objects of memories

16.11.

morning program

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

afternoon program

12:45-16:30 professional meetings and visits at the musée du Louvre

limited amount of places, upon registration only, open only to project members

• 12:45 welcome of participants in front of the Pyramid
• 13:00-14:00 presentation of the digital documentation platform project developed with the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (Sudan) by Shadia Abdrabo, Deputy Director of Museums of Sudan, and the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, musée du Louvre, salle des 80
• from 14:30 visit of the galleries, in two groups of 20 participants : galerie des Cinq Continents or free visit of the musée du Louvre

evening program

20:30 “Récit de la zone de contact.” carte blanche à Alter Natives, maison des Afriques/fondation Lucien Paye, cité internationale universitaire de Paris

public event, on registration only, in French

• 20:30 presentation of the Alter Natives association
• 20:40 Wiri Wiri, the counter-investigation into the Dakar sailing pirogue, Dakar-Djibouti Mission: film excerpt, presented by Hadj Ahmed Assaba
• 21:10 the story of Samba Sadio’s cultural objects: photo montage and interview excerpts, with commentary by Djenaba Dramé and Salimata Diallo
• 21:40 a plea for a reparative restitution of African cultural objects, reading in several voices
• 22:00 discussion with the audience, moderated by Hadj Ahmed and Marie Fane
• 22:30 end of the event

17.11.

morning program

several visits take place at the same time, so you will have to choose!
each visit offers a limited amount of places, upon registration only, open only to project members

10:00 visit at musée de l’Armée Hôtel des Invalides

with Mathilde Benoistel, Head of the Inventory, Dissemination and Collection History Department and Lucile Paraponaris, provenance researcher

10:30 visit of African collections at musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac

with Gaëlle Beaujean, Head of the Africa Heritage Unit

10:30 presentation of the image library (“iconothèque”) at musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac

with Carine Peltier-Caroff, Head of the iconothèque and scientific manager of the photographic collections

afternoon program

several visits take place at the same time, so you will have to choose!
each visit offers a limited amount of places, upon registration only, open only to project members

13:30 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

14:30 visit of the exhibition Amílcar Cabral: In Support of a Radical Humanism at Maison des Mondes Africains (MansA)

15:45 visit of the exhibition Ibrahim Mahama, Le Temps des récoltes at Fondation Cartier

with Jeanne Barral, Curator of the exhibition

Visit at musée Albert Kahn, tbc

Visit at Museum national d’histoire naturelle, tbc

Visit at Frac Ile de France, tbc

9:15 opening of the doors and welcoming participants

access is through the museum entrance, leading directly down to the théâtre (level -1).
a security check takes place at the entrance. Suitcases are not permitted.

09:45 official opening of the symposium

opening remarks by the partner institutions

10:15 can provenance research renew relationships?

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

followed by a discussion with the project teams and the public

moderated by Chloé Leprince, France Culture

11:15 provenance and restitutions

round table with
Adama Ayikoué, ministère du Tourisme, de la Culture et des Arts du Togo, projects PHOTOTOGO and PRESAT
Olivia Bourrat, directrice du Patrimoine et des Collections, musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac
Elise Pape, EHESS and project PROHUMSTRA
Maxime Mballa-Tangy, project DIASKW

followed by a discussion with the project teams and the public

moderated by Elgas, RFI

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

upon invitation only

13:30 from pilot phase to results: figures and shared knowledge

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

13:45 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

followed by a discussion with the project teams and the public

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

14:45 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

followed by a discussion with the project teams and the public

moderated by Felicity Bodenstein, Sorbonne Université and Provenance Research Fund

15:45 pause

16:00 conference by Souleymane Bachir Diagne

conference by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University and Provenance Research Fund
followed by a discussion with the public

17:00 Un serpent au musée by Zora Snake

performance in the theater’s foyer
introduced by Julie Peghini, maison des Afriques/fondation Lucien Paye and PERFORM

18:00 cocktail offered by ministère de la Culture

upon invitation only, at café Jacques, musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

19:30 end of the day

9:00 welcoming of participants

9:30 opening of the workshop

welcoming words by Marion Boudon-Machuel, Head of the Studies and Research Department, 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, musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

each project presentation is followed by a discussion with the project teams and the public

