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Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · 28d

Looking forward to meeting international law friends old and new at #ESIL2025!

ESIL IG on International Law of Culture @esiligculture.bsky.social · 28d

The IG will be holding its pre-conference workshop tomorrow from 09:00-12:00. We’ve got an excellent line-up of speakers who will be discussing the notion of ‘progress’ in cultural heritage law. If you’re attending #ESIL2025, do join us!

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · Sep 4

Catherine O’Rourke is looking for a new (three-year) postdoc for her ERC project on the role of care in international law (deadline: 15 Sept).

my.corehr.com/pls/dcurecru...

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Stichting Het Groninger Landschap @groningerlandschap.bsky.social · Aug 4

Vacature: belangenbehartiger Waddenzee (3 dgn p/w)

Zeven natuurorganisaties zoeken een strategische verbinder met hart voor natuur & beleid. Werk je graag aan thema’s als biodiversiteit, klimaat & kustontwikkeling?

👉 Solliciteer vóór 31 aug via: www.groningerlandschap.nl/vacatures

Vacature: Belangenbehartiger met secretaristaken bij Coalitie Wadden Natuurlijk - Het Groninger Landschap

Draag jij de Waddenzee een warm hart toe en ben je een strategische verbinder met gevoel voor natuurbeleid? Dan zijn wij op zoek naar jou!

www.groningerlandschap.nl

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Sophie Schuberth @sophieschuberth.bsky.social · Jul 28

The ICJ "for the first time explicitly acknowledged the legal standing of all States in relation to obligations erga omnes (in the sense of Article 48(1)(b) ASR). Until now, the Court’s decisions on collective obligations had been confined to obligations erga omnes partes arising under treaties." 👇

EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · Jul 25

State Responsibility in the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change | by Federica Paddeu and Miles Jackson

State Responsibility in the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

On 23 July 2025, the ICJ delivered its advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change. Although much of the opinion is devoted to the clarification of an extensive set of p...

www.ejiltalk.org

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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is SO important. The International Court of Justice affirms that the failure to phase out #FossilFuels can constitute an internationally wrongful act, giving way to #ClimateReparations for related harm. 🔥
Truly a new dawn for climate action and accountability. ⚖️ #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · Jul 23

52/🚨The Court then delivers a powerful statement: failure of a state to take appropriate action to regulate fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel licences, fossil fuel subsidies may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that state

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Mike Becker @mikebecker.bsky.social · Jul 23

The #ICJ advisory opinion covers a lot: customary status of climate change-related obligations, what due diligence means for adaptation/mitigation measures, the impact of sea-level rise on statehood, what types of fossil fuel-related activities might constitute an internationally wrongful act. 1/6

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · Jul 8

The 47th meeting of the World Heritage Committee is at UNESCO until 7/16, & is streaming live. Development, environmental & climate pressures & resilience are being discussed & new site nominations voted on.
🌏 #climateheritage #natureculture
Docs & livestream here: whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/...

47th session of the World Heritage Committee

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

whc.unesco.org

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Priya Pillai @pillaipriy.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hot on the heels of the advisory opinion by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on 3 July confirming obligations on states, the International Court of Justice #ICJ Advisory Opinion #AO on #climatechange to be delivered on 23 July. One to watch!

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Jun 27

These beads are beautiful, and this trade wasn't just one-way!
At Iron Age Hama, western Syria, amber beads have been found that were produced on the Baltic coast.

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Dr Deniz Ikiz @denizikiz.bsky.social · Jun 10

Interesting argument to revoke the WHS status of the Lake District - mass tourism and monoculture farming are indeed important threats to address to ensure biodiversity conservation and sustainable development for cultural landscapes
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Conservationists call for Lake District to lose Unesco world heritage status

Campaigners say designation promotes unsustainable sheep farming at expense of nature recovery and local communities

www.theguardian.com

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Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Jun 5

One of the best things about working in cultural heritage law? Our conferences have awesome field trips 😎 pictured: Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul.

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Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · May 9

A reminder that our workshop on cultural heritage and climate change will be taking place next week! There are still some spots available, so do register if you would like to join the discussion.

Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚨 Save the date! 🚨 Can we repair the loss of cultural heritage caused by climate change? On 16 May 2025, @gakturk.bsky.social and I are bringing together scholars and practitioners in Leiden for an interdisciplinary workshop. Programme and registration 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20....

An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate Change-Induced Damages

We are delighted to announce the upcoming workshop 'An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate-Induced Damages’, hosted with the support of the Leiden University F...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · May 9

A reminder that our workshop on cultural heritage and climate change will be taking place next week! There are still some spots available, so do register if you would like to join the discussion.

Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚨 Save the date! 🚨 Can we repair the loss of cultural heritage caused by climate change? On 16 May 2025, @gakturk.bsky.social and I are bringing together scholars and practitioners in Leiden for an interdisciplinary workshop. Programme and registration 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20....

