My talk at Mt. Holyoke: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Here are my slides and my notes from a talk I gave at Mt. Holyoke College for the (long name!)
Museums, presentation, Public humanities, teaching
Collections, Digital humanities, History of Museums, Museums
Museumbots: An Appreciation
Meet the museumbot. Museumbots tweet random objects from museum collections, four or five objects a day. I know of three
Digital humanities, History of Museums, Museums, Public humanities, Research, Technology
Beautiful Data
I spent the last two weeks of June at Beautiful Data, a workshop funded by the Getty Foundation and run
featured, Public humanities
Seven Rules for Public Humanists
If we want the humanities to be more than academic—if we want them to make a difference in the
Digital humanities, Public humanities
Applied? Translational? Open? Digital? Public? New models for the humanities
How do the humanities change when we take engaged public scholarship seriously? Considering five adjectives that are being put in
Collections, History of Museums, Museums, Programs
Call for Papers: Lost Museums Colloquium
In conjunction with the year-long exhibition project examining Brown University’s lost Jenks Museum, the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public
Public humanities
The presence of the past: Landscapes of history and tradition at Brown University
Trying out Medium. Here’s a version of the talk I gave to graduating seniors before they set out on a
Public humanities, teaching
Student Work for Public Audiences
Yesterday I participated in a roundtable discussion on “Student Work for Public Audiences” at Brown’s Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. I talked
Education, History of Museums, Museums, Public humanities
Jenks Society for Lost Museums
I’ve been blogging over at the Jenks Society for Lost Museums. You can see my thoughts on curatorial poetry and
History of Museums, Museums
50 Years of Collecting at the National Museum of American History
Here’s the talk I wrote for the National Council on Public History conference at the end of March. It’s a piece
