Join us Wednesday (January 27) for a presentation by Rebecca Bloom, PhD candidate, Asian Languages and Cultures.  She will present “Where the Sacred and the Secular Meet:  The Politics of Display at a Monastery Museum in Ladakh, India.”  Rebecca will share her fieldwork from a...

On January 15, MSP alumni and historian of German cultural and intellectual life in the modern period, Alice Goff, will present “Stepping onto the Pedestal: The Silence of Art in Napoleonic Prussia.”  The presentation will be held at 2:00 pm in the Modern Languages...

This winter’s brown bag presentations span a variety of topics.  All are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in the UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room.  Bring your lunch and join us for some interesting discussions!   The full schedule can be found here: Brown...

Facing the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes on the site of the Warsaw ghetto and prewar Jewish neighborhood, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews completes the memorial complex. At the monument, we honor those who died by remembering how they died. At...

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, received a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree at the December 20 winter commencement ceremony.  Graham...