Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime Opportunities List 24 March 2026

Posted on 30 March 2026

Opportunities

This list is compiled by the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime at Maastricht University. Postings are not endorsements. If you have an event you would like to share with this list, please contact the Chair. To sign up for the email list, visit this page.

Revitaliser Cultural Property Protection Summer School (October), Cyprus, Training

Join us for the 2nd run of this fun training program. It is subsidised by the EU hence the low cost. This intensive programme is designed for MSc and PhD students, researchers, heritage professionals, surveyors, archaeologists, architects, criminologists, and conservation experts who wish to deepen their skills in reality-based surveying, geospatial technologies, remote sensing, criminology, and the legal frameworks underpinning cultural heritage protection.”

  • Where: Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence, Nicosia, Cyprus
  • When: register by 31 July 2026
  • Cost: 500 EUR (which includes 5 nights hotel and meals; flights not included).
  • Link https://revitaliser.eu/summer-school-2026/

Cultural Property Protection as an enabler for cooperation in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Gulf region, Nicosia, Cyprus, Symposium

“From the looting of archaeological sites to the illegal circulation of sacred and historically significant objects, this global challenge demands coordinated and forward-looking responses.” The Chair, Donna Yates, will be speaking at this event.

Cultural Property Protection Conference Support and Short Term Scientific Mission Grants, Funding

The COST Network Cultural Property Protection for All (CPP4ALL) has announced grants to support conference attendance for early career researchers and researchers from ITC countries, and grants for short term scientific missions. Only network members can apply, so those working in this field should join the network.

Postdoc in Acceleration of Cultural Heritage Provenance Research with AI, New Haven, USA, Job

The Cultural Heritage Division at Yale is looking for 2 postdocs. This position will explore “the extent to which AI can accelerate provenance research processes”, particularly LLMs for provenance texts. PhD in something Digital Humanities related and proficiency with Python and data analysis.

Postdoc in Research Dataset Discovery with Knowledge Graphs and AI, New Haven, USA, Job

The Cultural Heritage Division at Yale is looking for 2 postdocs. This position will explore “the use of knowledge graphs on automatically extracted metadata at a cross-disciplinary global scale”. PhD in something Computer Science related and proficiency with Python and data analysis.

Research Associate/Assistant at Cultural Policy and Evidence Lab, Singapore, Job

“The successful applicant will assist in delivering a longitudinal cultural policy research project through meticulous fieldwork, high-quality data management, and systematic administrative coordination.”

Regional Analyst, Cultural Heritage Center, US State Department, Washington DC, Job

The Cultural Heritage Center is looking for an analyst with specialism in Middle East and North Africa or East Asia and the Pacific to help with the negotiating and implementing of bilateral cultural property agreements. This is a full-time contractor position.

Stolen Legacies: Law, Memory, and the Fight to Recover Nazi-Looted Art, Online, Webinar

Adena J. Bernstein will discuss the legal and ethical complexities surrounding the restitution of Nazi-looted art.

Archaeology in the Dealer’s Archive, Leiden, Netherlands, Talk

Megan O’Neil will be speaking on “archaeology in the archive” to “identify places of origin for looted and excavated objects whose sources have been obscured”

Protecting Cultural Property in East Africa: Raising Awareness of National Legal Frameworks, Online, Webinar

“To build on existing efforts to combat antiquities looting and trafficking in East Africa, this ASIL-hosted webinar will gather representatives from Mozambique, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda to raise global awareness of the national legal frameworks for cultural property protection in East Africa.”

Diploma in Intellectual Property and Collections, London, Course

“This course will introduce the basics of intellectual property (IP) and show how IP rights can relate to other tangible rights…The course will also cover moral rights, artist resale rights, the law of confidence, digital rights management, trademarks, and AI as well.” Offered by the Institute of Art and Law.

Legal Advisor of ICCROM, Remote, Job

The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property is looking for a legal advisor.

Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law, London, Talk

At this talk “Dr Pinar Oruc will introduce her book ‘Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law'”.

Sudan Heritage Workshop, Online, Workshop

This workshop for Sudanese heritage workers focuses on, among other things, risk assessment and digital disaster preparedness for heritage.

Young Art Lawyers Association Call for Committee Members, Position

The Young Art Lawyers Association (YALA) are looking for emerging or aspiring art lawyers to join their committee. They are looking for a Secretary, a Comms Officer, an Events and Partnership Officer, and Non-portfolio officers.

Beyond Monument and Artefact: Embedding nature as cultural heritage in protected area management, Manchester, UK, Funded PhD

This fully funded PhD position “recognises that cultural identities, practices, and histories are inseparable from the ecosystems that sustain them.”

Safeguarding Heritage Cities, Sites, Buildings, Living Traditions and Practices in the face of Disasters, Extreme Weather Events and Complex Emergencies, Romania, Training

This fully funded, no fee course is delivered by ICCROM’s First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) Programme.

La Ricerca sulla Provenienza: ambiti di applicazione e modalità di valorizzazione, Online, Webinar

An afternoon webinar covering several interesting provenance topics.

Urgent rescue curation of space heritage in a time of world crisis, London, UK, Funded PhD

What a great funded PhD! “Unprecedented risk to a large number of existing and proposed space programmes, many involving international partners. This warrants new research that with a fully articulated, theorised and clarified rescue curation framework asks how such threatened space heritage can be preserved and future risks mitigated against”

Collecting Space Heritage, Leicester, UK, Funded PhD

“How, in other words, do we collect the living heritage of space? And is the idiom of ‘collecting’ even fit for this next unprecedented era of humanity.” Another exciting funded PhD topic.

Evolving Ethical Standards for the Art Market and Cultural Institutions, Milan and Online, Talk

Andrzej Jakubowski will be talking at this event, one of an exciting series hosted by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, with the support of International Society of Economic Criminology (ISEC) and of the UNESCO Chair on Business Integrity and Crime Prevention in Art and Antiquities Market.