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DESCRIPTION:Véronique Chankowski (École française d'Athènes)\, 'Illicit tra
 fficking in antiquities: what can scholars do?'\n\nThursday September 7\, 
 1:30-3:30\, Peterson Hall\, 3460 MacTavish\, room 116.\n\nSponsored by the
  Yan P. Lin Centre Research Group on Global Pasts\, the McGill Classics Pr
 ogram\, and the Papachristidis Chair in Modern Greek Studies.\n\n \n\n \n
 \nIllicit trafficking in antiquities: what can scholars do?\n\nTrafficking
  in antiquities is a long-standing phenomenon. Today\, it has been exacerb
 ated by the recent political and military crises in the Middle East\, whic
 h have created new circuits including possible links to terrorism. The dev
 elopment of digital media has also increased the capacity for marketing an
 d distribution\, just as it has amplified research possibilities\, making 
 the phenomenon global. Today anyone\, including academics\, can be confron
 ted with the question of an object's provenance. Archaeology\, art history
  and other fields can be challenged by the development of looting. Yet the
  looting of cultural heritage cuts objects off from their context and robs
  societies of their history. The protection of cultural heritage\, along w
 ith climate change and environment\, is one of the greatest challenges of 
 the 21th century. It is also a promising field of research\, bringing toge
 ther the humanities\, social sciences and technologies\, a security and de
 fence issue\, and an ally of citizenship and democracy by better understan
 ding and strengthening the link between people and heritage. For these rea
 sons\, it is urgent not only to be aware of the non-renewable nature of th
 is resource\, but also to find new answers and implement pragmatic solutio
 ns to protect cultural heritage from looting and trafficking.\n\nVéronique
  Chankowski is Professor of Aegean History and Ancient Economics at the Un
 iversity of Lyon (France)\, currently Director of the French School at Ath
 ens (Ecole française d’Athènes)\, a French research institute in Greece. S
 he studied philology\, ancient history and archaeology of the ancient Gree
 k world and she conducted field research in Greece and Bulgaria. She is th
 e author of numerous publications on ancient Greek society and economy and
  she directed several research programs\, including two EU-funded Horizon 
 2020 projects on the protection of cultural heritage (NETCHER and ANCHISE)
 . She also published two monographs on the history and organization of tra
 de in Delos in the Classical and Hellenistic period: Athens and Classical 
 Delos (2008) and Parasites of the God (2019).\n\n \n
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LOCATION:Room 116\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue
  McTavish
SUMMARY:Véronique Chankowski (École française d'Athènes)\, 'Illicit traffic
 king in antiquities: what can scholars do?'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/history/channels/event/veronique-chankowski-ecole
 -francaise-dathenes-illicit-trafficking-antiquities-what-can-scholars-do-3
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