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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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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 over to the National Museum in Jakarta. To Sri Lanka,
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March 17, 2023 marked the return of hundreds of Khmer antiquities from public and private collections abroad. One month prior, a collection of Khmer gold and metal jewellery was brought from the UK to Cambodia, a highly publicized return shining an ever brighter spotlight on the illegal activities of art collector-dealer Douglas Latchford. An official
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