Course management
External speakers
Module I: Collections related to colonial contexts
(in 2026)
Acacio Alisto, Archivist at the Archives cantonales vaudoises, Lausanne (CH)
Dr. Anne Laure Bandle, partner at Borel & Barbey, Geneva
Dr. Claire Brizon, Art historian and museologist, researcher at the MCAH and project manager at provenance research company Lange & Schmutz Provenienzrecherchen GmbH
Dr. Béatrice Blandin, Curator of the Archaeology Department, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva
Corinne Toka Devilliers, President of the Moliko Alet +Po Association
Isabel Garcia Gomez, conservator-restorer at the Geneva Museum of Ethnography (CH)
Dr. Julien Glauser, curator, Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel
Sébastien Magro, consultant, journalist and teacher, former editorial manager at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
Dr. Thomas Schmutz, co-founder of provenance research company Lange & Schmutz Provenienzrecherchen GmbH and full professor at the Art history and museology Institute of the University of Neuchâtel
Patricia Simon, M.A., provenance researcher at the Naturmuseum Winterthur
Lisa Zanetti (University of Geneva), Prof. Placide Mumbembele and Richard Ntaka (University of Kinshasa) Project « Contextualiser et visibiliser le patrimoine congolais dans les musées vaudois (1903-1938) »
Module II: Looted Property in the National Socialist Era
(in 2026)
Hendrik Althoff, Institute for the History of German Jews, University of Hamburg (DE)
Avishag Ben-Yosef, Hebrew University, Israël (IL)
Tal Bruttmann, historian, Holocaust specialist, University of Cergy (FR)
Dr. Sarah Gensburger, sociologist, Holocaust specialist, research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in political science, Paris (FR)
Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller, Freie Universität Berlin & Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg (DE)
Dr. Carolin Lange, associate researcher at the Institute for the History of German Jews, University of Hamburg and co-founder and director of Lange & Schmutz Provenance Research Sàrl. (DE/CH)
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Mahrer, professor specializing in modern European, Swiss, and Jewishhistory, Universities of Bern and Basel (CH)
Camille Noé Marcoux, independent historian and provenance researcher, Paris (FR)
Dr. Thomas Schmutz, Full professor at the Institute of Art History and Museology at the University of Neuchâtel and co-founder and director of Lange & Schmutz Provenance research Sàrl (CH)
Dr. phil. Nicole Seeberger, administrative director, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur (CH)
Dominic Strieder, archivist, Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (BLHA), Berlin (DE)
Dr. Andràs Szecsenyi, Research Department of the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security (HU)
Dr. Mara Wantuch-Thole, lawyer in the art sector (DE)