Erik Nemeth, PhD
As an independent scholar in Santa Monica, California,
Erik explores the interrelation of cultural property and international
security—cultural security. In publishing on the intersection
of art history, illicit markets, political violence, and intelligence
studies, he examines the evolving role of cultural property
in foreign relations. Following a decade in the software-development
industry in the United States and the former East bloc, Erik
pursued graduate studies in neuroscience. Dissertation research
in retinal physiology led to studies in neuroaesthetics, which
led to research in leveraging knowledge across disciplines.
While serving as an analyst in Research Databases at the Getty
Research Institute in Los Angeles, California, Erik researched
web-based methods for cross-disciplinary sharing of scholarship.
In presenting on the potential for cross-disciplinary ontology
to enable communication between scholars in the humanities and
the sciences, he has specified “cultural intelligence”
to develop the strategic value of cultural property in foreign
policy. Erik has published in journals such as Terrorism
and Political Violence, International Journal of Intelligence
and CounterIntelligence, and Cambridge Review of International
Affiars and presents at conferences in art history, archaeology,
information science, and criminology. He also serves on the
editorial board of Journal of Art Crime, as a trustee
for the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA),
and as Adjunct Staff at RAND Corporation. Erik holds a BA in
Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Vision Science, both from the
University of California at Berkeley.
contact:
erik.nemeth@culturalsecurity.org |
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Erik
Nemeth - Presentations and publications by field
(Cultural Security, Antiquities
Market, Information Science,
Neuroscience)
Policy Analysis
January 2012 "Threats Without Threateners? Exploring Intersections of Threats to the Global Commons and National Security"
RAND Corporation, OP-360-SGTF
Cultural Security (top)
Presentations
February 2012 "Cultural Security: Potential Value of Artworks and Monuments to Foreign Policy"
Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Luncheon Talk, Santa Monica, California
November 2010 "Antiquities Trafficking: Complementary Countermeasures" (panel)
American Society of Criminology (ASC), Annual Conference, San Francisco,
California
June 2010 "Cultural Intelligence for Asssesing Security Risks"
Cultural Diplomacy and Security Conference, Arlington, Virginia
April 2010 "The Art of Cultural Intelligence"
Archaeology in Conflict, Vienna International Center, UN-City, Vienna,
Austria
November 2009 Cultural-Security Briefing
Department of State, Washington DC
November 2009 “The Influence of Scholarship and the Media
on Art Crime” (panel)
American Society of Criminology (ASC), Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 2008 “Securing Looted Art”
College Arts Association (CAA), Annual 96th Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas
Papers
April 2012 "Strategic
Value of African Tribal Art: Auction Sales Trends as Cultural Intelligence"
Intelligence and National Security, 27:2, 302–316.
March 2012 "Security of Cultural Property: U.S. Engagement and Potential for Improvement"
E-Conservation Magazine, Issue 23, 71-77.
June 2011 "Art
Sales as Cultural Intelligence: Analysis of the Auction Market for
African Tribal Art"
African Security, 4:2, 127-144.
March 2011 "Collecting
Cultural Intelligence: The Tactical Value of Cultural Property"
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence,
24:2, 217-238.
September 2010 "Market
Value of Culture: Quantifying the Risk of Antiquities Looting"
Blouin Creative Leadership Summit - Latest News (http://www.creativeleadershipsummit.org)
June 2010 “Conflict
Art: Scholars Develop the Tactical Value of Cultural Patrimony”
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 23:2, 299-323.
June 2010 "The Art of Cultural Intelligence: intelligence
for countering threats to cultural property in conflict"
Forum Archaeologiae, 55:6 (http://farch.net).
June 2009 “The
Artifacts of Wartime Art Crime: Evidence for a Model of the Evolving
Clout of Cultural Property in Foreign Affairs”
in Art and Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World,
edited by Noah Charney, Praeger, pp. 203-224.
June 2009 “Plunderer
and Protector of Cultural Property: Security-Intelligence Services
Shape the Strategic Value of Art”
Journal of Art Crime, 1:1, 25-40.
February 2008 “Art-Intelligence
Programs: The Relevance of the Clandestine Art World to Foreign
Intelligence”
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence,
21:2, 355–374.
January 2007 “Cultural
Security: The Evolving Role of Art in International Security”
Terrorism and Political Violence, 19:1, 19-42.
Information Science (top)
Presentations
February 2012 “Cultural Learning Collage (CLiC): Image-based Cross-Disciplinary Thesaurus”
RAND Corporation, Idea Showcase, Santa Monica, California
June 2009 “The Future of Searching for Scholarly Literature”
Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, California
May 2009 “Discipline-specific Research Databases in Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web”
Art History Libraries Meeting, Berlin, Germany
October 2008 “Leveraging the Prescience of Artists and the Art of Science”
ICIC, Annual Meeting, Nice, France
October 2007 “Scholarly Research in Web 2.0”
NFAIS, Humanities Round Table, New York
October 2006 “User Survey on the Value of Abstracting and
Indexing”
NFAIS, Humanities Round Table, New York
Papers
May 2010 “Complementary
Value of Databases for Discovery of Scholarly Literature”
College and Research Libraries, 71:3, 223-235.
January 2009 “Metadata
of Art and Architecture Research Databases”
Journal of Library Metadata, 8:4, 293-313.
January 2004 "Who's Pulling the Data Strings?"
SecurityManagement, January 2004.
Neuroscience (top)
Presentations
May 1998 “Retinal Ganglion Cell Presynaptic Excitatory and
Inhibitory Space-Time Patters”
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO),
Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Papers
March/April 2001 “The network behind spatio-temporal patterns:
building low-complexity retinal models in CNN based on morphology,
pharmacology and physiology”
C Rekeczky, B Roska, E Nemeth, FS Werblin, International Journal
of Circuit Theory and Applications 29:2, 197-239.
December 2000 Formation of space-time patterns at ganglion
cell layers in the tiger salamander retina
Thesis (Ph.D. in Vision Science) - University of California,
Berkeley
March 2000 “Three Levels of Lateral Inhibition: A Space-Time
Study of the Retina of the Tiger Salamander”
B Roska, E Nemeth, L Orzo, FS Werblin, Journal of Neuroscience,
20:5, 1941-1951.
2000 “Neuromorphic CNN models for spatio-temporal effects
measured in the inner and outer retina of tiger salamander”
C. Rekeczky, B Roska, E Nemeth, F Werblin, Proceedings of the
IEEE International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and their
Applications.
2000 “A qualitative model-framework for spatio-temporal effects
invertebrate retinas”
D. Balya, B. Roska, E. Nemeth, T. Roska, F. Werblin, Proceedings
of the IEEE International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and
their Applications.
May 1998 “Response to change is facilitated by a three-neuron
disinhibitory pathway in the tiger salamander retina”
Roska B, Nemeth E, Werblin FS, Journal of Neuroscience,
1998;18:3451–3459. |
