Event Details

End: February 18, 2016
Contact: rlee@hellenicmuseum.org
More Info: https://www.nationalhellenicmuseum.org/calendar/antiquities-in-peril/

Thursday, February 18, 2016

6:30-8:30 PM

Admission $15 Members $10 Students $5

The National Hellenic Museum in Chicago, IL is hosting a panel discussion. While recent destruction of antiquities by extremists has caused a global outcry, the world’s cultural heritage has long been under attack. Consistent looting and illegal trade of antiquities have caused irreparable damage, while providing significant revenue for the funding of terrorism.

A panel of heritage protection experts will discuss the causes and consequences of iconoclasm and archaeological looting, and consider what can be done to address these problems.

Moderator:

Fiona Rose-Greenland Research Director of The Past for Sale: New approaches to the study of archaeological looting

Speakers:

Lawrence Rothfield Founding director emeritus of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, Professor Rothfield is the faculty lead investigator on the “Past for Sale” project

Colonel Matthew Bogdanos A U.S. Marine, New York City homicide prosecutor, middleweight boxer, and classics scholar Colonel Matthew Bogdanos has become known as the “raider of the lost art.” 

Patty Gerstenblith Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law and founding president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation.