Lecture on the role of the museum – Oct. 7

Carol G. Duncan, “A Matter of Class: Art Collecting and Class Identity in an American Manufacturing City in the Early 20th Century”

Yeager Recital Hall, 6 p.m.

Duncan, a professor emerita at Ramapo College of New Jersey, will discuss her latest book on John Cotton Dana and his revolutionary and often contradictory theories of museum practice.  Author of several books and groundbreaking essays, she presents a new way of perceiving the role of the museum and its influence on the visitor’s experience.