On Thursday the 23^rd of February, our senior provenance researcher Karwin Cheung presented in the Acquiring Loot panel at the Boxerloot Conference that took place from the 22^nd to the 23^rd of February 2024 in the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich. 

Two of the Pressing Matter team members wrote a chapter in the edited volume Ordering the Human: the Global Spread of Racial Science (Columbia University Press), which will be published in April 2024. Dr Paul Wolf Mitchell wrote the 1^st chapter, entitled Origins of Races, Organs of Intellect: Polygenism, Political Order, and the Enlightenment Construction of Cranial Race Science, and our PI Professsor Amade M’Charek wrote the 4^th chapter, entitled Race and Sameness: On Ordering the Human and the Specificities of Us-ness and Other-ness.(this is related to WP 3A)