BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Museum Studies Program, U-M Rackham Graduate School - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Museum Studies Program, U-M Rackham Graduate School X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Museum Studies Program, U-M Rackham Graduate School REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171019T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20170920T125420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170920T130220Z UID:10000015-1508439600-1508445000@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Curatorial Dilemmas: Representing Africa at UMMA with Mary (Polly) Nooter-Roberts DESCRIPTION:A series of talks by leading curators and thinkers in African art will launch a reimagining process for the forthcoming reinstallation of the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African Art. Mary (Polly) Nooter-Roberts\, Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA\, will be the first speaker in this series to contribute reflections on her own groundbreaking work in the display of African art. \nMary (Polly) Nooter Roberts is a Full Professor in UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance\, and Consulting Curator for African Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She holds a PhD in Art History from Columbia University\, and has served as Senior Curator at The Museum for African Art in New York\, and as Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. \nRoberts studies the philosophical underpinnings of particular African visual and performance-based arts; museum and curatorial studies; the body and female representation; arts of divination and healing; and cross-cultural approaches to memory\, writing\, and inscription. With Allen F. Roberts\, she produced the award-winning works Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History (1996) and A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal (2003). She is also the author/curator of Secrecy: African Art that Conceals and Reveals (1993); and co-author of Exhibition-ism: Museums and African Art (1994); Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art (2007); and Luba in the “Visions of Africa” series (2007). Her most recent exhibition at LACMA is entitled The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts. \nRoberts has been a Getty Postdoctoral Fellow and held other grants and awards; served as President of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association; and is an editor of African Artsjournal. In 2007\, she was decorated by the Republic of France as a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for her promotion of African art and artists of francophone countries. \nAdditional featured speakers include: \nThursday\, November 2\, 7 p.m.: Pamela McClusky\, Curator of African and Oceanic Art\, Seattle Art Museum \nThursday\, November 30\, 7 p.m.: Christa Clarke\, Senior Curator Arts of Global Africa\, Newark Museum \n  \n\n\nLead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. \nThis lecture series is presented in partnership with the University of Michigan African Studies Center\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Department of History of Art\, Institute for the Humanities\, and Museum Studies Program. \nThe series is presented in conjunction with the UMMA exhibition Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa (on view from August 19-December 31\, 2017). URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/curatorial-dilemmas-representing-africa-at-umma-with-mary-polly-nooter-roberts/ LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States CATEGORIES:Other GEO:42.276802;-83.738289 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=U-M Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St. Ann Arbor MI 48109 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=525 S. State St.:geo:-83.738289,42.276802 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171018T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180527T160000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20170920T135048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170929T191952Z UID:10000020-1508317200-1527436800@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Exhibition - Excavating Archaeology at U-M: 1817‐2017 DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment. \nOpening lecture on October 18 in the Pendleton Room at the Michigan Union from 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm.  Reception to follow at the Kelsey Museum from 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm. \n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong \nKelsey Museum location and hours of operation can be found here. \n \n  URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/exhibition-excavating-archaeology-at-u-m-1817%e2%80%902017/ LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, 434 South State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109 CATEGORIES:Other GEO:42.2767334;-83.7413886 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 434 South State Street Ann Arbor MI 48109;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=434 South State Street:geo:-83.7413886,42.2767334 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171230T170000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20171002T195913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171002T200040Z UID:10000027-1507885200-1514653200@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Object Lessons: Recollecting Museum Histories at Michigan DESCRIPTION:Curated by Kerstin Barndt in collaboration with Richard Barnes and Amanda Krugliak\, with original commissioned artwork by Richard Barnes \nThe history of the modern research university is unthinkable without collecting. At the University Michigan\, the first objects brought to campus in the late 1830s included a piece of copper from the Upper Peninsula\, bird skins\, an Anishinaabe canoe and pressed plants. Today’s collections encompass over 25 million specimens and artifacts. As the last exhibition before the closing of the Natural History Museum in the Ruthven Museums Building\, Object Lessons activates the memory of the museums building and richly illustrates the University of Michigan’s lasting effort to build collections