Law & the Arts

Since 2025, ASGP has contributed to the organization of a yearly series of "Conversations on" the most topical and complex issues related to art and antiquities market regulation, cultural heritage protection, and issues of repatriation of contested cultural objects.

These events, organized since 2022, are part of UCSC's "Law and the Arts" course in the MA programme on Methods and Topics in Arts Management (Economia e Gestione dei Beni Culturali e dello Spettacolo), but are traditionally open also to students from other MA (as well as BA and PhD) programmes (in the same and in other universities), as well as to curators, art historians, archaeologists, people working in cultural institutions, collectors, art market operators, law practitioners, law enforcement officers, and anybody interested. 

The 2026 series of open events is supported by the International Society of Economic Criminology and is conceived also as a free introduction to ASGP's new Summer School on Art and Cultural Heritage: Law, Policy and Practice (29 June - 3 July 2026).

Friday, 6 March 2026
Room G.001 Bontadini and online
9.30 - 13.00 CET
Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - Milano
 

A conversation on…
Protecting Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities
 

Film showing: Threads of Heritage. Down the Rabbit Hole of Art Crime, Italy, 2025, 45’*
^* The film showing is reserved to in-person only attendees
 

Speakers

Gaia FIORINELLI, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Gaetana MORGANTE, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Arianna TRAVIGLIA, Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (Italian Institute of Technology)
Arianna VISCONTI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Wednesday, 8 April 2026
Online
15.30 - 18.30 CEST

A conversation on…
Provenance Research and Due Diligence in the Art and Antiquities World: Distinctions, Connections, Synergies, Challenges

Opening Remarks by
Sofia BOLLO, WG on Provenance, ICOM Italy

Speakers

Henrietta GALAMBOS, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
Daniel HEALEY, Worcester Art Museum
Charlotte LOORAM, Musée Guimet
Alyssa THIEL, Penn Cultural Heritage Center
Arianna VISCONTI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Monday, 13 April 2026
Room C.114 and online
11.30 - 13.30 CEST
Via Carducci, 28 - Milano

A conversation on...
Evolving Ethical Standards for the Art Market and Cultural Institutions

Guest Lecture by
Andrezej JAKUBOWSKI, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences 

Introduction by
Arianna VISCONTI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Discussants
Giuditta GIARDINI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Mario IANNUZZIELLO, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

Eliana ROMANELLI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Friday, 8 May 2026
Room G.001 Bontadini and online
9.30 - 13.00 CEST
Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - Milano
 

A conversation on...
From Law to Practice: Communicating Legal and Expert Knowledge in Art and Cultural Property Cases
 

Speakers

Zeynep BOZ, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Alessandro CHECHI, Université Catholique de Lille
Filippo CORBETTA, Art Lawyer
Burcu ÖZDEMIR, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Arianna VISCONTI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Donna YATES, Maastricht University