Event Calendar

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 Manuscripts

No 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 Network

Simon 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)

June

Makeup event - date and details TBD