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SUMMARY:America at 250: a Conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III\, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
DESCRIPTION:America at 250: History\, Memory\, and Truth \nA Conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III\, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution\nTuesday\, March 31\, 6pm (doors open at 5:15pm)\nRackham Auditorium\, 915 E. Washington St.\nFree & open to the public \nMuseums are the classrooms of our country. They play a crucial role in helping us understand the nation’s complex past. Join us for a dynamic conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III\, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution\, and Lynette Clemetson\, director of Wallace House Center for Journalists\, as they reflect on the significance of the 250th anniversary of the United States. At a moment in which discussions about our shared past and collective future feel especially urgent\, this event offers an opportunity to learn from a leader who has devoted his career to informing and inspiring Americans to strive for the public good. \nQ&A will follow and copies of Secretary Bunch’s book “A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush\, Obama\, and Trump” will be available for purchase. \nLonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian. He assumed his position June 16\, 2019. As Secretary\, he oversees 21 museums\, 21 libraries\, the National Zoo\, numerous research centers\, and several education units and centers. Two new museums—the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum—are in development. Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Bunch chronicled the creation of the museum in his book A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush\, Obama\, and Trump and is the first historian to be Secretary of the Institution. Since 2024\, Bunch has been Honorary Professor of Practice at Queen’s University Belfast. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, Bunch received France’s highest award\, The Legion of Honor\, in 2021. \nLynette Clemetson is Director of Wallace House Center for Journalists\, home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists and the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists at the University of Michigan. She came to the university from NPR where she was Senior Director of Strategy and Content Initiatives. Her career in journalism spans newspapers\, magazines and audio across a range of platforms. As a reporter\, she was a Washington-based correspondent for The New York Times and Newsweek. Prior to her domestic correspondent work\, she was an international correspondent for Newsweek based in Hong Kong\, where she covered the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule in 1997. She moved into digital strategy and leadership in 2008 as the founding managing editor of TheRoot.com\, launched for The Washington Post Company with Henry Louis Gates Jr. She is also the former Director of Content Strategy at Pew Center on the States. \nThis 2026 Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture is presented by the Institute for the Humanities in partnership with Wallace House Center for Journalists. Additional support provided by the Initiative for Democracy & Civic Empowerment\, Life-Changing Education\, Museum Studies Program\, U-M Library\, and the U-M Museum of Art.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/america-at-250-a-conversation-with-lonnie-g-bunch-iii-secretary-of-the-smithsonian-institution/
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School\, 915 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:Museo Moderno: A Values-driven Model that Positions Art and Artists as Central to Human\, Economic and Democratic Development
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Victoria Noorthoorn\, Director\, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and the Museum Studies Program’s 2026 Visiting Scholar \nUM Museum of Art – Helmut Stern Auditorium \nHow does art lead the way in creating our possible futures? How do the human imagination and the agency and actions of art free the potential for wonder\, for hope\, optimism and joy\, to confront times of agony\, trauma and fear? In what ways do artists of all disciplines from around the world dare still to dream of different\, alternative futures for humanity\, to envision previously unimagined paths forward? How does art furnish humanity with the means to mourn\, mitigate\, overcome and bring solace and healing to the world’s deep antagonisms and conflicts? \nIn this lecture\, Museo Moderno´s Director Victoria Noorthoorn will describe the values-driven transformation of this vibrant museum of modern and contemporary art in Buenos Aires throughout her leadership over the past 12 years. Noorthoorn has persistently worked towards creating a new model for a public museum in Argentina – and in doing so\, she has created a new museum model – that positions art and artists as drivers of educational\, social\, economic and civic development. \nCo-sponsored by the UM Museum of Art\, Arts Initiative\, and History of Art \n \nVictoria Noorthoorn is the Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires since 2013. She holds a Licentiate in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA\, 1996) and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies\, Bard College\, New York (1998). She has acted as Projects Coordinator for the International Program at MoMA\, New York; Assistant Curator of Contemporary Exhibitions at The Drawing Center\, New York; and Curator at Malba in Buenos Aires. Between 2004 and 2013\, she worked independently and curated the 29th Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra\, in Pontevedra\, Spain (2006); the 41 Salón Nacional de Artistas\, in Cali\, Colombia (2008); the 7a Bienal do Mercosul\, in Porto Alegre\, Brazil (2009); the 11ème Biennale de Lyon: A Terrible Beauty Is Born\, in Lyon\, France (2011); and The Circle Walked Casually\, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle\, in Berlin\, Germany (2013)\, among many other exhibitions. In 2012\, she was honoured with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2014\, she was selected to attend the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York. During her tenure leading the Moderno\, the museum has undergone a deep process of development that has involved doubling its exhibition spaces\, presenting +120 exhibitions\, publishing +70 bilingual publications\, escalating its various education programs to involve +20.000 teachers a year and achieving recognition for its mental health and accessibility programs. At the Moderno\, Noorthoorn has curated exhibitions of León Ferrari\, Marta Minujín\, Marina De Caro\, Ana Gallardo\, Tracey Rose\, Zanele Muholi\, Bernardo Ortiz\, Delcy Morelos\, and Sergio De Loof\, among many others\, and group exhibitions such as A Tale of Two Worlds (2017-2018) presented first at the MMK in Frankfurt and later at Museo Moderno. During the last few years\, the Moderno has presented the yearly programs One Day on Earth (2022-2023)\, Art Is Education (2024) and Art Is Theater (2025)\, each of which has articulated a narrative of +10 exhibitions. During 2020-2025\, Noorthoorn was an active Board member of CIMAM (International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern Art)\, and in this capacity Museo Moderno hosted the 55th CIMAM Annual Conference (2023) which focused on the educational and social dimensions of museums of modern and contemporary art and was attended by +240 museum professionals from +80 countries. Today\, Museo Moderno prepares for its 70th Anniversary Program Our Home\, The Future to be launched on April 26\, 2026.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museo-moderno-a-values-driven-model-that-positions-art-and-artists-as-central-to-human-economic-and-democratic-development/
LOCATION:University of Michigan Museum of Art
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SUMMARY:Museums in Time of Polycrisis: The Promise of Cultural Institutions
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Dr. Porchia Moore \nJanuary 27 at 5:00 pm \nEldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall (505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor) \nAs a global polycrisis continues to impact modern day life\, perhaps no other institution is experiencing the impact of rapid change more than the American museum. In this talk\, Dr. Moore will identify and name the challenges to museums and the impact on visitors\, communities\, and museum professionals. What is the value of the museum in the 21st century? How can those who love museums fight back to preserve the positive benefits of museums as these institutions work hard to preserve memory\, archive human activity\, and work to tell inclusive\, truthful\, and powerful stories? Dr. Moore will outline the promise of cultural institutions and discuss how we need museums now more than ever to help us make meaning of our lives\, create places of respite and refuge\, and foster welcoming for all communities; especially those with histories of oppression and marginalization. \nDr. Porchia Moore is the Associate Director of the Center for Arts\, Migration\, and Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor and Director of Museum Studies at the University of Florida. She is the Co-Director of the international collaboratory\, The Incluseum\, and the co-founder of the Visitors of Color Project. Her scholarship examines the relationship between digital technologies\, race\, identity\, and communities. \n  \nDr. Porchia Moore’s visit to Ann Arbor has been coordinated by the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum in collaboration with the Museum Studies Program and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-in-time-of-polycrisis-the-promise-of-cultural-institutions/
LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109
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SUMMARY:Flexing the Museum: The Global Museum in the 21st Century?
