Arts,
Culture, and Media Domain Events
March 3, 2011
3:00-4:15pm and 4:15-6:00pm
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building (Lobby Level)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Bronzes and Broadcasts:
How Museums and the Media Reach Global Audiences
Panel I - The Media
3:00 to 4:15pm
How do nationally-based media outlets create and serve global audiences? Does the BBC still consider itself British or CNN consider itself American in some way? Do media outlets change their content and tone based on who and where they think their listeners are?
Panelists
Robin Young, Host of WBUR’s Here and Now
Philippa Thomas, BBC World News correspondent and anchor, Harvard Neiman Fellow
Jennifer Eccleston, CNN correspondent Rome, Harvard Neiman Fellow
Jennifer Eccleston served as a CNN international correspondent, based in Rome, Italy.
Since she joined CNN in April 2005 Eccleston spent much of her time covering the ensuing aftermath of the war in Iraq. She regularly reported on the emerging political process, daily hardships of regular Iraqis, and the on-going military operations.
Highlights of Eccleston’s coverage in Iraq for CNN include reporting on the bridge stampede in September 2005 where nearly a thousand Shia Muslims died in Baghdad during a religious festival. She also spent one month embedded with the US Marines, chasing insurgents in the western Al Anbar province in the run up to the Iraqi referendum. Eccleston was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for her coverage of the Iraq War.
Additionally, Eccleston was part of the CNN team covering the Death of Pope John Paul II in April 2005 and the subsequent election of Pope Benedict XVI. She also reported on the London Bombings in the summer of 2005. She spent several tours in post invasion Afghanistan when, during the Iraq war, foreign Islamists and local Taliban reconstructed their ability to wage a fierce guerilla war on US and other NATO forces.
Eccleston was commended for her work on a joint Marine/Army/Air Force task group who engaged Afghan/Pakistan border town political leaders, tribal elders and other parts of the community to fight off extremists influences from Pakistan through self sufficiency: reconstruction projects such as building wells, bridges, roads and school. She spent several years covering the War on Terror and the political turmoil in Pakistan, including the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and elections of 2008.
Eccleston joined CNN from NBC where she was Rome correspondent but primarily reported on the Iraq War. She was part of the network’s extensive coverage of the Asian Tsunami, the Beslan Massacre in Russia and the 2004 US election. She has also covered civil wars in Liberia, the Ivory Coast, Rwanda and Sierra Leone and the former Yugoslavia. Prior to NBC, she reported on the first days of the war in Iraq for Fox News.
Eccleston began her career in journalism working for the BBC’s Washington Bureau as a researcher for ‘Newsnight’. Several years later, she became a stringer in Vietnam for National Public Radio. She has also worked as a freelance producer for ARD German TV and APTV.
She graduated from Catholic University and Georgetown University in the USA with a consortium degree in politics and philosophy. Eccleston then went on to study for a Masters in comparative European governments at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Jennifer Eccleston is now a Nieman Fellow of Journalism at Harvard University.
Discussant
Jim Bildner, Chair, Innovative Capital, Kresge Foundation and Fellow, Hauser Center, Harvard University
Panel II - Museums
4:15- 6:00pm
Ever since the leaders of the new French Republic opened the doors of the Louvre, artistic and cultural institutions have shaped how people imagine the nations where they live. In today’s global world, do museums see themselves creating global citizens too? Where do museums fall in the battle between globalism and parochial nationalism? Why do particular cities create more outward looking institutions while others create museums that focus on the world right outside their doors?
Panelists
Dan L. Monroe, Executive Director and CEO, Peabody Essex Museum
Dan L. Monroe, executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum since mid-1993, led PEM’s remarkable transformation into one of New England’s largest art organizations and into an art museum of national and international standing.
A longtime leader in the museum community, Monroe serves on the board of the prestigious Association of Art Museum Directors and is chairman of the Art Issues and Cultural Property committees. He led the highly successful national initiative to change art museum policies regarding acquisition of archaeological material and ancient art. Monroe was recently reappointed to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee. He played a central role in the creation of the landmark legislation regarding the repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural material.
