objects of memories

16.11.

10:00 Visit of the permanent exhibition, musée de la musique, Cité de la musique Philharmonie de Paris.
With Thomas Guindeuil, curator of the African, American, Asian and Oceanic Collections, and Percussion.
Limited amount of places, upon registration only, open only to project members

20:30 Maison des Afriques/Fondation Lucien Paye
Evening with the association AlterNatives

17.11

13:30 and 15:00 Visit of the exhibition Violence silencieuse. Sous le regard de Roméo Mivekannin at musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac
With Gaëlle Beaujean, Head of the Africa Heritage Unit, curator of the exhibition.
Limited amount of places, upon registration only, open only to project members, duration of the visit : one hour each

9:30 welcoming participants

09:45 official opening of the symposium

opening remarks by the partner institutions

10:15 can provenance research renew relationships? perspectives from museums and universities in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea

round table with
Francis Tagro, musée des civilisations de Côte d’Ivoire and project AFRITEX
Amirou Conté, musée national de Guinée and projects PROVGUI, REPATGUI
Didier Houénoudé, université d’Abomey-Calavi and projects MATRIMOINES/REMATRIATIONS, AFRITEX, PROVGUI, REPATGUI

moderated by Chloé Leprince, France Culture

11:15 provenance and restitutions: between independence and interdependence?

round table with
Elise Pape, EHESS and project PROHUMSTRA
Lars Frühsorge, Lübeck Museums and project DIASKW
Adama Ayikoué, ministère du Tourisme, de la Culture et des Arts du Togo, projects PHOTOTOGO and PRESAT
Robyn Humphreys, University of the Western Cape and project HERA

moderated by Elgas, RFI

12:15 lunch offered by projet SPHINX Sorbonne Université France 2030

upon invitation only

13:45 from pilot phase to results: figures and shared knowledge

activity report presented by Julie Sissia, Provenance Research Fund and Centre Marc Bloch

14:00 collaborative provenance research

round table with
Marie-Yvonne Curtis, université Sonfonia Conakry and projects PROVGUI, REPATGUI
Louis Fagbohoun, École Normale Supérieure de Natitingou and projects COULEURS, ODAYO
Daouda Keita, musée national du Mali and project PROBAMA
Bernard Müller, projects MATRIMOINES-REMATRIATIONS, PERFORM

moderated by Benoît de l’Estoile, musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac and project PROBAMA

15:00 what provenance research for the future?

round table with
Jean-Paul Lawson, CY Cergy Paris Université and projects AFRITEX, RESOTISSUS
Emmanuelle Cadet, AlterNatives and project REPARER L’ABSENCE
Joël Zouna, Institut national d’histoire de l’art and projects AA2GM and PERFORM
Saskia Cousin, université Paris Nanterre and project MATRIMOINES/REMATRIATION

moderated by Felicity Bodenstein, Sorbonne Université and Provenance Research Fund

16:00 conference by Souleymane Bachir Diagne

conference by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Provenance Research Fund

16:30 break

17:00 Un serpent au musée by Zora Snake

performance introduced by Julie Peghini, maison des Afriques/fondation Lucien Paye and PERFORM

17:45 cocktail offered by ministère de la Culture

upon invitation only

9:00 welcoming of participants

9:30 opening of the workshop

welcoming words by Marion Boudon-Machuel, INHA
introduction to the workshop by Yaëlle Biro, INHA and AA2GM, and Julie Sissia, Provenance Research Fund and Centre Marc Bloch

9:45 materiality

moderated by Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry, INHA and MATRIMOINES/REMATRIATION

pigments and colors
Louis Fagbohoun and the project team of ODAYO and COULEURS

textiles
Aboutou Konaté and the project team of RESOTISSUS
Avenir Géraldine Meikengang and the project team of AFRITEX

naturalia
Sílvio Marcus de Souza Correa and the CADEAU SENGHOR project team
REPARER L’ABSENCE

