Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities in cultural property, art crime research, antiquities trafficking research, provenance studies, and related things. Postings are not endorsements.

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1. Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime, Free Online Course, Signup LIVE

You can now sign up to take our free online course about antiquities trafficking and art crime! The course doesn’t run until February but signing up now means you get updates…also you don’t forget come February.

Register: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/art-crime/1
Specific info: Contact me.

2. Countering escalating threats to our cultural heritage by rethinking preservation through digital technology, Conference, Berlin

The CyArk500 annual summit will be focused digital preservation on cultural heritage. Probably more on heritage facing destruction but the possibility of stolen cultural objects being covered is there.

When: 20–21 October 2015
Where: New State Library, Berlin
Cost: €189.21 (non-academic); €117.81 (academic)

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/resilience-through-innovation-tickets-17325364632
See: http://archive.cyark.org/500_2015/index.php

3. Issues in Provenance Research, Symposium, Cleveland

“Speakers include: Laurie Stein, independent provenance researcher; MaryKate Cleary, Art Recovery International (formerly at The Museum of Modern Art, New York); Lucian Simmons, Sotheby’s, New York; and Lawrence Kaye, Herrick, Feinstein, LLP, New York.”

When: 24 October 2015, 10:00–5:00
Where: Cleveland Museum of Art
Cost: Free, registration recommended

Register: https://tickets.clevelandart.org/public/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=16
See: http://www.clevelandart.org/events/lectures/issues-provenance-research