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Christina Olsen (Director\, UM Museum of Art) \nOctober 23 at 5:30 pm \nUM Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \nExploring museums across Argentina\, the UK\, Belgium and Portugal visited on a recent sabbatical\, museum director Christina Olsen wrestles with museums’ changing shapes and missions\, ethics and publics in a wide-ranging conversation about why and how art museums matter in the world today. \nChristina Olsen is the director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art. Olsen has more than 25 years of leadership experience in museums\, and lectures and writes frequently on the future and changing role of art museums. She received her PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/flexing-the-museum/
LOCATION:University of Michigan Museum of Art
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SUMMARY:Museums\, Technologies and Civic Transformations
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Seb Chan\, Director & CEO of ACMI (formerly Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne\, Australia and the Museum Studies Program’s 2025 Visiting Scholar \nUM Museum of Art – Helmut Stern Auditorium \nPredictably\, the first quarter of the 21st century has seen museums significantly transformed by media technology and networked society\, yet often this has been viewed as institutions reacting to\, rather than leading change. Institutions are now deeply enmeshed in complex technological systems\, platforms\, and services across all parts of a museum’s operations and practices. Today\, the nature of collections themselves is implicated as they are increasingly ‘born digital.’ These shifts all require highly skilled labor\, new strategies\, policies\, and debate to ensure that the transformations serve the museum’s community and long-term interests. \nThis talk will explore trust\, attention\, digital memory\, ephemerality\, and the fragility of new cultural artefacts\, and conversely\, maintenance\, longevity\, and the need for bold pan-institutional and sector-wide initiatives\, new skills\, and literacies. \n \nSeb Chan is the Director & CEO of ACMI\, guiding ACMI as a museum focused on screen culture and the intersection of media\, technology\, worldbuilding and storytelling. Prior to his appointment to this role\, Seb was ACMI’s and the museum field’s first Chief Experience Officer (2015-22)\, and was a key part of the team behind ACMI’s expansion into a multi-award winning\, multiplatform museum. \nPrior his time with ACMI\, Seb led the digital transformation of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York from its award-winning interactive Pen with Local Projects\, to the acquisition of important software-based works for the Smithsonian’s collection (2011–15). Beginning his museum career in Sydney he led the Powerhouse Museum’s pioneering work in open access\, mass collaboration and digital experience during the 2000s in Sydney. His work has won awards internationally in the museum\, media and design spheres. Before becoming known in the museum world\, Seb had a successful life in electronic and experimental music as a performer\, publisher and producer. \nSeb is the current National President of the Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA)\, serves on the international advisory board member of Art Science Museum (Singapore) and is a Board member of the non-profit Tessitura Network (US). He previously served on the boards of the National Communication Museum\, Diversity Arts Australia\, ICE Parramatta\, and Music NSW; and has been an advisor to the National Museum of Australia\, National Heritage Board of Singapore\, Mellon Foundation’s Artstor\, and was a member of the Australian Government’s Gov2.0 Taskforce. \nSeb is Adjunct Professor\, School of Media and Communication\, in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT. He has been Partner Investigator on Australian Research Council Linkage projects that have contributed to new museum practices in communicating climate change\, digital preservation\, interactive design\, and audience research\, and has extended his contribution to these themes through papers\, book chapters and presentations to over 100 museum\, media and design conferences and symposia across the globe. \nHe is an alumnus of the Getty Leadership Institute\, Salzburg Global Seminar\, UNSW\, and was awarded the UNSW Alumni Award for Art & Culture in 2024. \nThe Museum Studies Program thanks the following for their co-sponsorship of this presentation:  University of Michigan Arts Initiative\, the Bentley Library\, the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\, the Digital Studies Institute\, History of Art\, LSA DEI\, the Museum of Art\, Office of Research\, the Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop\, and the School of Information \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-technologies-and-civic-transformations/
LOCATION:University of Michigan Museum of Art
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SUMMARY:Reinventing the Museum: A Discussion of the Continuing Paradigm Shift
DESCRIPTION:Presentation and conversation with Gail Anderson\, museum consultant and author. \nFebruary 6 at 5:00 pm \nEldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall (505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor) \nGail Anderson\, museum consultant\, thinker\, and author\, will share her perspectives on the changes in museum practice highlighted in  the 3rd edition of her seminal volume\, Reinventing the Museum: Relevance\, Inclusion\, and Global Responsibilities (2023) \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/reinventing-the-museum-a-discussion-of-evolution-innovation/
LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109
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SUMMARY:Unseen Connections: A Natural History of the Cellphone
DESCRIPTION:Space 2435\, UM North Quad (105 S. State Street) \nPresentation by Josh Bell\, Curator of Globalization at the National Museum of Natural History\, Smithsonian and Museum Studies Program 2024 Visiting Scholar \nWhat is the role of anthropology in a natural history museum in the 21st century? Thinking through the issues bundled up in this question\, within this talk I will discuss a new exhibit Cellphone: Unseen Connections that I curated at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Cellphone examines cellular technology and its cultural\, ecological and social intersections around the world\, and is informed by a decade of interdisciplinary and collaborative research on cellular telephony in Washington D.C.. The exhibit consists of 750 objects\, a comic book mural\, interactive displays and 33 personal profiles of people along the cellphone’s global supply chain from 35 countries. Drawing inspiration from the relational perspectives of Indigenous world-making in Oceania\, as well as the moral and ethical obligations of political ecology\, this exhibit demonstrates how natural history is about\, and for\, everyone. \nDr. Joshua A. Bell is Curator of Globalization at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Combining ethnographic fieldwork with research in museums and archives\, Bell examines the shifting local and global network of relationships between persons\, artefacts and the environment. To date he has carried out research with communities in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea\, with historic Oceanic collections\, and on cellular telephony in Washington\, D.C.. He is currently the chair of NMNH’s anthropology department\, and is the steward of NMNH’s Oceania\, African and South American collections as well as the collections of the National Anthropological Archive. He is a founding member of Recovering Voices\, and co-directs the annual Mother Tongue Film Festival. He also directs the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology\, a summer course funded by the National Science Foundation that teaches graduate students how to effectively and ethically engage with museum and archival collections. \nPresentation flyer \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/unseen-connections-a-natural-history-of-the-cellphone/
LOCATION:Space 2435\, School of Information\, 105 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109
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SUMMARY:Know Thyself: The Importance of Vision in Museum Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Neil Barclay\, President and CEO\, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History \nFebruary 20\, at 5:30 pm\, UM Museum of Art \nAs museums grapple with the complexity of a social\, political and economic change in the communities they serve\, visionary leadership of these institutions becomes critically important.  While there are many approaches to how such leadership is defined and achieved\, in its most fundamental terms\, it begins with a keen understanding of why an individual has chosen the museum field as their life’s work in the first place. In this talk\, Barclay explores the relationship between personal vision and institutional vision and how the two define the most successful leaders working today. \nIn January of 2019 Neil Barclay was selected to lead the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History as its president and CEO. Prior to that\, he served as President and CEO of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in New Orleans for five years.  Barclay also served for seven years as associate director of the Performing Arts Center for the University of Texas at Austin and is the founding president and CEO of Pittsburgh’s August Wilson Center. Additionally\, he was instrumental in the historic capital renovation planning for Los Angeles’ Vision Theater\, originally built by Howard Hughes and currently in the final stages of development for the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs. \nPresentation flyer \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-critical-role-of-cultural-institutions-in-contemporary-society/
