Programme

The Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong presents a conference as part of its 10th Anniversary celebrations to consider crime involving art, antiquities, cultural heritage and wildlife in Southeast Asia. The Conference will involve academics, legal practitioners, the Hong Kong Police Force, Interpol and US Homeland Security. The speakers will consider issues involving art crime and cultural heritage protection in Southeast Asia including the looting and illicit traffic in antiquities in Southeast Asia. There will also be a special panel considering the trade in endangered species focusing on Hong Kong's place in the illicit trade in ivory.

9.30- 10.00      Registration and Coffee

10.00-10.15     Opening Comments and Photographs

10.15-12.15     Panel 1: Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection
Panel Chair: Dr Stefan Gruber, Associate Professor, the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research of Kyoto University

Speaker 1: Stealing Culture - Problems facing the Hong Kong and China market
Toby Bull, Senior Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force
Speaker 2: Hello Dalí: Anatomy of a Modern Day Art Theft Investigation
Jordan Arnold, Managing Director, Head of Private Client Services, K2 Art Risk Consultancy
Speaker 3: Joanna Caen, Senior Consultant, Head of Private Wealth – China, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hong Kong
Speaker 4: Exploitation through the Hong Kong Cultural Property Market
Emiline Smith, lead researcher for the project Cultural Property in Transit: A Case Study of Hong Kong, Trafficking Culture project, University of Glasgow

12.15-1.30       Lunch for Speakers and Invited Guests

1.30-2.45         Panel 2: The Trade in Endangered Species in Southeast Asia: Case Study Ivory
Panel Chair: Toby Bull, Senior Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force

Speaker 1: Toby Bull, Senior Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force
Speaker 2: The WISDOM of INTERPOL in the fight against the illicit trade in ivory and rhino horn in East Africa and Asia
Françoise Bortolotti, Criminal Intelligence Officer, Works of Art Unit, Interpol
Speaker 3: Precious Objects: the case for a legal ivory trade in Hong Kong
Steven Gallagher, Associate Professor of Practice in Law, Faculty of Law, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

2.45-3.00         Coffee break

3.00- 5.00        Panel 3: Looting and the Illicit Trade in Antiquities in Southeast Asia
Panel Chair:  Steven Gallagher, Faculty of Law, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speaker 1: Looting and Illicit Trafficking of Asian Cultural Artefacts:  Domestic Strategies, Regional Cooperation, and International Treaties
Dr Stefan Gruber, Associate Professor, the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research of Kyoto University
Speaker 2: Temple looting and statue trafficking in Southeast Asia: the craft and the industry
Simon Mackenzie Professor of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow (Trafficking Culture)
Speaker 3: DHS/ICE Homeland Security Investigations combatting art and antiquities crime
Michael Simpson, Assistant HSI Attaché, Homeland Security Investigations Hong Kong, Macau & Taiwan
Speaker 4: Jean-Christophe Marten Perolin, Police Commandant Ministry of Interior International Police Co-operation Directorate

5.00     Closing remarks-