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Reflections on the International Conference on Heritage Recovery 

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Reflections on the International Conference on Heritage Recovery  by Pim Fitzpayne In June 2025, three former CO-OP interns attended the International Conference on Recovery of Cultural Heritage, organized by Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign in Lalitpur, Nepal. Ing Morokoth and Phuy Meychean presented panel papers on their research into the trafficking and art market networks of […]

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Thinking Restitution through Theatre

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Thinking Restitution through Theatre by Bonny Coombe CO-OP invited Lakhon Komnit Organization (LKO) to produce a theatrical response to the themes of looting, restitution and paradigms of conservation and display. LKO’s grassroots basis connected the project with a Cambodian constituency who might not ordinarily be reached by its research, nor included in the broader discourse

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Returning to belong? Reflections from “Scenes from a Repatriation” and more

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Returning to belong? Reflections from “Scenes from a Repatriation” and more by Emma Efkeman Last month, a new play by playwright, Joel Tan, finished a four-week run at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Scenes from a Repatriation comprises a series of vignettes—first in London, then in mainland China—witnessed by, intervened in, and responding to

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Understanding the locale, or what’s restitution actually for?

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Understanding the locale, or what’s restitution actually for? By Panggah Ardiyansyah In December 2024, I returned to Jakarta and visited the Repatriasi (Repatriation) exhibition at the National Museum of Indonesia. This temporary exhibition is part of the museum’s highly anticipated reopening after the September 2023 fire which centered on the theme “Reimagining Cultural Inheritances.” It

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Talking about Restitution 

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In early November 2023, an object-handling activity was conceived as part of the Festival of Social Science, a UK-wide festival led and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of UK Research and Innovation. The authors managed this object-handling activity titled “Objects on the Move”. It aimed to explain how objects function differently in diverse contexts and why objects were moved and collected.

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Provenancing at work in Indonesia/Sri Lanka returns

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Provenancing at work in Indonesia/Sri Lanka returns by Emma Efkeman In early July 2023, the Netherlands announced a large-scale return to Sri Lanka and Indonesia of state-owned objects from their national museums. To Indonesia, 478 cultural artefacts including the famed Lombok treasure, stolen as war booty in 1894 from a Balinese palace, will be handed

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