News & Publications
Excavating Archaeology – opening lecture October 18
On Wednesday, 18 October, the Kelsey Museum will be opening its latest exhibition, Excavating Archaeology. Professor Sue Alcock will give the opening lecture at 6pm at the Union, Pendleton Room. A reception at the Kelsey Museum to see the exhibition will follow.
Oct 12 – “Object Lessons” Gallery Talk & Reception
Thursday, October 12 at 5:30 pm in the Museum of Natural History: “Object Lessons: Recollecting Museum Memories at Michigan” gallery talk and reception with curators Kerstin Barndt & Amanda Krugliak & photographer Richard Barnes The history of the modern research university is unthinkable without collecting....
Transforming Education fall lecture series schedule
The schedule for our fall series, Transforming Education: Conversations About the Past, Present and Future of University Museums is now complete! When the University of Michigan was first imagined in 1817, its founders envisioned museums as essential to the ambitious educational system they...
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Alison Vacca (MSP09), an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. She has two recent publications: “The Fires of Naxčawan” in Le Muséon, and a book titled Non-Muslim Provinces under early Islam, released in 2017.
MSP16 members assist with Rackham workshop
The Rackham workshop, Making Sensory Ethnography (MSE), offers a collaborative and interdisciplinary space for students, faculty, and professionals to showcase unfinished projects and discuss the process of experimenting with ethnographic methods, forms, and content. The workshop convenes around the prefix sensory as a...
