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SUMMARY:Digitizing the Dodo: Three-Dimensional Digitization for Research and Public Outreach at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Museums at Noon conversation! \nDigitizing the Dodo: Three-Dimensional Digitization for Research and Public Outreach at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History  \nPresenter:  Taylor West (PhD candidate\, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) \nDate:  Friday\, December 2 \nTime:  12:00 pm \nLocation:  Online via Zoom (Meeting ID: 967 1734 9337 / Passcode 598980) \nThe Oxford University Museum of Natural History began a large redisplay project in April of this year\, with the goal of developing and installing 20 new permanent exhibits in the main court of the Museum. I traveled to Oxford University for my UM Museum Studies practicum to digitize these new displays using structured light scanning technology to create interactive\, 3-D models of the objects located within the new exhibits. This project aims to improve both public access to the OUMNH museum space and also begin a digital collection for researchers at Oxford University and beyond. \nMuseums@Noon_West
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/digitizing-the-dodo-three-dimensional-digitization-for-research-and-public-outreach-at-the-oxford-university-museum-of-natural-history/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Exploring the past and shaping the future in archives and collections (Museums@Noon)
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Ransom\, PhD\, MSP18\, Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Education \nChicago’s Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank \nWhile interning at Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank (SAB) in Chicago\, Kimberly Ransom has reviewed the objects and documents in the Ed Williams Black Memorabilia Collection to help Rebuild Artist-Fellows learn how to engage and use the archive as data to inspire and create new art. As an interdisciplinary historian\, Kimberly has also leveraged the collection to further her research and public-facing scholarship. Specifically\, she has examined a collection of early 20 th century postcards with malicious depictions of Black children. Kimberly aims to use the collection to create a counter-narrative of historical photographs that benevolently depict Black children in and around schools on Chicago’s Southside\, visually positioning them as possessors of childhood in the public imagination. In her presentation\, Kimberly will discuss her experience and how community museums and archives can expand historical scholarship toward community art and action. \n  \nPelle Tracey\, MSP21\, PhD candidate at the UM School of Information \nThe Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art \nIn the summer of 2022\, Pelle Tracey interned at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art under the supervision of Assistant Curator Alex Klein. In this presentation\, Pelle will describe two of the main projects he pursued: archiving a recent long-term collaboration between the ICA and the Dakar\, Senegal-based art institution RAW Material Company\, and conducting oral history interviews with Los Angeles artist Carl Cheng. Through these projects Pelle learned a great deal about how a contemporary art museum functions\, and how a museum focused on the future of art engages with the past. \n  \nJoin Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/99128919196 \nMeeting ID: 991 2891 9196 \n  \nApril 7 Museums@Noon flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/exploring-the-past-and-shaping-the-future-in-archives-and-collections/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Global Interns: museum practice in Israel & Uganda
DESCRIPTION:Global Interns: museum practice in Israel & Uganda \nSeptember 29 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nEldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall \n  \nAlexandra Norwood\,  PhD candidate\, Anthropology \nThe Apes of Uganda: An Exhibit and Outreach Program at the Uganda Museum \nUganda is often called the Pearl of Africa\, a phrase invoked by Winston Churchill describing the country: “for magnificence\, for variety of form and color\, for profusion of brilliant life – bird\, insect\, reptile\, beast” (W. S. Churchill\, 1909). Uganda’s remarkable biodiversity includes the presence of two species of living apes and a rich hominoid fossil record. Uganda’s importance to the evolution and conservation of great apes makes it essential to promote awareness and generate interest in protecting both fossil sites and the living apes. \nThe “Apes of Uganda” Exhibition and Outreach Project is the result of a collaboration between staff at the Uganda National Museum and biological anthropologists at the University of Michigan. The goal of this project was to share information about ape evolution in Uganda\, the lives of chimpanzees and gorillas in Uganda’s National Park\, and the importance of conserving both fossil sites and the National Parks where living apes are found. The exhibition at the Uganda National Museum opened in February 2023 and has been visited by ~ 100\,000 