Hobby Lobby tied itself to the fate of Iraq through participation in the smuggling of antiquities, and this raises a lot of interesting questions, which we'll be discussing here.
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Links to some things:
Badiou:
https://miguelabreugallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/AlainBadiou_OurWoundisNotSoRecent.pdf (It's a pdf, so maybe it won't be there forever)
Denver Museum Article:
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/01/denver-art-museum-stolen-asian-relics-cambodia-thailand-emma-bunker/
More on the artifact trade:
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/03/antiquities-looted-by-isis-end-up-in-london-shops
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/16/historical-sites-in-syria-are-being-looted-on-an-industrial-scale
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Time:
00:00 Intro
02:48 Artifacts, extraction, and ethics
13:41 The 2003 Invasion and the Iraq Museum
21:23 The Sites of Antiquity
29:00 ISIS, Heritage, and Iconoclasm
36:38 The Zoning of Iraq
47:24 Conclusion
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Bibliography (excluding articles linked above because that felt redundant)
Badiou, Alain. Our Wound is Not So Recent . Oxford: Polity Press, 2017.
Beckert, Jens, Matías Dewey, Simon Mackenzie, and Donna Yates. “What Is Grey about the ‘Grey Market’?” Essay. In The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Cunliffe, E., & Curini, L. (2018). ISIS and heritage destruction: A sentiment analysis. Antiquity, 92(364), 1094-1111. doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.134
Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union (European Parliament), Cousseran, and Levallois. “The Financing of the ‘islamic State’ in Syria and Iraq (ISIS).” Publications Office of the EU, September 11, 2017
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/f8d3ad4c-a8ad-11e7-837e-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
Rothfield, Lawrence. The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
United States of America vs. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty (450) Ancient Cuneiform Tablets; and Approximately Three Thousand (3,000) Ancient Clay Bullae (UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK July 5, 2017).