American Culture’s Border Collective Workshop will focus on the growth and changes in Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico, the U.S. and parts of Latin America. Day of the Dead is a celebration held on November 1st and 2nd to remember those that...
CHRONOPOLIS: TIME AND URBAN SPACE October 29-31, 2015 The graduate students of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan present their graduate student conference, Chronopolis: Time and Urban Space. Professor Bettina Stoetzer from MIT will deliver the keynote address. The graduate conference...
Cell Block Seven operates as a museum within an operating penitentiary and is dedicated to telling the story of the Michigan Department of Corrections. This presentation will discuss the original goals for the museum, what has been learned in its first year of operation,...
Andrea Rottmann (MSP13) recently had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Lonnie Bunch, the Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the topic of LGBTQ engagement. The interview can be seen here.
We congratulate Graham Beal, the recently retired director, president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Institute of Arts and currently the Hannah Visiting Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University for the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree that he will be receiving at Winter...
Oct 13 at 6:30 pm, UMMA auditorium. Geoffrey Emberling (UM Kelsey Museum) will contextualize the horrifying destruction of monuments and looting of sites and museums in the Middle East by the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS). He will discuss western responses to these actions, from government...
