On November 8, Gabrielle
Berlinger will participate in the panel “At the Crossroads of
Museums and Communities” at the American Folklore Society Conference in
Santa Fe, New Mexico. On November 11, she will give a talk entitled
“Challenging Heritage at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum” as part
of the fifth China-US Forum on Intangible Cultural Heritage: Bridging the
Tangible and the Intangible in Ethnographic Museum and Heritage Sites also in
Santa Fe.
Jeffrey
Collins will present a lecture at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich,
Connecticut, on November 10, entitled “From Italy to England: Furniture
Designs by William Kent.”
Aaron Glass is
participating in the panel discussion “The Distributed Text: Uniting
Museums, Archives, and Indigenous Knowledge around Franz Boas’s 1897
Monograph” at the American Folklore Society Conference in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, from November 5-8. During the conference, he is also presenting a
screening of the restored Edward S. Curtis film In the Land of the Head
Hunters (1914). On November 19, he will be giving a lecture entitled, “Cultural
Salon: Pacific Northwest Past, Present, Future” at the American
Museum of Natural History in New York City.
At the Network
for Conservation of Contemporary Art Research (NeCCAR) conference
December 1-2 in Glasgow, Scotland, Hanna Hölling will
be giving an opening keynote talk entitled “On the Relative Duration of
the Impermanent and Critical Thinking in Conservation” and chairing a
panel.
Kimon Keramidas is
presenting a paper in Dearborn, Michigan, on November 9, entitled “The
Interface Experience.” Focusing on his spring 2015 Focus Gallery
exhibition, it is part of the Special
Interest Group for Computers, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) workshop at
the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology. At the Museum
Computer Network annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, he will be participating in
panels on “Being
Small, Thinking Big: Small Museum Innovators and the Little Known Small Museum
Digital Revolution” (November 20) and “User
Experience: Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Museum Content” (November
22).
Pat Kirkham is
speaking, on November 19, at a conference marking the tenth anniversary of the
Center for the Study of the Modern Interior at Kingston University in London,
England. Her lecture is entitled “Routes of Research Suggested by the
Recently Catalogued Part II of the Eames Collection at the Library of
Congress.”
François
Louis gave the response at “Painting under the Five
Dynasties, Liao, and Northern Song Dynasties”—a symposium held on October 24
for the China Project Workshop at the Institute of Fine Arts in
New York City.
Andrew
Morrall participated in a workshop on “Early Modern Colour
Practices” at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany, October
31-November 1. His essay was “The Uses of Colour in Martin Schaffner’s
Universe Table.”
On October 18, Shawn
Rowlands gave a presentation at the Stickley
Museum at Craftsman’s Farm Fourth Annual Emerging Scholars Symposium. His
paper was entitled “Broken Glass: Craft, Industry and Material Culture in
Early Twentieth-Century Australia.”
Elizabeth
Simpson is presenting the ArtWatch
International James Beck Memorial Lecture at the Salmagundi Club in
New York City on November 6. Her talk is entitled “King Midas’s Furniture:
A Tale of Archaeological Conservation.”
Catherine
Whalen is co-leading the panel discussion “Twenty
Years, Twenty Questions to Ask an Object: A Material Culture Caucus Workshop” at
the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California,
November 6-9.
