Public programs facilitate dialogue between academics and professionals, informing scholarship and strengthening practice.

Multiple day conferences, year-long colloquia, individual lectures, “conversations” between individuals, hands-on workshops, and Museums at Noon talks featuring our graduate students all contribute to the remarkable richness of MSP offerings.

Video recordings of some MSP lectures are archived for viewing in our Media Gallery.

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  • Virtual Open House for prospective students

    February 7, 2025 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm The 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,...

  • Inaugural Conference on Community Archaeology & Heritage

    Michigan League Ann Arbor, MI

    Michigan League, Michigan Room Friday–Saturday, March 14–15, 2025 Recognizing 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...

  • Inaugural Conference on Community Archaeology & Heritage

    Michigan League Ann Arbor, MI

    Michigan League, Michigan Room Friday–Saturday, March 14–15, 2025 Recognizing 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...

  • Museums, Technologies and Civic Transformations

    University of Michigan Museum of Art

    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 UM Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium Predictably, the first quarter of the 21st century has...

  • Visiting Fulbright Fellow, Alan Rice

    Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor

    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 When: 12:00 pm on April 4 Where: Eldersveld...

  • DISCO Network Presents: Building the Indigenous Internet

    Date:  April 14 Time:  2:00 – 3:30 pm Location:  10th Floor Weiser Hall & Zoom This 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...

  • MSP24 Capstone Presentations

    Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor

    Monday, April 14 from 5:00 – 8:00 pm Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall   Presentations for the evening are as follows: 5:00 pm "(Re)accrediting the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: Plans for Marketing, Development, and Interpretive efforts" Presented by Madeleine Harris, Anwar Monamed, Patricia Torres-Pineda...

  • Museums@Noon presentation by Veronica Williamson

    Hatcher Graduate Library

    Where Objects are Placed: reflections on Aa-ashaachi as a guardian of sovereignty and Holisso as a threshold to community Veronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate, Germanic Language & Literature) September 12 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H When the Chickasaw Cultural...

  • Museums@Two presentation by Alexandria Rayburn

    Online via Zoom

    Women in museum computing: a brief history of data entry & skilled labor  Alexandria Rayburn (MSP 19; PhD, Information) October 9 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm Online via Zoom Museum collections are many things, but primarily they function as repositories of information, where data-intensive...

  • 2025 Charles F. Fraker Conference – “Capitalism and Desire”

    Michigan League Ann Arbor, MI

    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...