visitors. A complementary schools outreach program carried out in July reached 18 Ugandan public primary and secondary schools in western Uganda\, near National Parks where great apes live. The measured impact of these efforts teaches us valuable lessons about how to make this type of educational programming as effective as possible and demonstrates the importance of meaningful\, outward-facing partnerships between researchers and museums. \nDenisa Glacova\,  PhD student\, Middle East Studies \nIs ANU – Museum of the Jewish People Telling the Whole Story? \nWhen asked about the ten-year-long renovation of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv\, Dan Tadmor\, the museum’s CEO explained that the conceptual\, technological\, artistic\, and architectural overhaul was necessary to turn the institution into “the most comprehensive Jewish museum in the world.” Even its name was changed then – the former Beit Hatfutsot\, or the Diaspora Museum\, became ANU\, i.e. we in Hebrew\, reflecting its ambitious attempt to represent “all parts of the Jewish people.” Or\, as Tadmor puts it\, to “tell the whole story.” \nIn my short talk\, I will reflect on my three-month internship at The Koret International School for Jewish Peoplehood in ANU. I will focus on ANU’s “vision of radical [Jewish] togetherness” and address its methodology and tools used to create an overarching exhibition narrative connecting Jewish histories and cultures throughout more than 4\,000 years. Additionally\, I will present a few possibilities to include stories pushed to the margins in the new three-store exhibition and to diversify the narrative of the current exhibition through educational programming in order to get closer to the – in my opinion – unattainable ideal of “telling the whole story.” \nMuseums@Noon flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentations/
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SUMMARY:Competing Interests: Examining Identity Politics in the Display of Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Competing Interests: Examining Identity Politics in the Display of Ancient Egypt \nHeidi Hilliker\, PhD student in Middle Eastern Studies \nNovember 30 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nEldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall \nIn recent years\, there has been a movement to decolonize Western museums\, calling for a practice of self-reflection and transparency paired with a recognition of their Western-centric and criminal foundations. This has led institutions with collections of ancient Egyptian art and artifacts to revisit the ways in which they classify\, interpret\, and display their collections. These shifts in museum practice have revealed many competing interests\, exposing the complex ways in which inclusion\, identity\, and ownership are deeply intertwined. I witnessed these competing interests first-hand this summer during my MSP internship when a new exhibition highlighting the influence of ancient Egypt and Nubia in contemporary black music debuted at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquity in Leiden\, the Netherlands. \nIn this talk\, I will discuss this and other curatorial and institutional case studies that reflect current trends and the complicated discourses developing from them. Additionally\, I will consider the future of these movements and how they may affect museum practices. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/competing-interests-examining-identity-politics-in-the-display-of-ancient-egypt/
LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109
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SUMMARY:Hopi R2-D2 and the Return of the Force: Star Wars and indigenous art
DESCRIPTION:Hopi R2-D2 and the Return of the Force: Star Wars & indigenous art \nSpeakers: Duane Koyawena (Artist\, Curator) & Samantha Honanie (Visitor Experience Manager\, Museum of Northern Arizona) \nFriday\, February 16 at 12:00 pm \nEldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall \nJoin the Museum Studies Program in welcoming Samantha Honanie and Duane Koyawena as they discuss the Museum of Northern Arizona’s award-winning exhibition\, “The Force Is With Our People” (2019-2020). Learn about the creation of Hopi-R2\, the resonance of Star Wars themes with the Southwest’s indigenous art communities\, and the ongoing cultural influence of the project. \nClick here for event flyer.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/hopi-r2d2-and-the-return-of-the-force-star-wars-indigenous-art/
LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109
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SUMMARY:Exhibit tour at UMMA - "A Gathering"
DESCRIPTION:Join MSP for a guided tour of “A Gathering\,” currently on display at UMMA. The works on view in this exhibition\, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present\, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges\, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations\, race\, gender\, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future. \nThe tour will be led by the curator of the exhibit\, our own Félix Zamora Gómez (MSP16)\, Irving Stenn\, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy. \nRegister in advance for the tour (space is limited). \nTour flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/exhibit-tour-at-umma-a-gathering/
