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...
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...
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...
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...
April 10 presentations: 6:00 pm “Expanding Narrating Nubia’s Network:” Best Practices for Online Exhibition and Access” Presented by Tori Herzig-Deribin, Tessa Oliveira, Abigail Staub Challenge statement: To develop robust resources and best practice recommendations for the development of an online component of the Narrating Nubia exhibition, to be...
Kudos to… Taylor West (MSP21) who has recently begun a position as a Micro-CT Scanning Specialist within the Core Research Laboratories at the Natural History Museum in London.
Christiana Sinacola — “Conversations from the Herbarium”
April 18, 2024
