Treasure or Taboo? Contested objects in museums and galleries Emma Waring and Donna Yates
Event details
Cultural objects and art in museums and galleries are often at the centre of legal disputes. Whether a T Rex fossil, obscene artworks, contested sculptures or human remains, they have all attracted the attention of courts.
Join art and heritage law experts Emma Waring and Donna Yates of the York Maastricht Partnership as they explore some of the ethical dilemmas surrounding these objects.
This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar. You will receive a link to join a couple of days before the event and a reminder an hour before. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function, but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout.
Find out more about the York Maastricht Partnership.
About the speakers
Emma Waring is a Professor in the York Law School, University of York, UK. She teaches and researches in the fields of Art and Heritage Law, Property Law, Land Law and Ecclesiastical Law. She is particularly interested in the significance and implications of boundaries - concepts of insiders and outsiders; legal geographies; constitutional property and expropriation; decision-making; and the obligations of ‘ownership’. She is the editor of two books, Landmark Cases in Property Law with Simon Douglas and Robin Hickey (Hart Publishing) and Expropriation Law in Europe with Jacques Sluysmans and Stijn Verbist (Wolters Klouwer). Emma is also an ordained Anglican Priest in the Church of England.
Donna Yates is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Maastricht University, Netherlands. Her research is focused on the transnational illicit trade in cultural objects, art and heritage crime, and white-collar crime. Donna has recently been awarded a € 1.5 million European Research Council starting grant to study how objects influence criminal networks, with a particular focus on objects such as antiquities, fossils, and rare and collectible wildlife. She's interested in what draws people to these ‘criminogenic collectibles’, how they interact with them and how these objects may inspire crimes.
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