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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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:What Do Curators Know?
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 27 at 6:30 pm \nMichigan League (Michigan Room) \nPresentation by Steven Lubar Professor of American Studies\, History of Art and Architecture\, and History\, Brown University and Museum Studies Program Visiting Scholar \nCurators are experts on an astonishing range of topics. But what else do they know? I believe that curators’ hands-on work with art\, artifacts\, and specimens provides them a kind of knowledge unavailable in any other way. Handling objects\, understanding their materiality\, offers insights into their histories of creation\, meaning\, and use. Organizing them for storage\, research and exhibition allows new insights that allow understandings of connections across space and change over time. Curatorial knowledge matters\, even as the role of the museum and curator changes. \n  \nSteven Lubar is professor in the Departments of American Studies\, History\, and History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. He was previously curator at the National Museum of American History\, and Director of Brown’s John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. He is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. His most recent book is Inside the Lost Museum: Curating\, Past and Present.  \n  \nco-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of  Art \n  \nLubar lecture announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/what-do-curators-know/
LOCATION:Michigan League\, Ann Arbor\, MI
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T083000
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SUMMARY:Historic House Museums workshop
DESCRIPTION:The morning session of this workshop is free and open to the public.  The afternoon visit to Fair Lane Estate\, however\, is limited to 40 people and is fully registered. \nHouse museums have been a mainstay of the American museum landscape for generations.  The most common museum type in the United States\, these monuments to affluence and influence—often associated with ‘great men’ and community founders—are found from small towns to major urban centers.  Over the last half century\, the model for the historic house museum has become both familiar and entrenched.  Today\, historic house museums are being challenged: to respond to changing audiences and interests of contemporary museum goers: to tell more complex—and difficult—histories; and to more fully represent the many and diverse communities and individuals that constitute our past and present. \nRe-Imagining the Historic House Museum brings together scholars\, professionals\, and provocateurs who are transforming historic house museums to tell new stories and create new visitor experiences.  This all-day event has two parts.  In the morning\, speakers will introduce their work and institutions in on-campus presentations.  In the afternoon\, pre-registered participants are invited to join a visit to Henry Ford’s Fair Lane Estate in Dearborn\, MI\, currently in the midst of an innovative renovation.  Attendees will be introduced to new approaches to historic house museums and have the opportunity for a rare behind-the-scenes look at work being undertaken in our own community. \n  \n8:30 am – 12:30 pm\, Michigan League (Koessler Room\, 3rd floor) \n  \nParticipants: \nElizabeth Chew\, Vice President for Museum Programs\, James Madison’s Montpelier \nLisa Yun Lee\, Executive Director\, National Public Housing Museum and Director\, School of Art and Art History\, University of Illinois\, Chicago \nMark Heppner\, Vice President for Historic Resources\, Historic Ford Estates \nFrank Vagnone\, co-author\, Anarchist’s Guide to Historic House Museums \nNancy Villa Bryk\,  Associate Professor\, Program in Historic Preservation\, Eastern Michigan University \n  \nPlease see the complete schedule\, presentation titles\, and participant biographies here. \n  \n* The bus to Fairlane Estate will leave from the Michigan League at 1:30 pm (The bus is fully reserved; if you have reserved a spot and must cancel\, please email ummsp@umich.edu to open your spot for someone else.) \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/historic-house-museums-workshop/
LOCATION:Michigan League\, Ann Arbor\, MI
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:“Archives and Futures: A View from ‘the most distant place’”
DESCRIPTION:Shamil Jeppie\, University of Capetown\, South Africa \n\nMonday\, Feb 12\, 4-6pm\nRackham Amphitheatre\, 915 E. Washington\n\nPlease join us for a reception with Shamil Jeppie immediately following the lecture. \nThe Oxford English Dictionary describes Timbuktu as “the most distant place\,” a view that comes out of European explorations of West Africa and the challenges in reaching the place in the interior of the continent\, at the edges of the Sahara desert. Hardly anything was ever noted about Timbuktu’s place in a larger network of settlements with traditions of advanced literacy\, of scholars and scholastic manuscript book making and collecting. Centuries of learned activity were well-known among various local communities. Some settlements become more famous than others. “Timbuktu” somehow became the most famous name. But it was neither an invention nor without actual scholars. \nWhat can the ways these manuscript libraries were kept and conserved—but also dispersed and often destroyed—over the past century and more tell us about the place of archives from the period before European contact in parts of the African past? When and how do archives come to give us insight into more than experiences and conceptions of the past but ideas about the future? The recent attacks on cultural sites including libraries in and around Timbuktu provides an opportunity to ask questions about the constructions of collections and archives\, and their relation to writing about the past but also what they tell about visions of the future. These conflicts and the loss and hazardous movement of cultural artifacts and collections are far from over on the continent. \nShamil Jeppie is associate professor of history at the University of Cape Town and director of the Institute for Humanities in Africa. His research and publications focus on social and cultural history in South Africa and West Africa\, and he is founder of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project\, which explores the formation of a culture of collecting in Timbuktu. His books include Language\, Identity\, Modernity: The Arabic Study Circle of Durban (2007)\, and the co-edited volumes The Meanings of Timbuktu (2008)\, Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges (2010)\, andToward New Histories for South Africa: On the Place of the Past in Our Present (2004). \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/archives-and-futures-a-view-from-the-most-distant-place/
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School\, 915 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180209T130000
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SUMMARY:Museums at Noon - Postponed!
