The South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley invites you to a talk by Jason Felch, Pulitzer Prize nominated co-author of Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum, on the looting of South and Southeast Asian antiquities in recent times.
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DATE: Thursday, November 3, 2022
TIME: 5-6:30pm Berkeley
VENUE: 308A Doe Library
This event will also be live streamed on the Institute's FB page: ISASatUCBerkeley
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SPEAKER BIO
Jason is an award-winning author and investigative reporter who has spent a decade researching the illicit antiquities trade. He has also written on topics such as arms trafficking, forensic DNA, disaster fraud, money laundering, and public education. In 2006, Felch (with Frammolino) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for exposing the role of the J. Paul Getty Museum and other American museums in the black market for looted antiquities. Their book on the topic, Chasing Aphrodite, was a Los Angeles Times best-seller and has been awarded the California Book Award, the SAFE Beacon Award and the ARCA Award for Art Crime Scholarship.
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
