Kimberly Ransom, PhD, MSP18, Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Education Chicago’s Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank While interning at Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank (SAB) in Chicago, Kimberly Ransom has reviewed the objects and documents in...
Universality as an intellectual and ethical imperative has substantially shaped museum work, including the management and care of collections. Critiques of the universal—including universal museums—contribute to current and necessary conversations encouraging the decolonization of cultural institutions. At the same time, the ethical impetus of...
March 15 is Giving Blue Day! Consider supporting the Museum Studies Program. Past and present directors of MSP have committed to match your contribution. Your gift will help to inaugurate a new, practice-oriented museum studies seminar format that pairs teaching faculty with curators, conservators, educators, and...
The Seduction, Refusal, and Retention of Universality in Collections Care Keynote presentation by MSP Visiting Scholar, Cara Krmpotich, Associate Professor and museum anthropologist, faculty of Information, Director, Museum Studies Program, University of Toronto March 16 at 5:00 pm, Rackham Graduate School Assembly Hall Universality...
A Storm Was Coming The Museum Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor a film screening and workshop with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez. A Storm was Coming:Film Screening and Q&A with Director Javier Fernández VázquezMonday, March 13, 2023 | 4:00 pm – 7:00 pmat Palmer...
