Libya – Peopling the Past

Podcast Season 4, Episode 1: Trafficking through the Metaverse: The Antiquities Trade in the Internet Age with Katie Paul

Today, we kick off the fourth season of the Peopling the Past podcast, which focuses on cultural heritage and legacies of colonialism. In our first episode, we are joined by Katie Paul, an anthropologist and research analyst whose work centers on the destruction and displacement of cultural heritage.

Listen in, as Katie discusses the role of Facebook in the illicit antiquities trade, and how the company has been complicit in the sale and destruction of cultural heritage.

Blog Post #18: Grad Student Feature with Najee Olya

In this week’s Grad Student Feature, we bring you Najee Olya, PhD Candidate in the Program for Mediterranean Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia. Najee is systematically studying a large corpus of Greek painted vases representing Africans and reorienting previous assumptions about how these images would have been understood and interpreted by their users.