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“Museum-Goers Beware: That Ancient Artifact May Be Stolen”

Join our Neil Brodie as he explores the Maya site of La Corona, Guatemala, a heavily looted ancient city which may be the mysterious Site Q. 

Neil Brodie will be in Providence, Rhode Island, today to speak at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology at Brown University. His talk is entitled: The Theft and Trafficking of Cultural Objects from Syria, and it is part of a year-long lecture series called “Combating Crisis: New Responses to Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Middle East” sponsored by the Joukowsky Institute...

Simon will be giving a talk titled “Cultural Capitalism and Cross-Border Crime: International Trafficking in Cultural Objects”

This session at the 82nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology meeting.

His talk is entitled “The Global trafficking in Looted Cultural Objects and he will be joined by a collection of experts in this field. Although the symposium, hosted by The National Museums of World Culture, Sweden and the Swedish National Commission for UNESCO, is free and open to all, attendants must register before 23 March. For more information about the symposium and to register,...

The Conference on the Ethics of Acquiring Cultural Heritage Objects is hosted by the Mudd Centre for Ethics.

Thanks to Dr Tsirogiannis’ work, a trafficked sarcophagus fragment is returning to Greece.

As part of the Cambridge History of Art Research Seminar series.

Neil Brodie will be spending January and February working with Lebanese NGO Biladi to offer a training course on international law and law enforcement as regards the theft and illegal trade of cultural objects. The primary aim of the course is to improve understanding among Lebanese and Syrian culture heritage professionals about the evidential and procedural requirements of European and North...

Donna Yates is guest editing a special issue of the International Criminal Justice Review focused on the intersections of criminology and the security and protection of heritage. Submissions must be received before 31 August 2017. Feel free to contact Dr Yates with questions, ideas, and abstracts. The call for papers flier is available...

“Antiquities trafficking – 21st century developments” is the title of Dr Brodie‘s lecture.

Yates will be speaking in a session titled: Nation Builders or Breakers? Combatting the Looting and Destruction of Cultural Heritage. Also on this panel will be: Noora Al-Gailani, Curator of Islamic Civilizations, Glasgow Museums Robert Bewly, Project Director, Endangered Archaeology in Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA), Oxford Stephen Stenning, Director, Cultutre and Development, British...

The show will be broadcast live from 10am, and can be downloaded afterwards.

The Anthropology Dept at Michigan State University...

Hosted by the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Conference will involve academics, legal practitioners, the Hong Kong Police Force, Interpol and US Homeland Security. For full conference details and to register, please visit http://webapp1.law.cuhk.edu.hk/2016conference/1022/conf/index.php Mackenzie and Smith’s papers are: Temple looting and statue trafficking in...

Dr. Neil Brodie will be in South Korea...

Dr Tsirogiannis’ talk will present the main members of a trafficking network dealing in looted and smuggled antiquities, contra the 1970 UNESCO convention and will highlight connections between dealers, auction houses, private collectors and museums. Dr. Tsirogiannis will also make use of photographic evidence from confiscated archives of illicit antiquities dealers why antiquities should...

Neil Brodie will be at UNESCO addressing...

Donna Yates will be at the Twentieth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation (ICPRCP) which will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 29–30 September.  Working and Information documents related to this meeting are available on the website of the website of...