ANN: Spoliation and Recovery of Art and Antiquities from Italy (The Society for the History of Collecting/Online, 22 Mar 2022, 3pm GMT)
As Italy’s artistic heritage, both antiquities and fine art, has been hardest hit by the illicit art trade, these papers will focus on the country’s historic spoliation during the Renaissance, Napoleonic and Grand…
CFP: Combating the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects – Interdisciplinary Challenges and New Perspectives of EU Law and Policy (University of Opole, 13 May 2022)
The Institute of Law Studies of the University of Opole, the Institute of Art History of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich), and the International Society for Research on Art and…
PUBL: “Behind the Supposed ‘Billion-Dollar’ Illicit Antiquities Market“; by Maria Goretti Tai (Art and Cultural Heritage Law Newsletter)
The trade of art and antiquities has been called the laundromat for illicit money. Thus, a United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ report proposed an amendment to the Bank Secrecy Act: it…
EXH: Antique Sculptures from Libya and Syria: The Fight against the Trafficking of Cultural Heritage (Paris, Musée du Louvre; until 13 Dec 2021)
The Musée du Louvre currently presents an exhibition devoted to the fight against trafficking of cultural heritage (“Sculptures antiques de Libye et de Syrie. Lutter contre le trafic illicite de biens culturels“). It shows…
TIAMSA Member News: The Anatomy of Wrongdoing: Socio-Psychological Dynamics of Unlawful Art Collecting
Event: Collecting & Display, London14 December 2020, 6.30 p.m. In 1776 Charles Townley (1737-1805), an English collector of antiquities, Grand Tourist and future trustee of the British Museum, received a letter from his…
TIAMSA Member News: CFP: Art and Cultural Heritage Spoliation in Time of Peace (College Art Association, Annual Conference (virtual), 10-13 February 2021, New York)
For several years now, the organised clandestine excavation and export of antiquities out of war torn Syria and Iraq to Europe and beyond has thrust the Western demand for such artefacts and the…
CFP: Crime and Art: Sociological and criminological perspectives of crimes in the art world.
Call for abstracts for proposed volume, Crime and Art: Sociological and criminological perspectives of crimes in the art world. Criminologists and sociologists are poorly represented in the global discourse of art and culture…
ANN: Circulating Artefacts (CircArt): a global platform against the looting and trafficking of pharaonic antiquities (British Museum)
The British Museum’s Circulating Artefacts (CircArt) project, launched in 2018, has gone live: https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/egypt-and-sudan/circulating-artefacts
JOB: Junior Researcher, Trafficking Transformations project, Maastricht University
Opportunity for a Junior Researcher to join the ‘ Trafficking Transformations: Objects as Agents in Transnational Criminal Networks’ project – Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Netherlands. Fixed-term contract: 3 yearsDeadline: 22 March, 2020