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Raphael Schwere

Raphael Schwere, Dr.

  • Associated researcher

Education

  • 2025 PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Zurich, fellowships at the Frantz Fanon University Hargeysa and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin
  • 2015 Master in Social Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Zurich, exchange at the Makerere University Kampala

Career

  • Since January 2025
    Provenance researcher and restitution coordinator at the Natural History Museum Basel (anthropological collection)
  • 2024-2025
    Guest lecturer at ISEK
  • 2022–2025
    Co-curator of the exhibition „colonial - Switzerland's Global Entanglements“, Swiss National Museum
  • 2016-2022
    Research assistant, lecturer and exhibition co-curator, Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich

Scientific Interest

  • Provenance research and restitution
  • Museum cooperation
  • Colonial history and history of science
  • Human-animal relations in transformation

Research and exhibition projects

Research projects:

Co-curator of the following exhibitions:

  • Swiss National Museum “colonial – Switzerland’s Global Entanglements” (09/2024 – 01/2025)
  • Mobile exhibition in Uganda, “Mobile Milk Museum” (02/2019 – 07/2019)
  • Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich "Points of View. Visions of a Museum Partnership" (04/2018 – 01/2019)
  • Uganda National Museum “Drinking Deeply! Milk Exhibition” (09/2017 – 05/2018)
  • Igongo Cultural Centre, Mbarara “The Power of Milk” (09/2017 – permanent)
  • Ethnographic Museum at the UZH, section “Milk in Africa–Gourd and Tetra Pak” in the exhibition “Drinking skills” (06/2014 – 09/2015)

Teaching

Structural Ableism, Exhibiting Colonialism, Olfactory Anthropology, Anthropology of Meat, Animal Labour, Doing Ethnography, Human-Animal Relations, Regional Module Africa: Anthropological Somali Studies, Qualitative Research Methods Short Courses, Anthropology Colloquium, History of Ethnology, Disability & Technology field school, Introduction to Ethnology: Monograph Exercise, Introduction to Ethnology: Methodological Exercise, Introduction to Anthropological Disability Studies, Practical Module Practical Social Anthropological Work