LOCATION:University of Michigan Museum of Art
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SUMMARY:Museums in Practice series - Access and Museums: Making Meaning through Online and Digital Connections
DESCRIPTION:Join us via Zoom for the Museum Studies Program’s third annual Virtual Panel Discussion considering access and accessibility concerns in museum practice. With museum\, library\, and cultural heritage panelists from the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)\, Delft University of Technology\, and the Smithsonian Institution\, this session will explore the challenges and opportunities of “Open Access” initiatives and “Access to Heritage” programs. Topics to be presented and discussed include the task of upgrading Nomenclature for Museum Cataloguing to provide access to terminology from multiple languages and regions; the creation of new\, community-engaged research and educational opportunities using online collections; and the championing of digitized public domain heritage as a key tool for museums aiming to fulfill their societal missions. \nPanelists: \n\nLiz Harmon\, PhD\, Virtual Museum Program Manager\, American Women’s History Museum\, Smithsonian Institution\, USA\nDouglas McCarthy\, Head of Library Learning Centre\, Delft University of Technology\, Netherlands\nHeather Dunn\, Heritage Information Analyst\, Canadian Heritage Information Network\, Government of Canada\n\nThis panel discussion will be presented online via Zoom and will feature real time captioning. \nPlease register in advance for this online Zoom webinar. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-in-practice-series-access-and-museums-making-meaning-through-online-and-digital-connections/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Seduction\, Refusal\, and Retention of Universality in Collections Care
DESCRIPTION:Rackham Graduate School Assembly Hall (4th floor)\nPlease join the Museum Studies Program for its 20th anniversary keynote address by Cara Krmpotich\, Director of Museum Studies at the University of Toronto. \nUniversality 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 universal design offers a new set of values with which to imagine the universal in museums. In this talk\, I consider moves from universalism to relativism\, and from singularity to plurality. In seeking to understand why universalism\, its refusal\, and its retention within museum spaces matters\, I propose that museums’ evolving interpretations of universality directly shape how they care—for their collections\, their publics\, and their environments. \nCara Krmpotich is Associate Professor and Director of the Museum Studies Program at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. She is Past-President of the Council for Museum Anthropology\, an Ontario Museums Association Councillor\, and Co-Director of the Great Lakes Research Alliance (GRASAC)\, an Indigenous-Settler network committed to reuniting Great Lakes cultural belongings with Great Lakes places\, knowledge systems and peoples. \nPlease join us online via Zoom if you are unable to attend in person:   https://umich.zoom.us/j/92878966443 \nKrmpotich flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-seduction-refusal-and-retention-of-universality-in-collections-care/
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School\, 915 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Experiment|Experience: Campus Art Museums in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Museums Studies panel discussion! \nExperiment|Experience: Campus Art Museums in the 21st Century  \nPanelists: \n\nChristina Olsen – Director\, Museum of Art\, University of Michigan\nMaurita Poole – Director\, Newcomb Art Museum\, Tulane University\nAnne Goodyear – Director\, Museum of Art\, Bowdoin College\n\nModerator: \n\nFerran Barenblit – Visiting Professor\, STAMPS\, University of Michigan\n\nIntroduction: \n\nKerstin Barndt – Director\, Museum Studies Program\, University of Michigan\n\n  \nDate:  Thursday\, February 9 \nTime:  5:30 pm \nLocation:  UM Museum of Art (Helmut Stern Auditorium) \nWhat sets university and college art museums apart from other art institutions? What is the responsibility of art in shaping our institutional and political futures in higher ed and beyond?  With their engaged audiences and potential for dialogue across diverse fields of knowledge\, university museums can play a distinct societal role. In this panel discussion\, three museum directors will consider these questions by presenting initiatives and exhibition projects that have challenged the status quo of art museums – on and off campus. \nExperiment Experience panel_flyer \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/experimentexperience-campus-art-museums-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:The Arab American National Museum – Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Diana Abouali\, Director\, Arab American National Museum. \nJanuary 26 at 5:30 pm\, UM Museum of Art \nThe Arab American National Museum\, located in Dearborn\, Michigan\, remains the only museum in the country that interprets and presents the history and culture of Arab Americans. Diana Abouali will chart the origins\, development\, and future prospects of AANM\, situating it within its broader social\, cultural and political contexts. \nDiana Abouali is director of the Arab American National Museum (AANM). In the last twenty years\, she held leadership positions at museums\, cultural heritage\, and refugee institutions in Palestine and Jordan and worked as Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College for History and Middle East Studies. She serves on several boards and committees including the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS)\, ArteEast (NYC)\, CultureSource (Detroit)\, the Citizens Advisory Committee at the University of Michigan-Dearborn\, and the general assembly of Taawon-Welfare Association (Palestine). Diana Abouali received her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University in 2004. \nPresentation flyer \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-arab-american-national-museum-past-present-and-future/
LOCATION:University of Michigan Museum of Art
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Working with Contemporary Artists: A Workshop with Ferran Barenblit
DESCRIPTION:“Art is what makes life more interesting than art\,” said French artist Robert Filliou. He was right: working with contemporary artists is one of the most enriching activities that a professional or an organization can undertake. Whether in a museum\, other cultural institution\, or any public or private position\, working with artists will unleash interpretations and emotions. In a globally interconnected\, culturally diverse\, and increasingly complex world\, contemporary artists give voice to the varied and changing cultural landscape of identities\, values\, and beliefs. Their work is always at the crossroad of theory\, subjects\, concepts\, methods\, and materials. The increasing role of audiences can generate unexpected results that can benefit both individuals and communities. \nIn this workshop\, we will study the conceptual\, practical\, ethical\, legal\, and financial elements to consider when working with contemporary artists. We will also examine many successful (and a few unfortunate) examples that will help us to understand how art\, according to Yoko Ono\, makes us “walk a half an inch above ground.” \nThe workshop is open to students\, faculty\, and museum professionals. Please sign up here if you are planning to attend the workshop. Ferran Barenblit is an internationally recognized museum director and curator who has led three art museums in the last twenty years\, including MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (2015-2021). He is an expert with a deep understanding of the political and social complexities of art museums and the need to consider them as an essential catalyst for engaged citizenship. Ferran has worked with artists Christian Marclay\, Raqs Media Collective\, Forensic Architecture\, Akram Zaatari\, Andrea Fraser\, Jeremy Deller\, Teresa Margolles\, Rabih Mroué\, Halil Altindere\, Cristina Lucas\, Maria Eichhorn\, and Jiri Kowanda\, among many others. Since 2021\, Ferran has held the position of visiting professor at the University of Michigan. His current curatorial projects include the 16th Cuenca Biennial\, Ecuador (2023) and a major retrospective of the work of Ben Vautier (MUAC\, Mexico City\, 2022-2023).