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mark Auslander\, Director of Michigan State University Museum \nco-sponsored by the UM Department of Afroamerican and African Studies \n  \nPreviously schedued for Friday\, February 9 at 12:00 pm in the UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) – new date to be announced soon! \n(add flyer)
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-at-noon-presentation-title-coming-soon/
LOCATION:University of Michigan Museum of Art\, First Floor\, Multi-Purpose Room\, 525 South State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:Museums of the Past into the Future: The Oriental Institute and the Kelsey Museum
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between: \nChris Woods\, Director\, Oriental Institute\, University of Chicago \nTerry G. Wilfong\, Director\, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, U-M \n  \nThe Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan share similar backgrounds and histories. Founded in the prosperity of the 1920s as part of the wider-ranging projects of visionary scholars\, the two archaeological museums focus on an expansive program of investigation of the ancient history of the Mediterranean and Middle East. But these two museums have taken very different paths to the present and face different challenges for the future. The discussion will cover the history of these unique institutions as well as their present situations and future possibilities. \n  \nChristopher Woods is John A. Wilson Professor and Director of the Oriental Institute\, and member of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. He received his BS from Yale University and his PhD in Assyriology from Harvard University and was a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago. His research interests include Sumerian writing and language as well as early Mesopotamian religion\, literature\, and administration.  He is author of The Grammar of Perspective: The Sumerian Conjugation Prefixes as a System of Voice (Brill\, 2008)\, Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon (Volume 18) and is currently completing a monograph on early cuneiform writing\, The Origins and Development of Writing in Ancient Mesopotamia: A History\, 3500 — 2000 BCE. \n  \nTerry G. Wilfong is Director and Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. Wilfong received his BA\, MA\, and PhD in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. As a scholar\, he has dedicated himself to the Kelsey Museum’s collections from the University’s 1924-1935 excavations of the Egyptian sites of Karanis\, Soknopaiou Nesos\, and Terenouthis\, sites chosen by the original excavators to illustrate daily life in Egypt in the Greek and Roman periods (c. 332 BCE – 641 CE). As a curator and museum director\, Wilfong has used these collections to address wider areas of archaeological inquiry\, including concepts such as gender\, sound\, childhood\, and fire. He has also supervised an ongoing series of contemporary art installations in which artists respond to the ancient material in the Kelsey’s collections. Wilfong has recently published two monographs on ancient Egyptian religion and practices relating to death and burial: Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt (2015)\, and Life\, Death and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt: The Coffin of Djehutymose in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (2012). \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Bicentennial \nWoods and Wilfong Announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-of-the-past-into-the-future-the-oriental-institute-and-the-kelsey-museum/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:Digital Aspirations: The Design of an Online Exhibit at a Site of Conscience in Nicaragua
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Allan Martell\, PhD candidate\, Information \nFriday\, December 8 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm\, UM Museum of Art auditorium \n  \nDigital Aspirations: The Design of an Online Exhibit at a Site of Conscience in Nicaragua \nSites of conscience serve the public by raising awareness about contemporary issues such as transnational migrations\, racism\, and gender inequalities. Such is the case for the Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central America (IHNCA). In this talk\, I will share my experience designing the concept of a digital exhibit at IHNCA\, and how this project feeds into larger conversations about the contributions of digital technologies to the museum mission. I argue that the way museum professionals talk about digital technologies reveal their aspirations for what a museum can be. However\, such aspirations do not always match the affordances of digital technologies. \n  \nMuseums at Noon_Martell
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-at-noon-december-8/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T193000
DTSTAMP:20171204T192138Z
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SUMMARY:Time to Evolve:  The Histories and Futures of Two University Natural History Museums 
