH inventorying and technology skills for promotion of their ICH. He will coordinate project activities (such as workshops, conference, research visits) in India and assist the India Research Specialist with research and capacity building in the three communities.
This research project, Heritage Sensitive Intellectual Property and Marketing strategies: India (HIPAMS - INDIA), is funded by the British Academy's Sustainable Development Programme, supported under the UK Government's Global Challenges Research Fund 2018-2020.