LOCATION:MI
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SUMMARY:We Need to HEAR Them Out: Addressing the Issue of Nazi Expropriated Art Through the Lens of Recent Policies and Practices
DESCRIPTION:We Need to HEAR Them Out: Addressing the Issue of Nazi Expropriated Art Through the Lens of Recent Policies and Practices \nEmily Finch (MSP18) \nApril 12 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm \nWhile the Washington Principles\, which turned twenty-five in 2023\, are admired for chaperoning the revitalized effort towards just and fair solutions for those dispossessed of their cultural property (for example\, the art\, books\, and Judaica plundered by the Nazis during World War II)\, they are also admonished for their inconsistent and weak enforcement. Addressing this issue more recently and aimed at filling in the gaps that stemmed from both inconsistent adherence to the Washington Principles and the limited scope of the 2016 HEAR (Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery) Act\, in 2022 the New York State Legislature passed a legislative package related to Holocaust education which included a provision requiring museums to acknowledge Nazi expropriated art. Anna Kaplan\, the former New York State Senator who introduced the law\, acknowledged scholars’ concerns with the legislation and the law’s limitations. Kaplan concedes it is largely up to museums to implement and police the law themselves. “We are hoping that museums will do the right thing.” Will they?  \nConsidering the recent revisions to the Native American Graves Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and\, in the case of Nazi expropriated art\, the wave of museums seeking declaratory judgments to quiet title on World War II era cultural heritage property\, perhaps the answer is not on their own. As the restitution debate continues\, policy goals are articulated in pursuit of more ethical heritage practices and loopholes in law and policy continue to be exploited. Related decisions and enactments should be analyzed in the broader context of cultural heritage practices in order to encourage better intersectional methods in museums\, and the art and antiquities market by extension\, to create more effective legislation moving forward. \n  \nEmily G. Finch is an honors JD/ Entertainment\, Arts\, and Sports Law LLM Candidate on the art law track at the University of Miami School of Law. She graduated with her Master of Science in Information (Libraries\, Archives\, and Digital Curation) from the University of Michigan in 2019\, and was a member of the Museum Studies Program’s 2018-19 cohort. Emily received her BA from Kalamazoo College in 2017 (majors in English: Literature and Cultural Studies and History\, Minor: Political Science\, and Concentration: American Studies).  Prior to law school she served as Assistant Professor and Scholarly Communication and Copyright Librarian at Kansas State University and as Library Futures’ Community Fellow. Emily is building an interdisciplinary career at the intersection of law\, ethics\, and policy in cultural heritage spaces with a focus on ethical stewardship practices and access to information. Emily is a lifelong learner and in her free time enjoys community service\, reading\, baking\, and traveling (scheduling as many museum and UNESCO World Heritage Site visits as her companions allow her).  \n  \nClick here to attend via Zoom. \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/we-need-to-hear-them-out-addressing-the-issue-of-nazi-expropriated-art-through-the-lens-of-recent-policies-and-practices/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:This is Rome\, Too: Decolonial Practices in the Eternal City
DESCRIPTION:This is Rome\, Too: Decolonial Practices in the Eternal City \nGala Patenkovic\, PhD Candidate\, Romance Languages and Literatures \nSeptember 27 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nEldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall \nHow can we reimagine the future of museums? How do we make museums decolonial? How does this decolonial practice change our perception of what a museum can be\, and how do we present it to the public? In this talk I will share my experience interning at the Organization QuestaèRoma in Rome\, Italy\, and present their approach in engaging the public with decolonial practices through varied events\, and specifically through their decolonial tours of the capital. These tours highlight what is “hidden in plain sight” : the distant and not-so-distant architectural remnants of colonial history that is often unobserved\, taken for granted and/or unquestioned by the locals and tourists alike. \nGala Patenkovic is a PhD Candidate in the French Program of Romance Languages and Literatures. Her dissertation addresses representations of immigration and belonging in contemporary French comic books. She holds an active interest in visual and museum studies. \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/this-is-rome-too-decolonial-practices-in-the-eternal-city/