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

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

textiles
Esther Vihounkpan and the project team of RESOTISSUS
Avenir Géraldine Meikengang and the project team of AFRITEX

11:15 coffee break

11:30 body, ceremony, performance, narratives

moderated by Richard Tsogang Fossi, TU Berlin and AFRITEX

each project presentation is followed by a discussion with the project teams and the public

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

memories of bodies and gestures: narrating absence
Alexandra Galitzine Loumpet and the project team of PERFORM
Yélognissè Victor Boton and the project team of 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

each project presentation is followed by a discussion with the project teams and the public

written, photographic and film archives
Marie Brualla Challet and the project team of PHOTOTOGO
Messan Tossa and the project team of PRESAT
Aurélien Mvesso Nganti and the project team of FANGBETI

oral sources and methods of inquiry
Ismailou Baldé, and the project team of REPATGUI, PROVGUI
Daouda Keita and the project team of PROBAMA

dealers and collectors
Lars Frühsorge, Lübeck Museums 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, CNRS and project MATRIMOINES-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-REMATRIATION

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, Director General, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
introduction by Julie Peghini, Director, Maison des Afriques and project PERFORM and Julie Sissia, Scientific Project Manager, Provenance Research Fund and Centre Marc Bloch

10:15 provenance research. an emerging profession?

round table conceived and presented by members of the Collectif pluridisciplinaire de recherche de provenances with

Elie Affouda, Independent Researcher, CY Cergy Paris Université
Marion Bertin, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Louvain and project HERA
Hélène Ivanoff, Independent Researcher, EHESS and project PROBAMA
Marie Marquet, Independent Researcher and project ODAYO
Esther Vihounkpan, PhD Student, CY Cergy Paris Université and project REMATRIATION
Jéronime Zanmassou, Independent Researcher, Africa Design School

followed by a discussion with the public

moderated by Soizic Le Cornec, provenance researcher, musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

11:45 break

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

round table with

Jean-Luc Martinez, Ambassador for International Cooperation in the Field of Heritage, Honorary President-Director of the musée du Louvre, ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères
Valérie Mouroux, Deputy Director for European and International Affairs, ministère de la Culture
Franck Pacéré, Curator and member of the Preparatory Committee, Musée des Rois et Amazones du Danxõmè, Réunion des Musées Publics du Bénin
Edwige Sauzon-Bouit, Head of the Territorial Attractiveness, Culture, Heritage and Sport Unit
Sustainable and Inclusive Economy Department, Expertise France

followed by a discussion with the public

moderated by Valérie Nivelon, journalist, RFI

13:30 lunch at CROUS, cité internationale universitaire de Paris, offered by the provenance research fund

upon invitation only

15:00 connections, reconnections: fostering sustainable networks

round table with

Felicity Bodenstein, Associate Professor, Sorbonne-Université and member of the Scientific Council, Provenance Research Fund
Lennon Mhishi, Assistant Professor, university of British Columbia
Nanette Snoep, Director, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne

followed by a discussion with the public

moderated by Kirsten van den Hul, Independent Advisor, Author and Facilitator

16:30 break

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

round table with

Raymond J. Dowd, Lawyer
Nans Méger, Lawyer and member of the project PROHUMSTRA
Damiana Otoiu, Associate Professor, university of Bucharest and member of the project HERA
Isabelle Rome, Magistrate and Ambassador for Human Rights, responsible for international issues relating to the Holocaust, looted property and remembrance, ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères

followed by a discussion with the public

moderated by Alice Lopes Fabris, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

18:15 break

18:30 “Restituer : une politique des temps”: lecture by Felwine Sarr

welcoming words by Joan Anfossi Divol, Director, fondation des États-Unis

Conference by Felwine Sarr, Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Duke University, followed by a conversation with Barbara Plankensteiner, Director, MARKK and member of the Scientific Council of the Provenance Research Fund, and Fabien Théofilakis, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Sorbonne Université and Centre Marc Bloch

public event, upon registration

20:30 cocktail offered by the provneance research fund

upon invitation only

21:00 festive closing evening at Maison des Afriques Fondation Lucien Paye

• 21:00 concert by Tambours Ubuntu, fashion show by Akoben Salvation
• 22:00 dj set

public event, upon registration