Alexis Th. von Poser
Panel: Dialogues between Theory and Practice. Theoretical Approaches and Case Studies of Postcolonial Provenance Research
Monday, 21 June, 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (CET)
Profile
Alexis Th. von Poser is Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin. He received his PhD from Heidelberg University and did extensive fieldwork at the north coast of Papua New Guinea. He was lecturer at the universities of Heidelberg, Madang (Papua New Guinea), Göttingen and Berlin, as well as project leader for the digitization of the ethnographic collections of the hanseatic city of Lübeck.
As curator of the ethnographic collections at the State Museum Hanover he for instance curated “A Difficult Legacy – Remnants of Colonialism Today” and was co-principal investigator of the PAESE project. He is journal co-editor in chief of the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology and of the Baessler-Archiv, head of the provenance research in the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art and speaker of the Research Campus Dahlem.
Alexis Th. von Poser
Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin