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Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop
Date: April 14, 2011
Time: 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Weil Hall (Ground Floor, Belfer Building)
This is open to the public.

"Atlas Versus the Cherry Tree: Museums, the Nation, and the World"

This panel activity will focus on analyzing how cutting-edge museums around the world are coping with immigration and globalization. If museums in the past were about creating national citizens, in this global world, to what extent do they now see themselves as creating global citizens too? What is it about how museums are funded, organized, and administered that makes them more or less outward-looking? How do art and ethnographic museums do this differently? What is it about the history and culture of particular cities and regions that helps explain their stance?

Discussant:
Thomas W. Lentz
Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museums.


Co-sponsored by the Transnational Studies Initiative (TSI), the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, the Harvard Art Museums, and the Office for the Arts at Harvard.
Moderator/Chair
Levitt, Peggy
Associate. Co-Director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School; Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College.

Speakers
Kanatani, Kim
Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Cotter, Suzanne
Curator, Abu Dhabi Project, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Sandahl, Jette
Director, Københavns Museum/Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hirano, Irene
President, U.S. Japan Council. Former President and Founding CEO, Japanese American National Museum. Former Chair, American Associations of Museums.

Related content:
Conversations Across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies

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