Julie Sissia

Julie Sissia (1984, France) holds a doctorate in art history from Sciences Po-Paris and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and is scientific project manager for the Franco-German research fund on the provenance of cultural goods from sub-Saharan Africa at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin. She is co-initiator with Margareta von Oswald (Humbold-Universität Berlin) of theAcademy of Tracesa collective project bringing together 8 researchers, heritage professionals and cultural cooperation experts: Felicity Bodenstein, Damiana Otoiu, Anna Seiderer, Mathieu Fribault, Franck Pacéré, Honoré Tchatchouang.

The Académie des Traces aims to contribute to a better understanding of the major societal challenge represented by the colonial collections held by museums in the West, which are inextricably linked to a plurality of memories that are always sensitive and often painful. The Académie des Traces proposes to discuss the different areas of museum work related to colonial collections: provenance research, restitution, exhibition, artistic creation and mediation, as well as the politics of collection and archive genesis.