Events
Learn from expert researchers and practitioners in on-campus lectures, panel discussions and symposia, free and open to the public.
Tuesday, January 14
Locating Nazi-Looted Art: Why the Search Matters Today
ACE Director, Elizabeth Campbell, will give the 2025 Livingston Lecture on Thursday, January 14 from 6-7 PM Mountain time. She will address Nazi-Looted Art and current trends in provenance research, art stewardship, and restitution. We are excited to have this opportunity to share Professor Campbell's work with the DU community and beyond and demonstrate the impact that ACE is having on the provenance research field.
There will be a reception from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m., with the lecture to follow from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Please RSVP at the link below if you plan to attend in-person or virtually. We hope you will join us!
- 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
- Davis Auditorium, Sturm Hall
Past Events
Ethical Museum Stewardship? Nazi Art Plunder and the Art Institute of Chicago
Dr. Elizabeth Campbell, professor of history and founding director of the Center for Art Collection Ethics, gave a talk in Chicago on 5/19/2024 about how The Art Institute of Chicago is currently in the news for defending its right to hold a drawing by Egon Schiele that is widely considered Nazi art plunder.
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Restitution of Nazi Art Plunder: Recent Successes and Ongoing Challenges
We held a panel discussion on recent successes and challenges in the restitution of Nazi-looted art, examining a case study of the Gutmann collection plundered in the Netherlands and France. Panelists included Simon Goodman, author of The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures, and Isabella Zuralski-Yeager, art historian and retired senior archivist at the Getty Research Institute.
Legal and Ethical Challenges in Art Collections Ethics
In March 2021, ACE co-sponsored a panel with the Holocaust Awareness Institute (HAI) and the Holocaust Museum Houston. Panelists included Renée Albiston, Nicholas O'Donnell, Gus Kopriva, and was moderated by ACE Director Elizabeth Campbell.
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Why the Nazis Looted Art and Why it Still Matters
ACE Director Elizabeth Campbell, PhD investigated the connections between Nazi art plunder and the Holocaust, and why this history of expropriation still matters in March 2021. The webinar was co-sponsored with DU's Center for Judaic Studies, the Holocaust Museum Houston and the Program in Jewish Studies at Rice University.
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Ethical Stewardship of Contemporary Native Art
This February 12, 2020 panel brought together Native artists, curators and professors.
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"Under the Hammer of the Nazis" Movie Screening
In April 2019 ACE screened the documentary followed by a Q&A with the current auction house owner, the provenance researcher she hired and the American family members who recovered objects.
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Center for Art Collection Ethics Launch
Associate Professor of History Elizabeth Campbell and Dan Jacobs, curator of University Collections, launched the Center for Art Collection Ethics at an event in April 2017.
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Discussion Moderator and Professor in the DU History Department Angela Parker (Mandan, Hidatsa, Cree) (left) listens to Panelist and Ribbonworker Jan Jacobs (Osage) at the Ethical Stewardship of Contemporary Native Art panel. Alyson McClaran Photography.
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Panelist Jan Jacobs (Osage), ribbonworker who has served in several positions at the Denver Art Museum as an artist-in-residence, assistant dean of education and adjunct associate curator of Native arts, speaks at the Ethical Stewardship of Contemporary Native Art event. Alyson McClaran Photography.
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Guests and panelists at the pre-event reception. Melanie Yazzie (Diné, arms raised) is an artist and a professor of printmaking at University of Colorado-Boulder. Alyson McClaran Photography.
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From left: Discussion Moderator and Professor in the DU History Department Angela Parker (Mandan, Hidatsa, Cree); Center for Art Collection Ethics Director and Professor in the DU History Department Elizabeth Campbell; Panelist, Artist and Professor of Printmaking at CU-Boulder Melanie Yazzie (Diné); and Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Daniel McIntosh. Alyson McClaran Photography.
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DU Student John Cummins (left) speaks with Chancellor Jeremy Haefner at the event reception. Alyson McClaran Photography.