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Video

Why The Fight Over Statues Will Never EndFor many around the world and especially in America, removing statues that honor historical figures has become a f...
Citizen Journalist Niccole Thurman enlists the help of famed art critic Jerry Saltz to get to the bottom of an exhibit showcasing the works of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Watch full episodes of The Opposition now: http://www.cc.com/shows/the-opposition-with-jordan-klepper/full-episodes The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper airs weeknights at 11:30/10:30c on Comedy Central.
 

I have also appeared onscreen for many other outlets, including PBS NewsHour, Fox News, CBS Sunday Morning, Al Jazeera, TVNZ Breakfast, NY1, HuffPo, and Newsy.

TEDx

Terrorists and Archeologists: How the Past Belongs to the Present,” TEDxCUNY, November 20, 2015.

What Color is Guantánamo?” TEDxColumbiaUniversity, April 22, 2018.

What is the relationship between art and terrorism? Why do organizations like ISIS target thousand-year-old cultural sites? Join Professor Thompson on a journey through heritage, history, and destruction. Erin Thompson is an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York and is America's only full-time professor of art crime.

Audio

The Ishtar Diaries Podcast, from the Columbia University Global Centers, discussing the looting and illicit trafficking of antiquities (2021).

I have done radio interviews about protests about monuments (ABC News, Channel Q, Behind the News with Doug Henwood on KPFA (Berkeley), MPR News), the ethics of digital preservation of antiquities (All Things Considered), art from Guantánamo (All Things ConsideredPRI's The World, CBC Radio's As It Happens, the BBC World Service's World Update and BBC Radio 4's The Art of Now), and the destruction of antiquities by ISIS (WNYC's The Takeaway in 2014 and 2015; KCRW’s Press Play; and WAMC's Ideas Matter).

Other Past Talks and Appearances

I have also given talks at venues including Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Columbia, University of Chicago, McGill, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Georgetown, UC Irvine, Carnegie Mellon, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), the Global Mayors Conference, the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, Royal Ontario Museum, National Arts Club, ABA Section of International Law Annual Meeting, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace (Heritage in War Project), and the Max-Planck-Institut at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence.