Upcoming Visual Politics Event: Jelena Subotić on The Politics of Looted Art

Please join us this Wednesday in person or online for our second Visual Politics event held out of Stockholm.

Prof Jelena Subotić will discuss her amazing new book The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution (OUP 2025).  It is a fascinating exploration of the role that looted art plays in the quest of states for prestige, status and power.  It is one of those rare books that one reads and then looks at the world differently. 

Alexandra Brankova and I will interview Jelena via video from the US, but you can join us either online or in person.  Further details are here:

Wed 7 October 4-5pm CEST (UTC+2)

All welcome

In Person: Swedish Defence University, Room N203A, Drottning Kristinas väg 37, Stockholm

For Zoom link Please RSVP here.

Please also register here if you attend in person and are not a Försvarshögskolan staff member.

Jelena Subotić is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University. Her research on international politics spans a wide range of topics, from memory politics and cultural heritage to state identity and the politics of the Western Balkans.  In addition to the book we discuss, Jelena has authored numerous influential journal articles and other books, including the award-winning Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Cornell University Press, 2019) and Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans (Cornell University Press, 2009). She is the editor of Global Studies Quarterly.