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/working-with-contemporary-artists-a-workshop-with-ferran-barenblit/
LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Africa’s Struggle for its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat 1965-1985 - Bénédicte Savoy
DESCRIPTION:Bénédicte Savoy \nAfrica’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat 1965-1985 \nApril 7 at 5:30 pm\, UM Museum of Art (Helmut Stern auditorium) \nIn the wake of postcolonial African independence\, African intellectuals and politicians spearheaded a movement to pursue repatriation of artworks stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums.  Art Historian and curator Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history.  An expert on restitution and cultural heritage\, Savoy reconstructs a story of missed opportunity and defeat that still resonates in today’s repatriation discourse. \nBénédicte Savoy is a professor of modern art history at the Technical University of Berlin\, Germany\, and professor for the cultural history of European art at the Collège de France in Paris\, France. \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan’s African Studies Center\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, and Museum of Art
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/africas-struggle-for-its-art-history-of-a-postcolonial-defeat/
LOCATION:University of Michigan Museum of Art
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:What's the Object of this Museum?  Everyday Resistance at the National Public Housing Museum
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a presentation by this year’s Museum Studies Program visiting scholar\, Lisa Yun Lee\, Executive Director\, National Public Housing Museum (Chicago) \nWorker cooperatives to build a solidarity economy\, contemporary art that grapples with history and unleashes radical imaginations about our collective futures\, everyday objects and labels written by public housing residents\, cultural work that contributes to more just public policies and reparations\, collective joy and civic love.  Learn about the work of the National Public Housing Museum and how a cultural institution contributes to the ongoing struggle for housing as a human right. \nFlyer_Lee_March 8
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/whats-the-object-of-this-museum-everyday-resistance-at-the-national-public-housing-museum/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Accessibility and Museums: Creating Inclusive Experiences
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade\, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has promoted accessible methods in museum operations from collections management to exhibition design.  The UM Museum Studies Program is pleased to share in this important conversation regarding audience engagement with this session on accessibility in museum programming and interpretation.  Our panelists draw on their experiences and research in developing meaningful opportunities for all visitors to encounter the wonder and enrichment of museums.  Join us and explore new strategies for inclusive practice. \nPanelists: \nCaroline Braden\, Accessibility Specialist\, The Henry Ford (Dearborn\, MI) and Founder and Chair of the Michigan Alliance for Cultural Accessibility \nSusan Dine\, Senior Lecturer\, Vanderbilt University (Nashville\, TN) \nAshley Grady\, Senior Program Specialist at Access Smithsonian\, The Smithsonian Institution (Washington\, D.C.) \nModerator: \nDeirdre Hennebury\, Associate Director\, UM Museum Studies Program \n  \nThis panel discussion will be presented online via Zoom and will feature real time captioning.  If you would like to request an ASL interpreter\, please email ummsp@umich.edu by November 10.  Registration for this webinar is required. \nAccessibility and Museums_final flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/accessibility-and-museums-creating-inclusive-museum-experiences/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210310T133000
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SUMMARY:Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Erica Lehrer\, Concordia University \nCan inanimate objects store and communicate traumatic memory that cannot be directly expressed? This talk examines ‘folk art’ made by non-professional Polish artists – many of them village laborers – documenting the German Nazi occupation of Poland and the Holocaust. Made largely in the 1960s and 70s\, these objects are uncanny: at times deeply moving\, at others grotesque\, they can also be disturbing for the ways they impose Catholic idioms on Jewish suffering\, or upend accepted roles of victim\, perpetrator\, and bystander. \nDr. Lehrer introduces forgotten works by some of Poland’s best known “folk” artists from the postwar socialist People’s Republic of Poland\, recently re-discovered in Polish and German ethnographic museums and private collections. Never before treated as a genre\, these objects are complex artworks born of various impulses: their creators were artists\, but also collectors\, ethnographers\, curators\, and ideologues. The oldest example is a painting from ca. 1948 by Sławomir Kosiniak from Zalipie\, a village famous for its decorative floral motifs. Recently discovered in the archives of the Kraków Ethnographic Museum\, it presents the round-up of local Jews. The most recent work is Jedwabne by Jan Kowalczyk\, commissioned by a German collector in 2017. These “awkward objects\,” which fall outside the accepted visual language of Holocaust representation\, provoke profound reactions in viewers\, and raise complex questions about the relationship between art and traumatic memory. \nDr. Erica Lehrer is a Professor of History and Sociology-Anthropology at Concordia University (Montreal)\, sociocultural anthropologist and curator. She also founded and directs Concordia’s Curating and Public Scholarship Lab. Dr. Lehrer is the author of Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places (2013) and co-editor of three books\, including Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions (2016). Her curatorial work includes a number of international exhibition projects\, most recently Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust at Kraków Ethnographic Museum in 2018-19. \nThis lecture is presented in partnership with the Frankel Center of Judaic Studies\, CREES (Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies)\, CCPS (Copernicus Center for Polish Studies)\, and WCEE (Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia). \nPresented online via Zoom; registration required. \nClick here for event flyer \n \nSlawomir Kosiniak\, Untitled\, ca. 1948\, Ethnographic Museum in Krakow\, photo by Wojciech Wilczyk
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/terribly-close-polish-vernacular-artists-face-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology - Panel 2
