“John Cotton Dana and a Modern Vision of Cultural Heritage,” September 28, 2021

A program of two talks on John Cotton Dana, founder of the Newark Museum, head of the Newark Public Library in the early decades of the 20th century, and innovator who sought to make these kinds of institutions more available to the public and to better utilize their potential for developing an understanding of culture in the population at large, not just the elite. The speakers are Diego Baldi, of the Italian National Council for Research, who is currently visiting MSU for a two-week research visit, and Deborah Chatr Aryamontri of Classics & Humanities.
This mini-symposium, sponsored by the Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies and the Institute for the Humanities, is being facilitated by the International Academic Initiatives office, MSU.