Chair: Thomas Laely
Panel: Cooperation Projects on Cameroonian Collections. Experiences and Perspectives Tuesday, 22 June, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (CET)
Profile
Thomas Laely is a Swiss cultural anthropologist with a focus on museology, political anthropology and African studies. He has been the Deputy Director of the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, from 2010-2019. In previous years he was active in international arts promotion, 1994–2010, establishing and directing the International Department of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Currently, Laely is concentrating on issues of the history and perspectives of ethnological museums, particularly the exploration of new practices of collaboration between cultural history museums in Europe and Africa, and is part of an ongoing Ugandan-Swiss museum cooperation.
Thomas Laely