It’s finally summer! The traditional academic year has finished, which means less papers, lots of summer internships, and – most importantly – no more snow!! We’d like to welcome all the new alumni, freshly admitted museum studies students, and the dedicated readers who have been with …
I’ve been putting off writing this post, and it’s probably because it’s hard to say goodbye. I hope that readers don’t mind the diaristic style of this last post from me, and I hope that my fellow graduates feel it speaks to their experience as well. …
AMER 180C/ HIST 173/ AFR 147B:
Black and Native New England
2015 Summer Session 2 (Mon/ Wed 9:00-12:30 PM)
Kendra Field, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies
“You have to know your history. Then you’ll have a purposeful presence in the world.” – August Wilson
This course offers a place-based study of African American, Native American, and black Indian experiences within and beyond New England. Using biography, family history, historical monographs, film, and walking tours, we will examine African and Native American lives from the colonial period through the twentieth century. Moving chronologically, we will consider experiences of colonial settlement and Native American conquest; racial slavery and the transition from slavery to freedom; sovereignty and civil rights struggles. Finally, we will examine the public history and memorialization of African, Native American, and black Indian experiences within and beyond New England.
For registration information, please visit http://ase.tufts.edu/summer/registration.asp
AMER 180C/ HIST 173/ AFR 147B:
Black and Native New England
2015 Summer Session 2 (Mon/ Wed 9:00-12:30 PM)
Kendra Field, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies
The Institute for Curatorial Practice is a 5-week intensive summer program running from June 8 to July 10, 2015 at Hampshire College, focused on the practice of curation: material, digital, and imaginary. At the Institute for Curatorial Practice students investigate and implement contemporary modes of …
It’s that time of year again! The Exhibition Planning class is debuting a new exhibit. There are as many ways to react to a photograph as there are people viewing it. Focus: Experiments in Photographic Interpretation, hosted by the Tufts University Art Gallery, explores the …
Date: Monday, April 27, 2015, 6:00pm
Location: Harvard University, Northwest Building, Room B-103, 52 Oxford Street,
Cambridge, MA
Public lecture with Leah Dickerman, Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and
Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, and Tom Rockwell, Director,
Exhibits and Media Studio, Exploratorium, San Francisco
In this year’s seminar on innovative curatorial practice, two cutting-edge museum
professionals will reflect on the role museum exhibitions play in exploring social,
political, and historic experiences through art and science. Leah Dickerman will discuss
MoMA’s new exhibition One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other
Visions of the Great Movement North (April 3-September 7, 2015). Tom Rockwell will
talk about his institution’s exhibition The Science of Sharing: Investigating Competition,
Cooperation, and Social Interaction. The presentations will be followed by a
conversation, moderated by Laurel Ulrich, 300th Anniversary Professor, Harvard
University, about trends in museums.
Free event parking available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture and the Harvard Art
Museums as part of the Harvard Museums’ Seminar on Innovative Curatorial Practice