January 15, 2024
Yates will give a keynote speech at “Dialogue with the art market” organised by the European Commission
Dr Donna Yates will give a keynote speech on 30 January 2024 at event titled “Dialogue with the art market”  organised by the European Commission. The event is taking place […]
November 24, 2023
Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities, provenance, and hidden crime
Yates, Donna and Shawn Graham (2023) Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities, provenance, and hidden crime. International Journal of Heritage Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2284740
November 13, 2023
Yates gave a presentation at “The Market for Latin American Antiquities” conference organised by co-organized by the Centro Latinoamericano-Suizo de la Universidad de San Gallen, the Museum der Kulturen Basel and Musée d’ethnographie Neuchâtel
On 2 November Dr Donna Yates gave a presentation titled “Crime in Collections: Patterns, Priorities, and Hidden Knowledge” at a conference “The Market for Latin American Antiquities” organised by co-organized […]
September 27, 2023
Yates speaking at the“The Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts” conference
Dr Donna Yates will give a talk at “The Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts” conference taking place from 27 to 29 September 2023 at the University of Hamburg. Yates […]
June 29, 2023
Yates will participate in webinar on money laundering and terrorist financing in the art and antiquities market, 5 July
Dr Donna Yates will be one of the panellists at the webinar on money laundering and terrorist financing in the art and antiquities market organised by the FATF. The webinar […]
June 22, 2023
Machine-learning method to dig deeper into antiquities trafficking
Professor Shawn Graham and his team worked alongside Dr Donna Yates to design a machine-learning model that helps researchers to uncover previously unknown possible connections by using known, established facts […]
June 2, 2023
Relationship Prediction in a Knowledge Graph Embedding Model of the Illicit Antiquities Trade
Graham, Shawn, Donna Yates, Ahmed El-Roby,Chantal Brousseau, Jonah Ellens and Callum McDermott (2023) Relationship Prediction in a Knowledge Graph Embedding Model of the Illicit Antiquities Trade. Advances in Archaeological Practice, […]
May 10, 2023
Yates speaking at conference on use of AML/CFT in Investigation of Art & Antiquities Criminality
Dr Donna Yates is speaking at a regional conference on use of AML/CFT in Investigation of Art & Antiquities Criminality in Mexico. Conference is taking place from 9–11 May, 2023 […]
April 4, 2023
Criminological Frameworks for Understanding Mexican Antiquities in Contemporary European Auctions
Yates, Donna and Diāna Bērziņa (2022) Criminological Frameworks for Understanding Mexican Antiquities in Contemporary European Auctions. In: EL EXPOLIO DE BIENES CULTURALES, L. Pérez-Prat Durbán, and Z. Ruiz (eds). Huelva: […]
January 10, 2023
Money Laundering and Antiquities
Brodie, Neil and Donna Yates (2022) Money Laundering and Antiquities.Transfer,1:97-109.
January 10, 2023
Donna Yates in New York Times
Donna Yates was featured in the New York Times article “For U.S. Museums With Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over”.  Full article can be read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/arts/museums-looted-art-repatriation.html
January 10, 2023
Book review: A Maya Universe in Stone
Yates, Donna (2022) Review of: Stephen Houston (ed.), A Maya Universe in Stone, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2021 (192 p.). CAA Reviews.