Classical Studies Speaker Series

What Do We Owe to Already-Looted Objects?

Join the Department of Classical Studies for a talk by Elizabeth Marlowe, professor of art history and program director, museum studies at Colgate University titled "What Do We Owe to Already-Looted Objects?" as part of the Classical Studies Speaker Series. 

Elizabeth Marlowe is professor of art history and chair of the art department at Colgate University; she is also the founder and director of the program in Museum Studies. She holds degrees from Smith College, the University of Cambridge, and Columbia University (Ph.D.). Her fields of specialization are ancient art, late antiquity, the city of Rome, Roman imperial monuments, modern uses of the classical past, museum studies, critical museum theory, the art market, cultural property, and antiquities looting and repatriation. Her publications include Shaky Ground: Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art (2013), and “Archaeology and Iconography” in the Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography (Cline and Elkins, eds., 2023). She has written about antiquities, repatriation and museums in venues such as Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Artnews. She is an AIA Joukowsky Lecturer for the 2024/-2025 National Lecture Program season.