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@MattezAnais

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Researcher in international law, cultural property, archaeology, religion, nationalism, PhD @hkulaw , alumni @sciencespo currently @Harvard_Law

Cambridge, MA
Joined April 2022
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@MattezAnais
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6 months
Celebrating Thai new year yesterday by printing out my disseration. Happy Songkran 🇹🇭
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I have officially arrived in Cambridge and expect to discover plenty of cool things about the law this year
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11 months
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
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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
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1 year
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
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Anaïs Mattez
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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
@Voe_Blog
Völkerrechtsblog
5 months
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!
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What to do with PPT once your presentation is done? I created myself a blog to show off my curated photo collection of Scythian artefacts
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7 months
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
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8 months
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
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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
@opiniojuris
Opinio Juris
6 months
Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: Beyond the Performance of Restitution - An Unexpected Tale of Minority Disenfranchisement and Political Conflicts in Tamil Nadu
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1 year
I had a great time at @SLSConference at @oxfordbrookes_ The conference always allows to touch fields of law that my legal education ignored. Big crush on animal law with @drjoshdoeslaw and @Rachel_Fun_Dunn 's paper on Sentience Recognition 💚
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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
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Anaïs Mattez
6 months
A few people know this, I met my husband in seminar on Nichomachean Ethics in 2013. I owe Aristotle a lot, personally. Listen to Taylor
@MattPolProf
Matt McManus
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1 year
This is a great read for anyone interested in the implementation of the World Heritage Convention @Elgar_Law I wrote a short book review here @CUP_Law
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1 year
Come and talk about memory and the law with us @sciencespo such an exciting day ahead @SDI_IDW
@SDI_IDW
SDI 2024
1 year
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:
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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
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9 months
I love the tram in Hong Kong! And I love this
@ProfLiuSida
Sida Liu
9 months
Happy 55th anniversary @HKULaw !!!
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7 months
Went to MIT, ate their pizza, and saw this movie
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8 months
this a book am looking forward to having in my hands
@museo_ghosts
Noah Angell
8 months
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!!
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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
@JdA_IntLaw
Jean d'Aspremont
1 year
Call for Applications | @sciencespo Intensive Doctoral Week (13th Edition) from 10 to 14 June 2024 | Deadline for submission: 1 December 2023
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Anaïs Mattez
7 months
Glad I went to this remarkable talk with very cool Asian feminist scholars @HarvardYenching @ueno_wan @izading
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Anaïs Mattez
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@JillHicksKeeton what a brutal email
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Anaïs Mattez
7 months
For doctoral students with and interest in law and the humanities, this summer school comes highly recommended. Apply before 1 April refreshing and inspiring
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@ThePhDPlace If Indiana Jones has a PhD, I must have a PhD
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11 months
Join Shea for at the launch of her new book Indigenous Cultural Property and International Law: Restitution, Rights and Wrongs
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8 months
congrats @raghavi_vis and @XJWiseman for this excellent piece
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Anaïs Mattez
11 months
the world is agitated but things always look better when you receive the unexpected visit of a long time friend @unescobangkok
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1 year
Looking forward
@SDI_IDW
SDI 2024
1 year
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!
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Anaïs Mattez
1 year
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
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Anaïs Mattez
7 months
@KuboMacak They may also consider the European Court of Human rights in Strasbourg (unpaid) and UNIDROIT in Rome (scholarship program)
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2 years
Wonderful conference @UMassAmherst
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5 months
really glad I was part of this ✨
@OxChineseLawDG
Oxford Chinese Law Discussion Group
5 months
2 days, 10 panels, 13 discussants, 40 presentations... We did it! Many thanks to all the (in-person/online) Conference participants! #OxChineseLawDGConference2024
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I could see you there ;) @s_starrenburg @LindsayMassara
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
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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:
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1 year
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”.
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Anaïs Mattez
8 months
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!!
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very glad the abstract I sent was accepeted here
@AsianSil
Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL)
2 years
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.
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Anaïs Mattez
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@georgeradics @CiocchiniPablo @JaysonLamchek @JoeGreener1981 @veronixgregorio @joseatiles @Prof_JoaoNeto @pelusoemilio @MartaMa01857879 very glad to see this out!! I really enjoyed the presentation of the chapters with their authors at LSA in Lisbon last year
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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
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The International Seminar on Heritage Interpretation and Presentation for Future Generations will be held at Vrije University Amsterdamon and online.