DESCRIPTION:In this series of two webinars\, we inquire into the University of Michigan’s archives\, museums\, visual and living collections to ask how they are implicated in the violent histories of settler colonialism in the United States and US colonialist rule over the Philippines. How can we carry these difficult archives and collections into the future? How do they intersect and in what ways do they differ? What are our responsibilities as researchers\, curators\, and archivists in relation to the collections\, their histories\, and their indigenous and national communities of origin? \n  \nFebruary 19\, 12:00 – 1:30 pm      (Click here to register via Zoom) \nColonial Archives and Decolonial Museology: The National Museum of the Philippines and Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan \nModerator: Kerstin Barndt\, Director\, Museum Studies Program \nPanelists: \n\nDeirdre de la Cruz\, Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies\, Associate Professor of History\nAna Labrador\, Deputy Director-General\, National Museum of the Philippines\nRicky Punzalan\, Associate Professor of Information\, School of Information\n\nThis second panel in the series engages with UM’s Philippine Collections\, which include everything from papers of US colonial officers in the Philippines to thousands of photographs\, from funerary objects in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology to type specimens in the Museum of Zoology and plants in the Herbarium. Deirdre de la Cruz offers a set of reflections and critiques on ‘epistemic’ decolonization and considers the pedagogies of imperial archives. Based on his work with Philippine archives and with digital curation projects in the US\, Ricky Punzalan envisions welcoming museum and archival spaces and UM programs for Philippine scholars and visitors with the goal of sharing collection work and imagining international collaborations. Ana Labrador reflects on her perspective as Deputy Director of the National Museum in Manila and discusses decolonializing museum practice in the Philippines.  \nPanels_Final
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/colonial-archives-and-decolonial-museology-panel-2/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210217T160000
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SUMMARY:Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology - Panel 1
DESCRIPTION:In this series of two webinars\, we inquire into the University of Michigan’s archives\, museums\, visual and living collections to ask how they are implicated in the violent histories of settler colonialism in the United States and US colonialist rule over the Philippines. How can we carry these difficult archives and collections into the future? How do they intersect and in what ways do they differ? What are our responsibilities as researchers\, curators\, and archivists in relation to the collections\, their histories\, and their indigenous and national communities of origin? \n  \nFebruary 17\, 4:00 – 5:30 pm   (Click here to register via Zoom)   \nIndigenous Epistemologies: Restorative Justice in Settler-Colonial Collections \nModerator: Veronica Pasfield\, Public Historian\, Tribal Cultural Resources Consultant\, Journalist\, and Curator \nPanelists: \n\nCinnamon Catlin-Legutko\, Director\, Illinois State Museum\nDavid Michener\, Curator\, Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum\nVeronica Williamson\, PhD candidate\, German Languages and Literatures & Museum Studies Certificate Student\n\nThis first panel considers collections relating to Native American past\, present and future. Calling for a paradigm shift that emphasizes regeneration and restoration of indigenous ways of living\, David Michener focuses on projects at the UM Matthaei Botanical Garden with deep connections to indigenous culture and agriculture: the Heritage Seed Project and the Mnomen Initiative\, a collaborative indigenous garden project led by Anishinaabek community members. Veronica Williamson\, speaking about her work with co-curator Lindsey Willow Smith (not present for the panel)\, confronts the visual layers of settler-colonialism in postcards and cartes de visite of Native American people. She ponders the possibility of reading the portraits against the grain and reflects on ways to re-historicize and re-humanize the photographs of indigenous people. Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko will share decolonizing museum practices that she co-led in her role as director of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor\, Maine and now at the Illinois State Museum. \n  \n \nOjibwe men making birch canoes\nJoel E. Whitney & Charles A. Zimmerman\nStereograph\, published by Lovejoy & Foster\, ca. 1870\nWilliam L. Clements Library\, Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography\nPanels_Final
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/colonial-archives-and-decolonial-museology-panel-1/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Detroit’s Museum and Cultural District
DESCRIPTION:In its Midtown district\, Detroit boasts a concentrated set of high-powered cultural institutions. Clustered around the DIA\, they include the Detroit Historical Museum\, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History\, the Michigan Science Center\, and the Detroit Public Library. In recent years\, this complex has been the object of urban planning and a landscape design competition. This panel brings together leading experts and participants in this process to reflect on its challenges and promises: \nHow might Detroit’s museums and cultural institutions better serve the city’s communities and empower its people? How do these institutions envision their own futures and how have they collaborated in this process with their Detroit partners? How have they responded to the twin pandemics of systemic racism and Covid-19? \nThe panelists will share their experience with cultural programming\, education\, urban and museum planning in Detroit and discuss Detroit’s Cultural Center Planning Initiative. At the heart of this initiative stands The Detroit Square\, a bold landscape design proposal that would transform the cultural district and create synergy between museums\, visitors\, and urban space in the heart of Detroit. \nPanelists: \nAnya Sirota\, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Initiatives at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and founding principal of Akoaki \nHarley Etienne\, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning\, University of Michigan \nOliver Ragsdale\, President and CEO\, The Carr Center \nElana Rugh\, President\, CEO and Executive Director\, Detroit Historical Society \nRegister here. \nMSP_Detroit Square Flyer Final
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/reimagining-detroits-museum-and-cultural-district/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac \nHow do Indigenous objects in museum collections speak to those who collect\, curate\, observe\, and claim them? The observable materials and patterns of construction obviously reflect particular ecosystems\, cultures\, and technologies\, but do these objects also retain memories of the artisans who created them? Do they wield more than just imagined meaning or distributed agency? In this talk\, Dr. Bruchac discusses strategies for recovering object histories through material analyses\, consultation\, and critical re-assessments of imposed museological categories (e.g.