Course management
External speakers
Module I: Collections related to colonial contexts
(subject to change)
Dr. Anne Laure Bandle, partner at Borel & Barbey, Geneva
Camille Benecchi, restorer, École d’art et de restauration d’Avignon
Dr. Claire Brizon, Art historian and museologist, researcher at the MCAH and project manager at provenance research company Lange & Schmutz Provenienzrecherchen GmbH
Daniel Browning, journalist, broadcaster, documentary maker, sound artist and writer, editor of Indigenous Radio at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Dr. Béatrice Blandin, Curator of the Archaeology Department, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva
Pauline de Montmollin, curator at the Museum of Natural History, Neuchâtel
Dr. Julien Glauser, curator, Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel
Sébastien Magro, consultant, journalist and teacher, former editorial manager at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
Anthony Meyer, Galerie Oceanic and Inuit Art, 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., Research associate at provenance research company Lange & Schmutz Provenienzrecherchen GmbH
Dr. Béatrice Voirol, curator in charge of the Oceania Department, Museum of Cultures, Basel
Module II: Looted Property in the National Socialist Era
(in 2024)
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