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Talk on new Liberty Bell site Nov. 5 12:25 p.m., Oct. 20, 2004--Karie Diethorn, a 1984 UD graduate, will give the Museum Studies Program’s Fall Forum Lecture, “Whose Memory is it Anyway? The Public Debate over Interpreting a New Site for the Liberty Bell,” at 2:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 5, in 202 Old College. Diethorn is the chief of the museum branch at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. Her talk, free and open to the University community, is the sixth annual museum studies alumni lecture. National Park Service plans for a new exhibit facility to house the Liberty Bell near the site of President George Washington's Philadelphia home drew extensive public criticism last year when those plans omitted that Washington had slaves in his household. Diethorn will explore how this controversy developed and the impact this issue continues to have on the practice of public history at Independence National Historical Park. A graduate of Pennsylvania State University, Diethorn earned her master's degree in American history and a certificate in museum studies from UD. After graduate school, she served as the curatorial intern at Independence National Historical Park and then as curator of collections at Old Economy Village, a component of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. She joined the National Park Service in 1988 as curator of the Longfellow National Historic Site and the John F. Kennedy National Historic Site near Boston. The next year, she rejoined the staff at Independence National Historical Park as a staff curator. Since 1994, she has managed the park's museum branch as chief curator. Diethorn is coauthor of the catalog, History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park, and a contributor to an anthology of essays, Quaker Aesthetics, Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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