March 13 brown bag presentation cancelled
Please note that the March 13 brown bag presentation, Collecting Oceana, has been cancelled.
Author: Museum Studies Program
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Ksenya Gurshtein (MSP06) started a new job as the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University in Wichita, KS. This position allows Ksenya to dig deep into who and what museums...
March 13 & 14 – CLIFF 2020: (Counter) Narratives of Migration
The Museum Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor the 2020 CLIFF conference. CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter) Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not...
March 10 presentation – Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections
March 10 presentation – Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections – by Margaret M. Bruchac, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Dr. Bruchac will discuss strategies for recovering Indigenous object histories through material analyses, consultation, and re-assessments of imposed...
March 10 – Toward a “Universal Museum”: A Conversation with Dr. Kojiro Hirose
Tuesday, March 10 at 4:00 pm Room 130, Tappan Hall (Department of History of Art) Dr. Hirose is the foremost authority of museum accessibility in Japan. He has worked on the practical study and prevalence of “tactile exhibits,” drawing on his experience of being...
Alumni kudos
Kudos to… Elizabeth Harmon (MSP10) has begun a new position as a Digital Curator at the Smithsonian Institution Archives in Washington, DC. She produces digital resources and exhibitions about women in science from the nineteenth century to the present, and her work will support...
