This presentation will explore salvage anthropology, a movement spurred by threats of extinction faced by indigenous societies that brought millions of material culture objects into museums. As a result, questions have arisen for museums such as what to do with stolen artifacts, stolen knowledge,...
This presentation explores salvage anthropology, a movement spurred by threats of extinction faced by indigenous societies that brought millions of material culture objects into museums. As a result, questions have arisen for museums such as what to do with stolen artifacts, stolen knowledge, and...
Speaker: Caitlin Clerkin (PhD candidate, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology) When: 12:00 pm on Friday, April 19 Where: UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) Reinstalling Early Greece at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The presenter will discuss her practicum...
Kudos to… John Kannenberg (MSP10) was interviewed for an episode of Brown University’s Public Work podcast, produced by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. This show focuses on public scholarship institutions and projects across a wide spectrum of cultural...
Kudos to… Jenny Kreiger (MSP11) has begun a position as a Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Oregon, working with faculty on projects involving collaboration between the campus art museum (the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art) and university libraries. Previously, she served as...
What’s the coolest thing in the University of Michigan’s Natural History Museum’s new home? Museum Director Amy Harris gives us the inside scoop about the museum in this episode of #OneToughQuestion.
