Saturday, June 27, 2015

8:15 am -   9:15 am: Welcome and Registration

9:15 am -   9:30 am: Conference Welcome 

Lynda Albertson, Chief Executive Officer

Association for Research into Crimes Against Art

9:30 am - 10:30 am: The Fine Art of Insuring Fine Art                                      Panel Chair: Maria Edwards, M.A.,

Adjunct Professor 

Stony Brook University, ARCA 2015

"Dealer Conversion of Consigned Art. When Drugs and Greed Make the Art Disappear: Experts Will Deal with Legal, Insurance, and Valuation Complexities"
                                                                                                                                                     Thomas R. Kline, J.D.
Of Counsel Andrews Kurth, LLP and Professorial Lecturer                            George Washington University

Dorit Straus
Fine Art Insurance Expert and ARCA Lecturer

Art Recover Group PLC

Victor Wiener, PhD.,
Victor Wiener Associates, LLC, Adjunct Assistant Professor                                New York University

"The Art of Risk Management: The Crucial Role of the Global Art Insurance Industry in Enabling Risk and Security"
                                                                                                                                                            John Kerr, PhD.,
University of Roehampton 

10:30 am -11:00 am: Networking Coffee Break

11:00 am -1:00 pm: National and International Art Crime Policing

            Panel Chair: Christos Tsirogiannis, PhD., ARCA Professor                                                     

Research Assistant in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research              

Trafficking Culture Project

University of Glasgow 

"From Prosecution Comes Solution: Using the Crook's Mind to Combat Art Crime"

Jordan Arnold, Esq., Managing Director

K2 Intelligence

"EU = 28 Countries + 28 Legislations = 1 Million Problems"

Martin Finkelnberg, Head of the Art and Antique Crime Unit of the Netherlands

Dutch National Police 

"One Culture, Two Systems: Changing Attitudes to Cultural Heritage Protection and Illicit Smuggling in Hong Kong and China" 

Toby Bull, MSc., 

Founder, TrackArt - Art Risk Consultancy

Steven Gallagher, Barrister, Faculty of Law 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

"The Italian Carabinieri and the Evolution of its Art Crime Databases"

                                                                                                                                        

Capitano Luigi Spadari

Comandante Sezione Elaborazione Dati 

Carabinieri del Comando Tutela Patrimonio Culturale

"Activities and Tools of INTERPOL’s Works of Art Unit in the Fight Against Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property"

Françoise Bortolotti, Criminal Intelligence Officer

INTERPOL General Secretariat (Lyon, France)                                                        Sub-Directorate -Drugs and Organized Crime- Works of Art Unit

                                

"Europol’s Involvement in the Fight Against Cultural Goods Crime"

Michael Will, Manager

EUROPOL, Organised Crime Networks Group - Focal Point Furtum

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch in the Cloister

 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Heritage Crimes in Countries in Conflict:  Perspectives From the Field     

Panel Chair: Samer Abdel Ghafour, ARCA 2015

Founder of "Archaeology in Syria" Social Media Network

"Syrian Cultural Heritage During the Crisis"

Dr. Maamoun Abdulkarim

Director-General of the Directorate General of Antiquities & Museums, Syria        

"A View on Heritage Protection from Southern Iraq"

Dott. Franco D'Agostino, Professor of Assyriology

Director Iraqi-Italian Mission at Abu Tbeirah

Sapienza Università di Roma

Dott.ssa Licia Romano, 

Co-Director Iraqi-Italian Mission at Abu Tbeirah

Sapienza Università di Roma

"Libya and Heritage Protection in the Absence of Security"

Hafed Walda, PhD., Research Fellow, King's College London

Pending Deputy Ambassador to the permanent Libyan delegation at UNESCO

 3:00 pm -  3:30 pm: Refreshment Break

3:30 pm -  5:00 pm: Heritage Crimes in Countries in Conflict: Analysis, Understanding and Protection, Before During and After the Wars Have Ended

Panel Chair: His Highness Prince Sisowath Ravivaddhana Monipong 

The Return of the Monkey God to Phnom Penh:  The Koh Ker Repatriation 

"A ‘Vital Source of Funding': Conflict Antiquities in the Syrian Civil War" 

Sam Hardy, DPhil Law Studies 

American University of Rome

"So How Did We Get Here? Trying to Understand the Reasons Behind the Unprecedented Destruction of Archaeological Heritage"

Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly, MA., Archaeology, MA., Journalism

Biladi: Heritage for Peace Building (Lebanese N,G.O)

"Protecting China’s Archaeological Artefacts Against Looting and Illicit Art Trafficking"

