Colonial powers plundered the heritage of countries all over the world – restitution is long overdue.
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What’s needed is a comprehensive international strategy to combat the illicit trade in antiquities.
For Ethiopia, there is no connection between the Maqdala war in 1868 and the stolen treasures at Maqdala
An ivory ban in the US had a series of unintended consequences.
The question of repatriating objects is clearly more complex than returning human remains. It needs more debate, and more creative interventions to move beyond the current impasse.
For centuries, fishing fleets from Sulawesi regularly visited Australia in search of trepang. Their visits were recorded orally and have been depicted in detailed artworks.
It hovers uneasily between being a fine-art exhibition showing the diversity and sheer visual and sociocultural potency of contemporary Australian visual art practice, and an older-style ethnographic survey.
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Research Associate Professor (tenured), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
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Director, Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Health, University of Bath
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University. Deputy Director ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Monash University
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Policy and Knowledge Exchange Lead, Department for Health, University of Bath
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Research Associate, Department for Health, University of Bath
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Professor of International Politics, University of Sheffield
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
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Honorary Research Fellow and Community Archaeology Liaison Officer, University of Nottingham
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Associate professor, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Chinese Politics; Director, Lau China Institute, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in Aegean Prehistory, University of Kent