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Donna spoke about the “red flags” that were ignored by the purchaser of thousands of Iraqi artefacts. Both the audio of the interview and a written version can be found here: https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07-06/hobby-lobby-ignored-red-flags-about-stolen-iraqi-artifacts...

Donna’s presentation is titled “Sacred Security: Threat, Vulnerability, and the Protection of Sacred Art in Nepal”, and is based on a soon-to-be published paper co-authored with Simon Mackenzie. The workshop is free to attend, with registration available via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-on-disadvantage-tickets-35343002873 More information about the workshop: 6th...

Organized Crime along “One Belt – One Road” was hosted by the City University of Hong Kong.

The symposium and WCOM project is funded by the University of Helsinki Future Fund.

“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...