(project leader) is Founder and Research Director of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) and Professor of Heritage, Memory and Narrative at the University of Amsterdam. He leads the UvA’s part of the SPEME project.

(researcher and exhibition co-curator) holds a BA in Anthropology with a minor in Philosophy. She is currently pursuing a Dual MA in Heritage & Memory Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Madeleine has an academic and professional background in archaeology, having participated in research and cultural resource management digs in Italy and Canada. Her research interests lie in the relationship between material culture/materiality and (cultural) memory, as well as the construction of national heritage narratives.

(researcher and exhibition co-curator) holds a BA degree in Political Science and Public Administration with a minor in Sociology. Ayse is currently pursuing an MA in Comparative and Middle East Politics & Society at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. She spent a semester at American University in Cairo as an exchange student. Her academic interests lie in martyrdom discourse and radicalization; politics and quotidian life in the Middle East and North Africa. She has been learning Arabic since 2021 with an interest in pursuing further anthropological research in the region.

(researcher and exhibition co-curator) holds a BA degree in International Studies with a major in Latin American Studies and an academic minor in Cultural Memory of War and Conflict. Martina is currently pursuing a Dual MA in Heritage and Memory Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her academic interests lie in the culture of remembrance of dictatorships and armed conflicts in Latin America as well as legacies of war and conflict and how they interact with the region’s politics. She also has a passion for heritage conservation, having worked closely with organisations like UNESCO to improve the management of heritage sites in Spain and the Netherlands.

(exhibition supervisor and co-curator) is an Amsterdam based visual artist, working with multimedia and VR Installations. Next to that she works as part-time curator for multiple institutes. She opened the debate on Arti's wartime past by making a guerrilla film on the subject, and set up a collaboration between the UvA and Arti to investigate this case. The exhibition is a continuation of the collaboration between art and science. From her current position on the board of Arti et Amicitiae, and because of her personal connection with the theme, she is both supervising curator and participating artist in this project.

(display and exhibition co-curator) is currently a student in the Dual MA Museum Studies, at the University of Amsterdam. He received his BA in Communication in the Humanities with a specialisation in Museum History and Communication from the University of Florence, in 2021. Additionally, he curated a student exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum, and followed a pre-Master in Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam in 2022. His areas of interest are restitution processes, provenance research, decolonisation of museums, natural history and science, and Pacific and Asian cultural heritage.

(display and exhibition co-curator) is currently a student in the Dual MA Museum Studies, at the University of Amsterdam. She received her BA in Arts, Media and Society from Leiden University with a minor in Creative Economy from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, in 2022. Additionally, she curated a student exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum, interned at De Appel Centre Archive, the Van Gogh Museum, and at Zilberman Gallery Berlin and is currently working as a programmer for Museum Night Leiden 2023. Her areas of interest are modern and contemporary art as well as the museum’s role in creating narratives, concepts, and a bridge between artists and the public.