INTRODUCTION: For many years the museum studies program has had a strong alliance with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Focusing on life in a part of the city that was home to so many of its immigrants; the Museum shares City College's commitment to that population. For several years the Museum and the museum studies programs at City College and New York University have hosted an annual symposium devoted to museums and civic engagement. A day-long program focuses on various aspects of this topic as defined by students in their term paper projects. Students present their research and engage one another with issues in a conversation moderated by professors from City College and NYU as well as a representative of the Museum. Programs from the annual symposia follow as well as papers from the symposium of 2003 edited by Sarah Roberts (City College).
2006
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
4th ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (download program)
(DECEMBER 9, 2006 - 10:00am to 5:00pm)
NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Auditorium, Ground Floor
53 Washington Square South
2005
International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Concience
3rd ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (download program)
(DECEMBER 10, 2005 - 11:00am to 5:00pm)
NYU Silver Center, Room 301
100 Washington Square East
2004
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
2nd ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (download program)
(DECEMBER 11, 2004 - 10:30am to 4:45pm)
NYU Silver Center, Room 300
100 Washington Square East
2003
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
1st ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM (download program)
(DECEMBER 6, 2003 - 11:00am to 5:30pm)
Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 97 Orchard Street
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Papers
(edited by Sarah Roberts, City College)
European Case Studies
- The Transformation of the Louvre into a Public Museum, Eunmi Lee
(download paper) - Holographic Engagement with the Holocaust: Memory, Space and MaterialCulture in Vienna, Leslie Altnow
(download paper) - Considering the Holocaust: Where Can Civic Debate Take Place?Mary Ann Furman
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- Museums and Urban Renewal: The Case of LowerManhattan, Emily Carmichael
(download paper) - The Museum of Chinese in the Americas: Fighting Stereotypes andBuilding Community, Angie Chau
(download paper) - The Brooklyn Children's Museum and its Community in a Time of Crisis,Amit Cohen
(download paper) - Museum Education Programs as Civic Dialogue, Katherine Carlton
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- The Authentic Object in the Civically Engaged Museum, Susan Johnson
(download paper) - The Public Art of Civic Engagement, Sarah M. Roberts
(download paper) - Urban Tours as Civic Engagement: New York City and El Paso, Texas,Carrie Dirks
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- History as Social Activism, Maria LaCalle
(download paper) - Civic Engagement or Censorship? The Brooklyn Museum's Sensation Exhibit,Hiroko Suda
(download paper) - Hans Haacke: Institutional Critique as Civic Engagement, Brita Helgesen
(download paper) - North American Museums and Latin Countries: Can International CivicEngagement Exist?, Geaninne Gutierrez
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