Lecture Series on Nazi-Looted Art: “Nazi Plunder and Restitution”
October 26: Film Screening of “The Rape of Europe”followed by a discussion with filmmaker Nicole Newnham
October 27 & 28, 2011: Lecture Series on Nazi-Looted Art
Keynote Address “Nazi Art Plundering, Post-War Restitution, and the Restitution Field Going Forward” by Professor Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul Professor of European History, Claremont McKenna College and Max Kade Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Gregor Schusterschitz, Minister plenipotentiary of Austria titled “Late Justice: Austria’s Efforts to Deal with Nazi-Looted Art in Public Museum’s and Collections”
Professor Jonathan Petropoulos (Claremont McKenna College), Dr. Gregor Schusterschitz (Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Austria)
Professor Jonathan Petropoulos, Dr. Gregor Schusterschitz, and Professors Pribic, Lamb-Faffelberger, and Ahl (Lafayette College)
The conference schedule:
- Wednesday, 7 p.m.: Showing of The Rape of Europa followed by a discussion/lecture by Nicole Newnham, one of the movie’s producers/directors/writers; Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104
- Thursday, noon: Brown bag lecture by Marc Masurovsky, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., and co-founder of Holocaust Art Restitution Project: “A Primer on Nazi/Fascist Cultural Plunder and the Never-Ending Quest for Justice in the Post-War Era;” Gendebien Room, Skillman Library
- Thursday, 3 p.m.: Lecture by Victoria Reed, Monica S. Sadler Curator for Provenance, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: “Nazi-Era Provenance: The Museum Perspective and the Researcher’s Role;” Gendebien Room, Skillman Library
- Thursday, 4:15 p.m.: Keynote speech by Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul Professor of European History, Claremont McKenna College: “Nazi Art Plundering, Post-War Restitution, and the Restitution Field Going Forward;” Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104
- Thursday, 7:30 p.m.: Lecture by Lucian Simmons, worldwide director of provenance and restitution at Sotheby’s, New York: “The Past Comes Back to Haunt Us: Nazi Looted Art in the 21st Century;” Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104
- Friday, noon: Brown bag lunch lecture and discussion with Austrian Minister plenipotentiary Gregor Schusterschitz, head of the Department for International Law at the Austrian Ministry for European Affairs and 2011 Max Kade Distinguished Lecturer, sponsored by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Max Kade Foundation: “Late Justice: Austria’s Efforts to Deal with Nazi-Looted Art in Public Museums and Collections;” Gendebien Room, Skillman Library