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SUMMARY:The GEM of Giza: The Grand Egyptian Museum Gala Livestream
DESCRIPTION:On November 1\, 2025\, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) will hold a gala opening attended by queens\, kings\, and presidents from around the world. The long-awaited GEM will showcase the splendors of Egypt’s deep history\, including the complete collection from the tomb of King Tutankhamun\, in a $1 billion state-of-the-art facility. If you can’t be there in person\, please join us for an exclusive livestream of the festivities\, including tours of the museum’s as-yet unseen galleries. Be among the first people in the world to experience the splendors of the GEM at the region’s only official livestream event. \nThis free\, public event takes place in Auditorium C of Angell Hall (435 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109). Space is limited\, so please register here to reserve your seat: https://myumi.ch/y1j5y. \nThe GEM livestream is sponsored by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, the Department of Middle East Studies\, the U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology\, the Museum Studies Program\, and the North African Students Association. \nComplete details can be found here. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-gem-of-giza-the-grand-egyptian-museum-gala-livestream/
LOCATION:Angell Hall\, 435 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Balikan: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections
DESCRIPTION:On October 24-25\, 2025\, join the Inclusive History Project for Balikan: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections\, a two-day symposium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. This symposium brings together scholars\, archivists\, cultural heritage workers\, and community activists from across the globe who are collaborating and advocating to better represent and activate Philippine collections in libraries\, archives\, and museums. \nThe central question that will be explored throughout the two-day symposium is: What are the current and future directions of shared stewardship of Philippine colonial collections? The symposium will be a space to share resources and insights\, further explore and develop best practices for caring for Philippine collections across institutions\, and continue building networks amongst those pursuing reparative work related to Philippine collections. Speakers will discuss their efforts to rethink and intervene in institutional practices and bring Philippine collections closer to communities by pursuing outright repatriation\, knowledge sharing using digital tools\, and/or shared stewardship arrangements. \nThe Balikan: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections symposium is part of ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan led by Deirdre de la Cruz and Ricky Punzalan and operating in partnership with the Inclusive History Project at the University of Michigan. Learn more about the project. \nBalikan: Shared Stewardship & Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections is presented by the Inclusive History Project in partnership with the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program\, the Museum Studies Program\, the Bentley Historical Library\, the Clements Library\, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan\, the U-M Department of American Culture\, the U-M Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, the U-M Department of History\, the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA)\, the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)\, and the University of Michigan Library. \nSaturday\, October 25\nAll events will be held at the Michigan Union\, First Floor\, Anderson Room\, 530 S State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 \nPanel: Sound Returns\n9:15am – 10:45am \nPanel: Human and Ancestral Remains\n11:00am – 12:30pm \nPanel: Materialities and Modalities of Return\n1:30pm – 3:00pm \nPanel: Archives Remembered and Remade\n3:15pm – 4:45pm \nClosing Keynote\n4:45pm – 6:00pm \nComplete program details can be found here.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/balikan-shared-stewardship-and-ethical-returns-for-philippine-collections-2/
LOCATION:Michigan League\, Ann Arbor\, MI
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Balikan: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections
DESCRIPTION:On October 24-25\, 2025\, join the Inclusive History Project for Balikan: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections\, a two-day symposium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. This symposium brings together scholars\, archivists\, cultural heritage workers\, and community activists from across the globe who are collaborating and advocating to better represent and activate Philippine collections in libraries\, archives\, and museums. \nThe central question that will be explored throughout the two-day symposium is: What are the current and future directions of shared stewardship of Philippine colonial collections? The symposium will be a space to share resources and insights\, further explore and develop best practices for caring for Philippine collections across institutions\, and continue building networks amongst those pursuing reparative work related to Philippine collections. Speakers will discuss their efforts to rethink and intervene in institutional practices and bring Philippine collections closer to communities by pursuing outright repatriation\, knowledge sharing using digital tools\, and/or shared stewardship arrangements. \nThe Balikan: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections symposium is part of ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan led by Deirdre de la Cruz and Ricky Punzalan and operating in partnership with the Inclusive History Project at the University of Michigan. Learn more about the project. \nBalikan: Shared Stewardship & Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections is presented by the Inclusive History Project in partnership with the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program\, the Museum Studies Program\, the Bentley Historical Library\, the Clements Library\, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan\, the U-M Department of American Culture\, the U-M Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, the U-M Department of History\, the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA)\, the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)\, and the University of Michigan Library. \nFriday\, October 24\, 2025\nAll events will be held at the Rackham Graduate School\, Fourth Floor\, Assembly Hall\, 915 E Washington St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 \nWelcome and Keynote\n2:00pm – 3:45pm \nPanel: Shared Stewardship / Co-Curation\n4:00pm – 5:30pm \nOpening Reception\nBegins at 6:00pm \nComplete program details can be found here.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/balikan-shared-stewardship-and-ethical-returns-for-philippine-collections/
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School\, 915 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:Flexing the Museum: The Global Museum in the 21st Century?
