Civility

I feel so honored to be asked to have a podcast conversation with Suse Anderson, Assistant Professor, The George Wa

The attached YouTube film is a 28-minute video presentation of my thinking at the Reimagining the Museum Conference in Medellin Columbia in 2017.

This speech is a modified version of the paper "Intentional Civility" and includes the worksheets.  This is a useful paper for staff to look at their assumptions of normative behaviour in the

I had the honor of being a keynote speaker at the MuseumNext conference in Melbourne Australia in 2017.  The paper I delivered in both on their website and uploaded and linked here.

In 2010 I was invited to speak at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago under the direction of Madeleine Grynsztejn.  It was and remains an experimental art museum offering a diversity of

"Turning the Ocean Liner Slowly" was about the Smithsonian Institution after I had left.  I had been the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Museums and the Deputy Director for Public Program Plann

In 1990 I was asked to participate in a debate about fairness in museums for the American Association of museums.  My second was Joallyn Archambault who was director of the American Indian Pro

In 1995 a shortened version of OFFERING SAFER SPACES was published in the Journal of Museum Education (Volume 21, #1, Fall, 14-16).  It came from a much larger paper that I did not reread for

This paper, published in Curator in 2001 (Curator 44/1, January 2001, pp 87-113) was written after I had carefully reread Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of the Great American City and real

SAVINGS BANK FOR THE SOUL -- This paper was originally written for

A PAPER DELIVERED FOR THE MUSEUMS AUSTRALIA INC 1996 CONFERENCE