Johns Hopkins University Events – June 24

Monday, June 24, 9:15 AM, online event, free, but pre-registration required: Perspectives on Museums and Democracy. https://advanced.jhu.edu/event/perspectives-on-museums-and-democracy/. Museums occupy a unique space in our history and culture. This lecture and panel discussion will examine how the museum and heritage fields serve the public good. Join the conversation as today’s thought leaders reflect on and imagine new ways museums can foster coalition-building and create spaces for strengthening democracy.

Monday, June 24, 7:30 PM, at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC., Democracy and our Shared Heritage. Explore the role that museums, libraries, and archives hold in strengthening civil society. Please join us for a live fireside chat with the visionary thought leaders of our nation’s great public institutions— Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie G. Bunch III, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, and Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan — in a conversation moderated by Christopher Celenza, the James B. Knapp Dean of Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Learn more at https://advanced.jhu.edu/event/democracy-and-our-shared-heritage/