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SUMMARY:A Museum Fit for a President
DESCRIPTION:A Museum Fit for a President \nAlbert Cavallaro\, PhD Candidate\, History \nOctober 25 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \n1014 Tisch Hall \nThis talk reflects on the State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan’s response to a planned presidential visit by Shavkat Mirziyoyev\, the current president of Uzbekistan. Had it not been cancelled just two days before it was scheduled to occur on June 25th\, 2024\, it would have been the first visit to the museum by Mirziyoyev since he assumed the presidency in 2016. Rushed preparations initiated a host of changes inside the museum pertaining to its exhibitions. Most critically\, one month prior to the anticipated visit\, the museum closed to the public and all of its displays from the Stone Age to the 16th century were changed. \n\nI will touch on issues ranging from leaking ceilings to breaking objects\, as well as to the broader discussions and arguments that occurred in the museum over what a “modern” museum is supposed to be and what elements of the old exhibitions still fit the demands of current national narratives. In doing so\, I will show the museum’s close relationship to the state\, not only as the provider of financial funds\, but also\, in many ways\, as the museum’s main anticipated audience. With my dissertation focusing on the history of this museum from 1876 until the collapse of the Russian empire in 1917\, in this talk I will present a brief historical overview that will allow me to chart the museum’s navigation from the Tsarist period to the Soviet period\, and to the current moment. \nAlbert Cavallaro is a historian of the Russian empire and Central Asia with a focus on the nineteenth century. His dissertation\, “Things Disappear: The Turkestan Public Museum and Imperial Love\, 1876-1917\,” examines the rapid growth of museums across Central Asia in the tsarist period. Via an intensive focus on the Turkestan Public Museum\, located in modern-day Tashkent\, Uzbekistan\, he shows a variety of actors embracing museums\, libraries\, and collections of old materials as sites of intensive emotional identification\, or “love\,” for a variety of purposes. Accordingly\, his work investigates entanglements of museums\, colonialism\, religion\, science\, and love in nineteenth-century Tashkent. \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-albert-cavallaro/
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SUMMARY:Traces of Memory at the Galicia Jewish Museum
DESCRIPTION:Traces of Memory at the Galicia Jewish Museum \nEkaterina Olson Shipyatsky (MSP 22; PhD Candidate\, Political Science; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Dissertation Fellow 2024-25) \nNovember 1 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nHatcher Gallery Lab\, Room 100H \nBefore the Holocaust\, Poland was home to approximately 3.3 million Jews – making it the world’s second-largest Jewish community. By the end of World War II\, Nazis and collaborators had succeeded in killing over 90% of Poland’s Jewish population\, about three million people. Most survivors emigrated\, but an estimated 90\,000 remained – only to be expelled in large numbers through an antisemitic\, government-run campaign in 1968. \nTraces of both the vibrant Jewish community that once lived in Poland – and the violence that killed and expelled so many of them – are visible in today’s contemporary Polish landscape: synagogues that are now furniture stores\, doorframes that once held mezuzot\, overgrown Jewish cemeteries. The Galicia Jewish Museum\, located in Kazimierz\, the pre-Holocaust heart of the Kraków Jewish Community\, exhibits photographs of these traces. In doing so\, the museum aims to complicate a narrative of Polish Jewish history that usually begins and ends solely with Auschwitz. \nIn this talk\, I share some of my experiences interning at the Galicia Jewish Museum this summer. Drawing on my experience giving tours of the museum’s permanent exhibition and working in the museum’s education department\, I’ll discuss the tangles of remembering the Holocaust in Poland and the complex landscape of Jewish institutions in Kraków. Institutions like the Galicia Jewish Museum\, I’ll argue\, offer us an opportunity to reflect on the politics of memory museums\, urban museology\, and the decisions that face those who live among traces of genocidal violence. \n  \nEkaterina Olson Shipyatsky is a PhD Candidate in Political Science (Political Theory) and the Museum Studies Certificate Program. She is also a Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Dissertation Fellow 2024-25.  Her research focuses on the politics of memory in museums\, memorials\, and archives of violence in Poland and North America. Ekaterina received her A.B. in Philosophy\, Politics\, Economics from Bryn Mawr College in 2019 and was a 2019-2020 Fulbright Fellow in Russia. \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-galicia-jewish-museum/
LOCATION:Hatcher Gallery Lab\, 913 S. University Avenue\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109
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SUMMARY:Museums@Noon presentation by Hayley Crowell
