News Release
November 2003
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) Moravian College will
host a panel discussion about the purpose of archives, in conjunction
with the current exhibition, “Buried
Treasure: Discovering the Moravian College Archives,” on Thursday,
November 20, from 7:30 – 8:45 p.m., in Peter Hall on the Priscilla
Payne Hurd Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The panel will feature three speakers, each with
a different perspective on the role of archives in our society. Dr.
Janet Loengard, professor
emerita of history, will discuss the joys and challenges of conducting
primary research, as well as some of her strategies. Dr. Diane Radycki,
associate professor and director of the Payne Gallery, will discuss
the instructional role that objects—works of art as well as archival
materials—can play in the classroom (she will use a newly acquired
woodcut by Albrecht Durer, arguably German’s greatest Renaissance
artist, to illustrate her comments), and Mark Turdo ’97, curator
of the Moravian Historical Society in Nazareth, will discuss the importance
of archives to historical institutions as they endeavor to interpret
the past.
For more information, call the Art Department at 610-861-1680.
