Ανοιχτές Διαλέξεις
Οι ανοιχτές και στο ευρύτερο ειδικό κοινό διαλέξεις θίγουν σύγχρονα ζητήματα ειδικού ενδιαφέροντος. Αφορούν γενικότερα πολιτιστικά θέματα που απασχολούν την μουσειακή κοινότητα σήμερα και για τα οποία είναι ανάγκη να διαμορφώνουν άποψη οι φοιτητές. Με διακεκριμένους προσκεκλημένους, όχι μόνο από την Ελλάδα αλλά και από το εξωτερικό, συζητιούνται θέματα ιστορίας, ιδεολογίας, μνήμης, τραύματος, αναπαράστασης, σημειωτικής, εκθεσιακού σχεδιασμού, πολιτισμικής θεωρίας και νοήματος.
Πέραν των Ελλήνων έχουν συμμετάσχει οι παρακάτω προσκεκλημένοι αλλοδαποί ομιλητές.
Georgios Anagnostou, professor of Cultural Studies, Ohio State University, USA (with the support of the Institute of International Education, USA, the FULBRIGHT Foundation, Greece and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation)
Eric Anderson, associate professor of Art History, Rhode Island School of Design, USA (with the collaboration of the FULBRIGHT Foundation, Greece)
Melody Barnett Deusner, assistant professor of Art History, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, ΗΠΑ (with the collaboration of the FULBRIGHT Foundation, Greece)
Hans Belting, art historian, professor, Institute for Art History & Media Theory, University of Art and Design, Karlsruhe, author of “The End of Art History?”, Germany
Ian Brown, professor of Anthropology, University of Alabama, USA
Luis-Emilio Bruni, associate professor, Institut for Arkitektur og Medieteknologi, Copenhagen, Denmark
Federicco Bucci, professor of History of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
David Carrier, philosopher, art critic, professor of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, Champney Family Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA
Timothy J. Clark, art historian-writer, professor, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Angela Dimitrakaki, Programme Director, Modern and Contemporary Art, Senior Lecturer, Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Edinburgh, UK
Michelle Elligott, Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections, MoMA, New York, USA
Christopher Gair, professor, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, UK
Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer, Director of the Collection of Classical Antiquities, Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, professor of Classical Archaeology, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
Clio Karageorghis, Architecte-Conseil chez Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Vasif Kortun, curator – art historian, founding Director of SALT, Istanbul, Turkey
André Odier, Managing Director, Association of the Friends of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Nikos Poulopoulos, assistant professor, University of Missouri-St Louis, USA (with the support of the Institute of International Education, USA, the FULBRIGHT Foundation, Greece and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation)
Donald Preziosi, art historian, professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, co-editor of «Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum»
Hans-Peter Söder, Resident Director, Junior Year in Munich, An der Universität München
Göran Sonesson, professor of Semiotics, Lund University, Sweden
Peter Stavrianidis, adjunct professor of Management (Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York)
Bernard Tschumi, architect, Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA, architect of the New Acropolis Museum
Boris Wastiau, Director of the Musée d’ethnographie de Genève, Switzerland
Otto Karl Werckmeister, art historian – writer of the work «Der Medusa-Effekt», professor Emeritus, Universität Hamburg, Germany