Restitution and a new ethics of relationships
Bénédicte Savoy, art historian and professor at the TU Berlin and the Collège de France, talks to ECCHR Secretary General Wolfgang Kaleck about the restitution of looted colonial art and her criticism of the debate about the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Restitutionen und eine neue Ethik der Beziehungen
Biographies
Head of the Department of Modern Art History TU Berlin
Bénédicte Savoy
Bénédicte Savoy is the head of the Department of Modern Art History at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 2016, she has also held a professorship at the Collège de France in Paris for the cultural history of artistic heritage in Europe from the 18th to the 20th century. She has published numerous publications on her research areas of art theft and looted art in a global context, transnational museum history and cultural transfer in Europe.
General Secretary of ECCHR
Wolfgang Kaleck
Wolfgang Kaleck founded the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights with other internationally renowned lawyers in Berlin in 2007. As a lawyer, he represents whistleblower Edward Snowden, among others. Kaleck has also published numerous books.