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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Michigan Museums Association Annual Conference
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,...
“What Time Is It?’ – New Work by Tyree Guyton
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...
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...
