Reflections on Black Digital History and Museums: Julius Jones and Nile Blunt, in conversation
We invite you to attend a presentation and discussion about meaning-making around Black history, contemporary museum practices, and the future of storytelling and engagement.
To begin, Dr. Julius Jones, Assistant Professor of Public History, UNC-Wilmington, will offer a keynote, sharing his professional practice as a historian, curator, educator, and digital media producer who examines primary and secondary resources and employs them to create online and onsite exhibitions, including Freedom’s Journey: An Online Experience of Freedom, Resistance and the Journey Towards Equality. Dr. Jones’s presentation will be followed by a brief conversation with Dr. Nile Blunt, the McPherson Director of Academic Programs at the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery and an Assistant Professor of Curatorial Practice in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Rochester. Their exchange will be followed by question-and-answer session facilitated by Dr. Juilee Decker, Professor of History and Director of the Museum Studies Program at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Funding for this event comes from the Philip K. and Anne Wehrheim Endowment in support of the RIT-Genesee Country Village & Museum Partnership, with support from the Museum Studies Program and the Department of History at RIT. “Reflections on Black Digital History and Museums” is the third in the Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass Lecture Series at RIT.
The event will be followed by a reception.
Julius L. Jones, Ph.D. is a historian, curator, educator, and digital media producer with over a decade of experience in the not-for-profit sector, with a particular focus on Higher Education and Cultural institutions. Currently, Julius is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, where he is also an affiliate of the Public History and Africana Studies programs. Previously, Julius served as a curator at the Chicago History Museum, where he developed exhibition narratives, identified materials to be added to the museum’s collection, conducted object and image research, and spoke to the public on a variety of historical topics.
Nile K. Blunt, Ph.D. serves as the McPherson Director of Academic Programs at the Memorial Art Gallery and is an Assistant Professor of Curatorial Practice in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Rochester. With over a decade of experience in arts education and engagement, Blunt is deeply passionate about the power of art to transform the lives and broaden the world views of members of many diverse communities. In a previous role, Blunt served as the Head of School Programs at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
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