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Buyer Beware: The US Black Market For Ancient Indian Art | Tess Davis | Bringing Our Gods Home

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Art and antiquities have financed some of the last century’s worst actors—from organized criminals, to drug cartels, mafia syndicates, the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge, the IRA, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Daesh (ISIS). Yet public policy still treats the illegal trade in cultural property as a white collar victimless crime. The United Nations has taken commendable steps to cut off the global traffic in so-called "blood antiquities" from Iraq and Syria, but US art collections and sales remain full of suspect pieces from countries and even ongoing conflict zones further East, such as Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Cambodia. This lecture will explore a recent government crackdown on the illicit trade in Asian antiquities and the resulting implication of a top figure in New York’s art world. About Speaker: - Tess Davis, a lawyer and archaeologist by training, is Executive Director of the Antiquities Coalition. Davis oversees the organization’s work to fight cultural racketeering worldwide as well as its award-winning think tank in Washington. She has been a legal consultant for the Cambodian and US governments and works with both the art world and law enforcement to keep looted antiquities off the market. She writes and speaks widely on these issues — having been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Foreign Policy, and various scholarly publications — and featured in documentaries in America and Europe. She is admitted to the New York State Bar and is an Adjunct Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. In 2015, the Royal Government of Cambodia knighted Davis for her work to recover the country’s plundered treasures, awarding her the rank of Commander in the Royal Order of the Sahametrei. Follow Us on Social Media : Join us on Telegram : https://t.me/srijanfn Twitter: https://twitter.com/srijanfn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/srijanfounda... Subscribe to Srijan Talks [English]: https://www.youtube.com/c/srijantalks Subscribe to Srijan Talks [Hindi]: https://www.youtube.com/c/srijantalksHI More About Us: https://srijantalks.org/ #SrijanTalks #BringingOurGodsHome

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