Events at Stanford
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19:09 Nov 16, 2021
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2021. 1:00 PM. Location: Online via Zoom The Department of Art & Art History's Weintz Art Lecture Series presents Clémentine Deliss, Global Humanities Professor of Art History, University of Cambridge "The collection centric museum-university of the future" All museums are civic spaces that, together with universities and art colleges, perform an essential educational role. But how do we make their vast collections of historical artifacts active once more while the world is becoming increasingly virtual? Today, a renewed global engagement with archives takes the museum beyond its existing definition toward a more radical understanding of curatorial and educational urgency. Working with collections established under the cultural politics of colonialism necessarily addresses the “stuff of the body” (Merleau-Ponty) out of which the world is made. So what do we do about efficiency, ecology, and sustainability, and how does that reflect not only in the way we curate, collect, and conse...