in support of its academic mission and for the public. \nShowcasing original objects dating from 1837 to the present\, Object Lessons affords visitors a synthetic look at 200 years of collecting for science. Museum specimens\, artifacts and documents from the archives bring into focus the University Museum’s importance to early state history\, its first global collecting expeditions\, the changing relationship between culture and nature\, science and religion; and the transformation of research and collecting practices from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Not all of U-M’s historical collections survive; the exhibition reflects this fact by focusing also on the life cycle of collections\, on points of origin and decline\, and on the shifting valorization of objects over time. \nObject Lessons draws on collections housed in the University’s research museums (Paleontology\, Zoology\, and Anthropological Archeology)\, as well as the University Herbarium\, the Museum of Natural History\, the Stephen S. Clark Map Library\, the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments\, the Bentley Historical Library\, and the University of Michigan Library. \nMore information can be found here. \n  URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/object-lessons-recollecting-museum-histories-at-michigan/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170926T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170926T183000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20170926T172415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T172415Z UID:10000023-1506445200-1506450600@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Bicentennial book launch/panel discussion DESCRIPTION:The book Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge: The University of Michigan Museums\, Libraries\, and Collections 1817–2017 presents a full color journey through the treasures of the University’s collections. A panel discussion with a focus on items from library collections will occur on Sept 26 at 5:00 pm at Hatcher Library. Panelists include Martha Conway\, director of the U-M Library’s Special Collections Library; Kevin Graffagnino\, director of the Clements Library; and Terry McDonald\, director of the Bentley Historical Library. \nCopies of the book will be available for sale and signing at the event\, and refreshments will be provided. \n  \n  URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/bicentennial-book-launchpanel-discussion/ LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170921T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170921T190000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20170919T225342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170920T124212Z UID:10000094-1506015000-1506020400@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Book Signing: Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge DESCRIPTION:Authors and UM professors Kerstin Barndt and Carla Sinopoli will be at the Kelsey Museum signing copies of their new book\, ‘Object Lessons & the Formation of Knowledge.’ \nLearn about the dynamic history of the museums at the University of Michigan as part of the University’s Bicentennial Anniversary. Copies of the ‘Object Lessons & the Formation of Knowledge’ will be available for purchase in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology gift shop during the event. URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/book-signing-object-lessons-and-the-formation-of-knowledge/ LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, 434 South State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109 CATEGORIES:Other GEO:42.2767334;-83.7413886 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 434 South State Street Ann Arbor MI 48109;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=434 South State Street:geo:-83.7413886,42.2767334 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170417T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170417T200000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20170327T125951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170405T154058Z UID:10000079-1492452000-1492459200@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:MSP16 Student Capstone Presentations - April 17 DESCRIPTION:Presentations at 6:00 and 7:00. \nHaven Hall\, Eldersveld Room \n  \nPresentations for this evening are as follows: \n6:00 pm:  Beyond the Stars: Re-imagining Space at MSU’s Abrams Planetarium \nPresented by Carolyn Clayton\, Christina DiFabio\, Rebecca Kon \nHost institution:  Abrams Planetarium (Michigan State University) \n  \n7:00 pm:  The Four Fields Collection Case: Exhibiting in the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History \nPresented by Roxana Aras\, Zoe Jenkins\, Zachary Kopin \nHost institution:  University of Michigan Museum of Natural History \n  \nA full schedule of all Capstone presentations can be found here:  Capstone Flyer 2017 URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/msp16-student-capstone-presentations-2/ LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109 CATEGORIES:Other,Student Presentation GEO:42.2746165;-83.7406863 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Haven Hall Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street Ann Arbor 48109;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=505 S. State Street:geo:-83.7406863,42.2746165 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170412T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170412T200000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20170327T125844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170405T154125Z UID:10000077-1492020000-1492027200@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:MSP16 Student Capstone Presentations - April 12 DESCRIPTION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room \nPresentations for this evening are as follows: \n6:00 pm:  Home Galleries and Dialogue: Re-contextualizing West African Art in the Toledo Museum of Art \nPresented by Timothy Hart\, Mariane Stanev\, Felix Zamora-Gomez \nHost institution:  Toledo Museum of Art \n  \n7:00 pm:  Finding Center: Mission and Development at the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research \nPresented by Charles Gushue\, Grace Mahoney\, Mary Pena \nHost