Alison Byrnes, a member of the 2006 MSP cohort, recently returned from seven years teaching in India, where she initiated a new Museum Studies Program. She will discuss museums in India through the lens of visuality. There is a mismatch between the cultural signals...
Call for student papers for Michigan Museums Association 2017 conference. Deadline to submit proposals: March 13, 2017 Conference dates: October 17 – 19, 2017 Conference Location: Lansing, Michigan Sharing Our Stories: The Role of Michigan Museums Are Museums...
Kudos to… Michael Andre (MSP04) continues to work as a translator for Klassik Stiftung Weimar, as well as on other projects including copy-editing a forthcoming book on batik. Recently, two of his translations were published: the Werkverzeichnis Henry van de Velde III: Keramik/ Ceramics(German and...
Please note that there has been a change to our brown bag schedule. The March 9 presentation has been moved to March 24. (This is the presentation titled “The Smithsonian Institution and the Making of the American Nonprofit Sector.”) The revised full schedule is...
Kudos to… Erica Lehrer (MSP04) published her article, “Thinking Through the Canadian Museum for Human Rights” in the American Quarterly’s December 2015 issue. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the first national museum built outside Canada’s capital, opened to the public on September 20,2014,...
The Museum Studies Program is proud to support a conference co-sponsored by the Departments of German and History of Art. The two-day conference, “Vagaries of Objectivity / Launen der Sachlichkeit” will run from Friday, January 27 to Saturday, January 28. The conference will take...
