Public programs facilitate dialogue between academics and professionals, informing scholarship and strengthening practice.
Multiple day conferences, year-long colloquia, individual lectures, “conversations” between individuals, hands-on workshops, and Museums at Noon talks featuring our graduate students all contribute to the remarkable richness of MSP offerings.
Video recordings of some MSP lectures are archived for viewing in our Media Gallery.
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Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
January 13, 2016 @ 5:30 pm
Title: Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Presenter: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies, New York University)
Date: Wednesday, January 13
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium
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 the museum, we honor them – and those who came before and after – by remembering how they lived. Since POLIN Museum opened in April 2013, almost a million visitors have passed through its doors. This lecture explores the creation of the museum and its multimedia narrative exhibition, a journey of a thousand years, and its potential to be an agent of transformation that can move an entire society forward.
