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‘Global Provenance’ Conference: Program of the First Part now Online

The international conference Global Provenance will be held on two occasions:

On January 27th 2021, at Palais de Rumine (Lausanne): This panel is entitled Provenance Research in Switzerland and Colonial Contexts. Please find the program online. Registration: claire.brizon@ikg.unibe.ch

In February 2021 (between February 8th and 12th), by video conference. The program will be published here soon.

The international conference Global Provenance is part of the scientific program of the exhibition Exotic? Switzerland Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment (until February 28th 2021, Palais de Rumine). It proposes to revisit the heritage that has been appropriated, whatever its nature (zoology, geology, botany, archaeology, history, history of art and ethnology), through inclusive collaborations in Switzerland and elsewhere.

The Global Provenance conference is organized in partnership with the University of Bern, the Swiss National Science Federation, the Ethnography Museum of Geneva, the Ethnography Museum of Neuchâtel and the Palais de Rumine.

The Scientific Committee:
MA Claire Brizon (Bern University), Dr Carine Ayélé Durand (Ethnography Museum of Geneva), Prof Noémie Etienne (Bern University), Dr Kane Mamadou Hadiya (National Museum of Mauritania), MA Floriane Morin (Ethnography Museum of Geneva), Dr Lionel Pernet (Cantonal Museum of Archaeology and History, Lausanne), Dr Michel Sartori (Cantonal Museum of Zoology, Lausanne), Dr Olivier Schinz (Ethnography Museum of Neuchâtel), Lic. Phil. Esther Tisa Francini (Rietberg Museum, Zurich).