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Christina Olsen (Director\, UM Museum of Art) \nOctober 23 at 5:30 pm \nUM Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \nExploring museums across Argentina\, the UK\, Belgium and Portugal visited on a recent sabbatical\, museum director Christina Olsen wrestles with museums’ changing shapes and missions\, ethics and publics in a wide-ranging conversation about why and how art museums matter in the world today. \nChristina Olsen is the director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art. Olsen has more than 25 years of leadership experience in museums\, and lectures and writes frequently on the future and changing role of art museums. She received her PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/flexing-the-museum/
LOCATION:University of Michigan Museum of Art
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:2025 Charles F. Fraker Conference – “Capitalism and Desire”
DESCRIPTION:The biannual Charles F. Fraker Conference is organized by doctoral students in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor in honor of Professor Emeritus of Spanish Charles F. Fraker. Originally a venue for graduate students of Hispanic Studies to meet and discuss the subjects of their research\, the conference has grown to include the work of students of many other fields and disciplines. In previous years\, the Charles F. Fraker Conference has featured as its keynote speakers intellectuals such as Jacques Lezra\, Alberto Moreiras\, Jacques Rancière\, Bill Brown\, Michael Taussig\, WJT Mitchell\, and Robert T. Tally Jr. \nIn 2025\, the conference will welcome Professor Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois\, Chicago) who will deliver the keynote lecture and workshop. The event will take place on October 17-18 at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. \nOur 2025 edition of the conference is generously co-sponsored by the following departments and units at the University of Michigan: \nDepartment of Germanic Languages and Literatures\nMuseum Studies Program\nEisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\nInstitute for the Humanities \nAdditional information can be found here.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/2025-charles-f-fraker-conference-capitalism-and-desire-2/
LOCATION:Michigan League\, Ann Arbor\, MI
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:2025 Charles F. Fraker Conference - “Capitalism and Desire”
DESCRIPTION:The biannual Charles F. Fraker Conference is organized by doctoral students in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor in honor of Professor Emeritus of Spanish Charles F. Fraker. Originally a venue for graduate students of Hispanic Studies to meet and discuss the subjects of their research\, the conference has grown to include the work of students of many other fields and disciplines. In previous years\, the Charles F. Fraker Conference has featured as its keynote speakers intellectuals such as Jacques Lezra\, Alberto Moreiras\, Jacques Rancière\, Bill Brown\, Michael Taussig\, WJT Mitchell\, and Robert T. Tally Jr. \nIn 2025\, the conference will welcome Professor Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois\, Chicago) who will deliver the keynote lecture and workshop. The event will take place on October 17-18 at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. \nOur 2025 edition of the conference is generously co-sponsored by the following departments and units at the University of Michigan: \nDepartment of Germanic Languages and Literatures\nMuseum Studies Program\nEisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\nInstitute for the Humanities \nAdditional information can be found here.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/2025-charles-f-fraker-conference-capitalism-and-desire/
LOCATION:Michigan League\, Ann Arbor\, MI
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Museums@Two presentation by Alexandria Rayburn
DESCRIPTION:Women in museum computing: a brief history of data entry & skilled labor  \nAlexandria Rayburn (MSP 19; PhD\, Information) \nOctober 9 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm \nOnline via Zoom \nMuseum collections are many things\, but primarily they function as repositories of information\, where data-intensive work has been conducted for decades. Like other knowledge infrastructures\, the information in museum collections is built on installed bases and require highly skilled technicians to maintain these long-lasting digital systems. However\, in representations of this computing work\, women’s voices and perspectives are under-appreciated\, even though they have significant labor contributions in this area. \nMy dissertation examines the experiences of women working in computing roles within museum collections and seeks to understand their unique approaches to data management. Drawing from this research\, this talk will explore some of the early gendered data practices at both the Smithsonian Institution and the Metropolitan Museum of Art— two highly regarded institutions whose leadership in early museum computing has had lasting implications on museum best practices\, and the value given to computing tasks like data entry. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-alexandria-rayburn/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Museums@Noon presentation by Veronica Williamson
DESCRIPTION:Where Objects are Placed: reflections on Aa-ashaachi as a guardian of sovereignty and Holisso as a threshold to community \nVeronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate\, Germanic Language & Literature) \nSeptember 12 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nHatcher Gallery Lab\, Room 100H \nWhen the Chickasaw Cultural Center’s 184-acre campus opened just outside of downtown Sulphur\, Oklahoma in 2010\, several shifts happened simultaneously: Sulphur—known for its healing waters—re-emerged as a geographically-central cultural site for the tribe; the Cultural Center itself also became administratively separate from a series of other tribal museums\, including the Chickasaw Capitol Building\, Old Council House Museum\, and Chickasaw White House (all located to the southwest in the Nation’s capital\, Tishomingo). Connected yet doubly separate from its peer institutions\, the Cultural Center has come to serve a series of unique and vital functions within the tribe. \nIn this talk\, I’ll draw on my Collections Management Intern experiences to examine two of the Cultural Center’s most impactful purposes: serving as an active guardian of tribal sovereignty by stewarding the tribe’s material history and providing a space that functions as a threshold to community for tribal individuals.  In doing so\, I hope to elucidate the role that the Cultural Center plays in comparison to the Chickasaw Nation’s other cultural initiatives and to consider the unrelenting importance of material history for tribal sovereignty. