Steven Lubar

Considering the 9/11 Memorial Museum: One visit, three ways

Steven Lubar / November 29, 2015

(some advice I gave my students before our visit last week, updated after the visit) When you visit the museum—when

Steven Lubar / October 31, 2015

We’re halfway through the semester, and my collections class is deep into the stamp exhibition project. I’m teaching a course titled

Steven Lubar / September 27, 2015

For a search engine to work well, it needs to know where to look. The streetlight effect offers a

Steven Lubar / September 26, 2015

[my presentation at the RISD Museum / Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology “On Search” Conference] I’d like to tell you about

Steven Lubar / September 3, 2015

Robyn asked me to give “something like a trajectory of how we’ve come to understand ‘public humanities’ within the program’s

Steven Lubar / August 19, 2015

Earlier this week I met with the NY Council for the Humanities Public Humanities Fellows. This is a fairly new

It’s that more-than-half-way through the summer inflection point when suddenly it seems that school starts too soon. It’s time to

“The theoretic value of the skiascope is incontestable.” —Benjamin Ives Gilman In

Here’s what I told the graduating class. It refers back to what I told them when they arrived. Best wishes,

Here’s the presentation I gave at the Mathers Museum’s “Museums at the Crossroads: Local Knowledge, Global Encounters” workshop last week. More