Course management
External speakers
Module I: Collections related to colonial contexts
(subject to change)
Dr. Claire Brizon, Art historian and museologist, researcher at the MCAH and project manager at Lange & Schmutz Provenance Research GmbH.
Dr. Gudrun Föttinger, Head of Collections, Bernisches Historisches Museum
Dr. Béatrice Blandin, Curator of the Archaeology Department, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva
Dr. Jocelyne Desideri, Lecturer at the ARCAN Laboratory and member of the Anthropological Collections Commission
Dr. Priska Gisler (in English), Director of the Institute for Art Theory and Practice, University of the Arts, Bern
Isabel Garcia Gomez, curator-restorer, Musée d'ethnographie de Genève
Floriane Morin, Curator of the Africa Department, Musée d'ethnographie de Genève
Dr. Alice Hertzog, anthropologist, Provenance researcher, Ethnographic Museum Zurich
Dr. Marion Bertin, post-doctoral researcher, Centre d'histoire sociale des mondes contemporains and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Anthony Meyer, Galerie Oceanic and Inuit Art, Paris
Denis Pourawa, Kanak writer, poet and author
Mathias C. Pfund, artist and art historian
Dr. Sara Petrella, scientific collaborator at UniFR and artistic coordinator at the Indigenous Peoples' Research and Information Centre
Patricia Simon, M.A., Research associate at Lange & Schmutz Recherche de provenance Sàrl and doctoral student at UniBE
Honoré Tchatchouang, heritage curator
Module II: Looted Property in the National Socialist Era
(subject to change)
Pauline Baer de Perignon (Paris, France), author of „La collection disparue”
Avishag Ben-Yosef, Hebrew University, Israël
Deidre Berger, Chair Executive Board, Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project
Aleksandra Brodowska, National Institute of Cultural Heritage (Support Center for Culture in Ukraine), Warsaw, Poland
Tal Bruttmann, historian, Holocaust specialist, University of Cergy, France
Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller, Freie Universität Berlin & Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg
Dr. Nikola Doll, Head of the Department of Looted Art and Provenance Research at the Federal Office of Culture, Bern
Pamella Guerdat, associate Curator of Fine Arts and responsible for Provenance Research, Musée Jenisch Vevey
Dr. Yurii Kaparulin, Kherson State University, Ukraine & University of Michigan, USA
Prof. Valérie Kobi, assistant professor of modern art history and museology at the University of Neuchâtel
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.
Camille Noé Marcoux, historian and art historian, provenance researcher associated with the Mission de recherche et de restitution des biens culturels spoliés entre 1933 et 1945, Ministry of Culture, Paris
Dr. Andrea F. G. Raschèr, lawyer and consultant
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
Dr. Yechiel Weizman, Bar-Ilan University, Israël