2024-2025 Schedule of events — details are subject to change.
Fall Term
Sept 24
Working Group Meeting #1
Project kick-off + Introduction to “Loot"
Friday, September 27 @ 2-4pm
📍Virtual
Oct 25
Working Group Meeting #2
What’s our role? Situating scholars of Plunder
Friday, October 25 @ 2-4pm
📍Hybrid (CDRS/Zoom)
Nov 8
Working Group Meeting #3
Documenting dispossession: new approaches to provenance
Friday, November 8 @ 2-4pm
📍Virtual
Nov 22
Contested Collections Event #1 - Talk & Workshop
Event cancelled
Friday, November 22 @ 11AM-4:00PM
Paper Trails of Plunder: Mapping the Looting of the Maqdala ManuscriptsNo meeting in December - enjoy the holiday break!
Winter Term
Jan 31
Working Group Meeting #4
Topic: The Politics of Plunder: occupation, control, and state-building
Friday, January 31 @ 2-4pm
📍Virtual
Feb 28
Working Group Meeting #5 / Contested Collections Event #1 - Talk & Workshop
Topic: Temple Looting in Cambodia: Anatomy of a Statue Trafficking Network
Temple Looting in Cambodia: Anatomy of a Statue Trafficking NetworkSimon Mackenzie, Professor of Criminology and Head of the School of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
Friday, February 28 @ 2-4pm
📍Hybrid (CDRS/Zoom)
Mar 28
Working Group Meeting #6
Topic: Reparations, Restitution, and Return
Friday, March 28 @ 2-4pm
📍Hybrid
May 16
Working Group Meeting #7
Topic: The Praxis of Plunder: Collection, Curation, and Display
Friday, May 16 @ 2-4pm (new date!)
📍Hybrid (CDRS/Zoom)