"A logic of #scarcity and #competition leads us to believe that the only way to survive as a #highered institution or employee is to extract and hoard as many resources (economic, human, social) as possible." @heritagelaw.bsky.social on how to resist an #extraction mindset: ow.ly/5yNG50VTMUB #edusky

Who owns culture?
At #SydneyWritersFest, our own Sherine Al Shallah and
UNSW law professor Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social will unpack the ethical & legal dilemmas of cultural objects.
Mark your calendar now for this free Curiosity Lecture
📅 22 May⏰ 2pm www.swf.org.au/program/seas...

Sydney peeps! If you want to come to a free session of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, here’s an option with me and Sherine Al Shallah: www.swf.org.au/program/seas... #heritage #colonialism

Incredible news from Malaysia: the state of Sarawak will not award any new permits for oil palm plantations 'for now', a senior minister said on February 20. He said Sarawak aimed to mitigate deforestation, citing international scrutiny in particular from the EU.

www.thevibes.com/articles/new...

The challenge ahead for restoring #Syria's destroyed cultural #heritage, incl quotes from @heritagelaw.bsky.social. #intLaw #IHL www.dw.com/en/can-syria...

This talk is going to be fun. Looking forward to unpacking the limitations of victimhood in generating legal agency, and how the turn to history’s best intentions can erase identity and contestation in counterproductive ways

I’m very excited to discuss this project @pablo1981.bsky.social and I cooked up a while back with the nice folks at GLaw - we’re going to have a great time unpacking the politics of international legal cooperation and how states hide behind multilateralism to persecute political opponents

👋 Hi there Bluesky! We are the ESIL Interest Group on the International Law of Culture. Follow us to keep up to date on our events!

The current members of the coordinating committee are Giovanni Carlo Bruno, Andrzej Jakubowski, @heritagelaw.bsky.social and @s-starrenburg.bsky.social.

Come join us, folks - it's quite a line-up of people at the forefront of international legal practice in this area #reparations #culturalheritage #internationallaw

The more serious version now: new intangible heritage elements alert! Also a good (if slightly outdated - UK now a party!) discussion of the dynamics of the convention diplomatically and on the ground: www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Always cute when your husband sends you a news story because he knows you’re interested in the topic, but without reading it, and then you’re quoted in it (wrong employer, but I’ll take the win): www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

I've just downloaded and skimmed this report. It is a magisterial work that will be a great help to researchers, especially those, like me, whose lack of Spanish and Portuguese reading skills make some of the submissions to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights effectively inaccessible.

Just out! Special issue on queer and queering heritage (with a fantastic manifesto to boot)!
I have a little something in there, too, thinking about what it means to think about “queer” as an adjective or a verb in heritage practice australia.icomos.org/publications...

Dr Moreira was the first woman of African descent ever elected to Portuguese Parliament. She pioneered legislation on attempting to decolonize Portuguese culture, partly via heritage restitution. She is an incredibly insightful strategist, I learned a lot from her. Read up, folks!

I had a wonderful conversation with the amazing Joacine Katar Moreira about inventorying as a tactic for reckoning with the return of colonial cultural objects: ejournals.eu/SAACLR/2023/...

Adebisi, Foluke, Suhraiya Jivraj & Ntina Tzouvala, eds. Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, & Legal Pedagogy: Strategies, Successes, & Challenges.

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Congrats!!!!

The day I got my Bsky code, new article came out. So, self-promotion into the void: 'Excavating the field of heritage law: support, renewal, and iconoclasm', where I attack what we think we know about this area of law, and try to move past all of its ongoing negative effects doi.org/10.1017/S094...