Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime
This course explored the archaeological, criminological, and sociological aspects of art and antiquities crime.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr. Donna Yates
The University of Glasgow
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Engage with the key differences between illegal art/antiquities, illicit art/antiquities, and legal art/antiquities and why these differences are significant
- Identify the primary stakeholders in the antiquities trafficking, art crime, and repatriation spheres and how their motivations compare and contrast
- Explore criminological and sociological ideas to better understand aspects of art crime, antiquities trafficking, and cultural property recovery
- Develop informed opinions about the key social, political, legal, and moral issues associated with antiquities trafficking, art crime, and the return of cultural objects
Syllabus
- Learn how context at archaeological sites is lost through looting
- Explore the source of antiquities on the illicit market as it relates to poverty
- Consider how antiquities trafficking can be considered a form of organized crime
- Think about how the market for antiquities influences both looting and smuggling
- Learn why art has value, and how value relates to art crime
- Consider the realities and limitations of art theft
- Explore several cases of art forgery and how experts detect fakes
- Think about the different types of art vandalism, and consider if vandalism, itself, can be art
- Weigh the pros and cons of returning cultural objects to their country of origin
- Consider the social, emotional, and ethical reasons why objects might be repatriated
- Debate a major ongoing antiquities return case
Issued on 17th January 2022
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