In 2019, a mural in a Bern primary school sparked a controversial debate on racism and the city’s colonial legacy, which intensified in the summer of 2020 as Black Lives …
Resistances. On Dealing with Racism in Bern : an exhibition to see at the Bern Historical Museum. Read more
Bernhard Schär is the principal advisor for first national exhibition on Switzerland’s ties to colonialism, which will be shown at the Swiss National Museum in 2024. More informations : https://www.landesmuseum.ch/kolonialism
Switzerland and Colonialism at the Swiss National Museum (2024) Read more
We invite you to participate in this collective work which offers decentred analytical perspectives on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the event which launched Leopold II, Belgium and Europe on the conquest of Central Africa. This volume will be published in 2026.
Call for papers: From the Brussels Geographic Conference to the Congo Free State, 1876-1908 Read more