Taiwan's Digital Archive Center for Music launches new lecture series

To honour the World Day of Audiovisual Heritage, Digital Archive Center for Music, National Taiwan Normal University is establishing a conference series in Taiwan, and the inaugural meeting will take place on October 28, 2013.

UNESCO “World Day of Audiovisual Heritage” Conference and the inaugural meeting of the Alois Osterwalder Lectures

Date and Time:  2013.10.28/07:30PM
Venue: Eslite Performance Hall
Location: B2, No. 88, Yanchang Road, Xinyi Disctrict, Taipei 110, Taiwan

Hosted by The Digital Archives Center of Music, National Taiwan Normal University, the Lecture series is established to honor Father Alois Osterwalder for his selfless support and his preservation of the archives from Taiwan’s “Folksong Fieldwork Movement” in the 1960s.

The Conference will feature a discussion by four prominent figures on cultural preservation scene: Dr. Nora Yeh (Former Specialist, The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress), Mr. Te-Sheng Wei (Director, Best Picture Winner of The Golden Horse Awards Warriors of Rainbow: Seediq Bale), Dr. Kuo-hsing Hsieh (Director, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinaca) and Dr. Chun Zen Huang (Director, Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology and the Digital Archives Center for Music, National Taiwan Normal University).

http://aloislectures.org/