The South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley invites you to a talk by author and journalist, Jason Felch on Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum, coauthored with Ralph Frammolino. SPEAKER BIO Jason Felch 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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Sponsors: Institute for South Asia Studies, South Asia Art Initiative, Department of History of Art