Lynda Albertson, ARCA's CEO, and Noah Charney, founder of the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art, led ARCA's Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Art Crime Conference in Amelia, Umbria

For the sixth year in a row experts from sixteen nations convened in the tranquil Umbrian city of Amelia June 27 – 29, for an interdisciplinary conference organized by the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA). Among the speakers from as far away as New Zealand and New York were detectives and bookworms, archeologists and art historians, police and intelligence officers, and attorneys and sitting judges. High on the agenda was the protection of the cultural heritage in wartime.