handbook on intangible cultural practices as global strategies for the future: twenty years of the unesco convention on safeguarding intangible cultur

Christoph Wulf, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology and Education, member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Historical Anthropology, the Research Training Group ＂Body Stagings (1997- 2006), the Collaborative Research Center ＂Cultures of the Performative＂ (1999-2010), the Cluster of Excellence ＂Languages of Emotion＂ (2007-2014) and the Research Training Group ＂InterArts Studies＂ (2006-2015) at Freie Universität Berlin. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He was founding secretary of the ＂Education Commission＂ of the ＂International Peace Research Association＂, president of the ＂Network Educational Science Amsterdam＂, initiator and chairman of the Commission on Pedagogical Anthropology of the German Society for Educational Science. He is vice president of the German UNESCO Commission. Visiting professorships and research stays in, among others: Stanford, Paris, Rome; Lisbon; Vienna, Basel, Stockholm, Amsterdam, London, Tokyo, Kyoto, Mysore, New Delhi, Beijing, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan; Sao Paulo. Main research interests: Historical-cultural anthropology, pedagogical anthropology, aesthetic and intercultural education, performativity and ritual research, diversity and emotion research, mimesis and imagination research; cultural education; Anthropocene research.