Greetings, Museum-L,

 

You are invited to attend (in person or online) “Listening Across Differences,” a presentation by Martha Norkunas at the Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center lecture hall on Friday, September 25, at 10 am. Dr. Norkunas is a professor in the Public History Program at Middle Tennessee State University.  She works with schools, museums, historic sites, and nonprofit institutions on projects that document the lives of African Americans, women, and people in the labor movement.  Her recent work includes the African American Oral History Project and Interpreting the Texas Past. For more information, see http://www.dailytexanonline.com/top-stories/keeper-of-untold-stories-closes-book-on-work-at-ut-1.1748342 and http://www.utexas.edu/features/2007/listen/.

 

The event will be web cast live and then made available for viewing after the program date at http://museumstudies.si.edu.  (If you plan to attend in person, the S. Dillon Ripley Center is located at 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington, DC; the lecture hall is on the third level.)

 

This program is part of an occasional series hosted jointly by the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies and the Smithsonian Heritage Months Steering Committee. The series features colleagues doing innovative work in the fields of community outreach and heritage. For further information please contact Philippa Rappoport at [log in to unmask].