The Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) has opened applications for the 2013 Postgraduate Certificate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection.

The ARCA 2013 Postgraduate Certificate Program in International Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection Studies will be held from May 31 through August 12, 2013 in the heart of Umbria in Amelia, Italy. This interdisciplinary program offers substantive study for art police and security professionals, lawyers, insurers, curators, conservators, members of the art trade, and post-graduate students of criminology, law, security studies, sociology, art history, archaeology, and history. In its fifth year, this academically intensive ten week program provides in-depth, postgraduate level instruction in a wide variety of theoretical and practical elements of art and heritage crime. Students will explore its history, its nature, its impact, and what is currently being done to mitigate it. Students completing the program earn a postgraduate certificate under the guidance of internationally renowned cultural property protection professionals.

Important Dates:

• November 15, 2012 - Early Application Deadline
• January 15, 2013 - Application Deadline
• April 2013 - Advance Reading Assigned
• May 30, 2013 - Students Arrive in Amelia
• May 31, 2013 - Welcome and Orientation June 01, 2012
• June 3, 2013 - Classes Begin
• June 21-23, 2013 - ARCA Annual Conference
• August 9, 2013 - Classes End
• August 10-11, 2013 - Students Housing Check-out
• Nov. 15, 2013 - Research Paper Submission Deadline

For more information visit ARCA's Postgraduate Certificate Program home page.