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between: \nJulie Stein – Executive Director\, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture\, University of Washington \nAmy Harris – Director\, Museum of Natural History\, U-M \n  \nUniversity natural history collections were central to the scientific enterprise in the 19th century. Today\, these collections document change over time\, and play critical roles in research\, education\, and cultural heritage. However\, many museums are under-utilized by their local communities. \nIn the 21st century\, campus and museum leaders must rethink the role of the University Museum. As public appetite for engagement and transparency increases\, University Museums are in a unique position to act as a “front door” to academia by offering access to collections and opportunities to connect with the process of scientific research. Some universities are now making significant investments in upgrading their natural history museums\, including the University of Washington and the University of Michigan. \n  \nJulie K. Stein\, Executive Director of the Burke Museum of Nature and Culture at the University of Washington and Amy Harris\, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History will share  stories of their institutions’ development over time\, with particular emphasis on the opportunities presented by their new facilities\, both opening in 2019. \n  \nJulie K. Stein was appointed Executive Director of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in 2005.  Previously she served as the Museum’s Curator of Archaeology.  She also maintains a professor position in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington\, and was Divisional Dean of Research\, Computing\, and Facilities for the College of Arts and Sciences.  Stein received her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Minnesota and her BA degree from Western Michigan University.  Her research interests are in geoarchaeology\, especially studies involving Northwest Coast shell middens.  She has excavated archaeological sites on Washington’s San Juan Islands since 1983\, and she continues to collaborate on research projects involving geoarchaeology. \n  \nSince 2002\, Amy Harris has served as the Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History\, where she was previously Associate Director and Development Officer. Harris received her BA from Cornell and MA from the University of Michigan. Before joining the Museum of Natural History in 1996\, she worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and then became the Development Director of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival (1986-1994). As museum director\, Harris is currently overseeing the planning and development of the new U-M Museum of Natural History\, slated to open fully in fall 2019.  Harris’ decades of commitment to the Museum and her leadership in this new project were recently honored by the establishment of the Amy Harris Director’s Strategic Fund\, a sizeable endowment that will support the Museum’s projects in perpetuity. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Bicentennial and the UM Museum of Natural History \n  \nStein and Harris Announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/time-to-evolve-the-histories-and-futures-of-two-university-natural-history-museums/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Learning by Leading: A New Model for Expanding Museum Impact
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between: \nKathleen Socolofsky – Director\, Arboretum and Public Garden\, University of California\, Davis \nBob Grese – Director\, Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum\, U-M \n  \nDuring this time of immense and sometimes disorienting change\, museums are perfectly positioned to step into new leadership roles for the universities\, their towns\, and their cities.  Building on foundational strengths in education and community engagement\, museums are poised to be the natural hub that can help people band together to identify\, understand\, and begin to solve the real problems that the community and nation face. This brief presentation will share the lessons that the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden has learned over the last ten years as we developed and launched our Learning by Leading program. This student-centered program\, focused on step-by-step leadership training\, staff mentorship\, and project-based learning\, helps undergraduates engage and lead a broad community of partners\, donors\, and volunteers to “make real change happen in the real world.” Because we are a living museum\, our teaching focuses naturally on plants\, biodiversity\, and ecological systems. Learning by Leading\, therefore\, is intentionally designed to empower the next generation of environmental leaders. As we move forward to explore\, test\, and share our Learning by Leading model nationally\, we invite you to bring your own best ideas about how we can improve and expand this program that is dedicated to “inspiring human potential to help people and environments thrive.” \nMatthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum at the University of Michigan also aspires to train environmental leaders through its student internship\, work-study\, and volunteer programs\, including the Campus Farm.  The summer internship program\, known as the “Nature Academy” strives to provide professional training for students while engaging them in caring for the arboretum and botanical gardens properties.  