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Conference Program
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Day 1 – December 5
08:30-09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00-09:10 Words of Welcome
by Tereza Østbø Kuldova, Project leader of the research project LUXCORE, Oslo Metropolitan University
Session 1
09:10-09:30 Pandemic Profiteering and Broker Capitalism
How Private Consultancy Firms Leverage Public Money, Defy Regulation and Help the Rich
by Cris Shorem, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and Goldsmiths University of London
09:30-09:50 Traversing the Fantasy of Compliance and Defiance
Investigating the Ideological Reproduction of Neoliberal Governance Through the Fight Against Crime in the Art and Antiquities Markets
by Tereza Østbø Kuldova, Oslo Metropolitan University
09:50-10:10 The Luxury of Privacy
A Surveillance Studies Perspective on the Privacy Implications of Anti-money Laundering and Counter-terrorism Financing Measures in the Art Market
by Maja Dehouck, University of Amsterdam
10:10-10:30 Anti-Money Laundering Regulatory Compliance by Private Sector Art Market Actors Learning, Experience, and Interaction
by Katharina Stoll, University of Glasgow
10:30-10:50 Q&A
10:50-11:00 Break
Session 2
11:00-11:20 Dirty Luxury and Weaponized Corruption
Russia as the Immoral Other Reinvigorating Capitalism and the ‘Rules-Based Order’
by Jardar Østbø, Institute for Defence Studies, Norwegian Defence University College
11:20-11:40 The Strange Career of Cultures of Compliance and Defiance in Post-Socialist Czechia
by Petr Kupka, University of West Bohemia
11:40-12:00 UK freeports 2.0: Understanding New Patterns of Encasement and (Dis)order
by Alexandra Hall, Northumbria University
12:00-12:20 Claustropolitan Luxury and Corruption
The Encasement Fantasies of Elites and Rethinking Ethics
by Thomas Raymen, Northumbria University
12:20-12:40 Q&A
12:40-13:20 Lunch break
Session 3
13:20-13:40 Money, Power, and Politics in the Rebuilding of Cultural Heritage
Lessons from Syria
by Fiona Greenland, University of Virginia
13:40-14:00 The Weaponization of Hague 1954: Heritage Held Hostage
by Kate Harrell, Virginia Museum of Natural History
14:00-14:20 Illicit Heritage Objects and the Construction of Value
Objects, Regulations, and Cultural Diplomacy
by Håkon Roland, The museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo
14:20-14:40 Raiders of the Lost Art
Roman Intra-Elite Competition and Arts Looting in the Hellenistic Mediterranean in the Late Republic
by Carina Chitta and Ilja Steffelbauer, University for Continuing Education (Danube University), Krems
14:40-15:00 Q&A
15:00-15:20 Break
Session 4
15:20-15:40 The Pursuit of Luxury as an Act of Transgression
Bataille, Sovereignty, Desire
by John Armitage, University of Southampton, UK
15:40-16:00 ‘The World is Yours’
On Luxury, Grandeur, and the Criminogenic Construction of (Extra)ordinary Moral Realms in Lagos, Nigeria
by Davide Casciano, University of Bologna
16:00-16:20 The “Yellow Peril” or the “Reputation Screen” of Luxury
Networks and Manufacturing Processes in Prato
by Audrey Millet, University of Oslo
16:20-16:40 Q&A
16:40-17:00 Closing discussion
19:00 Dinner (for Speakers only)
Day 2 – December 6
09:30-10:00 Coffee & Informal Welcome to Day 2
Session 5
10:00-10:20 Free ports and the Financialization of Luxury
From Fine Art to Financial Asset
by Joanne Roberts, University of Southampton
10:20-10:40 The Luxury Freeport as Libertecture
by Liam O'Farrell, University of Sheffield
10:40-11:00 This was Not a Legal Problem Until it was a Political Problem
How Politicised Compliance has Facilitated Defiance of Cultural Property Ethics and Law
by Samuel Andrew Hardy, Heritage Management Organization, Norwegian Institute in Rome at the University of Oslo
11:10-11:20 Priceless Assets of Subversion
Financial Crime and the Valuation of Unique Goods
by Christoph Rausch, Maastricht University
11:20-11:40 The Nexus of Luxury Wristwatches and Financial Crime
by Brian Nussbaum, University at Albany
11:40-12:00 Q&A
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Session 6
13:00-13:20 Capital Accumulation and Conversion Dynamics on the Heteronomous Field of Art
by Julia Bethwaite, Tampere University in Finland
13:20-13:40 Desire, Lure and Transgression
Affective Atmosphere of the Art Fair
by Diāna Bērziņa, Maastricht University
13:40-14:00 Archaeological Heritage at Risk
Poland’s Problem with Treasure Hunters
by Diana Mroczek, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
14:00-14:20 Nothing Owed to Thieves
The Diligence and Defiance of Restitution
by Gabriella Corey, Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture
14:20-14:40 Q&A
14:40-15:00 Publication, Way Ahead and Concluding Remarks
About the conference
This conference is part of the project Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE), funded by The Research Council of Norway (313004). The event is organized jointly by the Oslo Metropolitan University and the University of Oslo, with the support of the Algorithmic Governance Research Network.
Organizers
- Tereza Østbø Kuldova, The research project Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE), OsloMet, Oslo Metropolitan University
- Jardar Østbø, Norwegian Institute of Defence Studies, The Norwegian Armed Forces
- Thomas Raymen, Northumbria University Newcastle
- Håkon Roland, the research group Cultural Crime Research Network (CULTcrime), the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo
- Gro Birgit Ween, The Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo