Humanities Week 2008
Humanities Week 2008: What are Museums for? This is the provocative question asked by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at CWRU (the good folks who bring you the American Music Masters Series collab with the Rock Hall in Nov.) with this year's installment of Humanities Week. This year's week-long investigation into the nature of the Museum kicks off on Thu 10/2 at 6PM with keynoter Adam Gopnik, who has written for The New Yorker since 1984, with his talk, What is the Museum For? On Fri 10/3 at 5PM, jump down to the House of Blues for a Pocket Film festival, featuring the Cell Phone Festival Awards. Then check out the "Museums" Film Festival at the Cinematheque curated by Robert Spadoni, asst. prof of film studies at Case, with Boris Karloff's The Mummy on Sun 10/5, Hitchcock's classic Vertigo on Mon 10/6, and a double feature La Ville Louvere and La Jetee on Tue 10/7. The conclusion, a talk by Princeton visiting scholar Stephen Tracy on Wed 10/8 on The Persian Wars and Greek Culture explores how Athens survived total devastation during the Persian Invasion of 480 top become essentially, the museum of the world. Click here for details on Humanities Week.
What are Museums For?
Humanities Week 2008: What are Museums for? This is the provocative question asked by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at CWRU (the good folks who bring you the American Music Masters Series collab with the Rock Hall in Nov.) with this year's installment of Humanities Week. This year's week-long investigation into the nature of the Museum kicks off on Thu 10/2 at 6PM with keynoter Adam Gopnik, who has written for The New Yorker since 1984, with his talk, What is the Museum For? On Fri 10/3 at 5PM, jump down to the House of Blues for a Pocket Film festival, featuring the Cell Phone Festival Awards. Then check out the "Museums" Film Festival at the Cinematheque curated by Robert Spadoni, asst. prof of film studies at Case, with Boris Karloff's The Mummy on Sun 10/5, Hitchcock's classic Vertigo on Mon 10/6, and a double feature La Ville Louvere and La Jetee on Tue 10/7. The conclusion, a talk by Princeton visiting scholar Stephen Tracy on Wed 10/8 on The Persian Wars and Greek Culture explores how Athens survived total devastation during the Persian Invasion of 480 top become essentially, the museum of the world. Click here for details on Humanities Week.(:divend:)