DESCRIPTION:How Specimens Change from Curiosities to Scientific Collections [and Other Stories from a 400-Year-Old Natural History Museum] \nHayley Crowell (MSP 22; PhD Candidate\, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) \nJanuary 24 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nHatcher Gallery Lab\, Room 100H or online via Zoom \nNatural history museums occupy a unique space in the world of museology\, often facing challenges from both a humanities and scientific perspective. Much of their controversy stems from the very fact that the primary “items” stored and displayed in these museums were once living organisms. Because most natural history museums are associated with large research collections and universities\, they often house thousands (if not millions) of specimens. Tasked with the burden of accurately representing biodiversity\, history\, climate\, evolution\, and humanity’s role in all of these\, natural history collections are continuously undergoing physical and organizational changes to meet these ever-changing fields. \nHowever\, the wealth of knowledge and recent advances in museum-based scientific techniques (CT-scanning\, museomics\, etc.) provide a world of inspiring and innovative new ways to use these collections. These methods are especially important when examining historically-significant and rare museum specimens\, as each organism in these collections represent a unique snapshot of a place and time that cannot be replicated. \nIn this talk\, I will use the Natural History Museum of Denmark as a case study to discuss these issues from both a historic and modern perspective\, starting from its early origins as one of Europe’s first Kunstkammer (“Cabinet of Curiosities”) to its current role as a leading research institute in Europe. Along the way\, I will also share a series of anecdotes about the bizarre and surprising adventures that come with working in an early zoological collection. \nHayley is a 6th year PhD student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. Her main dissertation focuses on the evolution of ultraviolet coloration in reptiles and the use of museum specimens in scientific research. Prior to coming to the University of Michigan\, Hayley obtained a bachelor’s degree in biology from Shippensburg State University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s working on rattlesnake thermal ecology from California Polytechnic State University. She also worked as a biologist for the U.S. Geological Survey and National Park service for six years on invasive Burmese Pythons in Florida and sea turtles throughout the southeast and Caribbean. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-hayley-crowell/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Visiting Fulbright Fellow\, Alan Rice
DESCRIPTION: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 \nWhen: 12:00 pm on April 4 \nWhere: Eldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall \n  \nFrom Lubaina Himid to the Battle of Bamber Bridge: Curating and Narrating Black Atlantic Stories in British Museums and Communities \nVisiting Fulbright Scholar Professor Alan Rice (DAAS\, UMICH) will discuss a range of his work as curator\, academic and activist in Lancashire\, Great Britain. As a scholar of the Black Atlantic he has curated and co-curated exhibitions with Black British artists including the Turner Prize winner\, Lubaina Himid\, Godfried Donkor\, textile artist Althea McNish and rising stars Jade de Montserrat and Lela Harris. This talk will showcase these curatorial interventions including work with the Whitworth on their Trade and Empire exhibition where together with his co-curators he used extant objects to tell new stories about slavery and exploitation. \nMore recent work in Lancaster focuses on its history as the fourth largest slave port and uses the work of Black British artists to challenge the elision of difficult histories. He will discuss how he\, together with Lancaster Black History Group\, uses the work of Himid\, de Montserrat and Harris to get African Atlantic representation into the heart of the museum. His final short case study will show how together with Preston Black History Group he has worked with the community in Bamber Bridge to memorialise the widely forgotten story of a mutiny against Jim Crow segregation by African American troops in a small village in Lancashire. Overall\, he will discuss the importance of activist interventions as an academic and curator. \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/visiting-fulbright-fellow-alan-rice/
LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Museums@Noon presentation by Veronica Williamson
