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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...

Dr. Tsirogiannis has been appointed as a Senior Archaeologist at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit. Congratulations Christos!

Featuring members of Trafficking Culture.

Dr Brodie‘s talk is entitled “Theft of Culture”.

US State Department’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee will meet on 24 May...

Entitled: 20 years of Forensic Archaeology vs. the international illicit antiquities network...

Dr Christos Tsirogiannis was selected by the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Lord Colin Renfrew,...

Co-hosted by The V & A Museum and Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

The team will be in Paris on 30 March...

Fair and Just Practices: Art and heritage worlds from the perspectives of markets and law...

The Trafficking Culture Project was initially conceived of as a 4-year academic research project funded by the European Research Council.

We are pleased to announce that we have developed a free online course on Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime.

Our researcher Neil Brodie has started a blog for expert commentary on the looting, trafficking, and sale of illicit antiquities. Please have a look at: Market of Mass Destruction: Commentary and opinion on the illicit trade in cultural objects...

The paid internship, which must be filled by a current University of Glasgow SPSS PhD student, will be from 4 to 8 hours per week up to 90 hours total.

The Hunterian Museum and the Trafficking Culture Project will be screening the film Dance of the Maize God by Night Fire Films. Dance of the Maize God explores the destruction to Maya archaeological sites at the hands of looters searching for beautiful, valuable pottery. Donna Yates and Simon Mackenzie will also be there to discuss antiquities trafficking and the Maya region and answer questions...

As part of the Dialogues in Heritage Science series, Donna Yates will be speaking at Yale University’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Her talk is entitled: Tracking Stolen Gods: Using criminological tools to prevent antiquities trafficking. The lecture will be at the Sterling Memorial Library, Memorabilia Lecture Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut at 3pm on...

Roundtable and session on criminology and antiquities trafficking.

“Toward a Framework for Critical Engagement with Crime Control Policy in Trafficking Cultural Objects” will be presented by Simon Mackenzie, Neil Brodie, and Donna Yates. This public talk, hosted by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society is associated with the project The Past for Sale: New Approaches to the Study of Archaeological Looting The talk will be from 12:00 until...

Simon Mackenzie, Neil Brodie, and Donna Yates will be speaking at the DePaul University Arts Law Colloquium, hosted by the Center for Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law and the Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology. Their talk, entitled Organized and White-Collar Crime in Trafficking Networks, will explore the illicit market in cultural objects from end to end:...