#CfP for the "USHMM Faculty Seminar: #Jewish Responses to the #Holocaust: Dispossession, #Restitution, and Reconstructing the Home", which will take place at the United States Holocaust #Memorial Museum (#HolocaustMuseum) in Washington, DC on January 8-12, 2024.
🗓️Extended Deadline for Abstracts: October 31, 2023
THEFTS EXPOSE BRITISH MUSEUM’S ‘RIDICULOUS’ STANCE ON RETURN OF ARTEFACTS, SAYS MP by David Batty and Mark Brown
"Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Afrikan reparations, believes the 1963 law preventing the return of objects such as the Parthenon marbles and the Benin bronzes should be changed.
The museum has been at the centre of an escalating storm that on Friday led to the resignation of its director, Hartwig Fischer. It followed the revelation that as many as 2,000 items from the museum collection had been found to be “missing, stolen or damaged” and that police were investigating."
👉 An interesting point of view from Dan Hicks (curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum): "'The last remaining argument against restitution has now been lost'