‘Visiting the Theme of the Museum’
Two sessions to be led by Prof Joy Kasson, Professor of American Studies and English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Visiting Scholar, Institute of North American Studies, King’s College London
10.30am ‘The Future of the Past: Museums and the Historical Claim’
Prof. Kasson will give an introduction on using museums as teaching tools, to be followed by a discussion session.
Welcome and refreshments from 10.30am, lecture to begin at 11am.
2pm ‘What’s new about the new museology’: A workshop for postgrads and academics
In which Prof. Kasson will discuss two essays from The New Museology, edited by Peter Vergo: Objects of Knowledge: A Historical Perspective on Museums by Ludmilla Jordanova and The Reticent Object by Peter Vergo
Joy Kasson is Professor of American Studies and English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she has taught since 1971. She has just completed a ten-year term as Chair for the American Studies Department. She received her B.A. from Radcliffe College and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. The recipient of teaching and mentoring awards at UNC, she teaches courses on American literature, art, history, and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of Artistic Voyagers: Europe and the American Imagination in the Works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Allston, and Cole (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982), Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture (Yale University Press, 1990), and Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000). She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, where she is Vice-Chair. Her current research investigates the children’s book writer, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the relationship between her nostalgic portrait of the American frontier and the hardships of the period in which the books were written, the years of the Great Depression. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982), (Yale University Press, 1990), and (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000). She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, where she is Vice-Chair. Her current research investigates the children’s book writer, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the relationship between her nostalgic portrait of the American frontier and the hardships of the period in which the books were written, the years of the Great Depression.
Prof. Kasson’s visit is co-ordinated by the Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, in conjunction with the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Social Sciences.