An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate Change-Induced Damages

We are delighted to announce the upcoming workshop 'An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate-Induced Damages’, hosted with the support of the Leiden University F...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Abbie Yunita 🍉 @ayunita.bsky.social · May 9

Join us in Leiden on May 16th for a workshop on heritage reparations! My contribution asks what Dutch water heritage looks like when viewed from Jakarta.

Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚨 Save the date! 🚨 Can we repair the loss of cultural heritage caused by climate change? On 16 May 2025, @gakturk.bsky.social and I are bringing together scholars and practitioners in Leiden for an interdisciplinary workshop. Programme and registration 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20....

An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate Change-Induced Damages

We are delighted to announce the upcoming workshop 'An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate-Induced Damages’, hosted with the support of the Leiden University F...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · Apr 26

A significant part of the Sudan National Museum’s collections come from the UNESCO campaign of the 1960s and ’70s to salvage ancient artefacts from areas to be flooded for dams. The looting of those collections is the undoing of those efforts, writes Rennan Lemos

The threat to Sudan’s cultural heritage | Apollo Magazine

Reports of looting at the Sudan National Museum were confirmed last month as government forces retook Khartoum. Rennan Lemos weighs up the potential losses

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Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Apr 12

Somewhat reminiscent of this story from a few years ago, in which visitors to the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich were encouraged to hug the museum’s Henry Moore statue: www.theguardian.com/culture/2023...

Please do touch: Norwich Sainsbury Centre asks visitors to interact with art

Centre wants people to ‘release the power’ of living entities through interaction and lift museums out of Victorian era

www.theguardian.com

Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Apr 12

H/t to Restitution Matters for the link - unfortunately not yet here on Bluesky, but you can give them a follow on Facebook or LinkedIn or their website: restitutionmatters.org

RM*[restitution matters]

News, publications and events about collections from former colonial territories and their future

restitutionmatters.org

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Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Apr 12

What a lovely story: “The 12 dadikwakwa-kwa shell dolls … have been given by the Indigenous Australian Anindilyakwa community to a UK museum on one condition – that children play with them once a year.” www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Indigenous Australian shell dolls let out for children’s play at UK museum

Twelve dadikwakwa-kwa given to Manchester Museum on condition they are not permanently kept behind glass

www.theguardian.com

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · Apr 10

Saying goodbye to tobogganing

#ClimateEmergency

Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · Apr 10

“The fact that there is virtually no winter here, no more snow, means it's simply no longer worth it." - the boss of a traditional wooden sled manufacturing firm in Germany.

www.cleanenergywire.org/news/warming...

Warming winters lead historic German sled maker to halt production

www.cleanenergywire.org

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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · Mar 31

The #AR7 report outlines adopted by @ipcc.bsky.social markedly expand coverage of culture & heritage -- but to realize that potential, the IPCC will now need authors & reviewers with culture expertise.
Deadline: 17 April!
Learn more: preservinglegacies.circle.so/c/haca-resou...
#climateheritage

Culture and Heritage in AR7 Action Alert | Preserving Legacies

preservinglegacies.circle.so

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Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Apr 8

Thanks Adam! Unfortunately no conference proceedings but we will certainly be publishing a write-up on the university website reporting on the discussions at the workshop. Will post on here once it is published!

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Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚨 Save the date! 🚨 Can we repair the loss of cultural heritage caused by climate change? On 16 May 2025, @gakturk.bsky.social and I are bringing together scholars and practitioners in Leiden for an interdisciplinary workshop. Programme and registration 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20....

An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate Change-Induced Damages

We are delighted to announce the upcoming workshop 'An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate-Induced Damages’, hosted with the support of the Leiden University F...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Apr 1

❗A reminder that the call for our workshop this September Berlin is open until this Friday - looking forward to receiving everyone's abstracts! ✨

ESIL IG on International Law of Culture @esiligculture.bsky.social · Mar 3

The CfP for the pre-conference workshop of the IG is now live at: esil-sedi.eu/wp-content/u.... The theme of the workshop is 'The Future and Past of "Progress" in Cultural Heritage Law'. Applications are open until 4 April! If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out here or via email.

esil-sedi.eu

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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · Mar 31

"The museum held an estimated 100,000 artefacts from thousands of years of the country’s history, including the Nubian kingdom, the Kushite empire and through to the Christian and Islamic eras." A desperate tragedy & shameful indictment

#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures

Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missing

www.theguardian.com

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Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social · Mar 28

Just attended the excellent inaugural lecture of Ingrid Boas at Wageningen on the theme of climate mobilities. Lots of things which international lawyers can learn from by viewing movement as a result of climate change (whether of humans or non-humans) through this lens: www.wur.nl/en/newsartic...