Tag: "museum studies"

Visiting scholar presents jade perspectives and various areas of expertise from China

Visiting scholar presents jade perspectives and various areas of expertise from China

Anthropology professor Shouyong Pan explained the motifs of jade sculptures and presented on other areas of his expertise as visiting scholar Photo courtesy of Willmott
Professor of anthropology and museum studies Shouyong Pan of Minzu University in Beijing shared his insights of jade sculptures with anthropology students at the Ethnology Museum Laboratory last week as visiting scholar.
Pan also […]

Downtown Bellville with the app running

No future in history?

Last summer, Tom Thomson and Rebecca Sibert-Johnston of the museum studies graduate program took historical studies to a modern medium.
Under the guidance of Jeff Manuel, assistant professor of historical studies, Sibert-Johnson and Thomson created an android app as an experiment in digital history. The goal of which was to display historical information in modern settings.
The […]

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