\, art\, artifact\, utilitarian\, etc.) that may have distanced objects from their origins and isolated them from others like themselves. Case histories will feature new research into iconic creations – such as a 17th century wooden war club embedded with re-purposed wampum beads\, and a shell bead wampum belt with a single glass bead – that function as “object witnesses” to entangled colonial settler/Indigenous encounters. Through her practice of “reverse ethnography\,” Bruchac will reveal how\, in many cases\, memories can be reawakened when otherwise mysterious objects are reconnected with the stories\, ecosystems\, knowledges\, and communities that created them. Object histories can also be recovered by tracking the desires and actions of non-Indigenous curators and collectors who transported these objects and stories to physically and conceptually distant locales. \n  \nDr. Margaret M. Bruchac is an Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies\, and Associate Faculty in the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a consultant to the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at the American Philosophical Society\, and Director of “The Wampum Trail\,” a restorative research project designed to reconnect wampum belts in museum collections with their related Indigenous communities. Bruchac is co-editor\, with Siobhan Hart and H. Martin Wobst\, of “Indigenous Archaeologies: A Reader in Decolonization” (Left Coast Press 2010). Her new book – “Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists” (University of Arizona Press 2018) – was the winner of the 2018 Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award. \n  \nMarch 10 at 6:30 pm \nUM Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Department of American Culture; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; LSA/Great Lakes Theme Semester; Native American and Indigenous Student Interest Group; Native American Studies Program; Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion; Program in Science\, Technology and Society (STS); UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology; UM Office of Research \n \nBruchac lecture announcement_final
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/listening-to-object-witnesses-decolonizing-research-in-museum-collections/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:A Swift Death and Steady Resurrection: Salvage Anthropology and U.S. Museums
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Samuel J. Redman \nWhat should museums do with stolen artifacts? Should the response be similar with stolen knowledge? This talk explores the history and legacy of salvage anthropology as it relates to museums in the United States. Salvage anthropology was a movement responding to the perceived threat of extinction faced by indigenous societies around the world. The movement brought millions of material culture objects to museums\, inspired the creation of audio recordings by the thousands\, and pushed artists to depict Native Americans in new ways. Museums in the United States even began collecting human remains\, with over 500\,000 individual sets of human remains ultimately ending up in museum storerooms. This talk examines the complex history and legacy of salvage anthropology\, especially for indigenous communities in the United States today. \n  \nSamuel J. Redman teaches public history\, oral history\, and modern U.S. history at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. Redman is the author of Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Harvard\, 2016). He earned a B.A. from the University of Minnesota\, Morris and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley. Before graduate school he worked in the Science Museum of Minnesota\, Field Museum of Natural History\, and Colorado History Museum. His recent articles include\, “The Smithsonian at War: Museums in U.S. Society during World War II\,” “Impossible Appraisals: Art\, Anthropology\, and the Limits of Evaluating Museum Collections in the Mid-Twentieth Century United States\,” “Have Anthropology Museums Become History Museums?: A Visit to Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg\, Germany\,” and “The Hearst Museum of Anthropology\, the New Deal\, and a Reassessment of the ‘Dark Age’ of the Museum in the United States.” \n  \nMarch 12 at 6:30 pm \nUM Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Program in Science\, Technology and Society (STS); Program in Science\, Technology and Public Policy (STPP); Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; UM Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology; UM Museum of Natural History \n \n  \nRedman lecture announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/a-swift-death-and-steady-resurrection-salvage-anthropology-and-u-s-museums/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice: the Case of the Jim Crow Museum
DESCRIPTION:The Jim Crow Museum is the nation’s largest publicly accessible collection of racist artifacts. Located on the campus of Ferris State University in Big Rapids\, Michigan\, the museum houses more than 12\,000 objects—primarily\, but not exclusively\, segregation era artifacts and everyday anti-black caricatured objects. The museum’s innovative mission—which doubles as its tagline—is “using objects of intolerance to teach tolerance.”  As such\, the Jim Crow Museum serves as a compelling model for all museums to consider. \nProf. David Pilgrim\, founder and current director of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia also serves as Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion at Ferris State University. \nPlease note that some may be offended by the images in the presentation. \n  \nOctober 23\, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.\, Stern Auditorium\, University of Michigan Museum of Art \n  \nPresented by the University of Michigan Museum Studies Program with the support of the Office of the Vice President for Student Life\, the School of Information\, the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, and the Office of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion. \n  \nPilgrim lecture announcement_Final \n  \nDr. David Pilgrim\, Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion at Ferris State University\, is one of this country’s leading experts on issues relating to multiculturalism\, diversity\, and race relations. He has been interviewed by National Public Radio\, Time magazine\, the British Broadcasting Corporation\, and dozens of newspapers\, including the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Boston Globe\, Chicago Tribune\, and the Los Angeles Times. Dr. Pilgrim is best known as the founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum — a 11\,000 piece collection of racist artifacts located at Ferris State University\, in Big Rapids\, Michigan. The museum\, innovatively\, uses objects of intolerance to teach tolerance. Dr. Pilgrim’s writings\, many found at www.ferris.edu/jimcrow\, are used by scholars\, students\, and civil rights workers to better understand historical and contemporary expressions of racism. \nDr. Pilgrim is an applied sociologist with a doctorate from The Ohio State University. He believes that racism can be objectively studied and creatively assailed. In 2004\, he produced with Clayton Rye the documentary Jim Crow’s Museum to explain his approach to battling racism. The film won several awards including Best Documentary at the 2004 Flint Film Festival.  Dr. Pilgrim’s writings\, scholarly and creative\, deal with multiculturalism and race relations. His short stories have been published in Calaloo\, Obsidian\, African American Review\, Aim\, and Shooting Star. He is the author of Understanding Jim Crow: Using Objects of Intolerance to Teach Tolerance (PM Press\, 2015)\, used as a text in teaching undergraduates in the Museum Studies Minor at the University of Michigan. \nDr. Pilgrim challenges audiences to think deeply about diversity and race relations. He is a Ferris State University Distinguished Teacher. Dr. Pilgrim has spent his adult life using objects of intolerance to teach tolerance. It works. His goal is to get people talking about diversity and race relations in meaningful ways — and\, then\, to go and do something positive. \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/using-racist-memorabilia-to-teach-tolerance-and-promote-social-justice/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:What Do Curators Know?
