Listening Across Difference
Sep 22nd, 2009 by roryturner
Smithsonian staff and colleagues are invited to attend (in person or online) “Listening Across Differences,” a presentation by Martha Norkunas at the S. Dillon Ripley Center’s 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.
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 rappoph@si.edu.