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-veronica-williamson/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:MSP24 Capstone Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 14 from 5:00 – 8:00 pm \nEldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall \n  \nPresentations for the evening are as follows: \n5:00 pm “(Re)accrediting the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: Plans for Marketing\, Development\, and Interpretive efforts” \nPresented by Madeleine Harris\, Anwar Monamed\, Patricia Torres-Pineda \nChallenge statement:  To develop the first marketing\, development\, and interpretation plans for the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (KMA). These plans align with the KMA’s strategic planning for the 2025-2029 period and provide a roadmap for continued commitment to excellence in interpretation\, marketing\, and development strategies at the Kelsey. \nHost institution: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology \n  \n6:00 pm “My Doors are Widely Swung”: Imagining the Stone House as a Multi-purpose Community Space for the Theodore Roethke Foundation \nPresented by Timilehin Ayelagbe\, Justin Chun-Yin Cheng\, Ana Santory Rodríguez\, Natasha Stepanova \nChallenge statement: To develop resources and best practice recommendations for transforming the historic Stone House into a multi-purpose\, multi-generational space for cultural and educational opportunities for the Friends of Theodore Roethke Foundation. \nHost institution: Friends of Theordore Roethke Foundation \n  \n7:00 pm “Advancing Collection Management at the Secunda Museum“ \nPresented by Marthe Djilo Kamga\, Georgia Oppenheim\, Rukmini Swaminathan \nChallenge statement: To identify best practices for the management of the Secunda Collection at Cleary University through the lens of collections scope\, governance\, and storage. \nHost institutions:  Cleary University\, Arthur Secunda Museum \n  \nMSP24 Capstone Presentations flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/msp24-capstone-presentations/
LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Student Presentation
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SUMMARY:DISCO Network Presents: Building the Indigenous Internet
DESCRIPTION:Date:  April 14 \nTime:  2:00 – 3:30 pm \nLocation:  10th Floor Weiser Hall & Zoom \nThis panel brings together key voices in infrastructure as broadly imagined\, data sovereignty and decolonial perspectives to critically explore the history\, present\, and future of the indigenous Internet. The conversation will showcase how Indigenous knowledge has and will continue to shape data worlds by bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives on emerging technologies—ranging from computer science\, artificial intelligence\, social media\, online activism\, the work of infrastructure and circuit building\, and beyond. By centering Indigenous voices\, the discussion aims to create transformative visions for a sustainable\, equitable\, and inclusive digital future while inviting speculative thinking about post-settler digital worlds. \nFree copies of Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age by Ashley Cordes will be provided to the first 50 attendees. All are welcome and we strongly encourage undergraduate and graduate students to attend. Advance registration is recommended: \n\nRegister to attend in person: https://myumi.ch/N6wx9\nRegister to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/egDpX\n\n \nMeet the Panelists \nAshley Cordes (Coquille/KōKwel) is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Media in ENVS and Data Science at the University of Oregon and a recent American Council of Learned Societies Fellow. Her research lies at the intersection of Indigenous science and technology studies\, digital media\, and environmental/place-based studies. She is interested in how Indigenous culture and technology producers leverage discursive\, technological\, and media forms of “digital Indigeneity” toward Tribal economic independence\, representational and data sovereignty\, Indigenous cultural revitalization\, and the resurgence of Indigenous knowledge systems. Her research in AI has been published in the Indigenous Protocols Artificial Intelligence position paper and her other works on representation\, digital humanities\, and Indigenous methods have been published in journals such as Cultural Studies >Critical Methodologies\, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication\, and Feminist Media Studies. She is the author of the book\, Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age in production with MIT Press. \nMajerle Lister is a Diné student whose research interest ranges from Indigenous geography\, Native American Studies\, and Critical Agrarian Studies. Focusing on land regimes in the Navajo Nation\, he is interested in how land relations are shaped by development projects and historical Diné land relations and practices. His research explores the development discourses and practices within the Former Bennett Freeze Area in Western Navajo Nation. \nLisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture\, and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Since 1994\, Nakamura has written books and articles on digital bodies\, race\, and gender in online environments\, on toxicity in video game culture\, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. These books include\, Race After the Internet (co-edited with Peter Chow-White\, Routledge\, 2011); Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota\, 2007); Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge\, 2002); and Race in Cyberspace (co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman\, Routledge\, 2000). In November 2019\, Nakamura gave a TED NYC talk about her research called “The Internet is a Trash Fire. Here’s How to Fix It.” \n  \nCo-Sponsors:\nCenter for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing\nComputer Science and Engineering\nDepartment of American Culture\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\nDepartment of Film\, Television\, and Media\nDepartment of History\nMuseum Studies Program\nNative American Studies\nProgram in Computing for the Arts and Sciences\nScience\, Technology & Society Program\nScience\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program\nSchool of Information \n  \nAdditional information can be found here.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/disco-network-presents-building-the-indigenous-internet/
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Visiting Fulbright Fellow\, Alan Rice
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alan Rice\, PhD\, Fulbright Scholar; Professor of English and American Studies; Director of the Research Centre in Migration\, Diaspora & Exile; Co-Director of the Institute for Black Atlantic Research\, University of Central Lancashire\, United Kingdom \nWhen: 12:00 pm on April 4 \nWhere: Eldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall \n  \nFrom Lubaina Himid to the Battle of Bamber Bridge: Curating and Narrating Black Atlantic Stories in British Museums and Communities \nVisiting Fulbright Scholar Professor Alan Rice (DAAS\, UMICH) will discuss a range of his work as curator\, academic and activist in Lancashire\, Great Britain. As a scholar of the Black Atlantic he has curated and co-curated exhibitions with Black British artists including the Turner Prize winner\, Lubaina Himid\, Godfried Donkor\, textile artist Althea McNish and rising stars Jade de Montserrat and Lela Harris. This talk will showcase these curatorial interventions including work with the Whitworth on their Trade and Empire exhibition where together with his co-curators he used extant objects to tell new stories about slavery and exploitation. \nMore recent work in Lancaster focuses on its history as the fourth largest slave port and uses the work of Black British artists to challenge the elision of difficult histories. He will discuss how he\, together with Lancaster Black History Group\, uses the work of Himid\, de Montserrat and Harris to get African Atlantic representation into the heart of the museum. His final short case study will show how together with Preston Black History Group he has worked with the community in Bamber Bridge to memorialise the widely forgotten story of a mutiny against Jim Crow segregation by African American troops in a small village in Lancashire. Overall\, he will discuss the importance of activist interventions as an academic and curator. \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/visiting-fulbright-fellow-alan-rice/
