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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: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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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: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/
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SUMMARY:In the Shadow of the Empire: Calcutta’s Victoria Memorial and its Cast of Moving Statuary
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Tapati Guha-Thakurta \nOctober 23 at 4:00 pm \nEldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall (505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor) \nWith a focus on Calcutta’s landmark monument – the most grandiose of the memorials to the Queen of all the ones built across the British imperial territories – this lecture addresses the theme of the end of empire through the persistence and proliferation of the genre of civic public statuary\, its shifting cast of characters\, and its movements across time and space. It is on the grounds of the Victoria Memorial – in the lingering shadows of a bygone empire – that a brood of imperial statues have found a safe haven\, quietly living out their post-imperial lives of oblivion in a time and place where the empire is long gone but its hauntings remain.  In the recent past\, we have seen how such hauntings of the past can suddenly return to a body of long-standing statues of American Confederate leaders\, slave owners and imperialists\, bringing on them the wrath of anti-white supremacist protests that began to rage across Western cities and universities during 2020. What the Black Lives Matter movement did was to return attention in India to the long-forgotten specimens of colonial statuary\, mostly hidden away in remote locations of our cities – raising the issue again\, after over 75 years of Independence\, of their rights to remain in the spaces where they still stand. The afterlives of these relics of empire is a central theme of this lecture\, as it explores various moments in the travels\, dislocations and relocations of Calcutta’s imperial statues\, while charting a small parallel history of Indian statue-making over these transitional decades of the last years of British rule and the coming of Independence. \n  \nTapati Guha-Thakurta was educated at Presidency College\, Calcutta University\, and the University of Oxford. She is currently an Honorary Professor of History at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences\, Calcutta (CSSSC) and was its former Director from 2012 to 2017. She has written widely on the art and cultural history of modern India\, and has held several visiting fellowships abroad. Her three main books are The Making of a New ‘Indian’ Art: Artists\, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal (Cambridge University Press\, 1992) and Monuments\, Objects\, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Columbia University Press\, and Permanent Black\, 2004)\, and In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata (Delhi: Primus Books\, 2015). She has also had a parallel career as exhibition curator and archivist\, and has helped build a large digital image archive on the visual cultures of modern and contemporary Bengal at the CSSSC. She has co-edited three anthologies of essays – Theorising the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee (Delhi: Oxford University Press\, 2011); New Cultural Histories of India: Materiality and Practices (Delhi: Oxford University Press\, 2013); and How Secular is Art? On the Politics of Art\, History and Religion in South Asia (Cambridge University Press\, 2023). Among her other professional work is the preparation of a dossier on the Durga Pujas of Kolkata for the Ministry of Culture\, Government of India\, which has brought to the festival the coveted UNESCO inscription under its List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2021.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/in-the-shadow-of-the-empire-calcuttas-victoria-memorial-and-its-cast-of-moving-statuary/
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