CONF: Boxerloot! – Museum collections, the ‘Boxer war’ and practices of plunder (Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich, 22-23 February 2024)
The conference “‘Boxerloot! Museum collections, the ‘Boxer war’ and practices of plunder” aims to open an international dialogue on the past and future of these objects. As we understand provenance research as going…
CFP: Boxerloot! Museum collections, the “boxer war”, and practices of plunder (Munich, Museum Fünf Kontinente, 22-23rd Feb 2024)
Many museums and private collections around the world contain objects that a variety of actors looted in China in the context of the so-called boxer war between 1900 and 1901. A military coalition…
ANN: Research Group on Looted Art, Provenance Research and Restitution in the Netherlands (Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture, University of Amsterdam)
The spoliation of art during the Nazi-era and the Holocaust is the central focus of this research group. However, we extend it to colonial and other contexts as well. The group is concerned…
ANN: Russian forces stole more than 2000 valuable objects from museums in Melitopol and Mariupol
A report by the Art Newspaper cites a range of evidence for the looting of Scythian Gold and other objects from the Melitopol Museum of Local History by Russian forces. The report also…
CONF: Tomb Plundering in Ancient Greece and Rome (Istituto Svizzero, Rome – 12-13 May 2022)
This conference is dedicated to the subject of grave looting and robbing in the Graeco-Roman World. Bringing together archaeological, epigraphic, literary, and legal evidence, this conference will be the first time that the…
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: Plunder: An Alternative History of Art – Session at AAH (London, Goldsmiths, University of London, 6-8 Apr 2022)
‘I place looting at the heart of the modern formation of what is called art, analyzing how it was obscured and transformed into the history of collecting.’ This session at The Association for…
CFP: 2021 Cleveland Symposium (Cleveland, 12 Nov 2021)
47th Annual Cleveland Symposium – Aura: Authenticity, Experience, And Art Case Western Reserve University And The Cleveland Museum Of Art, Cleveland, Ohio12 Nov 2021 The deadline to submit an abstract for the 2021 Cleveland Symposium has…
ANN: Lecture – “Stepping onto the Pedestal: An Animating History of Restitution from the Napoleonic Wars“ by Alice Goff (American Academy in Berlin / online, 17 May 2021, 19:30 CET)
Stepping onto the Pedestal: An Animating History of Art Restitution from the Napoleonic Wars Online eventAll registered guests will receive participation instructions one to two days prior to the event.