CONF: From Contested Ownership to (In)Voluntary Returns: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postcolonial Fight for Restitution and Repatriation (Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt – 24-25 Oct 2024)
Starting in the early 1970s, activists all over the world embarked on a decades-long fight for the return of Ancestral Remains and looted colonial artefacts from European and North American museums and collections…
CONF: Transferred to Reich Ownership. Documenting, identifying and restituting Nazi-looted cultural property.(Prague, Sep 17-18, 2024)
The Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of the Cultural Assets of WWII Victims is organizing the 8th international conference on the expropriation of property during the Second World War, which takes place on…
CFP: Owning Gothic Ivories: Buying, Giving, Circulating (25-26 October 2024 / London, British Museum and V&A)
Over the last three decades, research on Gothic ivories has seen a significant shift from studies concerned with stylistic attribution and classification towards the investigation of their materiality, iconography, function, and – last…