I'd like to announce the new course, conference, and colloquium series
described below through your list serv.  What procedures do I need to
follow?

Sheila F. Winborne
Teaching Fellow, HDS 3323/FAS Rel 1009-Designing a World Religion Museum
Harvard University
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Subject:  NEW COURSE PLUS LINKED CONFERENCE AND COLLOQUIUM SERIES AT HARVARD


COURSE
HDS 3323 or FAS Rel 1009---Designing a World Religion Museum
Professor:  Lawrence E. Sullivan
Half course (spring 2001)
Mondays and Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m., and an hour to be arranged
Location: Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue
Exam Group 4
If you could design a World Religion Museum, how would you do it?
Impassioned public debates surround the treatment of religion in museums,
where research, education, and entertainment are displayed in revealing
ways.  This course asks how we learn and teach about religion in a plural
society.  As leisure time and access to "other" cultures grow museums
crystallize questions about the relationship of:  art to religion, education
to entertainment, object to community, self-representation to representation
of the "other."  How do you reconcile the authority of social institutions
with the ongoing creativity of living communities?  What context best
discloses the meaning of religious art:  patronage, patrimony, property, or
performance?  Drawing on existing models, museum theory as well as on new
proposals presented in the course, student teams will develop defensible
intellectual concepts as well as rich historical and cultural content for a
museum.  The goal of the course is to create an interdisciplinary learning
experience and real-life project that allows students, professors, and the
wider community to grapple with the above issues through this course and the
resultant series of public projects.  This course will be team taught and
offered in collaboration with the School of Design, the School of Education,
and other Harvard graduate programs to produce model museums, replete with
content and educational programs for design and display.  Undergraduates
welcome.


CONFERENCE: "STEWARDS OF THE SACRED"
   OPENING RECEPTION, February 7, 5:00-6:30pm
      (Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge)
   KEYNOTE ADDRESS, February 7, 6:30-8:30pm
      (Auditorium, Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge)
      W. RICHARD WEST, founding director of Smithsonian's National Museum
      of the American Indian, will speak on
      "The National Museum of the American Indian: Steward of the Sacred"
   PUBLIC FORUM, 6:30-8:30pm
      (Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue)
      Keynote: W. Richard West
      Moderator: Ronne Hartfield, The Art Institute of Chicago
      Panel: James Cuno (Harvard University Art Museums)
             Vishakha Desai (Asia Society)
             Douglas Greenberg (Survivors of the Shoah Visual
                 History Foundation)
             Elaine Heumann Gurian (Former Deputy Director,
                 U.S. Holocaust Museum)
             Jonathan King (British Museum)
             Yutaka Mino (Osaka Municipal Museum of Art)
             Dan L. Monroe (Peabody Essex Museum)
             Steven Newsome (Anacostia Museum)
             Ellen Phelan (Carpenter Center for Visual Arts)
             Dominique Ponnau (École du Louvre)
             Douglas Sharon (San Diego Museum of Man)
             Martin E. Sullivan (Historic St. Mary's City)
             Mary Sue Sweeney Price (The Newark Museum)
             Roslyn A. Walker (National Museum of African Art,
                 Smithsonian Institution)
             Rubie Watson (Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnography)
             Te Taru White (Te Papa Tonqarewa Museum of New Zealand)


COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Will bring together scholars and museum professionals-including directors,
curators, educators, and exhibition designers-as well as artists,
musicians, architects, and religious practitioners from around
the world.

    SPRING 2001
      "Religion and Music," April 12, 5:15pm
      "Beyond Repatriation," April 19, 6:30pm
      "Materiality and Spectacle," April 26, 6:30pm
      (Location of all Spring Colloquium events:
      Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue)

    FALL 2001
      "Museums of Religion," date and location TBA
      "Reflexivity and Notions of Display: How the Museum Functions
          like a Sacred Object, Site, or Performance," date and location TBA
      "Museums of Religion, Architecture, and Design," date and location TBA
      "Religion and the Media," date and location TBA




All conference and colloquium series events are open to the public.

Please feel free to post or disseminate this information widely.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Alison Edwards, conference director, Museum of Religions Project
Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions
617.496.8439; Fax 617.496.5411
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Sheila F. Winborne
Staff Assistant
Office of Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs
260 Longwood Avenue, MEC-244f
Boston, MA  02115
617.432.1572
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