SessIon:  New Thoughts on Teaching Museum Ethics

Proposals Due May 9

College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, February 25-28, 2009

for details, see http://conference.collegeart.org/2009/

 
Janet Marstine, MA Program in Museum Professions, Seton Hall University, 400 S. Orange Avenue, S. Orange NJ 07079  [log in to unmask]
 
It is essential for emerging museum professionals to have a sound education in museum ethics. As museums struggle to develop greater transparency, accountability and sensitivity to diverse constituencies, engaging a new generation of leaders with expertise in museum ethics would enhance problem solving, engender public trust, and promote human rights. Yet museum theorists, museum practitioners, artists and art historians who discuss museum ethics with their students are often torn as to how to define the topic and how best to teach it. Is museum ethics a code of conduct or is it the analysis and revision of the principles upon which this conduct is based?  What is the relationship between museum ethics and advocacy?  What are the advantages of creating specific courses in museum ethics? How does a faculty infuse museum ethics across the art history or museum studies curriculum? What resources are available online? How can we work with ethicists from across the curriculum, for example business ethicists, environmental ethicists and legal ethicists, to create new conversations? How might studying artists’ critiques of the museum be part of a museum ethics education? What new ways can we collaborate with our university or community museums and galleries to help our students understand how these institutions deal with ethical issues? Proposals are welcome from art historians, museum studies faculty, museum professionals, ethicists, and artists interested in teaching museum ethics.
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