A note on the reading schedule: Since I’m still finalizing the dates for guest speakers and other special events, this reading list will likely change, perhaps a lot, over the quarter. Be sure and check the reading in advance of each class.
If readings are freely available, they’re linked directly from this list. If the readings aren’t linked here, they’re available on CCLE.
| Week | Day | Date | Topic | Reading 1 | Reading 2 | Reading 3 | Assignment | Keyword(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M | Jan. 9 | Introduction | |||||
| 1 | W | Jan. 11 | Special Collections visit. Meet on Level B of Young Research Library | Finding aid for the George P. Johnson collection | George P. Johnson oral history (click on "Interview Full Transcript") | Early African American Film | artifact | |
| 2 | M | Jan. 16 | NO CLASS | |||||
| 2 | W | Jan. 18 | Materiality | JeeHee Hong, "material/materiality," The Chicago School of Media Theory | Steven Conn, "Do Museums Still Need Objects?" | Please explore the Smithsonian's X3D objects | Blog Post One | materiality |
| 3 | M | Jan. 23 | Race at the Museum | Lucille Clifton, "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989" (just the poem) and context | Visitors of Color (please browse this site and read entries that interest you) | Kathleen Fine-Dare, "Museums and Objects of Empire" (see also some additional suggested readings) | Two comments on your classmates' blog posts | |
| 3 | W | Jan. 25 | Nuts and bolts 1 | Selections from Lord and Piacente, Manual of Museum Exhibitions | curation, exhibit design, interpretive plan | |||
| 4 | M | Jan. 30 | What is a museum? | Eugene Dillenberg, "What, If Anything, is a Museum?" | Geoffrey D. Lewis, "History of Museums" (don't hate, it's a good article) | Blog Post Two | museum | |
| 4 | W | Feb. 1 | Radical curation. Special guest: Hanna Girma, assistant curator, The Mistake Room (and DH alumna!) | Tony Bennett, "The Exhibitionary Complex" | Deborah Vankin, "The Mistake Room brings global view to gritty downtown L.A. art scene" | Shana Nys Dambrot, "The Mistake Room: The L.A. Art World's Next Big Thing" | Two comments on your classmates' blog posts | exhibitionary complex |
| 5 | M | Feb. 6 | Museums' "Digital Dilemma" (special guest: Dr. Emily Pugh, Getty Research Institute) | Marissa Clifford (UCLA DH alumna, woot!), "Metadata Specialists Share Their Challenges, Defeats, and Triumphs" | Robert J. Weisberg, "Metadata and the Museum Digital Dilemma" | |||
| 5 | W | Feb. 8 | Research symposium | See Blog Post Three for details. | Watch Within Our Gates (Micheaux, 1920) | Blog Post Three | ||
| 6 | M | Feb. 13 | How are museums using technology now? | Andrea Shea, "Beacons, QR Codes And 3-D Printing: Enter The Museum Of The 21st Century" | Arup Foresight, Museums in a Digital Age" (PDF) | Design a Wig, Ripped Apart: A Civil War Mystery (or download the app), The Artist Project | Two comments on your classmates' blog posts | technology |
| 6 | W | Feb. 15 | Trip to Special Collections | Maggie Burnette Stogner, "Communicating Culture in the 21st Century The Power of Media-Enhanced lmmersive Storytelling" | Beth A. Twiss-Houting et al., "Learning Theory in the Museum Setting" | Blog Post Four | ||
| 7 | M | Feb. 20 | NO CLASS | |||||
| 7 | W | Feb. 22 | EXCITING FIELD TRIP! California African American Museum, with Deputy Director Naima Keith | Robert R. Janes, "Museums, Social Responsibility, and the Future We Desire" | Two comments on your classmates' blog posts | |||
| 8 | M | Feb. 27 | Working session | Optional: Stephen Greenblatt, "Resonance and Wonder" | Optional: Susan Vogel, "Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion" | resonance, wonder | ||
| 8 | W | 1-Mar | Prof. Posner out of town for conference. Please us this class session for group work. | |||||
| 9 | M | 6-Mar | Technology and the exhibitionary complex | Gwyneira Isaac, "Technology Becomes the Object" | Deidre Brown and George Nicholas, "Protecting indigenous Cultural Property in the Age of Digital Democracy" | postcolonial | ||
| 9 | W | 8-Mar | Guest: Deborah Horowitz, Managing Director, Creative Content, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Museum | Blog Post Five | ||||
| 10 | M | 13-Mar | Curating History | Richard Rabinowitz, "Eavesdropping at the Well: Interpretive Media in the Slavery in New York Exhibition" | Leslie Harris, "Imperfect Archives and the Historical Imagination" | Two comments on your classmates' blog posts | ||
| 10 | W | 15-Mar | Working session | |||||
| 11 | F | 24-Mar | Due date for final group report |