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Joachim Baur is a curator and Professor of Empirical Cultural Studies at the Institute for Art and Material Culture at TU Dortmund University. Together with Katrin Pieper, he has been running the office “Die Exponauten. Exhibitions et cetera” in Berlin (www.die-exponauten.com). Numerous exhibitions, most recently Über/Sehen. Image Regimes of Migration (Duisburg 2023), Moving Things. On the Materiality of Flight and Migration (Göttingen 2022), Räume des Wissens. The Basic Exhibition at the Forum Wissen Göttingen (2022), Das Kapital. 150 Years of Critique of Political Economy (Museum der Arbeit Hamburg, 2017/18). He teaches and researches on representations of migration, analyses of material culture, the history and future of the museum, curatorial theory and practice. Most recently, he organized the conference “Das radikaldemokratische Museum revisited” (www.radikaldemokratisches.museum) with Nora Sternfeld. He has been on the board of ICOM Germany since 2023.

Dr. Ruth Rosenberger, director of digital services and vice president of the “Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”, is a contemporary historian and a proven digital expert in the cultural sector. She studied history and German language and literature and received her doctorate under Prof. Lutz Raphael at the University of Trier. After working as a researcher at the university and in the field of research and corporate communications, she began building up the digital division of the Haus der Geschichte Foundation in 2010. Since 2017, the Digital Services department has included the online editorial team, the contemporary witness team, media production for all exhibitions and IT. Ruth Rosenberger is a member of the Advisory Board of the Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg and the International Advisory Board of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation.

Anke Schnabel is part of the program team “The Palace of the Republic is Present”. Born and raised in West Berlin, she has been working as a historian and curator for museums and memorials for over 20 years. She has been working for the Humboldt Forum Foundation since 2015 and is currently part of the curatorial team for the special exhibition “Blown away: The Palace of the Republic” with a focus on remembrance work.

Nhi Le is a journalist, speaker and moderator. Her work focuses on society, digital media and pop culture. In 2020/21 she wrote ‘The Female Gaze’ column for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, from 2021 to 2023 Nhi Le was a trainee at Norddeutscher Rundfunk.