Public programs facilitate dialogue between academics and professionals, informing scholarship and strengthening practice.

Multiple day conferences, year-long colloquia, individual lectures, “conversations” between individuals, hands-on workshops, and Museums at Noon talks featuring our graduate students all contribute to the remarkable richness of MSP offerings.

Video recordings of some MSP lectures are archived for viewing in our Media Gallery.

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  • Traces of Memory at the Galicia Jewish Museum

    Hatcher Gallery Lab 913 S. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI

    Traces of Memory at the Galicia Jewish Museum Ekaterina Olson Shipyatsky (MSP 22; PhD Candidate, Political Science; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Dissertation Fellow 2024-25) November 1 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H Before the Holocaust, Poland was home to...

  • Museums@Noon presentation by Hayley Crowell

    Hatcher Graduate Library

    How Specimens Change from Curiosities to Scientific Collections Hayley Crowell (MSP 22; PhD Candidate, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) January 24 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H or online via Zoom Natural history museums occupy a unique space in the world...

  • Visiting Fulbright Fellow, Alan Rice

    Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor

    Speaker: Alan Rice, PhD, Fulbright Scholar; Professor of English and American Studies; Director of the Research Centre in Migration, Diaspora & Exile; Co-Director of the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom When: 12:00 pm on April 4 Where: Eldersveld...

  • Museums@Noon presentation by Veronica Williamson

    Hatcher Graduate Library

    Where Objects are Placed: reflections on Aa-ashaachi as a guardian of sovereignty and Holisso as a threshold to community Veronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate, Germanic Language & Literature) September 12 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H When the Chickasaw Cultural...

  • Museums@Two presentation by Alexandria Rayburn

    Online via Zoom

    Women in museum computing: a brief history of data entry & skilled labor  Alexandria Rayburn (MSP 19; PhD, Information) October 9 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm Online via Zoom Museum collections are many things, but primarily they function as repositories of information, where data-intensive...

  • Museums@Noon presentation by Gala Patenkovic

    Hatcher Graduate Library

    Exhibiting fun: Comics museums in France  Gala Patenkovic (MSP 21; PhD candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures) November 21 from 12:00 - 1:00 Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H or online via Zoom Comics, in France, are serious business. 1 in 4 books sold today is...

  • Museums@Noon presentation by History of Art students

    Tappan Hall 913 S. University, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Traversing Mountains and Waters: Visits to the Centennial Exhibition at the National Palace Museum of Taipei Speakers: History of Art PhD students - Qi Zheng, Meichen Liu, Yueling Li, Star Song March 23 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm Tappan Room 180 and online via...

  • Do We Need to Decolonize Holocaust Museums?

    Hatcher Graduate Library

    Presentation by Erica Lehrer, PhD, MSP04; Professor of History at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada); Winter 2026 Institute Fellow, UM Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Hatcher Library Gallery Lab, Room 100H A central issue animating and transforming the museum sector today is the call...