institution:  Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research \n  \nA full schedule of all Capstone presentations can be found here:  Capstone Flyer 2017 URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/msp16-student-capstone-presentations/ LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109 CATEGORIES:Other,Student Presentation GEO:42.2746165;-83.7406863 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Haven Hall Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street Ann Arbor 48109;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=505 S. State Street:geo:-83.7406863,42.2746165 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170321T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170321T193000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20170213T161207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170322T205250Z UID:10000075-1490121000-1490124600@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Art for Sale? Public Trust\, Public Debt: The Detroit Institute of Arts and the City of Detroit Bankruptcy DESCRIPTION:In the two years since the City of Detroit came out of bankruptcy\, it has not been uncommon to read in mainstream media and the blogosphere “how close the city of Detroit came to selling its art collection.”  Such was never the case and\, in his lecture\, DIA Director Emeritus\, Graham Beal\, will discuss the legal\, social and political intricacies that drove the negotiations between a shifting set of entities\, finally resulting in a creative solution that satisfied most of the moral issues\, if not many of the creditors! \n  \nGraham Beal’s early career included curatorial and director positions at museums such as the Sheffield City Art Galleries\, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis\, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia\, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  In 1989 he became the Director of the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha.  From 1996 to 1999 he served as the Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. \nIn 1999 he became Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts.  Beal’s innovative “populist” reinstallation of the DIA’s great art collection has been internationally influential and was a major factor in securing regional tax support in 2012 for the museum’s annual operating costs.  In 2013-14 he was a member of the team that successfully defended the collection against City of Detroit creditors and negotiated the transfer of ownership of the collection from the City to a private non-profit.  He retired from the DIA in July 2015 and served as Hannah Visiting Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University for the 2015-16 academic year.  His publications include books on the American artist\, Jim Dine\, on contemporary British sculpture\, and on the history of American painting. He is currently writing a new history of the Detroit Institute of Arts.  In December 2015 the University of Michigan conferred on him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters. \nMarch 21 at 6:30 pm – UM Museum of Art \nBeal lecture announcement URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/art-for-sale-public-trust-public-debt-the-detroit-institute-of-arts-and-the-city-of-detroit-bankruptcy/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170317T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170317T123000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20170131T151848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170315T170934Z UID:10000073-1489743000-1489753800@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Aspiration/Obligation?  Imagining Intellectual Freedom in Museums DESCRIPTION:Aspiration/Obligation?  Imagining Intellectual Freedom in Museums \n\nHow Do Museums Respond to Public Challenges to Their Exhibitions?\nWhat Would a National “Bill of Rights” for Museum Visitors Look Like?\nShould Museums Limit Access to Potentially Controversial Materials?\n\nSince the 1930s\, American libraries have organized their work around a set of core principles that places users and their unrestricted rights of access to information as a professional imperative.  Codified in the Intellectual Freedom Manual and supported by the staff and financial resources of the ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom\, these principles include such diverse topics as the need for fully cataloged and accessible collections and collections information\, the need to respond to challenged materials and issues of censorship\, the assurance of diversity in collection development\, and guarding against the economic and technological barriers to access—in all over 400 pages operationalizing a system of professional practice that is championed by the field’s highest professional organizations. \nMuseums\, too\, believe that principles of intellectual freedom are issues that matter deeply in the admittedly different nature of their work.  Yet no formal policy addressing intellectual freedom issues exists in any of the field’s leading professional organizations and few individual museums have crafted anything equivalent to the ALA’s “Library Bill of Rights” and the “Freedom to Read\,” which articulate and protect the intellectual freedom rights of visitors. \nAspiration/Obligation? Imagining Intellectual Freedom in Museums seeks to redress this gap by starting a discussion about the standards that have been established for library users and to imagine how these defining practices might be adapted in museums to assure that museum exhibitions\, collections information\, programming\, and artifacts remain available to all as we enter an uncertain future. \n  \nGuest Speakers: \nJames LaRue\, Office of Intellectual Freedom\, American Library Association \nA Model for Core Values in Museums: The Public Library and the Defense of Free Speech \n  \nSvetlana Mintcheva\, National Coalition Against Censorship \nThe Museum as Flashpoint of Controversy \n  \n  \nRespondents: \nPiotr Adamczyk\, ArtStor \nSusan Kornfield\, Bodman PLC \nJuanita Moore\, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History \n  \nFriday\, March 17 \nAmphitheatre\, Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies\, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. \n  \nIntellectual