Weekly Schedule

CAVEAT - The current schedule is tentative and the dates of guest speakers and museum visits may change

WEEK 1 - The Wacky World of Museums

Sept 9: Introduction and the Nuts and Bolts

No readings assigned, in class we will watch 'We Love Museums, Do they Love us Back?', with Pinky and Kim. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFbmuEUdwI

WEEK 2 - Logistics: What is a Museum?

DUE: Night at the Museum assignment and discussion

Sept 16: A brief history of museums Museum missions and mission statements, legal, historical, and organizational contexts

E.G. Burcaw, (1995). Museum Defined. In Introduction to Museum Work, pp. 3-13.

P. Gerstenblith, (2006). Museum Practice: Legal Issues. In A Companion to Museum Studies, S. Macdonald editor, pp. 442-456.

H. Gurian (2006). Choosing Among the Options (pp. 48-56, chapter 5). Civilizing the Museum. Routledge.

H.S.Hein, (2000). Introduction: From Object to Experience. The Museum in Transition. A Philosophical Perspective. Smithsonian Press.

Mission Statements: ICOM (International Council of Museums) http://icom.museum/ AAM (American Association of Museums) http://www.aam-us.org/ AAMD (American Association of Museum Directors) http://www.aamd.org/

WEEK 3 - Logistics: Museum Communities

DUE: Virtual Museum visit review and discussion

Sept 23: The publics, the professionals, the controversies

J. Appleton (2007). Museums for ‘The People’? In Museums and Their Communities, S. Watson editor, pp. 114-126.

J. Clifford (1997). Museum as Contact Zones. In Representing the Nation: A Reader. Histories, heritage and museums, D. Boswell and J. Evans, editor, pp. 435-457.

S. Watson (2007). Introduction: Museums and their Communities. In Museums and Their Communities, S. Watson, editor, pp. 1-23.

S. Weil (2002). The Museum and the Public. In Museums and Their Communities, S. Watson, editor, pp. 32-46.

Case Study: the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

J. Gatehouse (2005). Cashbox. Maclean’s, March 28, 26-36.

H. Riegel (1996). Into the Heart of Irony: Ethnographic Exhibitions and the Politics of Difference. The Sociological Review 1996:83-104.

E. Schildkrout (1991). Ambiguous Museums and Ironic Tourists: Into the Heart of Africa and the Other Museum.” Museum Anthropology 15(2): 16-23.

G. York (2008) Chinese Antiquities at the ROM Under Renewed Scrutiny. The Globe and Mail January 19, 2008

WEEK 4 - MUSEUM VISIT - THE JOHN BROWN HOUSE MUSEUM

Sept 30: http://www.rihs.org/

WEEK 5 - Laws and Loans: Acquisitions

Oct 7 Why, how and consequences of museum acquisitions

N. Brodie (2006). US Art Museum Accessions. Culture Without Context, Issue 18.

J. Cuno (2007). Art Museums, Archaeology and Antiquities in an Age of Sectarian Violence and Nationalist Politics. In The Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities, edited by R. Rhodes, pp. 9-26. and response by Charles Rosenberg.

P. Gerstenblith (2007). The Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities. In The Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities, edited by R. Rhodes, pp. 47-63. And response

M. S. Gold (2005) Death By Ethics. Museum News November/December.

R. Mead (2007). Den of antiquity (Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Antiquities Department), The New Yorker (April 9th, 2007) 83: 52-61.

C. Renfrew (2006). Museum Acquisition: Responsibilities for the Illicit Traffic in Antiquities. In Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and the Antiquities Trade, edited by N. Brodie, M.M. Kersel, C. Luke and K.W. Tubb, pp. 245-257.

AAMD New Report on Acquisition of Archaeological Materials and Ancient Art, June 2008, http://www.aamd.org/newsroom/

Philadelphia Declaration

Case Study: The Hot Pot

T. Hoving (2001). The Hot Pot, ArtNet Magazine, July 2, 2001.

WEEK 6 - MUSEUM VISIT RISD - Meet with Curator Dr. Gina Borromeo

Oct 14: http://www.risdmuseum.org/

WEEK 7 - Laws and Loans: Nationalism

DUE: Paper Proposal and Annotated Bibliography

Oct 21: A discussion with Guest Scholar Dr. Susan Keitumetse

N. Brodie (2009). Unwanted Pieces. Museum International Vol. 61 No.1-2: 97-100.

J. Cuno (2006). View from the Universal Museum. In Imperialism, Art and Restitution, J.H. Merryman, editor, pp. 15-33.

P.G. Ferri (2009) New Types of Cooperation Between Museums and Countries of Origin. Museum International Vol. 61 No.1-2: 91-94.

F.S. Kaplan (2006). Making and Remaking National Identities. In A Companion to Museum Studies, S. Macdonald editor, pp. 152-169.

