Museum Studies Lunch
All students interested in careers and advanced work in the fields of Museum Studies, Community History, and Anthropology are invited to a lunchtime discussion on 10/4 led by Dr. Maris Boyd Gillette, University of Missouri, St. Louis and Dr. Monique Renee Scott, Bryn Mawr College.
Date: Tuesday Oct. 4, 12–1:30 p.m.
Location: Haverford College Dining Center Room 112
This luncheon is held in conjunction with Prof. Gillette's Distinguished Visitors Lecture, "Globalization and Deindustrialization: the View from China’s Porcelain Capital" to be presented on Monday October 3, from 4:30–6 p.m., in Hurford Center Seminar Room, Stokes 102.
Professor Gillette, formerly Professor of Anthropology and Associate Provost at Haverford, has consulted at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and produced films on Philadelphia local history and the Chinese porcelain industry in a global era.
Professor Scott specializes in representations of Africa in museums, and is the author of the 2007 book, Rethinking Evolution in the Museum: Envisioning African Origins (Routledge). She is a specialist on the intersection of museums, anthropology and “race,” and previously worked for over a decade as head of cultural education at the American Museum of Natural History.
Sponsored by the Departments of East Asian Languages Cultures, Anthropology, Magill Library, and the the Distinguished Visitors Program.
