Describing the dynamic interaction of places, times, languages, identities, cultural formats, dominant and marginal narratives that characterize diasporic culture appears to require a multidimensionality that the “map” metaphor seems to elude.
A deeper and critical understanding of museums, archives, and libraries is increasingly important, especially in thinking about the digital narrative form, and about how online platforms enable new ways to interact with cultural objects and to “perform culture.” In today’s world, we all experience a growing need to learn to be archivists and curators.
This course provides a valuable resource and opportunity to engage with practice and theory. Students will work directly with The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, including its holdings of material culture, its digital assets and data, and learn to conduct collaborative research and documentation in view of producing narratives that encompass curation and publication results, in museum galleries and online.
Fulfills the Arts & Literature Breadth Requirements
Can be used toward the Jewish Studies Minor