Interesting things are happening in the world of cultural property research and policy
These past two weeks have been brutal. I travel a lot but not usually in the middle of a tornado. I tend to get to a place and stay there: settle in and work a bit. from 17 June until 30 June however, everything in the antiquities trafficking/art crime realm came to a head, event wise. I went to a lot of it as well as some museums in spare moment. Half ‘rock-n-roll’ lifestyle, half ‘I’m really tired’. Actually mostly ‘I’m really tired’.
Academia is 90% desk-work and 10% mania.
I should probably reflect more on some of these events in this blog but see above, I can do that later. For now, dear readers, this is what’s been going on with me. My agenda for the past 2 weeks.
17 June: Glasgow
- Meeting with Scottish and Italian Members of European Parliament re: art crime and future partnerships
18 June: Glasgow to York
19 June: York
- York Festival of Ideas, Preserving Cultural Heritage: What Can We Do? (speaking)
20 June: York to London
British Museum Special Exhibition: Sunken Cities, Egypt’s Lost Worlds- British Museum Special Exhibition: Sicily, Culture and Conquest
21 June: London
- Queen Mary University, Art, Crime and Criminals: Painting Fresh Pictures of Art Theft, Fraud and Plunder (attending)
22 June: London (work day, writing)
23 June: London to Geneva
24 
June: Geneva
- University of Geneva, All Art and Heritage Law Conference (attending)
25 June: Geneva
- University of Geneva, All Art and Heritage Law Conference, Preserving the Divine and Combating Sacred Art Theft in Nepal (speaking)
- Musée d’ethnographie de Genève Special Exhibition: Amazonie
- Patek Philippe Museum
- Musée Barbier-Mueller
Maison Tavel- Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Genève
26 June: Geneva to London
27 June: London
- Tate Modern Special Exhibition: Bhupen Khakahar, You Can’t Please All
- Tate Modern Special Exhibition: Mona Hatoum
- Westminster: All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (meeting)
- National Maritime Museum
- Royal Observatory Greenwich
- The Cutty Sark
- House of Lords: UK Cultural Property (Armed Conflict) Bill committee stage (attending)
29 June: London
- The Wellcome Collection
University College London: UK Public Museums and their responsibilities to cultural heritage workshop (attending)
30 June: London to Glasgow