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SUMMARY:Museums\, Technologies and Civic Transformations
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Seb Chan\, Director & CEO of ACMI (formerly Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne\, Australia and the Museum Studies Program’s 2025 Visiting Scholar \nUM Museum of Art – Helmut Stern Auditorium \nPredictably\, the first quarter of the 21st century has seen museums significantly transformed by media technology and networked society\, yet often this has been viewed as institutions reacting to\, rather than leading change. Institutions are now deeply enmeshed in complex technological systems\, platforms\, and services across all parts of a museum’s operations and practices. Today\, the nature of collections themselves is implicated as they are increasingly ‘born digital.’ These shifts all require highly skilled labor\, new strategies\, policies\, and debate to ensure that the transformations serve the museum’s community and long-term interests. \nThis talk will explore trust\, attention\, digital memory\, ephemerality\, and the fragility of new cultural artefacts\, and conversely\, maintenance\, longevity\, and the need for bold pan-institutional and sector-wide initiatives\, new skills\, and literacies. \n \nSeb Chan is the Director & CEO of ACMI\, guiding ACMI as a museum focused on screen culture and the intersection of media\, technology\, worldbuilding and storytelling. Prior to his appointment to this role\, Seb was ACMI’s and the museum field’s first Chief Experience Officer (2015-22)\, and was a key part of the team behind ACMI’s expansion into a multi-award winning\, multiplatform museum. \nPrior his time with ACMI\, Seb led the digital transformation of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York from its award-winning interactive Pen with Local Projects\, to the acquisition of important software-based works for the Smithsonian’s collection (2011–15). Beginning his museum career in Sydney he led the Powerhouse Museum’s pioneering work in open access\, mass collaboration and digital experience during the 2000s in Sydney. His work has won awards internationally in the museum\, media and design spheres. Before becoming known in the museum world\, Seb had a successful life in electronic and experimental music as a performer\, publisher and producer. \nSeb is the current National President of the Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA)\, serves on the international advisory board member of Art Science Museum (Singapore) and is a Board member of the non-profit Tessitura Network (US). He previously served on the boards of the National Communication Museum\, Diversity Arts Australia\, ICE Parramatta\, and Music NSW; and has been an advisor to the National Museum of Australia\, National Heritage Board of Singapore\, Mellon Foundation’s Artstor\, and was a member of the Australian Government’s Gov2.0 Taskforce. \nSeb is Adjunct Professor\, School of Media and Communication\, in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT. He has been Partner Investigator on Australian Research Council Linkage projects that have contributed to new museum practices in communicating climate change\, digital preservation\, interactive design\, and audience research\, and has extended his contribution to these themes through papers\, book chapters and presentations to over 100 museum\, media and design conferences and symposia across the globe. \nHe is an alumnus of the Getty Leadership Institute\, Salzburg Global Seminar\, UNSW\, and was awarded the UNSW Alumni Award for Art & Culture in 2024. \nThe Museum Studies Program thanks the following for their co-sponsorship of this presentation:  University of Michigan Arts Initiative\, the Bentley Library\, the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\, the Digital Studies Institute\, History of Art\, LSA DEI\, the Museum of Art\, Office of Research\, the Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop\, and the School of Information \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-technologies-and-civic-transformations/
LOCATION:University of Michigan Museum of Art
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Conference on Community Archaeology & Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Michigan League\, Michigan Room\nFriday–Saturday\, March 14–15\, 2025\nRecognizing the importance of collaboration with local communities in archaeological research and heritage practice\, the University of Michigan is launching a new Center for Community Archaeology and Heritage. In this inaugural conference\, we will highlight the work of teams based at U-M and in Southeast Michigan\, along with their local and international colleagues\, to show how this collaborative approach energizes our fields. \nWe will welcome two outstanding keynote speakers who are well known for their innovative work in community archaeology and heritage: \nSonya Atalay\, University of Massachusetts Amherst \nCommunity-Based Research at the\nNSF Center for Braiding Indigenous\nKnowledges and Science \n  \nRichard M. Leventhal\, University of Pennsylvania \nThoughts on the Future of Community\nProjects and University Centers \n  \nSession details and registration can be found here. \nThis conference is generously sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology\, Department of Classical Studies\, Department of the History of Art\, Office of Research\, LSA Research Office\, and Museum Studies Program. Founding support was graciously provided by Sharon Herbert.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/inaugural-conference-on-community-archaeology-heritage-2/
LOCATION:Michigan League\, Ann Arbor\, MI
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000
DTSTAMP:20250305T230316Z