B. Magness-Gardiner (2003) Long-Term Archaeological Loans from Italy: Summary of Roundtable Discussions. American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 107(3): 477-481

Guest Speaker: Dr. Susan Keitumetse, Watson Institute for International Studies, Museums and Cultural Heritage in Botswana

S.O. Keitumetse, G. Matlapeng and L. Monamo (2007) Cultural Landscapes, Communities and World Heritage: In Pursuit of the Local in the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana. In Envisioning Landscape: situations and standpoints in archaeology and heritage. D. Hicks, L. McAtackney and G. Fairclough, editors, pp. 101-119.

S.O. Keitumetse (2009) Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage Management in Botswana: Towards Sustainable Communities. Sustainable Development

WEEK 8 - Laws: Repatriation

Oct 28: Giving things back: how and why

DUE: The Great Debate Discussion

T. Besterman (2009) Returning a Stolen Generation. Museum International Vol. 61 No. 102: 107-111.

M. Simpson (2009). Museums and Restorative Justice: Heritage, Repatriation and Cultural Education. Museum International Vol. 61 No. 102: 121-129.

Case Study: The Parthenon Marbles

Y. Hamilakis (1999). Stories from Exile. Fragments from the Cultural Biography of the Parthenon (or “Elgin”) Marbles. World Archaeology 31(2): 303-320.

C. Hitchens (2009). The Lovely Stones. Vanity Fair, July.

J. Lobell (2009) A New Home for the Treasures of the Acropolis. Archaeology, September/October Vol 62 (5): 32-37.

D. Rudenstine (2000). Did Elgin Cheat at Marbles? The Nation May 29, 2000: 43-51.

A. Snodgrass (2004). The Parthenon Marbles as an archaeological issue. In Material Engagements: Studies in honour of Colin Renfrew, edited by N. Brodie and C. Hills, pp. 115-124.

W. G. Stewart (2001). The Marbles: Elgin or Parthenon? IAL Annual Lecture, December 2000. Art, Antiquity and Law 6(1): 37-56.

B. Trigger (1984). Alternative archaeologies: nationalist, colonialist, imperialist. Man, New Series 19(3): 355-370.

Case Study: NAGPRA and the Ancient One

D. Anderson (1996). Reburial: Is It Reasonable? In Archaeological Ethics, edited by K. Vitelli, pp. 200-208.

G. A. Clark (1998). NAGPRA, the Conflict between Science and Religion, and the Political Consequences, SAA Bulletin 16(5): 23-25.

J. Watkins (1998). Native Americans, Western Science, and NAGPRA. SAA Bulletin 16(5): 23-25. A response to Clark.

L. Zimmerman (1998). When Data Become People: Archaeological Ethics, Reburial, and the Past as Public Heritage. International Journal of Cultural Property 7(1): 69-86.

http://www.kennewick-man.com/

http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick/

WEEK 9 - Logistics: Non-Traditional Museums

Nov 4: Not your run of the mill museum . . .

C. Kreps (2006). Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective. In A Companion to Museum Studies, S. Macdonald editor, pp. 457-472.

Y. Rowan (2004) Repackaging the Pilgrimage: Visiting the Holy Land In Orlando. In Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past, Y. Rowan and U. Baram, editors, pp. 249-266.

R. Rydell (2006). Worlds Fairs and Museums. In A Companion to Museum Studies, S. Macdonald editor, pp. 135-151.

Case Studies: Mali, Jordan, Mini-Israel

G. Bisheh (2001). One Damn Illicit Excavation After Another: The Destruction of the Archaeological Heritage of Jordan. In Trade in Illicit Antiquities: the destruction of the world’s archaeological heritage, Brodie et al. editors, pp. 115-118.

T. Deubel, (2006). Banking on Culture: Microcredit as Incentive for Cultural Conservation in Mali. In The Perils and Prospects of Microfinance: Globalization, Neo-liberalism and the Cultural Politics of Empowerment, Jude Fernando, editor, pp. 133-153.

K. Politis (2002). Dealing with the Dealers and Tomb Robbers: The realities of the archaeology of the Ghor es-Safi in Jordan. In Illicit Antiquities, Brodie and Tubb, editors, pp. 257-267.

WEEK 10 - Guest Lecturer Dr. Kevin Smith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Haffenreffer Museum

Nov 11: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Haffenreffer/index.php

WEEK 11 - Class Canceled - Prof. Kersel in NOLA for the ASOR meetings

Nov 18: Work on your paper

WEEK 12 - No class HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Nov 25: DUE: Final paper Email to me by 9:00pm

WEEK 13 More Non-traditional museums and wrap up

Dec 2: Check back for readings

WEEK 14 Poster presentations at the Joukowsky Institute

Dec 9: Class presentations of posters based on final papers.

Depending on the number of students the schedule for Week 14 may change