Stefan Gruber, PhD., Associate Professor                                                               Kyoto University

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm: Conclusions and Final Questions

Sunday, June 28, 2015 

 9:30 am - 10:30 am: Contemporary Issues in the Global Art Market 

Panel Chair: Noah Charney, PhD., ARCA Founding Trustee

Lecturer and Author

"Connoisseurship in a Globalized Art Market: Reconciling Approaches to Authenticity "

Clare Diamond, PhD Candidate

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

"Art CSI: When Science Solves the Puzzle of Forgery. The Case Study "Vase of Flowers", Painting Attributed to Filippo De Pisis (1896-1956)"

Lisa Volpe, PhD., Research Fellow                                                                 Conservator Scientist, TekneHub                                                                     University of Ferrara, Italy

Marilena Leis, PhD., 

Professor, Department of Life Science and Biotechnologies                         University of Ferrara, Italy

10:30 am - 11:00 am: Networking Coffee Break

11:00 am - 11:30 am: Researching the Trafficking of Culture  

Panel Chair: Lynda Albertson, ARCA CEO

"Perspectives on Crime and Crime Control Policy from the Trafficking Culture Project"

Simon Mackenzie, PhD.,

The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research              

Trafficking Culture Project, University of Glasgow

Donna Yates, PhD.,

The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research              

Trafficking Culture Project, University of Glasgow

Neil Brodie, PhD.,

The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research              

Trafficking Culture Project, University of Glasgow

11:30 am - 1:00 pm: Issues in Art Law  

Panel Chair: Elise Perry, ARCA 2015

"Art Fraud in Germany or How Criminals Become Celebrities"

Saskia Hufnagel, PhD., Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law

Queen Mary University of London

"Opining on the Authentic"

Philippa Malas, Barrister, England and Wales

Law Lecturer, University of Glasgow                                                                   Author of the MSc Art Law and Business at Christie's Education, London

"Mediation as an Alternative to the Court for Resolution of Art and Cultural Heritage Disputes"

Dott. Pierfrancesco C. Fasano, Attorney-at-Law

FASANO - Avvocati

Dott.ssa Ivett Paulovics, Attorney-at-Law

FASANO - Avvocati 

"Sentencing the Art Thief: Deterrence, Responsibility, Protection, Reparation and Restoration - Uneasy Bedfellows in a Courtroom?"

Arthur Tompkins, Judge

New Zealand Ministry of Justice 

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch in the Cloister

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Whitening Illicit Art Via the Licit Marketplace

Panel Chair: Angelina Giovani, ARCA 2014 and Holocaust Art Restitution Project  

"Discovering and Visualising the Criminological Value of The Medici Conspiracy"

Christos Tsirogiannis, PhD.,

The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research              

Trafficking Culture Project, University of Glasgow

"The Opaque Market of Egyptian Papyri in a Globalised Context: Sellers, Buyers, Prices and the Role of Academics"

Roberta Mazza, PhD.,

Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History                                                        University of Manchester

"Uncovering the Illicit Traffic of Russian Ancient Icons"

Laure Coupillaud Szustakowski, PhD Candidate

Chief Operating Officer at CAPABILIS

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm: Refreshment Break

3:15 pm - 4:45 pm: Provenance in Museums and Private Ownership 

Panel Chair: Judge Arthur Tompkins, ARCA Trustee and Lecturer

"Siena, Dunedin, Rome: the Tale of Five Macchiaioli School Paintings"
Penelope Jackson, MPhil.,
Trustee of the New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust

"Give and Take: Museum Professionals’ Attitudes and Ethics Toward the Acquisition and Repatriation of West African Cultural Objects"

Meg Lambert, PhD Candidate

University of Glasgow

"Is Restitution to Rightful Owners the Only Solution?"

Angelina Giovani, MA., presenting on behalf of Marc Masurovsky 

Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP)                                              

"A Treaty, a Prophet and a Flag: The Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Property and New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal" 

Mia Gaudin, LLB., (Hons)

Crown Law Office, New Zealand

4:45 pm - 5:45pm: Risk Assessments in Museum Security

Panel Chair: Aaron Haines, ARCA 2015 

"Art Crime in Relation to Museum Security in the United States: A Survey of Recent Security Measures and Criminal Trends Within Accredited Art Museums"

Christine A. Weirich, PhD Candidate

School of Social and Political Science University of Glasgow

"A Collection of Thefts: What One Museum's Responses to Five Incidents Can Teach Us About Ideal Resolutions"

Katherine Luer, ARCA alumna and MLS Candidate

Independent Researcher

5:45 pm – 6:00 pm: Key Note Closing – A Look to the Future