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
* 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?
* 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?
Conflicts and connections between Studies (women's, ethnic, queer) and
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.
Inquiries and abstracts to:
ThomasThurston
Institute for Learning Technologies
Teachers College/Columbia University
525 W. 120th St. Box 144
New York, NY 10027
thurston@ilt.columbia.edu
Deadline for abstracts: May 1, 2001
Sarah E. Chinn English Department
Visiting Asst.Professor Trinity College
sarah.chinn@trincoll.edu 300 Summit Street
(860)297-4003 Hartford, CT 06106
"I wish I knew the esoteric meaning of these mixed emotions!" R. Hall,
The Well of Loneliness
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