DESCRIPTION:Where Objects are Placed: reflections on Aa-ashaachi as a guardian of sovereignty and Holisso as a threshold to community \nVeronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate\, Germanic Language & Literature) \nSeptember 12 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nHatcher Gallery Lab\, Room 100H \nWhen the Chickasaw Cultural Center’s 184-acre campus opened just outside of downtown Sulphur\, Oklahoma in 2010\, several shifts happened simultaneously: Sulphur—known for its healing waters—re-emerged as a geographically-central cultural site for the tribe; the Cultural Center itself also became administratively separate from a series of other tribal museums\, including the Chickasaw Capitol Building\, Old Council House Museum\, and Chickasaw White House (all located to the southwest in the Nation’s capital\, Tishomingo). Connected yet doubly separate from its peer institutions\, the Cultural Center has come to serve a series of unique and vital functions within the tribe. \nIn this talk\, I’ll draw on my Collections Management Intern experiences to examine two of the Cultural Center’s most impactful purposes: serving as an active guardian of tribal sovereignty by stewarding the tribe’s material history and providing a space that functions as a threshold to community for tribal individuals.  In doing so\, I hope to elucidate the role that the Cultural Center plays in comparison to the Chickasaw Nation’s other cultural initiatives and to consider the unrelenting importance of material history for tribal sovereignty. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-veronica-williamson/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Museums@Two presentation by Alexandria Rayburn
DESCRIPTION:Women in museum computing: a brief history of data entry & skilled labor  \nAlexandria Rayburn (MSP 19; PhD\, Information) \nOctober 9 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm \nOnline via Zoom \nMuseum collections are many things\, but primarily they function as repositories of information\, where data-intensive work has been conducted for decades. Like other knowledge infrastructures\, the information in museum collections is built on installed bases and require highly skilled technicians to maintain these long-lasting digital systems. However\, in representations of this computing work\, women’s voices and perspectives are under-appreciated\, even though they have significant labor contributions in this area. \nMy dissertation examines the experiences of women working in computing roles within museum collections and seeks to understand their unique approaches to data management. Drawing from this research\, this talk will explore some of the early gendered data practices at both the Smithsonian Institution and the Metropolitan Museum of Art— two highly regarded institutions whose leadership in early museum computing has had lasting implications on museum best practices\, and the value given to computing tasks like data entry. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-alexandria-rayburn/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Museums@Noon presentation by Gala Patenkovic
DESCRIPTION:Exhibiting fun: Comics museums in France  \nGala Patenkovic (MSP 21; PhD candidate\, Romance Languages & Literatures) \nNovember 21 from 12:00 – 1:00 \nHatcher Gallery Lab\, Room 100H or online via Zoom \nComics\, in France\, are serious business. 1 in 4 books sold today is in the form of a comic book\, and ever since 1974\, the country has hosted one of the world’s largest international comics festivals. Having long recognized the medium as the “9th art”\, France prides itself in being one of the rare countries that has championed the potential of the medium early on\, and it’s not an overstatement to say that some of its comics authors and artists are considered national heroes. \nIn this presentation\, I will share the findings from my time spent in France researching an important cultural recognition of the medium: its museification. This talk will highlight my experience in comics museums in Angoulême and Blois. By paying close attention to the exhibition choices of these institutions\, I will question our understanding of what a museum space “should” be\, what it is\, and what potential it holds for the future. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-gala-patenkovic/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Museums@Noon - Internship experiences at Museum of Natural History of Bern\, Switzerland and the Museum of West African Art
DESCRIPTION:Internship experiences at Museum of Natural History of Bern\, Switzerland and the Museum of West African Art\nFebruary 23 from 12:00 – 1:00\nOnline via Zoom.\n\n  \nPatricia Torres-Pineda – MSP24; PhD student\, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology\nFrom the Field to the Museum: Experiences at the Museum of Natural History of Bern\nMore than 60 million natural history specimens are housed in Swiss museums\, universities\, botanical gardens\, and other heritage institutions. Nationwide investment in storage\, databasing\, and policy development actively advances museomics\, digitization\, anti-racism initiatives\, and provenance research. As a result\, these collections are increasingly recognized as dynamic archives for phylogenetic and global change research\, rather than as static displays. Join me to reflect on my experiences in one of the most important natural history museums and collections of Switzerland. \n  \nTimilehin Ayelagbe – MS24; PhD student\, Anthropology\nArt\, Labor\, and Landscape at MOWAA: Centering Production\, Environmental Knowledge\, & Community in Museum Interpretation \nThis presentation reflects on my internship at the Museum of West African Art Edo (MOWAA)\, where I contributed to