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Conference on Community Archaeology & Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Michigan League\, Michigan Room\nFriday–Saturday\, March 14–15\, 2025\nRecognizing the importance of collaboration with local communities in archaeological research and heritage practice\, the University of Michigan is launching a new Center for Community Archaeology and Heritage. In this inaugural conference\, we will highlight the work of teams based at U-M and in Southeast Michigan\, along with their local and international colleagues\, to show how this collaborative approach energizes our fields. \nWe will welcome two outstanding keynote speakers who are well known for their innovative work in community archaeology and heritage: \nSonya Atalay\, University of Massachusetts Amherst \nCommunity-Based Research at the\nNSF Center for Braiding Indigenous\nKnowledges and Science \n  \nRichard M. Leventhal\, University of Pennsylvania \nThoughts on the Future of Community\nProjects and University Centers \n  \nSession details and registration can be found here. \nThis conference is generously sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology\, Department of Classical Studies\, Department of the History of Art\, Office of Research\, LSA Research Office\, and Museum Studies Program. Founding support was graciously provided by Sharon Herbert.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/inaugural-conference-on-community-archaeology-heritage/
LOCATION:Michigan League\, Ann Arbor\, MI
CATEGORIES:Other
GEO:42.2808256;-83.7430378
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DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250207T120000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Open House for prospective students
DESCRIPTION:February 7\, 2025 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm \nThe Museum Studies Program invites students enrolled in any graduate program at the University of Michigan to apply for the Fall 2025 cohort. This multidisciplinary graduate certificate program draws on ideas from the arts\, humanities\, natural and social sciences\, and technology and provides countless opportunities to apply theories in a vast array of museums and cultural institutions on campus\, in the region\, nationally and around the world. \nThe MSP curriculum examines the role of museums in society as sites of memory\, learning\, research\, cultural production\, public scholarship\, civic engagement\, and entertainment. The 12-credit certificate program consists of the Museum Studies Seminar (Fall and Winter terms\, 6 credits)\, approved electives (6 credits)\, and a funded internship. It prepares students for academic and professional careers in museums\, heritage sites\, arboretums\, botanical gardens\, zoos and other living collections\, and universities. \nApplication Deadline: February 28\, 2025 \nApplication information can be found here. \nLearn more at our upcoming virtual open house! \nZoom meeting ID 924 1473 6307
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/virtual-open-house-for-prospective-students-2/
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250206T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250206T180000
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SUMMARY:Reinventing the Museum: A Discussion of the Continuing Paradigm Shift
DESCRIPTION:Presentation and conversation with Gail Anderson\, museum consultant and author. \nFebruary 6 at 5:00 pm \nEldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall (505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor) \nGail Anderson\, museum consultant\, thinker\, and author\, will share her perspectives on the changes in museum practice highlighted in  the 3rd edition of her seminal volume\, Reinventing the Museum: Relevance\, Inclusion\, and Global Responsibilities (2023) \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/reinventing-the-museum-a-discussion-of-evolution-innovation/
LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250203T124500
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SUMMARY:Feb 3 exhibit tour - "Frosted Memories: Exploring the Life and Works of Robert Frost”
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit tour:  “Frosted Memories: Exploring the Life and Works of Robert Frost” \nMonday\, February 3 at 12:00 pm \nSpecial Collections Exhibit Space (6th Floor\, Hatcher Graduate Library-South\, Room 660J) \nJoin your Museum Studies colleagues on February 3 at noon for a guided tour of “Frosted Memories: Exploring the Life and Works of Robert Frost” currently on exhibit in the Hatcher Graduate Library Special Collections Exhibit Space. \nThe tour will be led by special collections library assistant and museum studies minor student\, Elizabeth Zomeri (UM ’25). \nRegister in advance for the tour (space is limited). \n“Frosted Memories: Exploring the Life and Works of Robert Frost” runs 12/9/24 – 2/20/25 \nStep into the world of one of America’s most beloved poets\, Robert Frost. This captivating showcase delves into the rich tapestry of Robert Frost’s life and literary legacy. Explore the milestones and personal moments that shaped his journey from modest beginnings to literary icon. Discover the dual roles he navigated as both an inspiring educator and a profound poet\, influencing countless minds in the classroom and through his verses. Experience the magic of winter and the warmth of Christmas through Frost’s evocative poems\, capturing the natural beauty and insightful reflections that these seasons brought to his work. Celebrate Robert Frost’s status as a national treasure\, a poet whose words resonated across the United States\, earning admiration from presidents\, scholars\, and everyday readers alike. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/feb-3-exhibit-tour-frosted-memories-exploring-the-life-and-works-of-robert-frost/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250124T130000
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SUMMARY:Museums@Noon presentation by Hayley Crowell
DESCRIPTION:How Specimens Change from Curiosities to Scientific Collections [and Other Stories from a 400-Year-Old Natural History Museum] \nHayley Crowell (MSP 22; PhD Candidate\, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) \nJanuary 24 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nHatcher Gallery Lab\, Room 100H or online via Zoom \nNatural history museums occupy a unique space in the world of museology\, often facing challenges from both a humanities and scientific perspective. Much of their controversy stems from the very fact that the primary “items” stored and displayed in these museums were once living organisms. Because most natural history museums are associated with large research collections and universities\, they often house thousands (if not millions) of specimens. Tasked with the burden of accurately representing biodiversity\, history\, climate\, evolution\, and humanity’s role in all of these\, natural history collections are continuously undergoing physical and organizational changes to meet these ever-changing fields. \nHowever\, the wealth of knowledge and recent advances in museum-based scientific techniques (CT-scanning\, museomics\, etc.) provide a world of inspiring and innovative new ways to use these collections. These methods are especially important when examining historically-significant and rare museum specimens\, as each organism in these collections represent a unique snapshot of a place and time that cannot be replicated. \nIn this talk\, I will use the Natural History Museum of Denmark as a case study to discuss these issues from both a historic and modern perspective\, starting from its early origins as one of Europe’s first Kunstkammer (“Cabinet of Curiosities”) to its current role as a leading research institute in Europe. Along the way\, I will also share a series of anecdotes about the bizarre and surprising adventures that come with working in an early zoological collection. \nHayley is a 6th year PhD student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. Her main dissertation focuses on the evolution of ultraviolet coloration in reptiles and the use of museum specimens in scientific research. Prior to coming to the University of Michigan\, Hayley obtained a bachelor’s degree in biology from Shippensburg State University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s working on rattlesnake thermal ecology from California Polytechnic State University. She also worked as a biologist for the U.S. Geological Survey and National Park service for six years on invasive Burmese Pythons in Florida and sea turtles throughout the southeast and Caribbean. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-hayley-crowell/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Navigating a Professional and Academic Career in Anthropology
