Hobby Lobby and the Illegal Antiquities Trade with Donna Yates – Episode 78

Today we talk with Dr. Donna Yates about the recent Hobby Lobby decision and the illegal antiquities trade. What was Hobby Lobby doing, how does this fit into looting and the antiquities trade, and what exactly is this new Museum of the Bible in DC thing?

Links

• Trafficking Culture / Donna Yates
• Anonymous Swiss Collector
• Cambodia’s looted treasures
• UNESCO Constitution
• Hobby Lobby fined $3 million for smuggled Iraqi artifacts
• Spotlight on Hobby Lobby’s Biblical Collection After Smuggle Case
• Islam, ISIS, and Black Market Artifacts with Nathan French – Episode 76
• The Justice Department Announcement
• Hobby Lobby’s Press Release
• Washington Post piece on the settlement
• NBC report on possibly more concerns about Hobby Lobby
• The Green collection and the Museum of the Bible: 443,000 square meters of mess.
• Buenavista del Cayo
• Patty Gerstenblith
  • https://law.depaul.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-a-z/Pages/patty-gerstenblith.aspx
  • http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-remarkable-patty-gerstenblith-0208-20150202-story.html
• Cultural Property Advisory Committee
• E. A. Wallis Budge
• Subhash Kapoor Case
• The rogue’s gallery: Subhash Kapoor and India’s stolen artefacts
• DHS and DOJ return valuable, ancient artifacts to India
• Museums Begin Returning Artifacts to India in Response to Investigation
• Temple Looting in Cambodia, by Simon Mackenzie and Tess Davis

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