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Streaming Video

The following streaming videos are a selection of Public Events organized and hosted by the Museum Studies Program.

Winter 2007
Exhibiting Controversy: From Mapplethorpe to "Body Worlds" and Beyond

A colloquium
examining the relationship between controversy and exhibition from a variety of perspectives.

Dennis Barrie "Mapplethorpe in Cincinnati: The Controversy, the Myth, and the Legacy"
Robert Juette "Beyond "Body Worlds": Ethics and the Public Display of Anatomical Specimens"
Alice Greenwald "Passion on All Sides: Planning a Memorial Museum at Ground Zero"
Kristin Hass "Hijacking History: Culture, Politics, and Exhibition at the Smithsonian"
David Pilgrim "Spoiling Public Spaces: Exhibiting Racist Artifacts in a Public Museum"

Winter 2006
Conversations about
...museums and science, museums and community, and museums and botanical gardens.

Rob Semper and Tim McKay "Conversations about Museums... and Science"
Liz Ševčenko and Julie Ellison "Conversations about Museums... and Civic Engagement"
Elaine Heumann Gurian and Ray Silverman "Conversations about Museums... and Community"
Michel Labrecque and David Michener "Conversations about Museums... and Botanical Gardens"

Fall 2005
Museums and Community

A colloquium
examining the relationship between museums and the communities they serve.

Anan Ameri "Ethnic Museums: Voices of the Disenfranchised"
Christy S. Coleman "Conscience, Controversy, and Community: Case Studies from the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History"

Winter 2005

Elaine Heumann Gurian "Singing and Dancing at Night
Spirituality in Museums, Its Opportunities and Limits
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Fall 2004

Patty Gerstenblith "Ownership, Appropriation & Restitution: The Effect of War on the Cultural Heritage of Iraq as a Case Study"



 

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