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:...
Predictably, the first quarter of the 21st century has seen museums significantly transformed by media technology and networked society, yet often this has been viewed as institutions reacting to, rather than leading change. Institutions are now deeply enmeshed in complex technological systems, platforms, and...
On April 4, MSP welcomed Fulbright Scholar Professor Alan Rice (DAAS, UMICH) who discussed a range of his work as curator, academic and activist in Lancashire, Great Britain. As a scholar of the Black Atlantic he has curated and co-curated exhibitions with Black British artists...
On March 19, MSP welcomed Seb Chan, Director & CEO of ACMI (formerly Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne, Australia and the Museum Studies Program’s 2025 Visiting Scholar. Seb’s presentation, Museums, Technologies, and Civic Transformations, explored trust, attention, digital memory, ephemerality, and...
On February 6, MSP welcomed Gail Anderson, museum consultant, thinker, and author, who shared her perspectives on the changes in museum practice highlighted in the 3rd edition of her seminal volume, Reinventing the Museum: Relevance, Inclusion, and Global Responsibilities (2023)
What is the role of anthropology in a natural history museum in the 21st century? Thinking through the issues bundled up in this question, within this talk I will discuss a new exhibit Cellphone: Unseen Connections that I curated at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History....