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Anaïs Mattez
8 months
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
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Anaïs Mattez
1 year
Amazing first day
@EuiGroup
EUI Cultural Heritage Working Group
1 year
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!
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Anaïs Mattez
7 months
just because the poster is so nice
@Debashree2017
Debashree
7 months
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
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@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
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@ShaimaZiara this is so incredibly sad and vulnerable
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@kanad_bagchi good work! say hello to @anand_santosh_
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@w_carruthers congratulations, it is still a good news
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@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
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@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
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11 months
this book was hard to find but a reproduction of Yangshao discovery drawings by JH Andersson in 1924 is nice to see
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1 year
@kanad_bagchi if Brussels counts as around Amsterdam, my place is available :) We are going to the us for a year. But it might be just too far...
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@ChasingAphrodit yes it did 🧨
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good work!
@artcrimeprof
Erin L. Thompson
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She's going home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anaïs Mattez
10 months
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
@samuelmoyn
Samuel Moyn 🔭
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Germany has lost its way
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@artcrimeprof From Sotheby's 😨
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8 months
@artcrimeprof @cc_woodhead It seems that you are at the same place, at the same time, doing about the same thing: researching restitution
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@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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Anaïs Mattez
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If I were in Europe, I would totally want to go Legally Blonde Style <3
@BarbieFemCon
Barbie, Feminist Utopias & Constitutionalism
7 months
✨Call for Participants✨Join us in shaping Barbieland's constitution! If you were #Barbie (or Ken) what would your ideal constitution look like? Let's craft our feminist utopia together! ♀️📜 🌟Find out more and apply now (GoogleDocs)! 📝👇 🔗
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@SangyopLee Portable screens?? Waw
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1 year
@AydinQuach Marx himself belonged to the bourgeois class
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@kanad_bagchi @JIEL_OUP @LPE_Project waw it's open access!! so nice. This is definitely my next read
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Anaïs Mattez
7 months
@BhumikaBilla I think your work is fantastic. Happy to support and promote it
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Anaïs Mattez
8 months
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
@HeidiLowther
Heidi Lowther (on maternity leave)
8 months
Published today, this volume explores what best practices in museum pedagogy look like when working with ancient Egyptian material culture: @RoutledgeHist @routledgebooks #teaching #Ancient #Egypt #Museums
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@ill_Scholar @ameliarchaeo Oh I know I figured you don't care about scholarship and science. You don't even practice archaeology at all
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Anaïs Mattez
1 year
Expert Meeting Provenance and Compliance for Art and Collectibles at @MaastrichtU on 28th June
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Anaïs Mattez
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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
@amiranu2ta
Sherine Al Shallah | شيرين الشلاح
7 months
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!)
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Anaïs Mattez
1 year
@MidEastInEurope @s_starrenburg I was just looking for a study like of this type. this is great!
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@ellieanderphd this is the most elaborate insult email I have seen :)
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@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
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@DrLauraSKh as many as you are excited to travel for before you reach exhaustion!
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@NC_Renic the distraction is aggravated in the case of endnotes
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@ChanceBonar Did you specifically invite those speakers?
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@AudreyAlejand @MisraDevika03 @JessicaLang99 @MethodologyLSE @IJoC_USC Can you write the next one about women murder in K-drama? I just watched something that makes me feel unsettled
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@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 :)
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@Voe_Blog thank you for the repost, Sophie 🫶🏼✨
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@erikmbaker Have you seen 'Karnan' ? it is as politically engaging as beautiful. Especially the south Indian music
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@MansouriNegar David has a spectacular moustache now. Makes it easier
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@TheMarbukh @Yascha_Mounk @CHSommers this post never said that israel should not exists. can you not exist israel and mourn the death of palestinian children?
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@Ligne4_RATP Pouvez vous nous dire si le service a repris ce matin ?
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@snmyoung Congratulations Professor
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@AmyLShakespeare @v_dvictoria hey! thanks for this, very interesting work
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@MindyWishart wecome to my home country
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1 year
@DrLauraSKh me tooo!! there is a wrong side to francophonia
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@ecampfens1 @SurabhiRanganat thank you for editing this issue 📚
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@erikmbaker Top of the list!! You have my word for guarantee :)
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Anaïs Mattez
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@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
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Anaïs Mattez
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I like how the ending words of the paper are: ‘radical legal theory now’
@samuelmoyn
Samuel Moyn 🔭
8 months
Yay! @YaleLJournal publishing “Reconstructing Critical Legal Studies”! (First law review acceptance writing on my own-slow learner.)
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