DESCRIPTION:Date:  December 4\, 2024 \nSpeaker:  Dr. William Parkinson\, Field Museum Curator & Associate Director of Anthropology; Professor at University of Illinois\, Chicago \nTime:  6:00 – 7:30 pm \nLocation:  School of Education Building\, Room 1315 \nThe University of Michigan Archaeology Club is excited to host Dr. William Parkinson for a workshop on navigating careers in both professional and academic anthropology.  The workshop will include a formal presentation on his experiences\, insights from his work at the museum\, and advice from both career paths. \nDr. Parkinson\, an alumnus of the University of Michigan\, is currently a curator and associate director of anthropology at the Field Museum\, as well as a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago.  His research focuses on European and Eastern Mediterranean prehistory\, with extensive fieldwork in Hungary\, Bulgaria\, and Greece\, exploring the social dynamics of early village societies and the development of early states. \nCo-sponsored by the Museum Studies Program \nFlyer here.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/navigating-a-professional-and-academic-career-in-anthropology-2/
LOCATION:School of Education Building\, 610 E. University Ave\, Ann Arbor\, 481009\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241101T130000
DTSTAMP:20241030T170340Z
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SUMMARY:Traces of Memory at the Galicia Jewish Museum
DESCRIPTION:Traces of Memory at the Galicia Jewish Museum \nEkaterina Olson Shipyatsky (MSP 22; PhD Candidate\, Political Science; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Dissertation Fellow 2024-25) \nNovember 1 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nHatcher Gallery Lab\, Room 100H \nBefore the Holocaust\, Poland was home to approximately 3.3 million Jews – making it the world’s second-largest Jewish community. By the end of World War II\, Nazis and collaborators had succeeded in killing over 90% of Poland’s Jewish population\, about three million people. Most survivors emigrated\, but an estimated 90\,000 remained – only to be expelled in large numbers through an antisemitic\, government-run campaign in 1968. \nTraces of both the vibrant Jewish community that once lived in Poland – and the violence that killed and expelled so many of them – are visible in today’s contemporary Polish landscape: synagogues that are now furniture stores\, doorframes that once held mezuzot\, overgrown Jewish cemeteries. The Galicia Jewish Museum\, located in Kazimierz\, the pre-Holocaust heart of the Kraków Jewish Community\, exhibits photographs of these traces. In doing so\, the museum aims to complicate a narrative of Polish Jewish history that usually begins and ends solely with Auschwitz. \nIn this talk\, I share some of my experiences interning at the Galicia Jewish Museum this summer. Drawing on my experience giving tours of the museum’s permanent exhibition and working in the museum’s education department\, I’ll discuss the tangles of remembering the Holocaust in Poland and the complex landscape of Jewish institutions in Kraków. Institutions like the Galicia Jewish Museum\, I’ll argue\, offer us an opportunity to reflect on the politics of memory museums\, urban museology\, and the decisions that face those who live among traces of genocidal violence. \n  \nEkaterina Olson Shipyatsky is a PhD Candidate in Political Science (Political Theory) and the Museum Studies Certificate Program. She is also a Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Dissertation Fellow 2024-25.  Her research focuses on the politics of memory in museums\, memorials\, and archives of violence in Poland and North America. Ekaterina received her A.B. in Philosophy\, Politics\, Economics from Bryn Mawr College in 2019 and was a 2019-2020 Fulbright Fellow in Russia. \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-galicia-jewish-museum/
LOCATION:Hatcher Gallery Lab\, 913 S. University Avenue\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241025T200000
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SUMMARY:William R. Farrand Memorial Lecture: Preserving the PostNatural
DESCRIPTION:William R. Farrand Memorial Lecture: Preserving the PostNatural \nDate:  October 25 \nTime: 6:30 pm \nLocation: Central Campus Classroom Building\, Room 1425 (1225 Geddes Ave\, adjacent to Museum of Natural History) \nPresenter:  Rich Pell \nFake banana flavoring\, anthrax scares\, and bulldog underbites—how did an art professor become the purveyor and advocate for all things “postnatural”? \nMeet Rich Pell\, founder and executive director of the Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh\, PA\, and Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University\, to discover what gets left out of “natural” history. \nRegister for the lecture here. \nCo-sponsored by the Museum Studies Program \nEvent flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/william-r-farrand-memorial-lecture-preserving-the-postnatural/
LOCATION:Central Campus Classroom\, 1225 Geddes Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241025T130000
DTSTAMP:20241003T151716Z
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SUMMARY:A Museum Fit for a President
DESCRIPTION:A Museum Fit for a President \nAlbert Cavallaro\, PhD Candidate\, History \nOctober 25 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \n1014 Tisch Hall \nThis talk reflects on the State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan’s response to a planned presidential visit by Shavkat Mirziyoyev\, the current president of Uzbekistan. Had it not been cancelled just two days before it was scheduled to occur on June 25th\, 2024\, it would have been the first visit to the museum by Mirziyoyev since he assumed the presidency in 2016. Rushed preparations initiated a host of changes inside the museum pertaining to its exhibitions. Most critically\, one month prior to the anticipated visit\, the museum closed to the public and all of its displays from the Stone Age to the 16th century were changed. \n\nI will touch on issues ranging from leaking ceilings to breaking objects\, as well as to the broader discussions and arguments that occurred in the museum over what a “modern” museum is supposed to be and what elements of the old exhibitions still fit the demands of current national narratives. In doing so\, I will show the museum’s close relationship to the state\, not only as the provider of financial funds\, but