Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime Opportunities List 9 September 2026

Posted on 9 September 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.

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Endangered Archives Programme Grant, Grant

Approx. 30 grants will be awarded with three budget limits (£15k, £60k, £150k) for projects directly related to endangered archives and digitisation.

Merton College Early Career Fellowship, Fellowship, Oxford

This year Merton College’s Early Career fellowships will focus on topics in Classics, Ancient History, and Modern Languages so possible crossover with topics on this list.

Heritage, homeland and colonial objects in Palestine: Larissa Sansour’s Rogue Agents of History, Work shop, Amsterdam

“his one-day workshop takes Larissa Sansour’s solo exhibition Rogue Agents of History in the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam as the starting point to study heritage in Palestine” The workshop is aimed at PhD and RMA students in the Netherlands.

Tracing Loot from the “Boxer War” in China. A Research Guide for Public and Private Collections, Launch, Online or Berlin

The online event will be held in English with Chinese interpretation. The in person event will be in German.

Tenure Track Professorship in Cultural Studies, Job, Leuven, Belgium

KU Leuven is seeking a tenure track researcher who will enter at an associate professor level to lead on research and teaching in, particularly, cultural policy.

Challenges in provenance research and art restitution, Conference, Vienna

This conference focuses on “Challenges in provenance research and art restitution today and tomorrow. Dealing with Nazi-era loss and spoliation of cultural assets in the second quarter of the 21st century.”

Associate (Art Loss Register), Job, London

The Art Loss Register is “looking for an Associate to support work with auction houses, art fairs and the wider art market. This is a varied, client-facing role with exposure to different aspects of the business.”

Reimagining Museums, Webinar Series, Online

The ANTITHESES platform at the University of Oxford are hosting this websinar series about the issues museums are facing. Topics include issues related to ethics, holding of human remains, ownership, corporate sponsorship, etc.

Regionaler UNESCO-Dialog: Neue Formen der Zusammenarbeit und Vereinbarungen im Bereich der Rückgabe und Restitution von Kulturgütern, Geneva and Online, Event

The Federal Office of Culture and the Swiss Commission of UNESCO is organizing this programme. You can register for a Zoom link if you can’t attend in person.