Transnational Studies Initiative Workshop

Date and Time

April 14, 2011
04:15PM - 06:00PM EDT

"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. LentzElizabeth 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.

Speakers:

Kim Kanatani, Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Suzanne Cotter, Curator, Abu Dhabi Project, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Jette Sandahl, Director, Københavns Museum/Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Irene Hirano, President, U.S. Japan Council. Former President and Founding CEO, Japanese American National Museum. Former Chair, American Associations of Museums.

Chair:

Peggy Levitt, Associate. Co-Director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School; Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College.

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