Day 1 – Nov. 16 (Wednesday)Day 2 – Nov. 17 (Thursday)

Main Venue
The Convention Center of Macao Science Center

10:00

Opening Ceremony
Host: Elvis Chao, Cherry Ng

Performance

10:40

Tea Break

11:00

Forum

Speaker

Topic

Li Li
Vice President of Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage

Maritime Silk Road in China

Susan Denyer (Live)
Senior World Heritage Adviser of ICOMOS

Maritime Silk Routes and the World Heritage Convention: ICOMOS Scoping Study

Jiang Bo (Live)
Shandong University Professor

Study of the Maritime Silk Road from Underwater Archaeology

Hanh Duong Bich (Live)
Program Specialist and Chief of Culture Unit at UNESCO Office in Beijing

On the 50th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
Overview of Maritime Silk Road Cultural Heritage in Overseas Cities (Pre-recorded Video)

13:00

Lunch Break

15:00

Forum
Moderator:Yan Haiming (Director of China World Cultural Heritage Center, China Academy of Cultural Heritage / Director of Secretariat, ICOMOS China)

Speaker

Topic

Tim Winter (Live)
National University of Singapore Professor

Conceptualizing the Maritime Silk Road for International Cooperation

Chen Fenglin (Live)
Beijing Normal University Professor

The Maritime Silk Road from the Perspective of Oriental History - An Investigation Centered on the Research of Japanese Scholars

Roland Lin (Live)
UNESCO World Heritage Center
Project Officer - Asia and the Pacific Unit

Significance, Opportunity and Challenge of Cultural Landscape and Historical Settings Preservation and Conservation Along the Silk Roads

16:20

Tea Break

16:35

Forum

Speaker

Topic

Sun Jian (Live)
National Center for Archaeology - Deputy Director

Archaeology of shipwrecks and the Maritime Silk Road

Jun Kimura (Live)
Tokai University
Associate Professor

Enhancing Public Awareness and Communities’ Engagements with Maritime Cultural Heritage
Prof. Yoshifumi Ikeda is the co-author of the paper but will not conduct oral presentation during the forum

Yoshifumi Ikeda
Professor of Kokugakuin University

Bao Chunlei
Hainan Museum
Researcher

Protection, Development and Utilization of the Cultural Relics of "Huaguang Jiao I" Shipwreck of Southern Song Dynasty

17:50

End of the first day of the event