Following Kathleen Socolofsky’s presentation\, she and Matthaei-Nichols Director Bob Grese will compare notes on what each of their respective institutions has learned from these innovative student engagement programs. \n  \nSince 1998\, Kathleen Socolofsky has served as Director of the Arboretum and Public Garden at the University of California\, Davis\, where she has also been Assistant Vice Chancellor in Campus Planning and Environmental Stewardship since 2008. Nationally recognized for her leadership and contributions to UC Davis\, Socolofsky has built university and community partnerships that have led to new gardens and innovative programming\, with a major goal of transitioning her campus into a public garden\, using strategies that have made the Arboretum a success. She has co-developed and currently leads the UC Davis GATEways (Garden\, Arts\, and the Environment) Project\, which works to transform the Arboretum and campus landscapes into physical and programmatic “gateways” to engage the public and connect them with the riches of the University. \nPrior to joining UC Davis\, Socolofsky served as the Director of Education at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix\, Arizona (1985-1998)\, where she was Principal Investigator for a National Science Foundation grant that transformed the garden and its collections into an interactive science museum. Among her committee and board appointments\, she has served on the Board of the American Public Gardens Association\, receiving its 2007 Professional Citation Award. Socolofsky received an Award of Distinction in 2012 from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the first-ever Leadership Prize from the Excelerate Foundation in 2014. \n  \n  \nRobert Grese has served as Director of Nichols Arboretum since 1999 and of the combined Nichols Arboretum and Matthaei Botanical Gardens since 2004. A long-time advocate of ecologically-based design and of the careful stewardship of cultural and natural landscapes\, Grese is a faculty member in the University of Michigan’s newly renamed School for Environment and Sustainability\, where he is currently the Theodore Roosevelt Chair of Ecosystem Management. Hailed by the Garden Club of America as an “extraordinary leader\, designer\, researcher\, teacher and guide\, a true Renaissance man in his field\,” his focus has been on restoring urban wilds\, specifically prairie and oak savanna ecosystems\, integrating and connecting people to nature and fostering volunteer stewardship. \nA much-published author and speaker\, Grese has documented and become a leading authority on the work of early landscape designers Jens Jensen and O.C. Simonds\, who pioneered the “prairie style” of landscape architecture and advocated the use of native plants. He also is considered a leader in documenting midwestern landscapes and has helped develop national landmark nominations for both the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House and the Henry Ford estate\, Fair Lane. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Bicentennial \n  \nSocolofsky and Grese Announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/learning-by-leading-a-new-model-for-expanding-museum-impact/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:Narrative and Nationalism: Islamic Science in American Museum Practice
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Amanda Respess\, PhD candidate\, Anthropology and History \nFriday\,  November 17 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm\, UM Museum of Art auditorium \n  \nNarrative and Nationalism: Islamic Science in American Museum Practice \nArtifacts important to the history of science in Islamicate societies occupy peculiar ground in American museums\, often having trajectories in collections and exhibits that obscure\, rather than clarify\, their provenance and significance. Islamicate societies from the eighth century to the early modern period authored scientific advancements in an astonishing number of fields\, producing a multitude of objects now housed in museum collections around the world. These objects are\, however\, often conspicuously absent in American science museums; they are instead scattered among the collections of American art museums\, where their scientific importance is often sidelined. \nThis talk\, centered on a discussion of the Smithsonian\, examines the historical context of the acquisition of these objects and their itineraries through American collections and exhibitions\, which have offered a variety of narrative techniques used to assign them meanings while on display. What emerges from this analysis is a history of nation-building in American museums that tells a very particular story about the nature of science\, and about who and what can be considered its legitimate stakeholders\, or claim it as a cultural inheritance. \n  \nMuseums at Noon_Respess
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-at-noon-november-17/
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CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171103T120000
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SUMMARY:What Happens When a Museum Is Something Other than a Museum?