Freedom Program Schedule URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/aspirationobligation-imagining-intellectual-freedom-in-museums/ LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School\, 915 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States CATEGORIES:Other GEO:42.2807892;-83.7381556 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street Ann Arbor MI 48109 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=915 E. Washington Street:geo:-83.7381556,42.2807892 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170216T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170217T163000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20170118T173306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T172028Z UID:10000021-1487260800-1487349000@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Endangered Heritage conference DESCRIPTION:War\, climate change\, globalization\, and economic development pose significant threats to the world’s natural and cultural heritage. Societies around the world share many of the same concerns\, even as specific regions\, countries\, and communities face unique challenges. \nThe symposium seeks to establish a dialogue about global heritage among invited international experts and the U-M community—exploring threats to heritage and the strategies that have been developed to mitigate these threats\, in both global and local contexts. Speakers representing Africa\, South Asia\, Southeast Asia\, East Asia\, Latin America and the Caribbean\, North Africa and the Middle East will address the challenges their respective regions are currently facing. \nFebruary 16 (UM School of Social Work) \nFebruary 17 (UM Rackham Graduate School) \n  \nposter_full schedule URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/endangered-heritage-conference/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170210T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170211T150000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20170118T165314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170127T160711Z UID:10000035-1486713600-1486825200@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:The Image Reframed: Visions of Instability DESCRIPTION:The Museum Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures 21st Charles F. Fraker conference. The two-day conference\, The Image Reframed: Visions of Instability\, will run from Friday\, February 10 to Saturday\, February 11. The conference will take place in the Michigan League.\nImages can sear\, blur\, fade\, or proliferate. Images can be captured\, scanned\, altered\, or reproduced. The image is a subject and an object; there is a categorical instability to the image that belies the hard dimensions of the frame. The conference will explore images\, the way they inform us about the past and the present\, and also the way they affect our notions of reality and personhood. \n  \nThe conference will facilitate a lively and broadly interdisciplinary engagement among Michigan students and faculty\, honored guests from around the country and the globe\, and distinguished keynote speakers Michael Taussig and W. J. T. Mitchell. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit sites.lsa.umich.edu/frakerconference \n  \nflyer \nprogram \n  URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-image-reframed-visions-of-instability/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170127T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170128T180000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20170118T160534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T175629Z UID:10000040-1485522000-1485626400@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Vagaries of Objectivity / Launen der Sachlichkeit DESCRIPTION:The Museum Studies Program is proud to support a conference co-sponsored by the Departments of German and History of Art.  The two-day conference\, “Vagaries of Objectivity / Launen der Sachlichkeit” will run from Friday\, January 27 to Saturday\, January 28.  The conference will take place in the Rackham Graduate School. \nThe German word Sachlichkeit/Objectivity signifies an array of related\, yet distinct meanings–from expediency and simplicity\, to realism and functionalism. Since the late nineteenth century Sachlichkeit has circulated in many guises\, receiving both praise and condemnation\, as modern sensibility\, political disposition\, and critique of modernity. This conference brings together Michigan faculty and students\, as well as scholars in History\, German Studies\, and Art & Architectural History from around the country\, to present their research on the various implications and histories of the term Sachlichkeit/Objectivity. \nKeynote speakers include Professor Helmut Lethen (Universität Wien) and Professor Daniel Magilow (University of Tennessee\, Knoxville).  Other honored guests and University of Michigan faculty and graduate students will also participate. \nPlease see the full conference schedule attached. \nSachlichkeit Program poster URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/vagaries-of-objectivity-launen-der-sachlichkeit/ LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School\, 915 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States CATEGORIES:Other GEO:42.2807892;-83.7381556 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street Ann Arbor MI 48109 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=915 E. Washington Street:geo:-83.7381556,42.2807892 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161103T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161103T173000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160919T152612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161012T143546Z UID:10000009-1478194200-1478194200@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:FAILURE:LAB DESCRIPTION:Location:  University of Michigan Museum of Art\, Apse \nFAILURE:LAB provides a great opportunity to come together with members of your community and crush the stigma of failure. FAILURE:LAB is filled with storytellers and entertainers recounting their most memorable brush with failure. The audience is encouraged to share their thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag #failurelab during the performances between stories. \nEvent organized by Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.  