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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Daniel Gonzalez and Border Collective Workshop
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...
Chronopolis: Time and Urban Space – a German Studies Graduate Student Conference
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...
Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Title: Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews Presenter: 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) Date: Wednesday, January...
German Studies Colloquium – January 15
Alice Goff (German/History/Society of Fellows) “Stepping onto the Pedestal: The Silence of Art in Napoleonic Prussia” Friday, January 15, 2pm 3308 MLB Alice Goff is a historian of German cultural and intellectual life in the modern period. Her research and teaching focus on the history of...
“A Cloth of Earth and Sky”
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...
University of Michigan Living Lab Symposium
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! Who...
Less than Perfect exhibition
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 434 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MILocation: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology In 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...
“Less than Perfect” – exhibition opening lecture
U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesSeptember 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...
FAILURE:LAB
U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesLocation: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Apse FAILURE: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...
Vagaries of Objectivity / Launen der Sachlichkeit
Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesThe 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...