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 27 at 6:30 pm \nMichigan League (Michigan Room) \nPresentation by Steven Lubar Professor of American Studies\, History of Art and Architecture\, and History\, Brown University and Museum Studies Program Visiting Scholar \nCurators are experts on an astonishing range of topics. But what else do they know? I believe that curators’ hands-on work with art\, artifacts\, and specimens provides them a kind of knowledge unavailable in any other way. Handling objects\, understanding their materiality\, offers insights into their histories of creation\, meaning\, and use. Organizing them for storage\, research and exhibition allows new insights that allow understandings of connections across space and change over time. Curatorial knowledge matters\, even as the role of the museum and curator changes. \n  \nSteven Lubar is professor in the Departments of American Studies\, History\, and History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. He was previously curator at the National Museum of American History\, and Director of Brown’s John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. He is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. His most recent book is Inside the Lost Museum: Curating\, Past and Present.  \n  \nco-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of  Art \n  \nLubar lecture announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/what-do-curators-know/
LOCATION:Michigan League\, Ann Arbor\, MI
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171212T183000
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SUMMARY:Museums of the Past into the Future: The Oriental Institute and the Kelsey Museum
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between: \nChris Woods\, Director\, Oriental Institute\, University of Chicago \nTerry G. Wilfong\, Director\, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, U-M \n  \nThe Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan share similar backgrounds and histories. Founded in the prosperity of the 1920s as part of the wider-ranging projects of visionary scholars\, the two archaeological museums focus on an expansive program of investigation of the ancient history of the Mediterranean and Middle East. But these two museums have taken very different paths to the present and face different challenges for the future. The discussion will cover the history of these unique institutions as well as their present situations and future possibilities. \n  \nChristopher Woods is John A. Wilson Professor and Director of the Oriental Institute\, and member of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. He received his BS from Yale University and his PhD in Assyriology from Harvard University and was a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago. His research interests include Sumerian writing and language as well as early Mesopotamian religion\, literature\, and administration.  He is author of The Grammar of Perspective: The Sumerian Conjugation Prefixes as a System of Voice (Brill\, 2008)\, Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon (Volume 18) and is currently completing a monograph on early cuneiform writing\, The Origins and Development of Writing in Ancient Mesopotamia: A History\, 3500 — 2000 BCE. \n  \nTerry G. Wilfong is Director and Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. Wilfong received his BA\, MA\, and PhD in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. As a scholar\, he has dedicated himself to the Kelsey Museum’s collections from the University’s 1924-1935 excavations of the Egyptian sites of Karanis\, Soknopaiou Nesos\, and Terenouthis\, sites chosen by the original excavators to illustrate daily life in Egypt in the Greek and Roman periods (c. 332 BCE – 641 CE). As a curator and museum director\, Wilfong has used these collections to address wider areas of archaeological inquiry\, including concepts such as gender\, sound\, childhood\, and fire. He has also supervised an ongoing series of contemporary art installations in which artists respond to the ancient material in the Kelsey’s collections. Wilfong has recently published two monographs on ancient Egyptian religion and practices relating to death and burial: Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt (2015)\, and Life\, Death and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt: The Coffin of Djehutymose in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (2012). \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Bicentennial \nWoods and Wilfong Announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-of-the-past-into-the-future-the-oriental-institute-and-the-kelsey-museum/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:Time to Evolve:  The Histories and Futures of Two University Natural History Museums 
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between: \nJulie Stein – Executive Director\, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture\, University of Washington \nAmy Harris – Director\, Museum of Natural History\, U-M \n  \nUniversity natural history collections were central to the scientific enterprise in the 19th century. Today\, these collections document change over time\, and play critical roles in research\, education\, and cultural heritage. However\, many museums are under-utilized by their local communities. \nIn the 21st century\, campus and museum leaders must rethink the role of the University Museum. As public appetite for engagement and transparency increases\, University Museums are in a unique position to act as a “front door” to academia by offering access to collections and opportunities to connect with the process of scientific research. Some universities are now making significant investments in upgrading their natural history museums\, including the University of Washington and the University of Michigan. \n  \nJulie K. Stein\, Executive Director of the Burke Museum of Nature and Culture at the University of Washington and Amy Harris\, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History will share  stories of their institutions’ development over time\, with particular emphasis on the opportunities presented by their new facilities\, both opening in 2019. \n  \nJulie K. Stein was appointed Executive Director of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in 2005.  Previously she served as the Museum’s Curator of Archaeology.  She also maintains a professor position in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington\, and was Divisional Dean of Research\, Computing\, and Facilities for the College of Arts and Sciences.  Stein received her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Minnesota and her BA degree from Western Michigan University.  Her research interests are in geoarchaeology\, especially studies involving Northwest Coast shell middens.  She has excavated archaeological sites on Washington’s San Juan Islands since 1983\, and she continues to collaborate on research projects involving geoarchaeology. \n  \nSince 2002\, Amy Harris has served as the Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History\, where she was previously Associate Director and Development Officer. Harris received her BA from Cornell and MA from the University of Michigan. Before joining the Museum of Natural History in 1996\, she worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and then became the Development Director of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival (1986-1994). As museum director\, Harris is currently overseeing the planning and development of the new U-M Museum of Natural History\, slated to open fully in fall 2019.  Harris’ decades of commitment to the Museum and her leadership in this new project were recently honored by the establishment of the Amy Harris Director’s Strategic Fund\, a sizeable endowment that will support the Museum’s projects in perpetuity. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Bicentennial and the UM Museum of Natural History \n  \nStein and Harris Announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/time-to-evolve-the-histories-and-futures-of-two-university-natural-history-museums/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:Learning by Leading: A New Model for Expanding Museum Impact
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between: \nKathleen Socolofsky – Director\, Arboretum and Public Garden\, University of California\, Davis \nBob Grese – Director\, Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum\, U-M \n  \nDuring this time of immense and sometimes disorienting change\, museums are perfectly positioned to step into new leadership roles for the universities\, their towns\, and their cities.  Building on foundational strengths in education and community engagement\, museums are poised to be the natural hub that can help people band together to identify\, understand\, and begin to solve the real problems that the community and nation face. This brief presentation will share the lessons that the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden has learned over the last ten years as we developed and launched our Learning by Leading program. This student-centered program\, focused on step-by-step leadership training\, staff mentorship\, and project-based learning\, helps undergraduates engage and lead a broad community of partners\, donors\, and volunteers to “make real change happen in the real world.” Because we are a living museum\, our teaching focuses naturally on plants\, biodiversity\, and ecological systems. Learning by Leading\, therefore\, is intentionally designed to empower the next generation of environmental leaders. As we move forward to explore\, test\, and share our Learning by Leading model nationally\, we invite you to bring your own best ideas about how we can improve and expand this program that is dedicated to “inspiring human potential to help people and environments thrive.” \nMatthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum at the University of Michigan also aspires to train environmental leaders through its student internship\, work-study\, and volunteer programs\, including the Campus Farm.  The summer internship program\, known as the “Nature Academy” strives to provide professional training for students while engaging them in caring for the arboretum and botanical gardens properties.  