Trafficking of antique vase fragments

Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 12:00 – 13:00 CET

In this webinar, Dr. David Gill from the University of Kent presented his research on the topic of "Orphan(ed) vase fragments: a gigantic jigsaw puzzle of trafficked antiquities".

Dr David Gill

David is Honorary Professor in the Kent Law School and a Fellow of the Centre for Heritage. He is a former Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome, and was a Sir James Knott Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was previously a member of the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, and Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at Swansea University. He was awarded his chair in Archaeological Heritage through UEA, and was Director of the Heritage Futures Research Unit at the University of Suffolk. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and is a regional lead for the RSA Heritage Network; a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA); and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

David has conducted fieldwork in Greece and been involved with a major post-excavation project in Libya. His current research centres on the history of collecting and archaeological ethics. His Context Matters: Collating the Past (Amelia: ARCA, 2020) engages with recent debates over cultural property. He has a regular column in the Journal of Art Crime, and is a member of the editorial board of Heritage.