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Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Italian Model of Cultural Heritage

Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library Rm. 153 , Duke University 411 Chapel Drive, Durham, United States

Fiona Greenland is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She studies the construction of cultural heritage and the uses of antiquities in contemporary politics and markets. Greenland will discuss Italy’s efforts to bring their cultural artifacts home, crystallized in the Art Squad, the highly visible military-police art protection unit. Greenland reveals the […]