Vulnerability and Cultural Heritage conference, Leicester

30 Apr 2013

Simon Mackenzie, Neil Brodie and Jessica Dietzler are all giving papers at the forthcoming conference “Vulnerability and Cultural Heritage I: heritage crime, illicit trade, stewardship and ethics“, to be held at the University of Leicester, UK, on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th May.

On the 9th of May Neil talks about “Provenance and price: The invisible hand of the antiquities market?”, and Simon talks about “Conditions for guilt-free consumption in a transnational criminal market”. Then on the 10th Jessica gives a paper titled “On antiquities and wildlife trafficking: similarities and peculiarities of regulation and control in two transnational criminal markets”.

The two-day conference features a range of specialist speakers, including several Friends of Trafficking Culture: Janet Ulph (who is also the organiser of the event); Kathy Tubb; Derek Fincham, and Mark Harrison.

A poster about the event can be found here: Vulnerability and Cultural Heritage.

Booking details to attend are available via the conference website.