Speaking
Dr. Danielle Raad’s versatile speaking portfolio spans a variety of academic and public settings and includes invited lectures about her research and curatorial work, conference presentations, and participatory workshops in museum education.
Past Talks and Workshops
Above the Oxbow: Engaging the Past at the Mount Holyoke Summit House
What Makes a Historical Object “Real”?
Big Collections, Small Staff
Confronting a Legacy Collection in a Student-Curated Exhibit
Curating “De la Tierra”
Curating “De la Tierra”
Teaching with Collections: The Power of Object-Based Pedagogies
Place Attachment on Mount Holyoke
Above the Oxbow: Sense of History at the Mount Holyoke Summit House
Effective Strategies for Jumpstarting Close Looking
Place-Making on Mountaintops and Orogenic Ethnography on Mount Holyoke
Cultivating STEM Skillsets with Art and Artifacts
Systematic Thinking E-Conversation
Materiality and Memory: Chemical and Social Bonds
The View from Mount Holyoke: A Persistent Vision of an Arcadian Landscape
Plaster Casts: Artistic and Cultural Pedagogy
Animals and Art
Commemoration and Memorialization
World War II in Western Massachusetts: Contemporary Archaeology of a Plane Crash
The Power of Collective Vision: Landscape, Visual Media, and the Production of American Mountains
Veganism as Engaged Anthropological Theory
Arlington High School as Archaeological Dig: Using Local, Community Resources to Explore Scientific Methodologies and Principles
Speaking Engagements
I am available to deliver lectures and workshops, including talks about my research and interactive sessions in object-based learning and museum education. Please reach out to discuss possible speaking engagements.