Co-sponsored by the Museum Studies Program. \nhttp://failure-lab.com/events/uofm/ URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/failurelab/ LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States CATEGORIES:Other GEO:42.276802;-83.738289 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=U-M Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St. Ann Arbor MI 48109 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=525 S. State St.:geo:-83.738289,42.276802 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160921T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160921T180000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160916T153940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160916T153940Z UID:10000013-1474480800-1474480800@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:"Less than Perfect" - exhibition opening lecture DESCRIPTION:September 21\, MSP Director and Curator/Professor of Archaeology\, Carla Sinopoli\, will present an opening lecture about the exhibit that she curated\, “Less Than Perfect.” The lecture will be held at the UM Museum of Art at 6:00 pm\, and a reception will follow at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology where the items are on exhibit. \nhttps://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/exhibitions/special-exhibitions.html URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/less-than-perfect-exhibition-opening-lecture/ LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States CATEGORIES:Other GEO:42.276802;-83.738289 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=U-M Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St. Ann Arbor MI 48109 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=525 S. State St.:geo:-83.738289,42.276802 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160826 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170109 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160919T153053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160919T153053Z UID:10000010-1472169600-1483919999@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Less than Perfect exhibition DESCRIPTION:Location:  Kelsey Museum of Archaeology \nIn our society\, we are taught to strive for and expect perfection. Yet throughout our lives\, we learn as much or more from our flaws and failures as we do from our successes. Less Than Perfect celebrates failure and the lessons it teaches. Featuring objects that span more than 2000 years and four continents\, this exhibition explores the stories they tell about their makers\, their making\, and their use. \nThe exhibition—with objects from the Kelsey Museum\, the Museum of Art\, and the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology— is organized around three themes. Failed Perfection presents archaeological objects that failed in production to explore how researchers use them to study about ancient technologies. Deliberate Imperfection features beautiful and finely crafted objects whose makers deliberately introduced asymmetries or other imperfections into their products—and considers why artists choose to make imperfect things. Restoring Perfection highlights artifacts that were repaired in antiquity by people who strove to restore usefulness and beauty to broken or damaged objects. \nTogether these themes allow visitors to ponder the tensions between perfection and imperfection in their own lives and to explore how people in diverse cultures have addressed this divide. \nGuest curator:  Carla Sinopoli URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/less-than-perfect-exhibition/ LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, 434 South State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109 CATEGORIES:Other GEO:42.2767334;-83.7413886 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 434 South State Street Ann Arbor MI 48109;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=434 South State Street:geo:-83.7413886,42.2767334 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160319T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160319T150000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160815T035815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z UID:10000030-1458381600-1458399600@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:University of Michigan Living Lab Symposium DESCRIPTION:UM child development researchers who work in the Living Lab Program will be presenting exciting findings from our latest studies.  There will be lots of room for discussion about child development\, with a great mix of parents\, teachers\, and researchers in the room! \nWho We Are\nChild development researchers from UM who have been conducting research on social cognition and behavior with children in the Living Lab Program (at the Hands-On Museum and at the Museum of Natural History).\nEvent Date\nSaturday\, March 19\, 2016\nEvent Location\n4448 East Hall (530 Church Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109). There is a parking garage nearby (650 S Forest Ave).\nSchedule (feel free to come to some or all of it!)\n10am – 12pm\nWe’ll hear from researchers conducting studies in the Living Lab.  Each researcher will give a short\, dynamic talk about a study that’s been run in the Living Lab.  These short talks will be fun for everyone involved\, and are geared toward a diverse audience that includes parents\, teachers\, and other researchers.  The presentations by individual researchers will be capped off with a talk by Professor Susan Gelman (dept. of psychology). \n12pm – 1pm\nSnacks\, conversation\, and poster presentations of recent research. \n1pm – 3pm\nA discussion of the nature of university-community research partnerships\, and how to continue building partnerships like the ones we have with local museums.  This part of the day will feature a talk by Marta Biarnes\, one of the pioneers of the Living Lab model at the Boston Museum of Science. \nIf you have any questions\, please feel free to email me at craigsm@umich.edu URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/university-of-michigan-living-lab-symposium/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160312 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160425 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160815T035148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z UID:10000038-1457740800-1461542399@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:"A Cloth of Earth and Sky" DESCRIPTION:Every culture has found ways to restore body\, mind\, and spirit in nature.  