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INTERPOL launches app to better protect cultural heritage

ID-Art app will empower fight against stolen works of art, cultural heritage crimes

SHUBBAK FESTIVAL 2021

Ten years after the Arab Spring Shubbak, London’s biennial festival of contemporary Arab culture, returns with an ambitious programme reflecting on people, connections and ideas in a fundamentally unsettled world.

• Venue: UK
• Dates: 20/06/21–17/07/21

UNESCO and partners celebrate 50th anniversary of the 1970 Convention against illicit trafficking in cultural property with major event in Africa

The two-day on-line event will focus on the tools and best practices to fight against illicit trafficking in cultural property and to support the return and restitution of cultural property, which particularly affect the Africa Region.

Launch: World Art and Memory Museum

The World Art and Memory Museum web launch will be hosted via Zoom.

• Venue: Online Event
• Date: 09/04/21
• Time: 1:00pm–3:00pm

Conference: INTO Online 2021

Building resilience in the global heritage community

• Venue: Online
• Dates: 20/04/21–22/04/21

Conference: UNESCO 2nd Memory of the World Global Policy Forum

This 2nd Forum aims to build the momentum towards articulating a global policy framework for disaster risk reduction and management as a means to sustainable preservation of documentary heritage.

• Venue: Hybrid Event (online and in-person)
• Dates: 21/09/21–22/09/21

Lecture Series ‘Mastery: Great Minds in Heritage & Historic Houses’

Presented by the Centre for Historic Houses, JSAA, OP Jindal Global University, Institution of Eminence, Sonipat, India

• Venue: Online Event
• Dates: 15/03/21–19/03/21

Conference: British Council: Heritage of Future Past

Join us from 29th – 31st March for a three-day online event which will highlight the value of cultural heritage and its contemporary relevance.

• Venue: Online Conference
• Dates: 29/03/21–31/03/21

Conference: Violated National Heritage: Theft, Trafficking and Restitution

The Society for the History of Collecting present: 'Violated National Heritage: Theft, Traffic & Restitution'

• Venue: Online Conference
• Date: 23/03/21
• Time: 4:30pm–9:30pm

Historic England: High Streets Heritage Action Zones’ Cultural Programme Launches with 'High Street Tales'

Historic England launches a podcast series and accompanying ebook called 'High Street Tales'. These are the first outcomes of a four-year-long national Cultural Programme led by Historic England, in partnership with the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England.