During the round table, scientific and institutional actors in Provenance Research will discuss the conditions and possible ways of furthering provenance investigations to a wider discourse on Art History, and in particular to its teaching and its social uses.
For the time being, Provenance Research focuses on former colonial areas where the colonial gap is significant and well known. In this sense, Provenance Research in the post-colonial context constitutes a specific, political, historical and ethical field of reparation.
But to what extent, and under which conditions, can the Art History discipline be a perennial source of reparation, resilience and sharing? To that aim, which directions should national and international research programs take? How can we teach an Art History that takes account of the challenges of the present while strengthening the scientific foundations of the exhibition of material cultures?

Moderator :

• Isabelle ANATOLE-GABRIEL - Heritage Curator, Professor at the Ecole du Louvre (Paris, France)

Interventions :

• Claire BARBILLON - Head of the Ecole du Louvre (Paris, France)
• Catherine CHEVILLOT - General Curator of Heritage, Prefigurator of the Provenance Mission, French Museums Service, Ministry of Culture (Paris, France)
• Franck OGOU - Head of the Ecole du Patrimoine Africain-EPA (Porto Novo, Bénin)
• Julie SISSIA - Scientific project manager for the Franco-German fund for research into the provenance of cultural goods from sub-Saharan Africa, Marc Bloch Center (Berlin, Germany)