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Mackenze and Smith speaking at ‘Art, Antiquities, Heritage and Wildlife Crime in Southeast Asia’, Hong Kong, 22 Oct
18 Oct 2016
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...
Brodie speaking at Conference of Experts on Return of Cultural Property, Seoul, 17-19 Oct
11 Oct 2016
Dr. Neil Brodie will be in South Korea...
Tsirogiannis speaking on “The International Illicit Antiquities Network”, 19 Oct, Cambridge
11 Oct 2016
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...
Brodie to address UNESCO, Paris, 27 Sep.
23 Sep 2016
Neil Brodie will be at UNESCO addressing...
Yates attending UNESCO intergovernmental committee meeting for Return of Cultural Property, 29 Sept
23 Sep 2016
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...
Enrol in our Antiquities Trafficking summer course at Victoria Uni, Wellington (Nov–Dec)
20 Sep 2016
This exciting new course is his course is open to the public.
“Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime” free online course runs in October
20 Sep 2016
We’re excited that Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime, a free online course developed by some of the members of the Trafficking Culture team, will have its 3rd run in October.
Neil Brodie appointed Senior Research Fellow on the EAMENA project, University of Oxford
13 Sep 2016
We are proud to announce that Neil Brodie has been appointed Senior Research Fellow on the Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project at the University of Oxford.
Supported by the Arcadia Fund, the EAMENA project is recording and responding to the increasing threats to archaeological sites in the Middle East and North Africa.
Dr Brodie attending Culture Under Threat conference, Amman Jordan, 8 September
07 Sep 2016
On 8 September, Neil Brodie will be attending the Second Culture Under Threat Regional Conference in Amman, Jordan.
Hosted by the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, with support from the Antiquities Coalition and the Middle East Institute, the conference will launch the Middle East and North African Task Force, to take concrete steps to combat the trafficking of cultural objects.
Simon Mackenzie to present at the New Zealand Art Crime Symposium, 15 Oct
25 Aug 2016
The Symposium will bring together leading academics and researchers for an innovative and ground-breaking one-day Symposium, covering many aspects of art crime both in New Zealand and beyond, at the City Gallery in the heart of Wellington.
You can find out more about the Art Crime Symposium here.
You can register for the Art Crime Symposium here.
Prof Mackenzie speaking at Hong Kong Art Crime Conference, 22 October
25 Aug 2016
Hong Kong’s first international art crime conference, Simon Mackenzie will be speaking at “Art, Antiquities, Heritage and Wildlife Crime in Southeast Asia”.
Donna Yates to appear on Newshour Extra panel, live taping in Edinburgh on 25 August.
24 Aug 2016
Her fellow panalists include Dr Maamoun Abdulkarim, Director General of Antiquities and Museums in Syria and Juliana Forero, external advisor for WHITRAP – World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific region, under the auspices of UNESCO.
The panel will consider whether preserving cultural heritage is always a good thing. Does an exploration of the past...
Donna Yates elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
16 Aug 2016
Congradulations Donna!
Call for Abstracts: The Pre-Columbian Antiquities Market: Reflections, Critiques, and Effecting Change
22 Jul 2016
Donna Yates, along with Cara Tremain, are organising a session at the upcoming Society for American Archaeology meeting in Vancouver, with an eye towards a subsequent journal special issue or edited volume. If you would like to submit an abstract to the call below, please email it to either Cara or Donna before 20 August 2016.
The Pre-Columbian Antiquities Market: Reflections, Critiques, and...
Brodie and Yates attending meeting regarding Egyptian antiquities and public policy
29 Jun 2016
Hosted by University College London...
Yates speaking at All Art & Cultural Heritage Law Conference, Geneva, 25 June
23 Jun 2016
Hosted by the Univeristy of Geneva’s Art-Law Centre and the UNESCO Chair in the International Law of the Protection of Cultural Heritage.
Brodie and Yates attending Art, Crime and Criminals workshop, London, 21 June
13 Jun 2016
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and held at Queen Mary University.
Donna Yates Speaking at York Festival of Ideas, 19 June
13 Jun 2016
Under the festival theme “Fragile Heritage”
Tsirogiannis teaching at ARCA Summer School, 13–20 July
13 Jun 2016
His course is titled: Unravelling the Hidden Market of Illicit Antiquities: Lessons from Greece and Italy, and takes place in Amelia, Italy.
Brodie speaking in London on ‘Heritage and Theft in Syria and Iraq’,15 June
02 Jun 2016
Neil Brodie, Benjamin Isakhan, and Toby Dodge as they discuss the destruction of cultural heritage and the looting and illicit trade of objects from Iraq and Syria. The talk will reflect on the use of both to further political aims and ideologies, in particular reference to ISIS and other groups involved, as well as give context to the contemporary conflicts in both countries, which have lead...