Monroe was president of the Western Museums Conference and chairman of the American Association of Museums, the largest professional museum organization. Before coming to PEM, he was president of the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, and administered the Alaska State museum system.
Monroe served as grant reviewer and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Library and Museum Services. He also served as a senior museum adviser to the Getty Institute's internationally acclaimed Museum Management Institute and oversaw advocacy for museums nationwide for more than six years.
Monroe lectures and serves on panels and programs nationally and internationally. His expertise and interests lie in the areas of Native American art, photography and Asian art. He is a former educator, photographer and award-winning filmmaker.
Terry
Carbone, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of
American Art, Brooklyn Museum
Teresa A. Carbone joined the Brooklyn Museum in 1985 and currently holds the title of Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art and Managing Curator, Arts of the Americas and Europe. Dr. Carbone served as co-curator of the major exhibition “Eastman Johnson: Painting America,” in 1999, and as co-author and volume editor of the accompanying exhibition catalogue, which was awarded the New York State Historical Associations’ prestigious Henry Allen Moe Prize.
She was project director for “American Identities: A New Look”, the critically acclaimed 2001 reinstallation of the Museum’s American art galleries. In 2006 she completed her work as principal author of the two-volume scholarly catalogue “American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876,” a publication that was awarded the College Art Association’s 2006 Alfred H. Barr Prize and the Association of Art Museum Curators 2006 Annual Publication Prize for the best museum collection catalogue.
Dr. Carbone is presently completing work on a major exhibition and accompanying catalogue entitled “Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties,” the first wide-ranging and synthetic presentation of American painting, sculpture and photography from the period bounded by the aftermath of the Great War and the onset of the Great Depression. The exhibition opens at the Brooklyn Museum in October 2011 and will travel on to the Dallas Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum.
Dr. Carbone received her Masters in the History of Art from the University of Delaware, and her Doctorate from the CUNY Graduate Center.
Discussant
Peggy Levitt, Professor, Wellesley College and Co-Director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University
March 3, 2011
3:00-4:15pm and 4:15-6:00pm
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building (Lobby Level)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Bronzes and Broadcasts:
How Museums and the Media Reach Global Audiences
Panel I - The Media
3:00 to 4:15pm
How do nationally-based media outlets create and serve global audiences? Does the BBC still consider itself British or CNN consider itself American in some way? Do media outlets change their content and tone based on who and where they think their listeners are?
Panelists
Robin Young, Host of WBUR’s Here and Now
Philippa Thomas, BBC World News correspondent and anchor, Harvard Neiman Fellow
Jennifer Eccleston, CNN correspondent Rome, Harvard Neiman Fellow
Jennifer Eccleston served as a CNN international correspondent, based in Rome, Italy.
Since she joined CNN in April 2005 Eccleston spent much of her time covering the ensuing aftermath of the war in Iraq. She regularly reported on the emerging political process, daily hardships of regular Iraqis, and the on-going military operations.
Highlights of Eccleston’s coverage in Iraq for CNN include reporting on the bridge stampede in September 2005 where nearly a thousand Shia Muslims died in Baghdad during a religious festival. She also spent one month embedded with the US Marines, chasing insurgents in the western Al Anbar province in the run up to the Iraqi referendum. Eccleston was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for her coverage of the Iraq War.
Additionally, Eccleston was part of the CNN team covering the Death of Pope John Paul II in April 2005 and the subsequent election of Pope Benedict XVI. She also reported on the London Bombings in the summer of 2005. She spent several tours in post invasion Afghanistan when, during the Iraq war, foreign Islamists and local Taliban reconstructed their ability to wage a fierce guerilla war on US and other NATO forces.
Eccleston was commended for her work on a joint Marine/Army/Air Force task group who engaged Afghan/Pakistan border town political leaders, tribal elders and other parts of the community to fight off extremists influences from Pakistan through self sufficiency: reconstruction projects such as building wells, bridges, roads and school. She spent several years covering the War on Terror and the political turmoil in Pakistan, including the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and elections of 2008.
