Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime

A UNESCO Chair Researching the Heritage Crimes of the Present and Future
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    New and emerging heritage crimes occur beyond the boundaries of detection, deterrence, and imagination. 

    We ask: what comes next? 
     


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  • News and Events

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    CALL FOR PAPERS: Priceless Assets of Subversion? The Valuation of High Value Unique Goods and Financial Crime

    Call for contributions MACCH/PRICELESS conference 2027

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    Chair participating in UNESCO Forum Preventing Illicit Trafficking: Technology, Education and Public Engagement

    How Can UNESCO Chairs Contribute to Shaping the Future of the Fight against Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property?

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    Chair participating in Policing the Art Market: Codes of Ethics and Best Practices, 27 Nov, Milan

    Hosted by the UNESCO Chair on Business Integrity and Crime Prevention in the Art & Antiquities Market

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    Team Members Present at The Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Warsaw

    Three members of the team made the trip to Warsaw for Eurocrim 2026, the 26th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, held from 9 to 12 September under the theme "Frontiers of Criminology".

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  • Publications and Outputs

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    Illusions of Rarity and Value in Competing Megalodon Tooth Markets

    Chapter in Low-End Markets for Art and Cultural Goods

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    Spiritualism in Plaster: Philosophy, Archaeology, and Figurative Practices in Félix Ravaisson’s Study of the Venus de Milo

    Journal Paper in History of the Humanities

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    The Legal Classification of Hominin Fossils: Lessons from the Broken Hill Skull

    Journal Paper in: International Journal of Heritage Studies

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    Brazil Reclaims a Dinosaur: Irritator challengeri and the Restitution of Trafficked Fossils

    Blogpost on Law of the Arts, 12 May 2026

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  • The UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime is held by Prof. Donna Yates and hosted by Maastricht University