Kudos to… Eric Lehrer (MSP04), sociocultural anthropologist, curator, and Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, has been selected as one of the University of Michigan’s 2025-26 Frankel Institute Fellows. Erica’s fields of research are memory/heritage/museums, Jewish-Polish heritage, and decolonial museology in East...
Thursday, October 9, 2025 5:30-7:30 PM Museum of Natural History ScentStories: Exploring the Plant World Through AI & Aroma Farrand Memorial Lecture 2025 From the field to the future, researchers are finding new ways to understand the world around us through scent. Join...
Flexing the Museum: The Global Museum in the 21st Century? October 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Presentation by Christina Olsen (Director, UM Museum of Art) October 23 at 5:30 pm UM Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Exploring museums across Argentina, the UK, Belgium...
Kudos to… Lisa Cakmak (MSP03) and Katharine Raff (MSP05) who co-curated the Art Institute of Chicago’s recent major exhibition, Myth & Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection. This exhibition marked the North American debut of 58 ancient Roman sculptures from the largest...
Museums@Noon presentation by Veronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate, Germanic Language & Literature) September 12 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H When the Chickasaw Cultural Center’s 184-acre campus opened just outside of downtown Sulphur, Oklahoma in 2010, several shifts happened simultaneously:...
Where Objects are Placed: reflections on Aa-ashaachi as a guardian of sovereignty and Holisso as a threshold to community Veronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate, Germanic Language & Literature) September 12 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H When the Chickasaw Cultural...
