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:20180914T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180914T140000 DTSTAMP:20260619T102652 CREATED:20180907T134121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180907T134121Z UID:10000102-1536926400-1536933600@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:EIHS Symposium: Museum Stories: The Ethics of Collecting DESCRIPTION:What constitutes rightful ownership of cultural objects? The unprecedented looting of modern wars as well as various protest movements have spawned international regulations\, declarations\, and efforts that offer guidance in this regard. The extant framework\, however\, falls short of exhausting the ethical problems raised by artifacts\, their histories\, and their displays. For museum and university collections these questions have gained the greatest urgency. Our panel offers reflections on this vast terrain; three case studies will follow an opening contribution by one of the foremost experts on restitution\, repatriation\, and cultural heritage law. \nPanelists:\nPatty Gerstenblith\, Distinguished Research Professor of Law\, DePaul University\nRaymond Silverman\, Professor\, History of Art\, Afroamerican and African Studies\, University of Michigan\nTerry G. Wilfong\, Director / Curator of Graeco-Roman Egyptian Collections\, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, University of Michigan\nYao-Fen You\, Associate Curator\, European Sculpture and Decorative ArtsDetroit Institute of Arts\nHelmut Puff (chair)\, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History and Germanic Languages\, University of Michigan \n1014 Tisch Hall \nAdditional details here. URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/eihs-symposium-museum-stories-the-ethics-of-collecting/ LOCATION:Tisch Hall\, 435 State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States CATEGORIES:Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mus_stories.png GEO:42.2766233;-83.7397101 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Tisch Hall 435 State Street Ann Arbor MI 48109 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=435 State Street:geo:-83.7397101,42.2766233 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180811T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20181125T170000 DTSTAMP:20260619T102652 CREATED:20180925T224948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181002T213557Z UID:10000104-1533974400-1543165200@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Beyond Borders: Global Africa DESCRIPTION:More than ever in the era of globalization\, ideas traverse geographic\, generational\, and cultural boundaries\, even as national borders seem to be closing. Beyond Borders: Global Africa reflects on this moment by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries. Bringing together a dazzling array of works made in Africa\, Europe\, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century\, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and the African diaspora. It also explores issues such as slavery\, colonization\, migration\, racism\, and identity at play in the objects and their histories. Highlights include paintings\, photographs\, sculpture\, and installations by Kudzanai Chiurai\, Omar Victor Diop\, Wangechi Mutu\, and Serge Alain Nitegeka. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication\, the tenth in the UMMA Books series. \nLead support for Beyond Borders: Global Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the University of Michigan Office of Research\, African Studies Center\, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, and the Museum Studies Program.  Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and Susan Ullrich.  \nExhibit runs August 11 – November 25 at the UM Museum of Art \nThe full schedule can be found here. \n  URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/beyond-borders-global-africa/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180506T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180506T150000 DTSTAMP:20260619T102652 CREATED:20180424T193345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180424T193557Z UID:10000101-1525615200-1525618800@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Curator Talk - Excavating Archaeology at UM: 1817 - 2017 DESCRIPTION:Join the curators of “Excavating Archaeology @ UM: 1817-2017\,” Terry Wilfong and Carla Sinopoli\, for a public tour of the exhibition at the University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. \nThis 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. \nThe tour/exhibition is free and open to the public. URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/curator-talk-excavating-archaeology-at-um-1817-2017/ LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, 434 South State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109 CATEGORIES:Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ExcArc.png 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:20180505T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180505T160000 DTSTAMP:20260619T102652 CREATED:20180416T175401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180504T123731Z UID:10000100-1525510800-1525536000@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:American History Workshop - Constructing America: Identities\, Infrastructure and Institutions DESCRIPTION:In whose image is America constructed? What does “America” mean? In what ways has the world constructed America\, just as America has shaped itself? The American History Workshop invites you to join us in considering these and other questions at our annual graduate student conference: \n  \nConstructing America: Identities\, Infrastructure and Institutions \nMay 4\, 2018 8:30am – 6pm \nMay 5\, 2018 9am – 4pm \n1014 Tisch Hall \n  \nOur keynote speaker is Professor of American Studies\, Laura Barraclough (Yale University). Her talk\, “Colonizing and Decolonizing Frontier Imaginaries in the U.S. West\,” will be Friday May 4 at 4pm. Her talk will examine three sites in which imaginaries of the “western frontier” have been constructed and deconstructed in relationship to structures of settler colonialism\, migration\, and inequality. These include: rural land-use protections for horse-keeping and western heritage in Los Angeles; Mexican Americans use of the charro (gentleman horseman) to secure public and private space in California\, Texas\, and Nevada; and the Gila River Indian Community’s purchase and operation of a Wild West-style theme park just outside of Phoenix. Her goal is to have us think about the malleability of frontier myths: how they have been used to secure settler colonialism\, but can also be repurposed for spatial justice\, decolonization\, and sovereignty. \n  \nA Public History Roundtable will take place on Saturday\, May 5\, 11:30-1:30\, featuring speakers from museum\, archival and digital humanities fields.  