IPCH is pleased to announce it will host a lunchtime seminar with FBI Special Agent Jake Archer from the Art Crime Team on April 7, 2021, 12pm ET. The subject of the talk will be an overview of the FBI Art Crime Team’s work with the US Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee (see below). Please register in advance at https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kd-ysrTgjH9NnES84fe1Y1J-aN7QR7rJp. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the seminar.
The talk will be recorded and added to the IPCH Lunch Seminar Panopto folder for a limited time. When you sign into the meeting, we kindly ask that you keep your audio off so there are no interruptions to the presentation. Once the Q&A discussion starts, we welcome you to turn on your mic and video. Questions sent during the talk via chat box will be addressed by the hosts during the Q&A.
The Mission and Capabilities of the FBI Art Crime Team and the Role of the United States Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee
Special Agent Jake Archer will present on the FBI Art Crime Team’s mission and capabilities to include a history of its formation to its current and unique role in enforcing cultural heritage-related laws. SA Archer will also discuss the function of the United States Coordinating Committee (CHCC) and its Technology Working Group with a focus on how the CHCC consults with educational and research institutions pursuant to the Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act (2016).
Jake Archer is a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is assigned to the Philadelphia Division. SA Archer is a member of both the FBI’s Art Crime Team and Evidence Response Team. SA Archer conducts cultural property-related investigations, repatriations, and trainings both domestically and internationally. Prior to his service with the FBI, SA Archer was an associate attorney with a private law firm in New Jersey. SA Archer earned a law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law and a master’s degree in Art History - Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies from Rutgers University. While at Rutgers, SA Archer interned at the conservation laboratory at the Princeton University Art Museum and authored a thesis about the development of care for art and cultural property subjected to the law enforcement process. SA Archer currently chairs the Technology Working Group for the United States Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee, which is based in Washington, D.C. and coordinates diplomatic and law enforcement efforts to combat antiquities trafficking, disrupt trafficking networks, and protect against the looting and destruction of cultural property around the world.