Concord Museum Forums - Spring 2023
Concord Museum Forums are a series of public programs designed to foster dialogue on a diverse range of historical, contemporary, and cultural topics that resonate with Concord’s history.
Many Forums are hybrid format (both in-person at the Museum and live-streamed), making them accessible to an even wider audience. Please check details on on the Concord Museum website.
Learn more about upcoming (and recently held) programs below, and by visiting the Concord Museum's calendar pages
Upcoming Programs:
Saturday, April 1, 2023 from 1 - 2pm - Massachusetts Historical Society Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize presented to Robert A Gross for The Transcendentalists and Their World. The ceremony at the Concord Museum will feature Robert A Gross in conversation with Dennis Fiori, former Concord Museum Executive Director and MHS President Emeritus
purchase The Transcedentalists and Their World here
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Thursday, April 6, 2023 from 7 - 8pm - 43rd Annual Mary Lesneski Memorial Lecture: Global Objects: A Conversation with Edward S. Cooke, Jr. and Suzanne Blier
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Thursday, April 20, 2023 from 7 - 8pm - Diana Greenwald, Assistant Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and author of Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art, in conversation with Paris Amanda Spies-Gans, historian of art and author of A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830
purchase Painting by Numbers here
purchase A Revolution on Canvas here
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023 from 7 - 8pm - Annual Earth Day Forum ~ Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
Lauret Savoy, the David B. Truman Professor of Environmental Studies & Geology at Mount Holyoke College and a woman of African American, Euro-American, and Indigenous ancestry, in conversation on her award-winning book Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
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Recently Passed Programs:
Monday, March 6, 2023 from 7 - 8pm - No Right to an Honest Living: A Conversation with Jacqueline Jones and Kellie Carter Jackson
purchase No Right to an Honest Living here
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Books for the Concord Museum Forums are available to purchase below. You may choose to pick-up your order at the Concord Bookshop, or select Media Mail shipping ($3.99)