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Zachary Kopin\, PhD\, History \nFriday\, November 3 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm\, UM Museum of Art auditorium \n  \nWhat Happens When a Museum Is Something Other than a Museum? \nConstitution Hill was once a notorious prison in colonial and apartheid South Africa. Churchill\, Ghandi\, Nelson and Winnie Mandela\, and Fatima Meer were imprisoned there. It was not uncommon for 75 prisoners to find themselves confined to a cell the size of a classroom. At the turn of the millennium\, in an effort to reclaim the space\, the newly democratic South Africa decided to place its Constitutional Court on the site\, while the city\, provincial\, and national governments created an entity to manage the site and tell its history. Many know Constitution Hill as a museum. Its formal name\, however\, is the Constitution Hill Development Company. \nWhat happens to a museum when its primary function is not to put its collections on display? This talk will discuss how the mandate to develop a precinct changes how a museum operates — the opportunities and risks that mandate creates. And how\, in a country struggling to recover from the damage of its past\, one balances reclamation against the demands of heritage preservation. \n  \nMuseums at Noon_Kopin
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-at-noon-november-3/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171102T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171102T203000
DTSTAMP:20171030T171007Z
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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
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SUMMARY:University Natural History Museums: Portals of Discovery in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between: \nJames Hanken – Director\, Museum of Comparative Zoology\, Harvard University \nDiarmaid O Foighil – Chair\, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, U-M \n  \nMany of the world’s great universities have natural history museums founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Faculty curators are often called upon to justify the considerable expense associated with the maintenance of enormous collections under their care. The research and educational value of these collections resides in their wealth of identified biological specimens\, collected from natural populations at known times and locations. That value compounds with time because they increasingly represent populations\, species\, biological communities and ecosystems that no longer exist. Using museum collections\, modern scientists can in effect time travel by accessing otherwise unavailable genomic and ecological information from collection specimens that allow us to track change through time. \n  \nThis ability has never been more needed: our impact on the planet’s biota\, climate and ecosystems is such that profound ecological change\, AKA the Anthropocene\, is upon us. University natural history museums can play a key role in documenting that change\, determining its scope and\, via online outreach\, communicating results to a global audience. The value and potency of university-based natural history museums may be greater now than ever before. \n  \nJames Hanken is Director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University. After earning A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in zoology from the University of California\, Berkeley\, he did postdoctoral work in developmental biology at Dalhousie University\, Nova Scotia\, and then assumed a faculty position at the University of Colorado\, Boulder. Professor Hanken moved to Harvard in 1999\, where he is also a professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and a member of the Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine Program. A member of the Executive Committee of the Encyclopedia of Life and a recognized teacher\, he has authored more than 130 scientific publications and edited four books\, and is also an accomplished nature and scientific photographer. \n  \nDiarmaid O’Foighil is Director of the Museum of Zoology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. Professor O’Foighil obtained a B.Sc. in zoology from NUI Galway\, Ireland\, in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Victoria\, Canada\, in 1987. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995\, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Friday Harbor Laboratories\, University of Washington\, and Simon Fraser University\, Vancouver\, and a research scientist at the University of South Carolina. He has served as the president of the American Malacological Society and on the editorial boards of Evolution and Malacologia. \n  \n*Note\, this event will be held at the Rackham Graduate School building (on the 4th floor\, West Conference Room) \n  \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Bicentennial \n  \nHanken and O’Foighil announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/title-tbd-3/
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School\, 915 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Museum Further Afield: Conservation\, Art\, and Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Suzanne Davis\, Associate Curator\, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. \nFriday\, October 20 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm\, UM Museum of Art auditorium \n  \nThe Museum Further Afield: Conservation\, Art\, and Archaeology \nWhen we think and talk about museums\, we are often focused on what is happening within the gallery. But certain museums support projects around the world. In this talk\, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology conservator Suzanne Davis will provide a brief introduction to the field of conservation: what conservators do and where they work\, how to become a conservator\, and some of the big-picture issues conservators are concerned about today. As a specialist in archaeological conservation\, she will then describe how her work supports the mission of the Kelsey Museum\, both in Ann Arbor but also further afield\, specifically at the Kelsey Museum/University of Michigan archaeological excavations at El Kurru\, Sudan. Conservators working at archaeological sites like El Kurru conduct the same kinds of activities as conservators in museums — condition surveys and documentation\, conservation treatment\, and collections management — but in a different setting\, with different resources\, and a different kind of collection. \n  \nMuseums at Noon_Davis
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-at-noon-october-20/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171013T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171230T170000
DTSTAMP:20171002T200040Z
