Field/Work
American Studies and Museum Studies in Conversation
Call for Papers
The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) is seeking abstracts and papers for "Field/Work: American Studies and Museum Studies in Conversation," a conference to be held at the Museum of the City of New York on October 20, 2001.
The conference will include a variety of formats: panels of papers, roundtables, an online component, to name a few. If you would like to propose a collection of presentations, please indicate what form it will take.
Possible topics may include:
American art, American culture and the "American" Wing: representations of nationalities, ethnicities, and histories
Telling an American story: thematic exhibits and the power of narrative
Monuments, memorials, memory: representing the past
Taking it to the streets: public education, public space, public art.
Exhibiting "special interests": who gets their own museum? Who doesn't?
Studies (women's, ethnic, queer) versus Museums (of women's art, of the American Indian, of the Holocaust).
Putting it together and splitting it up: the floor plan of the museum and the anthology of American literature-connections, disjunctures, commonalities.
Retrospectives and/as biographies: the construction of a life's work
Canon building and disciplinarity
The storeroom versus the archive or, finding what we're looking for
Questions of access: building bridges, building ramps, building websites
The museum and the "community"-who is the museum for? Who shows up and why?
Inquiries and proposals to:
Thomas Thurston
Institute for Learning Technologies
Teachers College/Columbia University
525 W. 120th St. Box 144
New York, NY 10027
thurston@ilt.columbia.edu
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