11:15 coffee break

11:30 body, ceremony, performance, narratives

moderated by Richard Tsogang Fossi, TU Berlin and AFRITEX

hybrid objects, ancestral and human remains, rehumanisation
Léa Kemegne Simo and the project team of PROHUMSTRA
Damiana Otoiu and the project team of HERA

memories of bodies and gestures: narrating absence
PERFORM and MATRIMOINES/REMATRIATION

12:30 lunch offered by the provenance research fund

upon invitation only

14:00 archives, plurality of the sources

moderated by Yaëlle Biro, INHA and AA2GM

written, photographic and film archives
PHOTOTOGO and PRESAT

Aurélien Mvesso Nganti and the project team of FANGBETI

oral sources and methods of inquiry
Ismailou Baldé, REPATGUI, PROVGUI and PROBAMA

dealers and collectors
Richard Ntaka Bosenge and the project team of DIASKW

evening programme organised by partner institutions

16:00-18:00 “légiférer sur la protection des monuments et des objets d’art dans les colonies, , INHA, salle Vasari

with Vincent Negri, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and project REMATRIATION
seminar “Les arts d’Afrique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale : spoliations, destructions, déplacements” organised by Yaëlle Biro, INHA and project AA2GM

more information here

18:30-21:30 Dahomey by Mati Diop, film screening and discussion at Sorbonne Université, campus Pierre et Marie Curie, grand auditorium

moderated by par Daniel Fiévet, journalist at France Inter

with
Felicity Bodenstein, Sorbonne Université and Provenance Research Fund
Angelo Dan, ambassador of the Republic of Benin in France
Didier Houénoudé, université d’Abomey-Calavi and MATRIMOINES/REMATRIATIONS

more information here

19:00-20:00 conference “Trop voir, tout avoir. Le Louvre ou l’hybris de l’accumulation”, La Chaire du Louvre “Faut-il brûler le Louvre ?” Non, auditorium du Louvre Michel Laclotte

conference by Bénédicte Savoy, TU Berlin and Provenance Research Fund

10:00 opening

welcoming words by Blandine Sorbe, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
introduction to the study day by Julie Peghini, Maison des Afriques and project PERFORM and Julie Sissia, Provenance Research Fund and Centre Marc Bloch

10:15 provenance research. an emerging profession?

round table of the collectif pluridisciplinaire de recherche de provenance with
Elie Affouda
Esther Vihounkpan, Université Cergy Paris and REMATRIATION
Marion Bertin, ICOFOM and HERA
Jéronime Zanmassou
Marie Marquet, independent researcher and COULEURS
Hélène Ivanoff, musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac and PROBAMA

moderated by Soizic Le Cornec, collectif pluridisciplinaire de recherche de provenance and musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

11:45 break

12:00 European-African museum cooperation: funding calls and future perspectives

round table with
Jan Hüsgen, Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste tbc
Jean-Luc Martinez, ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères
Valérie Mouroux, ministère de la Culture tbc
Edwige Sauzon-Bouit, Expertise France

Moderation tbd

13:30 lunch

15:00 connections, reconnections: fostering sustainable networks

round table with
Felicity Bodenstein, Sorbonne-Université and Provenance Research Fund
Lennon Mhishi, university of British Columbia
Franck Pacéré, Réunion des Musées Publics du Bénin
Barbara Plankensteiner, MARKK and Provenance Research Fund

moderation tbd

16:30 break

16:45 human rights, culture rights: can memories be appeased?

Nans Méger, lawyer and project PROHUMSTRA
Raymond J. Dowd, lawyer
Damiana Otoiu, university of Bucharest and project HERA
Marina Nzila Mubusisi, National Museum of Namibia and Provenance Research Fund

moderation tbd

18:15 break

18:30 lecture by Felwine Sarr

Felwine Sarr, Duke University after welcoming words by Joan Anfossi Divol, fondation des États-Unis

upon registration

20:30 African evening with reception and DJ