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Educational Initiative Objects and Memory stimulates vigorous discussions about fundamental aspects of humanity:
The Objects and Memory presentations, workshops, and materials engage students and the general public in an examination of assumptions in order to help them better understand and appreciate their lives, their responses, and their world. Issues include contemporary history, historic preservation, material culture, philosophy, art, cross-cultural studies, museum studies, memory, meaning, and value: how we imbue physical things with significance. This multilevel and interdisciplinary perspective helps people - young and old - look anew at what is around them and make profound connections about the underpinnings of human endeavor. Using topical segments, interviews, and scenes from eighty hours of material not incorporated into the film, presentations have been designed for middle school through post-graduate university levels, as well as for professional advancement and general audiences. Filmmaker Jonathan Fein has lectured at museums, colleges, schools, conferences, and cultural societies across the country, including the University of Massachusetts, Columbia University Teachers' College, University of Maryland, NYU, Woodhaven Historical and Cultural Society, the School of Visual Arts, the Derfner Museum, the University of Rochester, Bucknell University, Indiana University, and the Philbrook Museum. In April he was the culminating speaker at the Cultural Heritage Now Conference, sponsored by the Rutgers Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies Program. Collection and Recollection Educational Initiative Program Description When Memories Set Value Of Things - Program Review For more information about the Objects and Memory educational initiative, please contact Jonathan Fein at info@objectsandmemory.org |