CREATED:20171002T195913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171002T200040Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170929T130000
DTSTAMP:20170926T202938Z
CREATED:20170908T131300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T202938Z
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SUMMARY:Growing Protocols: Documenting the Collaborative Process within the Heritage Seeds for Sustainable Lifeways Project
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Elspeth Geiger\, PhD candidate\, Anthropology \nFriday\, September 29 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm\, UM Museum of Art auditorium \n  \nGrowing Protocols: Documenting the Collaborative Process within the Heritage Seeds for Sustainable Lifeways Project \nCollaboration between museums and Native American communities has overwhelmingly centered on either museum exhibitions or legally-mandated processes such as those based on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The Heritage Seeds for Sustainable Lifeways project departs from these types of collaborative efforts by focusing on creating protocols and relationships surrounding University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA) plant collections. The project works to bring a broad range of individuals from university settings and Tribal communities into conversation over their shared interest in the collections. \nThis presentation will explore my experience with the Heritage Seeds Project through my practicum at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens. As a result of my documentation of the information sharing and planning sessions\, we can examine the processes behind the creation of collaborative frameworks. This experience provided me great insight on the kinds of reciprocal relationships that surround museum collections. \n  \nThis presentation is co-sponsored by the UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. \n  \nMuseumsNoon_Geiger
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-at-noon-sept-29/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170926T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170926T183000
DTSTAMP:20170926T172415Z
CREATED:20170926T172415Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170921T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170921T190000
DTSTAMP:20170920T124212Z
CREATED:20170919T225342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170920T124212Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170417T200000
DTSTAMP:20170405T154058Z
CREATED:20170327T125951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170405T154058Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170412T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170412T200000
DTSTAMP:20170405T154125Z
CREATED:20170327T125844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170405T154125Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170331T130000
DTSTAMP:20170327T131718Z
CREATED:20170111T153313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170327T131718Z
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SUMMARY:Detroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward – Community Engagement at the Detroit Historical Society
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn 2015\, Detroit Historical Society began a multi-year community engagement project to commemorate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the civil unrest of July 1967. Called Detroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward\, the project’s purpose is to bring together diverse voices and communities around the effects of a historic crisis. Its goal is to help our community members find our place in the present and to inspire the future. Those who engage in Detroit 67 will be able to better understand the events leading up to July 1967\, where we are today\, and connect to efforts that are moving Detroit forward. \n  \nIn this presentation\, Tobi Voigt\, Senior Director of Education and Outreach at the Society\, will talk about the origins of the project and its five key components: a comprehensive oral history project; a comprehensive\, balanced and experiential museum exhibition; an academic book publication with Wayne State University Press; a network of engaged community partners working in the region to promote understanding of the past and action toward a better future; and\, ultimately\, a model that other historical and community organizations can use to unite the community around the effects of a historic crisis. \n  \nPresented by Tobi Voigt\, Senior Director of Education and Outreach\, Detroit Historical Society \nFriday\, March 31 at 12:00 pm in the UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) \n  \nBrownBag_Voigt \n  \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/detroit-67-looking-back-to-move-forward-community-engagement-at-the-detroit-historical-society/
LOCATION:University of Michigan Museum of Art\, First Floor\, Multi-Purpose Room\, 525 South State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
GEO:42.276802;-83.738289
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170324T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170324T130000
DTSTAMP:20170206T202952Z
CREATED:20170111T152654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170206T202952Z
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SUMMARY:The Smithsonian Institution and the Making of the American Nonprofit Sector
DESCRIPTION:When Englishman James Smithson left $500\,000 to the United States of America to establish the Smithsonian Institution in 1829\, he improbably forced the United States Congress to design America’s first national benevolent institution. This talk will address how Congress came to a decision about whether the Smithsonian should be a government agency\, a quasi-governmental institution\, or a private corporation in the mid-nineteenth century. Their decision has had a lasting impact on the formation of the American nonprofit sector\, I will argue\, as future philanthropic foundations used the Smithsonian Institution’s articles of incorporation as a model into the twentieth century. \nPresented by Elizabeth Harmon – PhD candidate\, American Culture \nFriday\, March 24 at 12:00 pm in the UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) \nBrownBag_Harmon \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-smithsonian-institution-and-the-making-of-the-american-nonprofit-sector/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170321T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170321T193000
DTSTAMP:20170322T205250Z
CREATED:20170213T161207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170322T205250Z
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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
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