Just published in IJHS! my paper highlights the mutual influences between international law and cultural heritage studies and argues that provenance research has been key in the downfall of the internationalist ideology in cultural property
I am submitting my doctoral dissertation soon
@HkuLaw
Any attempt at procrastination is valid... Now making a cover page for each chapter, choosing among cool free domain artworks
Our book has a cover and a date: coming out on 7 Jan 2024! I contributed a chapter on the restitution Ukrainian cultural heritage in times of war. Cannot wait for it to be available to all
The argument of my PhD summarized in this very short blog-post. come, have a look. Thank you
@raghavi_vis
@XJWiseman
@JadehBotha
for editing and facilitating these important conversations on heritage and everyone at
@Voe_Blog
for the skillful editing
Next up in our symposium on
#BridgingEpistemicDivides
: When did everyone start talking about heritage restitution, and what does international law have to do with this?
@MattezAnais
investigates!
My paper reviews the colonial past of antiquities and museums. It places the issue in the larger context of international law. Update: it now has appropriate page numbers
The ebook is out today! I contributed a chapter on the Dutch Case-law (Court of Appeal) which ordered the return of Crimean Treasures return to Kyiv. A joy to write and many Tolstoy references! let me know if you'd like access
A timely piece by
@raghavi_vis
and
@XJWiseman
: 'Hindutva promotion in the name of heritage protection is particularly obvious in India’s repatriation strategies' we need more research centered on the rights of ethnic and cultural minorities. Highly recommend reading this one
Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: Beyond the Performance of Restitution - An Unexpected Tale of Minority Disenfranchisement and Political Conflicts in Tamil Nadu
Just launched
@IGLP
@adrianesanctis
's groundbreaking book challenges the use of international law in the context of cross Atlantic abolition of slave trade through the lens of English-Brazilian Treaty relations in the beginning of the 19th century
SDI Friday closes with the Annual Sciences Po Law School Graduate Conference! This year on 'Forms of Memory and the Role of Law', featuring 3 different panels exploring the entanglement of memory with law
Check out their programme here:
On Friday 16th June, I am presenting my recent research on 'the World Heritage Convention, Territory and National Property' at the Sciences Po Law School Graduate Conference
@SDI_IDW
It's in person only. If you are in Paris, you are most welcome
I'm glad to *finally* announce that
Ghosts of the British Museum, my first book, will be published on the 11th of April with
@Octopus_Books
I'll have more to say in due course, but just so you know
@britishmuseum
, it's coming!!
It's that time of the year again. I feel like the last edition was just yesterday. Highly recommend this experience. one of the best in my doctoral life
@SDI_IDW
For doctoral students with and interest in law and the humanities, this summer school comes highly recommended. Apply before 1 April refreshing and inspiring
The SDI 2023 programme is here! We're very excited to host panelists who are doing important and groundbreaking critical work in their fields and a fantastic group of young researchers!
Link:
Keep checking the link for updates!
So many great articles in this open access issue. I contributed a varia reflecting on the implementation of international law on cultural heritage in Myanmar during the decade 2011-2021
2 days, 10 panels, 13 discussants, 40 presentations... We did it! Many thanks to all the (in-person/online) Conference participants!
#OxChineseLawDGConference2024
Save the date! The ACHS 2024 conference is set to take place in Galway, Ireland, from June 3rd to 6th. 🗓️ Immerse yourself in critical discourse surrounding heritage preservation. Don't miss this extraordinary gathering of heritage *people
#ACHS2024
SAACLR sent me a printed issue! I have seen it before in offices of senior cultural heritage lawyers, so I am glad I have one in my hands. This volume is the special issue on Colonial Loot and Restitution. available here also:
The British Museum is removing a segment of its landmark exhibition on China after a writer alleged that her translations of a Chinese revolutionary’s poetry had been “plagiarised”.
I spent a full day reading at the Harvard Museum Archives. I feel like I might have uncovered some of the Fogg lesser known facts (dare I say secrets?) so it made for an exciting day in!!
ICYMI: [9th Biennial Conference of the Asian SIL] The deadline for the submission of abstracts & panel proposals is on 30 April. Scan the QR code below or go to for more info re: themes, submission process, junior scholar workshop (
@CIL_TRILA
), etc.
It was great being there yesterday and to know that Southeast Asian languages are now studied at Harvard... since now! new Profs in vietnamese, Tagalog and Indonesian
poor humanities: the budgetary cost of the National Endowment for the Humanities is the US is $211 million (in the most recent fiscal year) by contrast the cost of a single bomber plane is $750 million per plane
Day 1 saw a series of conversations: thinking about space critically in tourism policy, the ethics of care, power dynamics in assigning labels to heritage, and legal responses to heritage trafficking.
Thank you to our attendees for their engagement.
Looking forward to tomorrow!
Tomorrow at Barnard with
@ShayoniMitra
& Mara Green, Decolonizing Gender:
Sex/ualities and Performance in South Asia and Its Diaspora. 6:00-7:30pm
Held Auditorium, Barnard Hall 304
@MattHGoldmann
@LJIL_Leiden
congratulations for the paper. I remember reading a much earlier version of it during a workshop in Frankfurt in the summer of 2019, could that be?! It has developed into such a nuanced argumentation
@j_e_s_s_whyte
@goldosuri
@MashaVelickovic
Excellent initiative. I would add Omer Bartov to the list and a few others readings from Palestinian authors but I am also discovering new reads here
@quahsayjye
@Connor_P_OBrien
I have been writing about museums, collecting and the internationalist ideology in law around that time, and the underlying colonialism... I'd be happy bring this into conversation
I share the thought that the German discourse on law and politics in Gaza have strangely aligned this same position and beliefs. ALL my German colleagues at Harvard have conveyed a version of this. I would love to read you to write more about this
@samuelmoyn
@maariaris
it is a student run journal and when students lose their position at harvard and job prospects, they make decisions like this... that's the climate, sadly.
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Last Summer, I was very disappointed in an exhibition honouring the Belgian Egyptologist Jean Capart in Brussels. There is still so much to learn about curating Egyptian collections in Western Europe. I am glad this volume is taking research to the next level
Refugee and diaspora heritage are such an important topics indeed. Glad to see this one and hopeful to see more publications and discussions in this line in the future
What is refugee cultural heritage? What does international law say about it? Why is this an important topic? I will spend the next few years answering these questions, and I start here. (Please message me for a copy, or if you would like to discuss!)
@CarolineMezger
I don't have a child myself but I have colleagues who do. As disappointing and horrifying as it sounds, there seem to be no solution. Childcare is exorbitant and Americans seem to have accepted that... Really sorry I don't have anything more helpful
@joseatiles
@stanfordpress
Congratulations!! It's so nice to see that you have been up to such important and productive writing since we last met at UMass :)
@artcrimeprof
@MansoorAdayfi
happy to chat about it! welcome to my home country, I went a few times. I apologize for its ambiguous stances on race, Africa, colonization,... well you name it