The congress venue is the hall of Nepal Tourism Board on Exhibition Road (Bhrikuti Mandap).[break]
The three-day congress is being promoted by Nepal Tourism Board and is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Nepal Academy, UNESCO Kathmandu, and BP Koirala India Nepal Foundation.
“In order to celebrate the occasion of ‘Yug Kabi’ Siddhicharan Shrestha’s centenary, we have also organized a special session of international poets’ meeting where there will be recitals and folk performances. It will be held on the first day of the congress,” informed Tulasi Diwasa, Chairman of Nepali Folklore and Cultural Society.
The main theme of the congress is “Folklore and Folk Life Studies: Special Focus on Intangible Cultural Heritage” and it hopes to bring together students, teachers and researchers from different fields like culture, folk literature, sociology, humanities, linguistics, music, tourism, geography, demography, computer science and engineering as well as cultural heritage users and preservers to discuss and present their research and uses on a common floor.
More than 15 countries from Asia, Europe and America are participating in the program, with 125 participants presenting around 115 papers.
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