Following Kathleen Socolofsky’s presentation\, she and Matthaei-Nichols Director Bob Grese will compare notes on what each of their respective institutions has learned from these innovative student engagement programs. \n  \nSince 1998\, Kathleen Socolofsky has served as Director of the Arboretum and Public Garden at the University of California\, Davis\, where she has also been Assistant Vice Chancellor in Campus Planning and Environmental Stewardship since 2008. Nationally recognized for her leadership and contributions to UC Davis\, Socolofsky has built university and community partnerships that have led to new gardens and innovative programming\, with a major goal of transitioning her campus into a public garden\, using strategies that have made the Arboretum a success. She has co-developed and currently leads the UC Davis GATEways (Garden\, Arts\, and the Environment) Project\, which works to transform the Arboretum and campus landscapes into physical and programmatic “gateways” to engage the public and connect them with the riches of the University. \nPrior to joining UC Davis\, Socolofsky served as the Director of Education at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix\, Arizona (1985-1998)\, where she was Principal Investigator for a National Science Foundation grant that transformed the garden and its collections into an interactive science museum. Among her committee and board appointments\, she has served on the Board of the American Public Gardens Association\, receiving its 2007 Professional Citation Award. Socolofsky received an Award of Distinction in 2012 from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the first-ever Leadership Prize from the Excelerate Foundation in 2014. \n  \n  \nRobert Grese has served as Director of Nichols Arboretum since 1999 and of the combined Nichols Arboretum and Matthaei Botanical Gardens since 2004. A long-time advocate of ecologically-based design and of the careful stewardship of cultural and natural landscapes\, Grese is a faculty member in the University of Michigan’s newly renamed School for Environment and Sustainability\, where he is currently the Theodore Roosevelt Chair of Ecosystem Management. Hailed by the Garden Club of America as an “extraordinary leader\, designer\, researcher\, teacher and guide\, a true Renaissance man in his field\,” his focus has been on restoring urban wilds\, specifically prairie and oak savanna ecosystems\, integrating and connecting people to nature and fostering volunteer stewardship. \nA much-published author and speaker\, Grese has documented and become a leading authority on the work of early landscape designers Jens Jensen and O.C. Simonds\, who pioneered the “prairie style” of landscape architecture and advocated the use of native plants. He also is considered a leader in documenting midwestern landscapes and has helped develop national landmark nominations for both the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House and the Henry Ford estate\, Fair Lane. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Bicentennial \n  \nSocolofsky and Grese Announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/learning-by-leading-a-new-model-for-expanding-museum-impact/
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SUMMARY:University Natural History Museums: Portals of Discovery in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between: \nJames Hanken – Director\, Museum of Comparative Zoology\, Harvard University \nDiarmaid O Foighil – Chair\, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, U-M \n  \nMany of the world’s great universities have natural history museums founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Faculty curators are often called upon to justify the considerable expense associated with the maintenance of enormous collections under their care. The research and educational value of these collections resides in their wealth of identified biological specimens\, collected from natural populations at known times and locations. That value compounds with time because they increasingly represent populations\, species\, biological communities and ecosystems that no longer exist. Using museum collections\, modern scientists can in effect time travel by accessing otherwise unavailable genomic and ecological information from collection specimens that allow us to track change through time. \n  \nThis ability has never been more needed: our impact on the planet’s biota\, climate and ecosystems is such that profound ecological change\, AKA the Anthropocene\, is upon us. University natural history museums can play a key role in documenting that change\, determining its scope and\, via online outreach\, communicating results to a global audience. The value and potency of university-based natural history museums may be greater now than ever before. \n  \nJames Hanken is Director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University. After earning A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in zoology from the University of California\, Berkeley\, he did postdoctoral work in developmental biology at Dalhousie University\, Nova Scotia\, and then assumed a faculty position at the University of Colorado\, Boulder. Professor Hanken moved to Harvard in 1999\, where he is also a professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and a member of the Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine Program. A member of the Executive Committee of the Encyclopedia of Life and a recognized teacher\, he has authored more than 130 scientific publications and edited four books\, and is also an accomplished nature and scientific photographer. \n  \nDiarmaid O’Foighil is Director of the Museum of Zoology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. Professor O’Foighil obtained a B.Sc. in zoology from NUI Galway\, Ireland\, in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Victoria\, Canada\, in 1987. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995\, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Friday Harbor Laboratories\, University of Washington\, and Simon Fraser University\, Vancouver\, and a research scientist at the University of South Carolina. He has served as the president of the American Malacological Society and on the editorial boards of Evolution and Malacologia. \n  \n*Note\, this event will be held at the Rackham Graduate School building (on the 4th floor\, West Conference Room) \n  \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Bicentennial \n  \nHanken and O’Foighil announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/title-tbd-3/
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School\, 915 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161206T183000
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SUMMARY:Inclusion Requires Fracturing
DESCRIPTION:Location:  University of Michigan Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \nAs museums strive to serve broad\, ever-diversifying publics\, it is no longer possible to deny the ways museums mirror and reinforce racial\, cultural\, and class inequities of the broader society. Skillful racial and cultural representation in interpretation and programming is not only an intellectual exercise; it is an ethical responsibility that requires fracturing the known through consistent individual and institutional self-reflection and action. This talk focuses on the challenging and often painful internal work toward developing diversity and strategies and actions supporting systemic change in museum representation\, interpretation\, and ideation. \nSwarupa Anila is director of interpretive engagement at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Key issues she pursues in interpretive planning practice include examining whose voices and perspectives are missing in museum interpretation\, how to integrate visitor voices to flatten museum and art historical knowledge hierarchies\, and how to design museum interpretation that supports dynamic\, meaningful visitor engagements with art. \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art \n  \nMSP Dec 6 Anila lecture
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/inclusion-requires-fracturing/
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SUMMARY:What if?  Demand the Impossible.  On Museums and the Struggle for Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Location:  University of Michigan Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \nWhat if museums were to acknowledge their complicity with systemic forms of oppression\, and commit to a reparations movement as part of a process of truth and reconciliation? \nWhat if museum and exhibition programs at universities were to foster a form of fugitive studies? \nWhat if access and equity were to truly be at the center of museum work? \nThrough an exploration of current and fictitious museums\, works in progress and not yet realized projects\, this talk examines these “What if” propositions\, and takes the impossible as the only realistic option for museums in these fiercely urgent times. \nThis talk is inspired by Bill Ayers’ most recent book Demand the Impossible: A Radical Manifesto (Haymarket\, 2016)\, where he asks us to “unleash our radical imaginations and push ourselves to break the straightjackets of conventional thinking.”  Join in a conversation about how museums and other cultural institutions might fulfill a moral obligation to recognize the capacious\, colorful\, and diverse world of all that is beautiful\, true and just. \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of  Art. \n  \nLisa Yun Lee (PhD) is the Director of the School of Art & Art History\, an Associate Professor\, and member of the Art History\, Museum and Exhibition Studies\, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lisa is also the co-founder of The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council\, an organization dedicated to creating spaces for dialogue and dissent and for reinvigorating civil society. As the previous Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum\, she oversaw a new core exhibition\, and reinvigorated public programming that connected the museum with contemporary social justice struggles.  She most recently served on the American Alliance of Museum’s Direct Care task force that made new recommendations around the ethics of direct care.  She researches and writes about museums and diversity\, cultural sustainability\, and spaces for fostering radically democratic practices. Lisa received her BA in Religion from Bryn Mawr College\, and a PhD in German Studies from Duke University. She is the Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC\, and she serves on the national boards of the American Alliance of Museums\, Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life\, the Ms. Magazine Advisory Board\, and the boards of Rebuild Foundation\, the National Public Housing Museum\, Young Chicago Authors\, and 3Arts. \nLisa Yun Lee 8.5 x 11
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/whatif/
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