NOTE\, this portion of the conference has been cancelled! \n  \nWe’ll be hosting panelists representing 14 universities across the U.S. and Canada\, whose disciplines range from History\, American Studies\, Urban Planning\, English\, Architecture and more. Please see the attached posters and full schedule. Breakfast and lunch will be provided both Friday and Saturday. \n  \nPlease register here if you are interested in attending. \n  \nPlease contact Daniela Sheinin (dsheinin@umich.edu) with any questions. \n  \nCo-sponsored by:  The Department of History\, Museum Studies Program\, and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies \n  \nConstructing America schedule URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/american-history-workshop-constructing-america-identities-infrastructure-and-institutions/2018-05-05/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180504T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180504T180000 DTSTAMP:20260619T102652 CREATED:20180416T175401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180504T123731Z UID:10000099-1525422600-1525456800@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:American History Workshop - Constructing America: Identities\, Infrastructure and Institutions DESCRIPTION:In whose image is America constructed? What does “America” mean? In what ways has the world constructed America\, just as America has shaped itself? The American History Workshop invites you to join us in considering these and other questions at our annual graduate student conference: \n  \nConstructing America: Identities\, Infrastructure and Institutions \nMay 4\, 2018 8:30am – 6pm \nMay 5\, 2018 9am – 4pm \n1014 Tisch Hall \n  \nOur keynote speaker is Professor of American Studies\, Laura Barraclough (Yale University). Her talk\, “Colonizing and Decolonizing Frontier Imaginaries in the U.S. West\,” will be Friday May 4 at 4pm. Her talk will examine three sites in which imaginaries of the “western frontier” have been constructed and deconstructed in relationship to structures of settler colonialism\, migration\, and inequality. These include: rural land-use protections for horse-keeping and western heritage in Los Angeles; Mexican Americans use of the charro (gentleman horseman) to secure public and private space in California\, Texas\, and Nevada; and the Gila River Indian Community’s purchase and operation of a Wild West-style theme park just outside of Phoenix. Her goal is to have us think about the malleability of frontier myths: how they have been used to secure settler colonialism\, but can also be repurposed for spatial justice\, decolonization\, and sovereignty. \n  \nA Public History Roundtable will take place on Saturday\, May 5\, 11:30-1:30\, featuring speakers from museum\, archival and digital humanities fields.  NOTE\, this portion of the conference has been cancelled! \n  \nWe’ll be hosting panelists representing 14 universities across the U.S. and Canada\, whose disciplines range from History\, American Studies\, Urban Planning\, English\, Architecture and more. Please see the attached posters and full schedule. Breakfast and lunch will be provided both Friday and Saturday. \n  \nPlease register here if you are interested in attending. \n  \nPlease contact Daniela Sheinin (dsheinin@umich.edu) with any questions. \n  \nCo-sponsored by:  The Department of History\, Museum Studies Program\, and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies \n  \nConstructing America schedule URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/american-history-workshop-constructing-america-identities-infrastructure-and-institutions/2018-05-04/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180416T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180416T200000 DTSTAMP:20260619T102652 CREATED:20180109T221605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T190741Z UID:10000032-1523901600-1523908800@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:MSP17 Student Capstone Presentations DESCRIPTION:Presentations for this evening are as follows: \n6:00 pm “Applewood Estate and North Flint: Historic Preservation and Community Revitalization” \nPresented by Onyx Henry\, Christopher Mulvey\, Katie Stadtmiller \nHost institution:  Applewood Estate \nProject challenge:  Creating a resource guide to assist Applewood Estate in taking the message of historic preservation to north Flint \n  \n7:00 pm “Is a Barn Just a Barn?  Building a Museum for Carver Camp” \nPresented by Carolyn Gennari\, Rashun Miles\, James Munene \nHost institution:  Camp Carver \nProject challenge:  Designing a long term strategy that will lead to an on-site museum for a metropolitan Detroit church day camp in Grass Lake\, MI \n  \nPresentations will be held in 5670 Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room \n  \nA full schedule of all Capstone presentations can soon be found here. URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/msp17-student-capstone-presentations-april-16/ 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:20180409T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180409T200000 DTSTAMP:20260619T102652 CREATED:20180109T221319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T190834Z UID:10000031-1523296800-1523304000@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:MSP17 Student Capstone Presentations DESCRIPTION:Presentations for this evening are as follows: \n6:00 pm “Building Bridges: Diversifying Audience at the Mott-Warsh Collection“ \nPresented by Stephanie Brown\, Isabelle Gillet\, and Colin Walker \nHost institution:  Mott-Warsh Collection \nProject challenge:  Finding ways to help a contemporary African American art gallery to reach new and diversified audiences \n  \n7:00 pm “Contemporary Voices in Historic Frames: Engaging Community at the Historic Mann House in Concord\, MI” \nPresented by Stacey Bishop\, Alexandra Creola\, Jeremy York \nHost institution: Michigan History Center \nProject challenge:  Finding ways to enhance visitor and community engagement at a small historic home in rural Michigan \n  \nPresentations will be held in 5670 Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room \n  \nA full schedule of all Capstone presentations can soon be found here. URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/msp17-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:20180322T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180322T161500 