also\, in many ways\, as the museum’s main anticipated audience. With my dissertation focusing on the history of this museum from 1876 until the collapse of the Russian empire in 1917\, in this talk I will present a brief historical overview that will allow me to chart the museum’s navigation from the Tsarist period to the Soviet period\, and to the current moment. \nAlbert Cavallaro is a historian of the Russian empire and Central Asia with a focus on the nineteenth century. His dissertation\, “Things Disappear: The Turkestan Public Museum and Imperial Love\, 1876-1917\,” examines the rapid growth of museums across Central Asia in the tsarist period. Via an intensive focus on the Turkestan Public Museum\, located in modern-day Tashkent\, Uzbekistan\, he shows a variety of actors embracing museums\, libraries\, and collections of old materials as sites of intensive emotional identification\, or “love\,” for a variety of purposes. Accordingly\, his work investigates entanglements of museums\, colonialism\, religion\, science\, and love in nineteenth-century Tashkent. \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-albert-cavallaro/
LOCATION:Tisch Hall\, 435 State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240927T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240927T130000
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SUMMARY:This is Rome\, Too: Decolonial Practices in the Eternal City
DESCRIPTION:This is Rome\, Too: Decolonial Practices in the Eternal City \nGala Patenkovic\, PhD Candidate\, Romance Languages and Literatures \nSeptember 27 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nEldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall \nHow can we reimagine the future of museums? How do we make museums decolonial? How does this decolonial practice change our perception of what a museum can be\, and how do we present it to the public? In this talk I will share my experience interning at the Organization QuestaèRoma in Rome\, Italy\, and present their approach in engaging the public with decolonial practices through varied events\, and specifically through their decolonial tours of the capital. These tours highlight what is “hidden in plain sight” : the distant and not-so-distant architectural remnants of colonial history that is often unobserved\, taken for granted and/or unquestioned by the locals and tourists alike. \nGala Patenkovic is a PhD Candidate in the French Program of Romance Languages and Literatures. Her dissertation addresses representations of immigration and belonging in contemporary French comic books. She holds an active interest in visual and museum studies. \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/this-is-rome-too-decolonial-practices-in-the-eternal-city/
LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240415T200000
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SUMMARY:MSP23 Capstone Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Presentations for the evening are as follows: \n5:00 pm “Community Neighborhood Preservation in Detroit: Tools and Strategies for Engagement in Walking Tours” \nPresented by Irma Guzman\, Briana Kemmerling\, Skyler Leslie\, Leopoldo Martinez \nChallenge statement: To identify best practices for the management of a digital community archive\, oral histories\, and community-donated materials\, for future development into a walking tour of Detroit’s historic Woodbridge Neighborhood. \nHost institution: Detroit Historical Museum and Woodbridge Neighborhood Development \n  \n6:00 pm “Art for All: Reimagining Access at UMMA” \nPresented by Fatimah Alhawary\, Samantha Farmer\, Jack Schmitt \nChallenge statement: To enhance UMMA’s Rights and Reproductions policy by identifying best practices and investigating models of open access. \nHost institution: UM Museum of Art \n  \n7:00 pm “Shifting the Focus: Centering Indigenous and DEI Practices in UMMAA’s Collection Management Policy” \nPresented by Lauren Alberti\, Caroline Everts\, Erin Leary\, Hadeel Saad \nChallenge statement: To evaluate and integrate Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (DEI) and Community-Centered framework within UMMAA’s collections management policy. \nHost institution: UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology \n  \nMSP23 Capstone Presentations flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/msp23-capstone-presentations/
LOCATION:Haven Hall\, Eldersveld Room\, 505 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Student Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240412T130000
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SUMMARY:We Need to HEAR Them Out: Addressing the Issue of Nazi Expropriated Art Through the Lens of Recent Policies and Practices
DESCRIPTION:We Need to HEAR Them Out: Addressing the Issue of Nazi Expropriated Art Through the Lens of Recent Policies and Practices \nEmily Finch (MSP18) \nApril 12 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm \nWhile the Washington Principles\, which turned twenty-five in 2023\, are admired for chaperoning the revitalized effort towards just and fair solutions for those dispossessed of their cultural property (for example\, the art\, books\, and Judaica plundered by the Nazis during World War II)\, they are also admonished for their inconsistent and weak enforcement. Addressing this issue more recently and aimed at filling in the gaps that stemmed from both inconsistent adherence to the Washington Principles and the limited scope of the 2016 HEAR (Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery) Act\, in 2022 the New York State Legislature passed a legislative package related to Holocaust education which included a provision requiring museums to acknowledge Nazi expropriated art. Anna Kaplan\, the former New York State Senator who introduced the law\, acknowledged scholars’ concerns with the legislation and the law’s limitations. Kaplan concedes it is largely up to museums to implement and police the law themselves. “We are hoping that museums will do the right thing.” Will they?  \nConsidering the recent revisions to the Native American Graves Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and\, in the case of Nazi expropriated art\, the wave of museums seeking declaratory judgments to quiet title on World War II era cultural heritage property\, perhaps the answer is not on their own. As the restitution debate continues\, policy goals are articulated in pursuit of more ethical heritage practices and loopholes in law and policy continue to be exploited. Related decisions and enactments should be analyzed in the broader context of cultural heritage practices in order to encourage better intersectional methods in museums\, and the art and antiquities market by extension\, to create more effective legislation moving forward. \n  \nEmily G. Finch is an honors JD/ Entertainment\, Arts\, and Sports Law LLM Candidate on the art law track at the University of Miami School of Law. She graduated with her Master of Science in Information (Libraries\, Archives\, and Digital Curation) from the University of Michigan in 2019\, and was a member of the Museum Studies Program’s 2018-19 cohort. Emily received her BA from Kalamazoo College in 2017 (majors in English: Literature and Cultural Studies and History\, Minor: Political Science\, and Concentration: American Studies).  Prior to law school she served as Assistant Professor and Scholarly Communication and Copyright Librarian at Kansas State University and as Library Futures’ Community Fellow. Emily is building an interdisciplinary career at the intersection of law\, ethics\, and policy in cultural heritage spaces with a focus on ethical stewardship practices and access to information. Emily is a lifelong learner and in her free time enjoys community service\, reading\, baking\, and traveling (scheduling as many museum and UNESCO World Heritage Site visits as her companions allow her).  \n  \nClick here to attend via Zoom. \nPresentation flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/we-need-to-hear-them-out-addressing-the-issue-of-nazi-expropriated-art-through-the-lens-of-recent-policies-and-practices/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:The Museum as Kaleidoscope: On Plantations Past and Present in Louisiana
