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What Can Museums Become: "Museum: Space, Trace, or Place?"
Mar 5, 2020
04:10 PM - 05:00 PM
Old Capitol Museum, Senate Chamber
21 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
The 2020 Obermann Humanities Symposium, "What Can Museums Become?", will bring together a distinguished group of museum directors, curators, educators and artists who will reflect on the transformative work that museums perform in the twenty-first century.
The first keynote speaker will be Johanna Burton, whose expertise in performance studies has inflected her work as a curator, educator, scholar, and now as the Director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University—one of the nation’s foremost academic art museums. In her opening lecture, “Museum: Space, Trace, or Place?” Burton will reflect on the overlapping roles that museums play as sites of display, performance, engagement, and community building.
Lauren Lessing, director of the UI Stanley Museum of Art, will introduce the lecture.
Join us after the talk for a hosted reception in the Hageboeck Hall of Birds, UI Museum of Natural History (Macbride Hall), 5:30–7:00 p.m.
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