DTSTAMP:20260619T102652 CREATED:20180309T151610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180309T151610Z UID:10000097-1521729000-1521735300@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:The Challenges and Opportunities of Exhibiting Asian Art in the 21st Century: A View from the Rijksmuseum\, Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:The Challenges and Opportunities of Exhibiting Asian Art in the 21st Century: A View from the Rijksmuseum\, Amsterdam. \nPresented by Anna Slaczka\, Curator of Asian Art\, Rijksmuseum\, Amsterdam. \nMarch 22 at 2:30\, Michigan Union\, Wolverine Room. \nPresented by the UM History of Art\, and co-sponsored by the Museum Studies Program. URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-challenges-and-opportunities-of-exhibiting-asian-art-in-the-21st-century-a-view-from-the-rijksmuseum-amsterdam/ LOCATION:Michigan Union\, 530 S. State Streeet\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States CATEGORIES:Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sponsored.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171130T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T102652 CREATED:20170920T131623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170920T131623Z UID:10000018-1512068400-1512073800@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Curatorial Dilemmas: Representing Africa at UMMA with Christa Clarke 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. Christa Clarke\, Senior Curator Arts of Global Africa\, Newark Museum\, will be the third and final speaker in this series to contribute reflections on her own groundbreaking work in the display of African art. \nClarke is Senior Curator\, Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum\, where she has organized numerous exhibitions ranging from men’s fashion to Nigerian modernism since her appointment in 2002. Clarke’s scholarship on the history of collecting and display and the politics of representation includes Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display (co-edited with Kathleen Berzock; 2010)\, which examines the impact of museum practice on the formation of meaning and public perception of African art. Her recent book\, African Art in the Barnes Foundation (Rizzoli; 2015)\, received the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History and a First Place Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) in 2016. \nClarke has held fellowships at the Smithsonian\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and the Clark Art Institute\, and teaching appointments at NYU Abu Dhabi\, University of Pennsylvania\, George Washington University\, Rutgers University\, Purchase College\, and Drew University. In addition\, she was a Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow in 2012 and currently serves as President of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC). In 2017-2018\, Clarke will be a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard’s DuBois Institute\, where she will be working on a book project\, The Activist Collector: Recovering the Story of an African American Woman in Pre-Apartheid South Africa. \nAdditional featured speakers include: \nThursday\, October 19\, 7 p.m.: Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts\, Professor\, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and Consulting Curator for African Art\, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) \nThursday\, November 2\, 7 p.m.: Pamela McClusky\, Curator of African and Oceanic Art\, Seattle Art 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-christa-clarke/ LOCATION:MI CATEGORIES:Other END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171102T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171102T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T102652 CREATED:20170920T130002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T171007Z UID:10000017-1509649200-1509654600@ummsp.rackham.umich.edu SUMMARY:Curatorial Dilemmas: Representing Africa at UMMA with Pamela McClusky 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. Pamela McClusky\, Curator of African and Oceanic Art\, Seattle Art Museum\, will be the second speaker in this series to contribute reflections on her own groundbreaking work in the display of African art. \nMcClusky established a department for the Art of Africa\, Oceania and the Americas at the Seattle Art Museum in the 1980s.  It became the museum’s fastest growing department\, receiving several significant collections\, and hosting a vast range of exhibitions.  Honoring the depth of the African holdings\, she led a collaborative process with African artists\, scholars\, and advisors to create a national tour\, publication and web resource entitled: Long Steps Never Broke a Back in 2002-2004.\nDuring the last decade\, she has collaborated on exhibitions such as Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth\, Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise\, and Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats. When the Seattle Art Museum expanded in 2007\, she curated multiple galleries of African art\, along with experimental installations that mixed cultural perspectives and cross continental boundaries. In 2012\, she led an effort to place Australian art in the permanent galleries and oversaw an exhibition\, publication and tour called Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art.  Recently\, she was the lead curator for Disguise: Masks and Global African Art\, a national touring exhibition that combined masks of the past with masquerading of the present\, and Mood Indigo: Textiles from Around the World.  She is now working on a new design and interpretation of the African collection galleries which will focus on the distinctions between public and private art and the ways they are presented in museums. \nAdditional featured speakers include:\nThursday\, October 19\, 7 p.m.: Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts\, Professor\, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and Consulting Curator for African Art\, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) \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). \n\nCuratorial_Dilemmas_poster URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/curatorial-dilemmas-representing-africa-at-umma-with-pamela-mcclusky/ 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:20171019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171019T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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:20260619T102652 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 END:VCALENDAR