The annual meeting of the Centre for Digital Heritage (CDH) will take place at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University on 15-16 June 201. The theme will be Heritage under Threat. During two days, five keynotes, 19 papers and seven posters on this topic will be presented. For a list of accepted papers and further…
Donna Yates, archaeologist in the criminology department of the University of Glasgow, starts a free online course: From fakes and fraud, to thefts and trafficking, art crime has turned archaeological sites in Iraq and Syria into “lunar landscapes”, decapitated Buddha sculptures in Cambodia and left empty frames on museum walls. So how do we protect…
Geneva’s art world suffered another blow to its reputation in November when prosecutors seized pillaged Syrian antiquities from the city’s free port, raising concerns about money laundering and terrorist financing. Now a group of art dealers, lawyers and consultants is fighting back. Under the banner of the Responsible Art Market Initiative, the group published a set of…
The University of Padoa, Italy, organises an international winter school on Anthropology of Forgery 13-17 February 2017. The schhol takes places at the University of Padoa, the Gallerie d’Italia in Vicenza, and the Palazzo Zuckermann, Padoa. You can find the program and further information here: program_winter-school_anthropology-of-forgery_2017
On 15-16 June 2017, the Digital Archaeology Research Group and the Centre for Global Heritage and Development at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University will jointly host the 2017 annual meeting of the Centre for Digital Heritage (CDH). The theme of the CDH 2017 meeting will be Heritage under Threat. Armed conflicts are currently threatening…
Université Libre De Bruxelles / Campus Solbosch: mardi, 29 novembre 2016, 9-18:00 Journée d’étude sur “Le trafic illicite des biens culturels, source de financement du terrorisme et des groupes armés“, organisé par la Commission Belge Francophone et Germanophone pour l’UNESCO. La question du trafic illicite des biens culturels fait l’objet depuis de nombreuses années de…
Our committee is now also officially contributing to the ICOM International Observatory on Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods! But why? Every day, somewhere in the world, an object is either stolen or looted in order to be illegally sold on the market. Illicit trafficking in works of art and cultural property has become a serious…
The University of Padoa organises an international Winter School “Anthropology of forgery. A multidisciplinary approach to the study of archaeological fakes“. The school will take place February 13-17, 2017 in Padua and gather a pool of international scholars who are committed to the study of, and to the fight against, illegal activities within the sphere…
A new master in archaeological law and crimes against the cultural heritage is offered by the Centro per gli Studi Criminologici, giuridici e sociologici and the Dipartimento di Beni Culturali ed Archeomafie, in cooperation with the Osservatorio Internazionale Archeomafie. Lectures will be held in Italian and take place at the Istituto Internazionale di Formazione METAFORM…
The current volume VII of the journal Archeomafie is now online. It is the first journal of its kind in Italy and you can find different topic related articles in Italian. The journal (ISSN 2036-4539) is published by the Osservatorio Internazionale Archeomafie in coperation with Liberarcheologia and the Centro Studi Criminologici di Viterbo. You find…
EAA-Committee on the Illicit Trade in Cultural Material 