DESCRIPTION:3:00 – 4:15 pm \nEhrlicher Room (3100 North Quad) and online. \nWhat 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 talk will discuss how museums are rarely windows into the past but more often kaleidoscopes into power. \nJarrett Martin Drake is an educator\, ethnographer and organizer who is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at Harvard University. Prior to pursuing a doctoral degree\, Drake obtained a BA in history and an MS in information science with a concentration in archives\, during and after which he worked as an archivist and librarian in multiple institutional and non-institutional contexts\, most meaningfully with A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland. Drake was born and raised in Gary\, Indiana\, where he graduated from The Benjamin Banneker Achievement Center. \nPlease register here to attend online. \nAdditional information can be found here. \nCo-sponsored by the Museum Studies Program.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-museum-as-kaleidoscope-on-plantations-past-and-present-in-louisiana/
LOCATION:School of Information\, 105 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:The Legacy of Art and the Nazis Before and After the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION: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 religious culture in early modern Europe\, the Hebrew Bible\, material culture\, and the visual arts\, and visual typology in sixteenth-century art. \nProfessor Perlove will be speaking on the legacy of art during the Holocaust\, how it was weaponized by the Nazis both metaphorically and literally\, looking at cases of Nazi-looted art and efforts to retrieve them. Time for Q&A and a reception will follow her presentation. \nShelley Perlove is the author of two award-winning books published by Penn State University Press: Bernini and the Idealization of Death\, and more recently with Larry Silver\, Rembrandt’s Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age. She has written more than thirty articles\, essays and reviews appearing in such journals as Burlington Magazine\, Gazette des Beaux Arts\, and Artibus et Historiae and has curated five exhibitions devoted to early modern prints. Most recently she served as consultant to the exhibition\, “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus\,” which opened at the Louvre. Her current book project investigates the religious works of Rembrandt’s Dutch followers. \nLocation: University of Michigan Hillel (1429 Hill Street) \nRegistration and additional information can be found here.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-legacy-of-art-and-the-nazis-before-and-after-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Exhibit tour at UMMA - "A Gathering"
DESCRIPTION: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 nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations\, race\, gender\, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future. \nThe tour will be led by the curator of the exhibit\, our own Félix Zamora Gómez (MSP16)\, Irving Stenn\, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy. \nRegister in advance for the tour (space is limited). \nTour flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/exhibit-tour-at-umma-a-gathering/
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:"Too Jewish or not Jewish Enough" book launch with author Jeffrey Abt
DESCRIPTION:This 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 with Frankel Institute Co-Head Fellows Deborah Dash Moore and Richard Cohen. \nClick here to attend virtually. \nAdditional information can be found here. \nCo-sponsored by the Museum Studies Program.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/too-jewish-or-not-jewish-enough-book-launch-with-author-jeffrey-abt/
LOCATION:Frankel Center for Judaic Studies\, 202 S. Thayer Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Unseen Connections: A Natural History of the Cellphone
DESCRIPTION:Space 2435\, UM North Quad (105 S. State Street) \nPresentation by Josh Bell\, Curator of Globalization at the National Museum of Natural History\, Smithsonian and Museum Studies Program 2024 Visiting Scholar \nWhat is the role of anthropology in a natural history museum in the 21st century? Thinking through the issues bundled up in this question\, within this talk I will discuss a new exhibit Cellphone: Unseen Connections that I curated at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Cellphone examines cellular technology and its cultural\, ecological and social intersections around the world\, and is informed by a decade of interdisciplinary and collaborative research on cellular telephony in Washington D.C.. The exhibit consists of 750 objects\, a comic book mural\, interactive displays and 33 personal profiles of people along the cellphone’s global supply chain from 35 countries. Drawing inspiration from the relational perspectives of Indigenous world-making in Oceania\, as well as the moral and ethical obligations of political ecology\, this exhibit demonstrates how natural history is about\, and for\, everyone. \nDr. Joshua A. Bell is Curator of Globalization at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Combining ethnographic fieldwork with research in museums and archives\, Bell examines the shifting local and global network of relationships between persons\, artefacts and the environment. To date he has carried out research with communities in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea\, with historic Oceanic collections\, and on cellular telephony in Washington\, D.C.. He is currently the chair of NMNH’s anthropology department\, and is the steward of NMNH’s Oceania\, African and South American collections as well as the collections of the National Anthropological Archive. He is a founding member of Recovering Voices\, and co-directs the annual Mother Tongue Film Festival. He also directs the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology\, a summer course funded by the National Science Foundation that teaches graduate students how to effectively and ethically engage with museum and archival collections. \nPresentation flyer \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/unseen-connections-a-natural-history-of-the-cellphone/
LOCATION:Space 2435\, School of Information\, 105 S. State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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