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.
Events
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Tour of “Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World” exhibit
Hatcher Graduate LibraryMonday, March 9 at 12:00 pm Hatcher Library North, First Floor, Room 100J Join Abigail Staub (MSP22 and PhD Candidate, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology) for a tour of an exhibit she curated in the Hatcher Gallery “Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in...
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Museums@Noon presentation by History of Art students
Tappan Hall 913 S. University, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesTraversing Mountains and Waters: Visits to the Centennial Exhibition at the National Palace Museum of Taipei Speakers: History of Art PhD students - Qi Zheng, Meichen Liu, Yueling Li, Star Song March 23 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm Tappan Room 180 and online via...
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America at 250: a Conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesAmerica at 250: History, Memory, and Truth A Conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Tuesday, March 31, 6pm (doors open at 5:15pm) Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St. Free & open to the public Museums are the classrooms of our...
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MSP25 Capstone Presentations
Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann ArborWednesday, April 15 from 4:00 – 8:00 pm Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall Presentations for the evening are as follows: 4:00 pm - "A Conservation and Collections Management Plan for the Howell Opera House" Presented by Lisandri Kola, Ali Mohsin, Dana Salama Host institution:...
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Do We Need to Decolonize Holocaust Museums?
Hatcher Graduate LibraryPresentation by Erica Lehrer, PhD, MSP04; Professor of History at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada); Winter 2026 Institute Fellow, UM Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Hatcher Library Gallery Lab, Room 100H A central issue animating and transforming the museum sector today is the call...
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Penny Stamps Speaker Series – Aanikoobijigan film screening at Michigan Theater
Michigan Theater 603 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesThe Museum Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor the Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Aanikoobijigan film screening at Michigan Theater (603 E. Liberty Street, Ann Arbor). Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the...
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In the Shadow of the Empire: Calcutta’s Victoria Memorial and its Cast of Moving Statuary
Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann ArborPresentation by Tapati Guha-Thakurta October 23 at 4:00 pm Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall (505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor) With a focus on Calcutta’s landmark monument – the most grandiose of the memorials to the Queen of all the ones built across the...