research\, interpretation\, and the curation of an exhibition. Drawing on both my MOWAA experience and my UM Museum Studies training\, I discuss exhibition-making by centering production processes\, environmental knowledge\, and community context rather than focusing only on finished objects. The talk highlights how archaeological and ecological perspectives shaped my curatorial decisions and how this experience deepened my understanding of emerging museum practice in West Africa. \n  \n \n  \nMuseums@Noon flyer \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-internship-experiences-at-the-museum-of-west-african-art-and-the-museum-of-natural-history-of-bern-switzerland/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Tour of  “Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World” exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 9 at 12:00 pm \nHatcher Library North\, First Floor\, Room 100J \nJoin Abigail Staub (MSP22 and PhD Candidate\, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology) for a tour of an exhibit she curated in the Hatcher Gallery “Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World.” \nA half hour tour will be led by Abigail Staub (MSP22\, PhD Candidate in Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology).  The exhibit is a collaboration and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library’s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection\, the Museum of Natural History\, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.  Artifacts include a diverse array of items which were created to communicate with and call upon various unseen\, supernatural forces for aid and protection. While the objects on display are disparate at first glance\, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves\, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as “magical” in traditional Western scholarship.  However\, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual\, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects’ oft-overlooked material dimensions\, asking us to consider how qualities like color\, texture\, and weight shaped an object’s perceived efficacy and meaning. \nThe tour is limited to 10 attendees\, so please sign up as soon as possible!
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/tour-of-materia-magica-materiality-and-ritual-in-the-greco-roman-world/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Museums@Noon presentation by History of Art students
DESCRIPTION:Traversing Mountains and Waters: Visits to the Centennial Exhibition at the National Palace Museum of Taipei \nSpeakers: History of Art PhD students – Qi Zheng\, Meichen Liu\, Yueling Li\, Star Song \nMarch 23 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nTappan Room 180 and online via Zoom. \nAt the conclusion of 2025\, the National Palace Museum of Taipei celebrated its centennial with displays highlighting a hundred years of collection\, preservation\, exhibition\, and education. This landmark exhibition series\, “Enduring Legacy\,” is recognized globally as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view more than a hundred masterpieces: exceptional treasures and artworks housed in this prestigious museum’s collection. Many of the objects have never been on public display\, and others have appeared only rarely due to conservation restrictions. \nIn this presentation\, four graduate students from the Department of History of Art will share their experiences visiting the museum. Addressing the artworks and the exhibits\, the presenters will discuss their impressions and the potential trajectories of another century of museology.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/art-historians-presentation-of-visit-to-their-visits-to-the-100th-anniversary-grand-exhibition-of-the-national-palace-museums-in-taipei-and-the-palace-museum-in-beijing/
LOCATION:Tappan Hall\, 913 S. University\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Do We Need to Decolonize Holocaust Museums?
DESCRIPTION: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 \nHatcher Library Gallery Lab\, Room 100H \nA central issue animating and transforming the museum sector today is the call to decolonize. This appeal began with Indigenous activists\, whose communities have been overwhelmingly hurt by the museum sector’s history and status quo. Museums of mass violence – Holocaust museums\, paradigmatic among them – have been largely exempt from decolonial critiques. As products of 20th and 21st-century social justice mandates and often created at the behest of survivor communities\, they seem at first glance not to be obvious targets for such scrutiny. Yet\, Holocaust museums are not free from entanglements with state power nor from inherited traditions and infrastructures of museum practice with their attendant biases\, exclusions\, and silences. This talk explores the potential value of decolonial museum theories and practices for Holocaust museums to renew and expand their social justice mandates. \n  \n \nEvent flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/do-we-need-to-decolonize-holocaust-museums/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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