The marbles are a physical manifestation of what it meant to be Athenian during the 5th century BC.
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The British Museum appears close to a decision on returning the Elgin marbles – here’s how it might navigate the legal challenges.
What’s needed is a comprehensive international strategy to combat the illicit trade in antiquities.
A painting of a symbolic moment in the history of the US civil rights movement has stirred emotions.
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.
Repatriation of cultural heritage is being debated at a time of mass migration – is heritage more important to countries that increasingly cannot be defined by their populations?
It’s lunacy to believe you own the moon, so why is cultural heritage any different? The Parthenon sculptures at least belong together.
The exhibition inevitably raises the ugly head of the Elgin Marbles – but all this noise drowns out the quiet activism of the show itself.
Legal star power is being deployed in the form of the very well-known London barristers, Geoffrey Robertson QC and Amal Alamuddin, in Greece’s latest attempt to have the Elgin or Parthenon Marbles returned…
Among the millions of works of art that are being transported around the world, one that is currently doing its promotional tour is Jack Kerouac’s famous manuscript for On the Road, written entirely on…
Where would we be without Godwin’s Law? This law, formulated for the internet, dictates that as a discussion progresses, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1. And, as…
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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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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Cultural Economy, City St George's, University of London
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Matthew Flinders Professor, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Aegean Prehistory, University of Kent
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire
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Scholar in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Professor in Classics, Trinity College Dublin
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