Response to symposium on Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display

ABSTRACT

The author responds to the contributions to this symposium, highlighting her ideas about diversity management regimes, the urban cultural armature, global museum assemblages, the cosmopolitan-nationalism continuum, and new methods for studying the global and for engaging in constructive critique.

KEYWORDS:

• Museums
• globalization
• assemblages
• cultural armature
• diversity
• culture

Acknowledgements

I want to thank all of the authors who contributed to this symposium and Claire Alexander who organized it.

Notes

1. Barbara Tomlinson and George Lipsitz, ‘American Studies as Accompaniment’, American Quarterly 65, no. 1 (2013), 12.

2. David FitzGerald, ‘A comparativist manifesto for international migration studies’, Ethnic and Racial Studies 35, no. 10 (October 2012), 1725–40. FitzGerald also stresses the importance of collaboration in comparative studies of migration.

3. Droitcour, Brian and William S. Smith. ‘The Digitized Museum’, Art in America, 6 October 2016. P. 78–82.

4. Who’s in Charge at the Brooklyn Museum: It could be you. Daniel McDermon, 29 April 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/arts/design/at-the-brooklyn-museum-with-a-chatty-curator-in-your-pocket.html, accessed 8 October 2016.

5. ‘Barack Obama and Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa’ New York Review of Books, November 2015. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/11/05/president-obama-marilynne-robinson-conversation/, accessed 15 October 2016.

6. Three Percent website, About, http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?s=about, accessed 15 October 2016.