Call for Abstracts: “The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Europe: A Comparative Legal and Policy Agenda”, 14 May, Warsaw. This workshop is fully funded for selected attendees, but only members of the CPP4ALL Cost Action can attend. Sign up to join the action here: www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...
A great opportunity to publish.
Join our Chair at the International Symposium on
"Cultural Property Protection: An enabler for cooperation in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Gulf region", 20–21 April, Nicosia, Cyprus. Details and Registration here:
Would you like to visit us to work on topics related to Cultural Heritage and Crime? The UNESCO Chair will host a funded Short Term Scientific Mission through COST Action Cultural Property Protection for All. Only members of the Action can apply so request to join here: www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...
New Publication! "Variably Legal and Irregularly Regulated: Global Markets in Collectable Antiquities, Wildlife, and Fossils" by Annette Hübschle, Simon Mackenzie, and our chair, Donna Yates. In the exciting book "Variably Legal Markets Rethinking Markets and Crime"
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Interested in art crime, antiquities trafficking, provenance, repatriation, or cultural property law? Sign up for the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime Opportunities List for learning, conference, and work opportunities! anonymousswisscollector.com/opportunities
Note the authentic notification on the right of the screen telling me that I was supposed to be meeting with a master's student, not watching the press conference. She watched with me.
Blog post! Performance of Security at the Drents Museum Helmet Return Press Conference www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2026/04/perf...
Those Carabinieri uniforms are sharp! So...very...tailored...
They "TA-DA'd" the recovered helmet! They even gave it a "drie...twee...een!" before they removed the cloth. Then there was silence followed by a slow, uncertain applause. A very "is this a clapping moment?" vibe from the attendees of the Helmet of Coțofenești press conference.
Performance of security at the press conference to announce the recovery of the stolen Helmet of Coțofenești.
Cambridge Elements Critical Heritage Studies seeks book proposals. We're looking for exciting, boundary pushing methods, theories, ideas that are too long for a single journal paper, but to pressing to wait on. It's a series for exciting heritage work. Let's see it! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
Join us at the REVITALISER Cultural Property Protection Summer School in Cyprus. Participants explore cutting-edge topics including remote aensing, AI-based analysis, criminological approaches to heritage crime. We can keep the fee low because it's subsidised by the EU revitaliser.eu/summer-schoo...
If you send me an email (d.yates@maastrichtuniversity.nl) I'll send you my B1 and B2 documents. Format has changed but you can still see what worked for me 6 years ago.
A key thing to remember: this isn't a "promise the outcomes in advance and then deliver them" sort of funding scheme. It is blue skies, high risk-high reward. You imagine what success would mean rather than offer a "sure thing". Mine was very "hey, this is edgy and weird, but could be awesome..."
I did, though a while ago now. This was the project which ended in July: traffickingtransformations.org. There's really no one right way to write an ERC.
Cultural Property Protection for All offers Conference Support Grants for members. Grants up to 1000 EUR to present at a conference relate to CPP. The Chair is an active member of this network; if you aren't a member of this COST Network, request to join the Action here: www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...
Sign up for the Cultural Property Protection for All COST Action: it is a lot of EU funding for networking on heritage provenance, monitoring, crime, and protection. Travel grants, funded events, etc. If you work in this area, join up: www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...
Consider following @unescochair-chec.bsky.social for news and opportunities from the new UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime. Also on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/unes...?
New Publication: "Exploring Aspects of the Online Trade in Antiquities Through Snapshot Analysis" co-authored by @profdonnayates.blsky.social and Emily Peacock. ln the new Elgar Research Handbook on Art, Culture and Heritage Law
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I know I'm quite quiet here, but I wanted to let you all know about my new role: UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime. Thinking about the Heritage Crime of the present and the future. I'm looking forward to collaborating on this topic.
Read all of antiquities dealer Michel van Rijn’s odd and amazing early blog online here. It is spectacular. #artcrime #archaeology www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2025/11/read...
Through the narratives of violence and control in auction sales of Pacific cultural objects, I consider consumer desire: "Marketing, Narratives, and Consumer Desire within Auction Catalogs of Cultural Objects" out now, Open Access, in Advances in Archaeological Practice. doi.org/10.1017/aap....
Colleagues at Maastricht University. I'm running for University Council. I would truly appreciate your vote. Take a moment and vote here: elections.maastrichtuniversity.nl and if you would like to see the platform I'm running on, here: leadmaastricht.nl
I'm sitting here thinking "What is a summer salary?" Like...if you don't get a grant one's summer is just not paid? The university doesn't pay research time...but gets credit for that research?
About 20 years ago I was going to a club in Germany and the bouncer was sitting there reading that book. I told him "OH! I'm from there!". He looked at me with some degree of horror. "I used to work at the theater that Baby got shot outside of, it's a real place..."
A film that takes place where you’re from
Frankly I'm surprised that I didn't know about this already. Also, this is not what I am supposed to be writing about this afternoon...
The internet tells me that "Rexy" is a thing for Coach. If anyone knows of something written about Coach's association with T. rex, please share! I need to read this.