As we enter the holiday season, I would like to take the opportunity to reflect on a momentous year marked by political change and a pandemic that is still raging on. As you know, Covid-19 has severely affected our operations since March, including our...
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Kudos to Germanic Language and Literature PhD candidate, Veronica Williamson, for an exhibit that she co-curated. “No, not even for a picture”: Re-examining the Native Midwest and Tribes’ Relations to the History of Photography draws from the recently acquired Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American...
While there is so far no known cure for Covid and the disease continues to kill thousands daily around the globe, humanity has spent the better part of this year attempting to make do – some by doing their best to protect themselves and...
Kudos to… Ipek Kaynar Rohloff (MSP04) contributed to a new book about museum architecture called Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design. Ipek wrote a chapter called “Planning Art Museums from the Inside-Out.” Her work was based on her doctoral research and her recent museum consultancy...
Presenters: Grace Mahoney (PhD candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures) Félix Zamora-Gómez (PhD candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures) Overview: How do curatorial works and memorial sites simultaneously serve as tools for constructing national identities and as materials in a state’s claim for transnational reputation? How...
