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Protecting the Past:<br />

Looting, Identity and the Preservation Crisis<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Thomas</strong> Art History<br />

Graduate <strong>St</strong>udent Research <strong>Symposium</strong><br />

Keynote speaker: Jason Felch<br />

Oct. 11-12, 2013<br />

Generals Bradley, Patton and Eisenhower inspect art stolen by the<br />

Nazis and stored in a salt mine at Merkers, Germany, 1945.


Jason Felch<br />

award-winning investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times<br />

and co-author <strong>of</strong> Chasing Aphrodite<br />

Keynote Speaker<br />

“WikiLoot: An Experiment in Crowdsourcing the <strong>St</strong>udy <strong>of</strong> the Illicit Antiquities Trade”<br />

6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11<br />

Anderson <strong>St</strong>udent Center, Woulfe Alumni Hall<br />

A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.<br />

An object or painting on display in a museum may seem a safe and<br />

secure way <strong>of</strong> preserving art, but recent history and events have shown<br />

that protecting art and the world’s cultural heritage is complicated and<br />

difficult. Deciding how to protect and preserve the past, and to recognize<br />

the personal and cultural identity invested in art is difficult amidst<br />

competing claims <strong>of</strong> multiple legal systems, money and ownership.<br />

Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino’s Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for<br />

Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum (2011) highlighted<br />

the stakes involved in assessing the provenance <strong>of</strong> works <strong>of</strong> art and in<br />

building collections, and made the point that ethics is not simply an<br />

intellectual exercise in today’s world.<br />

Following up on his Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative reporting<br />

on the looted antiquities trade in the Los Angeles Times and Chasing<br />

Aphrodite, Felch is seeking to get the public, and especially students,<br />

involved in a crowdsourcing effort to find and track looted art with<br />

WikiLoot. This endeavor supplements the work <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>ficial organizations to compile lists <strong>of</strong> looted works,<br />

such as those antiquities taken from the Iraq National Museum and elsewhere. As Felch will show, this is<br />

an issue that should be <strong>of</strong> concern to everyone, and all <strong>of</strong> us can make a difference in its outcome.<br />

Poster Presentations<br />

<strong>St</strong>udents in Archaeology: Recent Fieldwork and Archaeological Research<br />

Sponsored by the Archeological Institute <strong>of</strong> America, Minnesota Chapter<br />

Lobby, Woulfe Alumni Hall


Graduate <strong>St</strong>udent Research <strong>Symposium</strong><br />

Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013<br />

O’Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium<br />

Respondent:<br />

Dr. Mark <strong>St</strong>ansbury-O’Donnell<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>essor and chair <strong>of</strong> the Art History Department, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Thomas</strong><br />

Morning Session (9-11:30 a.m.)<br />

Sarah Crandall<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Thomas</strong><br />

Piecing Together the Past: The Restitution <strong>of</strong><br />

Nazi-Looted Art and the Case <strong>of</strong> Gustav Klimt’s<br />

Portrait <strong>of</strong> Adele Bloch Bauer<br />

Agnieszka-Anna Yass-Alston<br />

Institute <strong>of</strong> Jewish <strong>St</strong>udies<br />

Jagiellonian <strong>University</strong>, Krakow, Poland<br />

The Plunder <strong>of</strong> Jewish Cultural Assets Within the<br />

Context <strong>of</strong> the Nazi Plunder <strong>of</strong> Works <strong>of</strong> Art in<br />

Krakow During World War II<br />

Mandy Chan<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania<br />

Battle <strong>of</strong> the Zodiacs: The Repatriation <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Bronze Animal Heads <strong>of</strong> Beijing’s Old Summer<br />

Palace<br />

Afternoon Session (1-3:30 p.m.)<br />

Joelle L. Lardi<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Texas at Austin<br />

The Destruction <strong>of</strong> an Ancient Marvel: Did<br />

Nineteenth-Century Engineers Downplay the<br />

Success <strong>of</strong> the Fucine Emissary to Justify its<br />

Demolition?<br />

Lynne Ellsworth Larsen<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Iowa<br />

Material Evolution and Spiritual Preservation in the<br />

Palace <strong>of</strong> Dahomey<br />

Soren Hoeger-Lerdal<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Thomas</strong><br />

<strong>St</strong>. Roch Market, New Orleans: Renovate, Preserve<br />

and Revitalize<br />

Christian Waguespack<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> New Mexico<br />

Reframing E.J. Bellocq: A Vernacular Reading <strong>of</strong><br />

the <strong>St</strong>oryville Portraits<br />

Poster Session<br />

<strong>St</strong>udents in Archaeology: Recent Fieldwork and<br />

Archaeological Research<br />

Sponsored by the Archeological Institute<br />

<strong>of</strong> America, Minnesota Chapter<br />

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., O’Shaughnessy Educational<br />

Center lobby<br />

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The faculty co-chairs <strong>of</strong> this event, Heather Shirey and Elizabeth Kindall,<br />

thank the many people who made this event possible.<br />

The faculty and staff <strong>of</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Art History,<br />

with special thanks to Dr. Victoria Young and Sue Focke<br />

The Graduate <strong>St</strong>udent <strong>Symposium</strong> co-chairs: Margaret George and Abby Gilmore<br />

The Graduate <strong>St</strong>udent <strong>Symposium</strong> Committee Members: Jessica Alleven, Lisa Berg, Sara Church,<br />

Ava Grosskopf, Carin Jorgensen, Wendy DePaolis, Chelsea Lynch, Barbara Quade-Harick, Hayley <strong>St</strong>oen<br />

and Kate Tucker. Our appreciation also goes to the many graduate and undergraduate student volunteers.<br />

Brady King, art history graduate program assistant<br />

A special thanks to Jason Felch and our graduate student speakers!<br />

Many, many thanks to those who made the keynote lecture and symposium possible:<br />

Dr. Terry Langan, dean <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences, the Department <strong>of</strong> Art History;<br />

the Center for Faculty Development; the Department <strong>of</strong> Communication and Journalism;<br />

and the Minnesota Chapter <strong>of</strong> the Archaeological Institute <strong>of</strong> America.<br />

Learn more about the Master <strong>of</strong> Arts Degree at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Thomas</strong>:<br />

www.stthomas.edu/arthistory/graduate<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> Art History Speaker Series<br />

This year, the Art History Department will host lectures addressing the importance<br />

<strong>of</strong> ethics in protecting the art historical and cultural past. Victoria Reed, Sadler Curator <strong>of</strong> Provenance<br />

at the Museum <strong>of</strong> Fine Arts in Boston, will give the next talk in this series on Dec. 6.<br />

Speakers slated for the spring <strong>of</strong> 2014 include Cori Wegener, cultural heritage preservation <strong>of</strong>ficer,<br />

Office <strong>of</strong> the Undersecretary for History, Art and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution;<br />

and Kimberly Cleveland, assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor, African and African-American Art History, Georgia <strong>St</strong>ate.<br />

Details can be found at www.stthomas.edu/arthistory/events.<br />

College <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences

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