Trafficking Culture talk at the University of Hong Kong

07 Dec 2012

On Tuesday 18 December there is an opportunity to see Professor Simon Mackenzie talk about Trafficking Culture in a special lecture at the University of Hong Kong.The lecture, which will take place from 4-6pm, provides an opportunity to hear more about the Trafficking Culture project, and is hosted by University of Hong Kong Department of Sociology and Centre for Criminology. The talk is titled ‘Trafficking Culture: Researching the Global Trade in Looted Cultural Objects’. The abstract for the presentation is:

This talk will introduce a research project called Trafficking Culture, funded by the European Research Council. The project aims to produce an evidence-based picture of the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects. It has seven researchers active presently, and the sub-projects running include: comparative regulatory analysis across a range of transnational criminal markets, quantitative evaluation of legal interventions into the international market in antiquities, qualitative interviews with key market actors, and area case studies which gather data about specific trafficking routes (specifically ex-South America, Cambodia and in the Baltic region), using ethnographic, interview, archival and other research methods.

The venue is Room 813, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU.

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