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DESCRIPTION:Nancy Netzer will present at the Museum Conversations seminar o
 n Wednesday\, November 18\, 2015\, from 6 to 7:30pm. Her talk is entitled 
 “Material Culture\, Academic Research\, and the University Museum.”At Bard
  Graduate Center\, Nancy Netzer will assess recent scholarship on the ways
  that museums as organizers of knowledge contributed in the nineteenth cen
 tury to the construction of disciplines in the Academy. The resulting disc
 iplines\, which nonetheless privileged textual evidence\, have become entr
 enched as the primary organizing principle of universities. Focusing on th
 e history of the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College and decisions ma
 de for renovation of its new building\, this talk will consider opportunit
 ies for the modern university museum to leverage the disciplinary structur
 e of the institution in which it is embedded to elevate material evidence 
 in the university’s research mission to generate knowledge. Nancy Netzer i
 s Director of Boston College's McMullen Museum\nof Art and tenured Profess
 or of Art History in the Department of Fine Arts at\nBoston College\, wher
 e she teaches medieval art and the history and philosophy\nof museums. A F
 ellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and chair of the\nboard of t
 he Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities\, Netzer holds a PhD\nfrom 
 Harvard and an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Ulster in
 \nrecognition of her contribution to the study of Irish art. From 1982 to 
 1990\nshe was a research fellow and assistant curator at the Museum of Fin
 e Arts\,\nBoston where she completed catalogues of their medieval enamels\
 , glass\, and\nmetalwork. At Boston College she worked with the architect 
 Royston Daley on the\ndesign of a new Museum that opened in October 1993\,
  in the context of which she\nsupervised the conservation and reinstallati
 on of the Museum's permanent\ncollection and has since organized more than
  sixty major loan exhibitions with\nfaculty curators from a variety of dis
 ciplines and has overseen publication of\nmore than thirty-five scholarly 
 catalogues including\, most recently\, Paris\nNight and Day (2014)\; Wifre
 do Lam: Imagining New Worlds (2014)\; Roman in the\nProvinces: Art on the 
 Periphery of Empire (2015)\; and John La Farge and the\nRecovery of the Sa
 cred (2015). Currently she is working with the architects\nDiMella Shaffer
  on designing a new home for the Museum in a renovated\nneo-Renaissance pa
 lazzo with a new addition at 2101 Commonwealth Avenue\, to be\ncompleted i
 n January 2016. Her own publications include Cultural Interplay in\nthe Ei
 ghth Century: The Trier Gospels and the Making of a Scriptorium at\nEchter
 nach (Cambridge University Press\, 1994) and many articles on early\nmedie
 val illuminated manuscripts and metalwork in Britain\, Ireland\, and the\n
 Continent\, as well as the subsequent reception and display of medieval ar
 t. She\nhas received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation and the Ameri
 can Council\nfor Learned Societies\, as well as numerous grants from the N
 ational Endowment\nfor the Arts.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Material Culture\, Academic Research\, and th
 e University Museum
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