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.
“Too Jewish or not Jewish Enough” book launch with author Jeffrey Abt
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies 202 S. Thayer Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesThis is a celebration of Jeff Abt's newly published book "Too Jewish or not Jewish Enough: Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York" (2024). Join the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for a panel discussion of the new book...
Exhibit tour at UMMA – “A Gathering”
Join MSP for a guided tour of “A Gathering,” currently on display at UMMA. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more...
The Legacy of Art and the Nazis Before and After the Holocaust
Please join SHARE for its final evening of the 2024 Conference, for which we are excited to present University of Michigan History of Art Professor Shelley Perlove. Professor Perlove specializes in Italian and Dutch art of the seventeenth century. Her scholarly interests include art and...
The Museum as Kaleidoscope: On Plantations Past and Present in Louisiana
School of Information 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States3:00 - 4:15 pm Ehrlicher Room (3100 North Quad) and online. What do we see when we look at a museum? Jarrett Martin Drake will attempt a response to this question by carefully considering the Angola Museum outside of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. His...
We Need to HEAR Them Out: Addressing the Issue of Nazi Expropriated Art Through the Lens of Recent Policies and Practices
Online via ZoomWe Need to HEAR Them Out: Addressing the Issue of Nazi Expropriated Art Through the Lens of Recent Policies and Practices Emily Finch (MSP18) April 12 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm While the Washington Principles, which turned twenty-five in 2023, are admired for...
MSP23 Capstone Presentations
Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann ArborPresentations for the evening are as follows: 5:00 pm "Community Neighborhood Preservation in Detroit: Tools and Strategies for Engagement in Walking Tours" Presented by Irma Guzman, Briana Kemmerling, Skyler Leslie, Leopoldo Martinez Challenge statement: To identify best practices for the management of a digital...
This is Rome, Too: Decolonial Practices in the Eternal City
Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann ArborThis is Rome, Too: Decolonial Practices in the Eternal City Gala Patenkovic, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures September 27 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall How can we reimagine the future of museums? How do we make museums decolonial?...
A Museum Fit for a President
Tisch Hall 435 State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesA Museum Fit for a President Albert Cavallaro, PhD Candidate, History October 25 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm 1014 Tisch Hall This talk reflects on the State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan’s response to a planned presidential visit by Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the current...
William R. Farrand Memorial Lecture: Preserving the PostNatural
Central Campus Classroom 1225 Geddes Ave, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesWilliam R. Farrand Memorial Lecture: Preserving the PostNatural Date: October 25 Time: 6:30 pm Location: Central Campus Classroom Building, Room 1425 (1225 Geddes Ave, adjacent to Museum of Natural History) Presenter: Rich Pell Fake banana flavoring, anthrax scares, and bulldog underbites—how did an art...
Traces of Memory at the Galicia Jewish Museum
Hatcher Gallery Lab 913 S. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MITraces of Memory at the Galicia Jewish Museum Ekaterina Olson Shipyatsky (MSP 22; PhD Candidate, Political Science; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Dissertation Fellow 2024-25) November 1 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H Before the Holocaust, Poland was home to...