In this exhibit\, African-American quilters from the Great Lakes region interpret how plants\, gardens\, and nature are embedded in cultural awareness and expressions of health. The exhibit includes inherited and contemporary works that express cultural legacy based in the art of quilting related to individual and shared healing. Sponsored by the Great Lakes African American Quilters Network & Matthaei-Nichols. \nExhibit runs March 12 – April 24 at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/a-cloth-of-earth-and-sky/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160115T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160115T140000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160815T034613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z UID:10000044-1452866400-1452866400@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:German Studies Colloquium - January 15 DESCRIPTION:Alice Goff \n(German/History/Society of Fellows) \n“Stepping onto the Pedestal: The Silence of Art in Napoleonic Prussia” \nFriday\, January 15\, 2pm  \n3308 MLB \nAlice Goff is a historian of German cultural and intellectual life in the modern period. Her research and teaching focus on the history of museums\, aesthetics\, and the relationships between material objects and political thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a post-doctoral fellow with the Michigan Society of Fellows\, she holds appointments in the departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures and History. \nAlice is currently at work on a book project with the working title\, “The God Behind the Marble: Transcendence and the Art Object in the German Aesthetic State.” It tells the story of artworks caught up in the looting\, iconoclasm\, and shifting boundaries of German states during the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars and the consequences of their displacement for German political\, religious\, and intellectual practice at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By examining the development of private collections\, public museums\, and church treasuries\, this work examines the frictions that arose between the precarious fates of artworks on the ground and the assertions of art’s ideal autonomy in philosophy and criticism. Alice’s second book project takes up the history of German baroque royal collections–Kunstkammer– in the cultural politics and practices of the German Democratic Republic. \nAlice received her PhD in History from the University of California\, Berkeley in 2015. Her work has been supported by the Council for Library and Information Resources\, the DAAD\, and the Mabelle McLeod Lewis Foundation. \nFor inquiries or questions\, please contact moltke@umich.edu URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/german-studies-colloquium-january-15/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160113T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160113T173000 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160815T034222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z UID:10000043-1452706200-1452706200@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews DESCRIPTION:Title:  Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews \nPresenter:  Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Chief Curator\, Core Exhibition\, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita  of Performance Studies\, New York University) \nDate:  Wednesday\, January 13 \nTime:  5:30 pm \nLocation:  University of Michigan Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \nFacing the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes on the site of the Warsaw ghetto and prewar Jewish neighborhood\, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews completes the memorial complex.  At the monument\, we honor those who died by remembering how they died.  At the museum\, we honor them – and those who came before and after – by remembering how they lived.  Since POLIN Museum opened in April 2013\, almost a million visitors have passed through its doors.  This lecture explores the creation of the museum and its multimedia narrative exhibition\, a journey of a thousand years\, and its potential to be an agent of transformation that can move an entire society forward. \nKirshenblatt-Gimblett flyer URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/rising-from-the-rubble-creating-the-museum-of-the-history-of-polish-jews/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151030 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151101 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160815T000659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z UID:10000041-1446163200-1446335999@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Chronopolis: Time and Urban Space - a German Studies Graduate Student Conference DESCRIPTION:Combining Reinhart Koselleck’s notion that time is conceived in spatial metaphors with Henri Lefebvre’s premise that space is socially produced\, this conference invites papers that investigate how cities and time mutually determine and reflect each other. While the focus is on Germanspeaking cities\, we also welcome approaches that connect time in the metropolis to international frameworks and consider the rise of global cities and global metropolitan networks. \nFurther details can be found here. \nCo-sponsored by University of Michigan Museum Studies Program URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/chronopolis-time-and-urban-space-a-german-studies-graduate-student-conference/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Chronopolis.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151026 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151030 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160815T000326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040403Z UID:10000004-1445817600-1446163199@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Daniel Gonzalez and Border Collective Workshop DESCRIPTION:American Culture’s Border Collective Workshop will focus on the growth and changes in Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico\, the U.S. and parts of Latin America.  