Fri April 13, 2018
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett on Museums and the Politics of History
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As institutions of public history, museums must navigate a minefield of divergent narratives, stakeholders, and goals. Steering a steady course, independent of political pressure, is an unrelenting challenge, especially in post-Communist Europe. Even when museums are relatively free to chart their own course, the histories they present are not without their politics. This lecture will explore how the politics of history are playing out today, in light of recent efforts to legislate what can and cannot be said about the most painful events in a country's history.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland and Advisor to the Museum's Director. She is University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was honored for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture and received the Yosl Mlotek Prize for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture, honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and University of Haifa, and the 2015 Marshall Sklare Award for her contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry. She was decorated with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for her contribution to POLIN Museum. Most recently, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Co-presented with the Museum Studies Program of University of San Francisco.
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland and Advisor to the Museum's Director. She is University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was honored for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture and received the Yosl Mlotek Prize for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture, honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and University of Haifa, and the 2015 Marshall Sklare Award for her contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry. She was decorated with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for her contribution to POLIN Museum. Most recently, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Co-presented with the Museum Studies Program of University of San Francisco.
As institutions of public history, museums must navigate a minefield of divergent narratives, stakeholders, and goals. Steering a steady course, independent of political pressure, is an unrelenting challenge, especially in post-Communist Europe. Even when museums are relatively free to chart their own course, the histories they present are not without their politics. This lecture will explore how the politics of history are playing out today, in light of recent efforts to legislate what can and cannot be said about the most painful events in a country's history.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland and Advisor to the Museum's Director. She is University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was honored for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture and received the Yosl Mlotek Prize for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture, honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and University of Haifa, and the 2015 Marshall Sklare Award for her contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry. She was decorated with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for her contribution to POLIN Museum. Most recently, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Co-presented with the Museum Studies Program of University of San Francisco.
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland and Advisor to the Museum's Director. She is University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was honored for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture and received the Yosl Mlotek Prize for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture, honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and University of Haifa, and the 2015 Marshall Sklare Award for her contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry. She was decorated with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for her contribution to POLIN Museum. Most recently, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Co-presented with the Museum Studies Program of University of San Francisco.
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