Eccleston joined CNN from NBC where she was Rome correspondent but primarily reported on the Iraq War. She was part of the network’s extensive coverage of the Asian Tsunami, the Beslan Massacre in Russia and the 2004 US election. She has also covered civil wars in Liberia, the Ivory Coast, Rwanda and Sierra Leone and the former Yugoslavia. Prior to NBC, she reported on the first days of the war in Iraq for Fox News.
Eccleston began her career in journalism working for the BBC’s Washington Bureau as a researcher for ‘Newsnight’. Several years later, she became a stringer in Vietnam for National Public Radio. She has also worked as a freelance producer for ARD German TV and APTV.
She graduated from Catholic University and Georgetown University in the USA with a consortium degree in politics and philosophy. Eccleston then went on to study for a Masters in comparative European governments at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Jennifer Eccleston is now a Nieman Fellow of Journalism at Harvard University.
Discussant
Jim Bildner, Chair, Innovative Capital, Kresge Foundation and Fellow, Hauser Center, Harvard University
Panel II - Museums
4:15- 6:00pm
Ever since the leaders of the new French Republic opened the doors of the Louvre, artistic and cultural institutions have shaped how people imagine the nations where they live. In today’s global world, do museums see themselves creating global citizens too? Where do museums fall in the battle between globalism and parochial nationalism? Why do particular cities create more outward looking institutions while others create museums that focus on the world right outside their doors?
Panelists
Dan L. Monroe, Executive Director and CEO, Peabody Essex Museum
Dan L. Monroe, executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum since mid-1993, led PEM’s remarkable transformation into one of New England’s largest art organizations and into an art museum of national and international standing.
A longtime leader in the museum community, Monroe serves on the board of the prestigious Association of Art Museum Directors and is chairman of the Art Issues and Cultural Property committees. He led the highly successful national initiative to change art museum policies regarding acquisition of archaeological material and ancient art. Monroe was recently reappointed to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee. He played a central role in the creation of the landmark legislation regarding the repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural material.
Monroe was president of the Western Museums Conference and chairman of the American Association of Museums, the largest professional museum organization. Before coming to PEM, he was president of the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, and administered the Alaska State museum system.
Monroe served as grant reviewer and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Library and Museum Services. He also served as a senior museum adviser to the Getty Institute's internationally acclaimed Museum Management Institute and oversaw advocacy for museums nationwide for more than six years.
Monroe lectures and serves on panels and programs nationally and internationally. His expertise and interests lie in the areas of Native American art, photography and Asian art. He is a former educator, photographer and award-winning filmmaker.
Teresa A. Carbone joined the Brooklyn Museum in 1985 and currently holds the title of Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art and Managing Curator, Arts of the Americas and Europe. Dr. Carbone served as co-curator of the major exhibition “Eastman Johnson: Painting America,” in 1999, and as co-author and volume editor of the accompanying exhibition catalogue, which was awarded the New York State Historical Associations’ prestigious Henry Allen Moe Prize.
She was project director for “American Identities: A New Look”, the critically acclaimed 2001 reinstallation of the Museum’s American art galleries. In 2006 she completed her work as principal author of the two-volume scholarly catalogue “American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876,” a publication that was awarded the College Art Association’s 2006 Alfred H. Barr Prize and the Association of Art Museum Curators 2006 Annual Publication Prize for the best museum collection catalogue.
Dr. Carbone is presently completing work on a major exhibition and accompanying catalogue entitled “Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties,” the first wide-ranging and synthetic presentation of American painting, sculpture and photography from the period bounded by the aftermath of the Great War and the onset of the Great Depression. The exhibition opens at the Brooklyn Museum in October 2011 and will travel on to the Dallas Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum.
Dr. Carbone received her Masters in the History of Art from the University of Delaware, and her Doctorate from the CUNY Graduate Center.
Discussant
Peggy Levitt, Professor, Wellesley College and Co-Director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University
