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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...

This exciting new course is his course is open to the public.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hong Kong’s first international art crime conference, Simon Mackenzie will be speaking at “Art, Antiquities, Heritage and Wildlife Crime in Southeast Asia”.

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...

Congradulations Donna!

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...

Hosted by University College London...

Hosted by the Univeristy of Geneva’s Art-Law Centre and the UNESCO Chair in the International Law of the Protection of Cultural Heritage.

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and held at Queen Mary University.

Under the festival theme “Fragile Heritage”

His course is titled: Unravelling the Hidden Market of Illicit Antiquities: Lessons from Greece and Italy, and takes place in Amelia, Italy.

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...