Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime Opportunities List 24 March 2026

Posted on 24 March 2026

Opportunities
Thanks to the new UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime, the opportunities email list now has a new look and a new host. The content will remain the same, but the branding has changed a bit. Please be forgiving of any transfer pains, soon this should be running smoothly.

While you are at it, check out this new book chapter by Emily Peacock and Donna Yates: Exploring aspects of the online trade in antiquities through snapshot analysis. It’s in the new Elgar Research Handbook on Art, Culture and Heritage Law edited by Sophie Vigneron, Janet Ulph, and Antoinette Maget Dominicé.

Summer Law Clerk, Job, Richmond, VA, USA

Cultural Heritage Partners “invites law students to apply for a Summer 2026 Law Clerk role supporting our Indigenous and Preservation Practice areas.” They are seeking two clerks to work “on high-impact matters at the intersection of Tribal sovereignty, cultural heritage, and environmental law.”

Bibliomigrancy amongst the Ruins: post-1945 Book Movement, Conference, London, UK

“This two-day conference will showcase active research from librarians, historians and researchers that unearths new understanding of how books moved around Europe after a war that had disrupted and scattered the book stock of an entire continent.”

Democratising heritage tourism: minority representation, PhD Position, Rotterdam, NL

One of two exciting, fully funded (real job) PhD positions supervised by Dr Naomi Oosterman at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Democratising heritage tourism: risk, governance and inclusivity, PhD Position, Rotterdam, NL

One of two exciting, fully funded (real job) PhD positions supervised by Dr Naomi Oosterman at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Cultural Property Protection: As an Enabler for Cooperation in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Gulf Region, Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus

“The International Symposium for Cultural Property Protection as an enabler for cooperation in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Gulf region, serves as a platform for strategic dialogue and practical solutions. Bringing together experts in law, criminology, technology, heritage protection, and geopolitics, the event encourages cross-sector collaboration between policymakers, enforcement authorities, researchers, and civil society.” I will be there!

Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Objects. Who Protects Heritage?, Conference, Estonia and Online

ICOM Estonia and the Estonian National Heritage Board are hosting this conference which “will bring together representatives of museums, archives, libraries, law enforcement agencies, and policymakers from the region to discuss patterns of illicit trafficking of cultural objects”

Provenance Research Today: Issues, Resources, and Networks, Summer School, Denver, USA

A summer certificate programme in provenance research that can be done in person or online (cheaper, but no certificate awarded).

Museums and Collecting in Asia: Legal and other Issues for Museums and Private Collectors, Seminar, Hong Kong

An interesting group of speakers discussing a variety of topics related to provenance and collection.

Hermeneutics of Restitution, Reparation, and Redress, Conference, Bonn, Germany

“This conference aims to explore the seminal question of how to react adequately to the damages from dependency relations, in order to repair and overcome them, with a view to a better, post-dependency future, if not reconciliation.”

Leerstellen: Provenienzforschung als Zugang zu jüdischer Kultur und Museumsgeschichte in Sachsen, Call for Papers, Leipzig

“The jointly conceived conference deals with the stories of Jewish collectors and their property, infrastructures and economies of private collecting, as well as restitution processes and conflict-ridden conversations about the whereabouts of cultural property after 1945”

Towards a Global History of Provenance Research: Historical, Methodological, Legal, Political and Philosophical Dimensions, Call for Papers, Paris

“The inaugural conference of the UNESCO Chair at the École du Louvre aims to cast a retrospective gaze upon the conditions that gave rise to provenance research and upon the reasons why it has become an indispensable practice today”; proposals sought in French or English

Un instante atrapado en bronce: patrimonio recuperado, Exhibition, Madrid, Spain

An exhibition of looted, trafficked and recently recovered Spanish-Roman Bronzes.

Repatriation Provenance Specialist, Job, Berkeley, California

“Reporting to the NAGPRA Program Manager, this role assists the UC Berkeley NAGPRA team in maintaining the legal and ethical integrity of the repatriation process.”

Exploring Cultural Heritage with X-rays, Workshop, Hamburg, Germany

“The workshop highlights the potential of X-ray and synchrotron radiation for cultural heritage research…Discussions will focus on X-ray–based methods for material characterization, provenance, dating, authentication, and the detection of alterations or forgeries.”