Day of the Dead is a celebration held on November 1st and 2nd to remember those that have passed away. Distinguished speaker and artist\, Daniel Gonzalez\, will participate in these events. \nGraduate student brunch and workshop with artist Daniel Gonzalez\nOctober 26 from 10:30 am – 12:00 pm in 3773  Haven Hall \nWoodcut prints exhibit reception with Daniel Gonzalez\nOctober 26 at 7:00 pm at Ypsilanti District Library on Whitaker Road \nArtist talk and dinner with Daniel Gonzalez\nOctober 29 from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm in 3512 Haven Hall \nFor more information\, please contact Orquidea Morales at obmora@umich.edu) or visit this site. \nFor specific information about events at the Ypsilanti Library\, please contact 734-482-4110 x 1377 or visit www.ypsilibrary.org/events. \nCo-sponsored by the Museum Studies Program\, American Culture\, Latina/o Studies\, Romance Languages and Literatures\, and the Ypsilanti District Library URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/daniel-gonzalez-and-border-collective-workshop/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Artist-Talk-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151019 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160814T234645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T050120Z UID:10000047-1445126400-1445212799@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:"What Time Is It?' - New Work by Tyree Guyton DESCRIPTION:Guyton’s new work builds on his well known Heidelberg Project addressing the social and economic adversities with which Detroit has struggled for the last fifty years. The exhibit marks a key moment of transition for Guyton as he shifts his attention from the Heidelberg Project\, to which he has devoted the last thirty years\, to the studio. What Time Is It? Tyree Guyton\, New Work presents fifteen mixed-media wall pieces and a floor installation that reexamine some of the themes the artist has grappled with for over thirty years—the passage of time\, adapting to change\, the plight of the poor and disenfranchised\, abuses of political power\, race in America\, and the paradoxes of organized religion. Some of Guyton’s iconic images\, in particular his whimsical clocks and his assemblages of shoes\, are given new significance as they are deployed to interrogate the nature of time and the challenges facing humanity as it moves through time. \nThe exhibition was curated by Bradley L. Taylor and is on display at GalleryDAAS in 4701 Haven Hall. For more details\, click here. URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/what-time-is-it-new-work-by-tyree-guyton/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151003 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160814T233009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040403Z UID:10000045-1443571200-1443830399@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Michigan Museums Association Annual Conference DESCRIPTION:The annual Michigan Museums Association annual conference has come to a close\, and many of our Museum Studies Program faculty and alumni participated throughout the event.  A full schedule of events and presentations that took place can be found at the MMA conference website\, and below are the presentations in which our MSP folks participated.  Visit the photo gallery for of some of the conference highlights. \nCaroline Braden (MSP13 alumni – Guest Accessibility and Special Needs Assistant\, The Henry Ford) – “Creating and Implementing a Visitor Accessibility Plan at Institutions Small and Large” \nRay Silverman (MSP Steering Committee member\, Professor\, History of Art\, Afroamerican and African Studies\, and Museum Studies) – “Inextinguishable – A Conversation with Detroit Artist Tyree Guyton” \nCarla Sinopoli (MSP Director\, Professor of Anthropology\, Curator of Asian Archaeology and Ethnology\, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology) – “Preparing for Change: Training the Next Generation of Museum Professionals” \nJ. Amadeaus Scott (MSP08 alumni – NAGPRA Collections Assistant Manager\, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology) – “NAGPRA Basics” \nMaria Cotera (MSP Steering Committee member\, Associate Professor of American Culture\, Women’s Studies\, and Latino Studies) – “Passionate Praxis: Rethinking the Museum on the Streets of Detroit” \nDiana C. Sierra Becerra (MSP12 alumni – PhD candidate\, History and Women’s Studies\, University of Michigan) – “Maintaining Relevance in the Age of Austerity: Lessons from a Salvadoran Museum” \nCourtney Cottrell (MSP12 alumni – PhD candidate\, Anthropology\, University of Michigan) – “The Role of Artistic Freedom in New Exhibitions: Berlin’s Ethnographic Museum’s Collaboration with Das Helmi” \nCarla Sinopoli (MSP Director\, Professor of Anthropology\, Curator of Asian Archaeology and Ethnology\, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology) – “Museums\, Collections and the History of the University of Michigan:  Looking Backwards and Forwards During the U-M Bicentennial” URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/michigan-museums-association-annual-conference/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150822 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150823 DTSTAMP:20260619T122936 CREATED:20160814T234317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T050009Z UID:10000046-1440201600-1440287999@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:The Art of Tyree Guyton: A Thirty-Year Journey DESCRIPTION:Detroit artist Tyree Guyton has been active in the Detroit community for 30 years.  His most well-known installations are the houses along two blocks of Detroit’s Heidelberg Street\, and Guyton’s smaller works completed in his studio complement these outdoor installations.  A collection of his works will be on display at the UM Museum of Art through January 3\, 2016.  A second collection of his work\, themed “What Time is It?” is on display in GalleryDAAS\, and this exhibition runs through November 6. URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-art-of-tyree-guyton-a-thirty-year-journey/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR