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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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Flexing the Museum: The Global Museum in the 21st Century?

    University of Michigan Museum of Art

    Presentation by Christina Olsen (Director, UM Museum of Art) October 23 at 5:30 pm UM Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Exploring museums across Argentina, the UK, Belgium and Portugal visited on a recent sabbatical, museum director Christina Olsen wrestles with museums' changing shapes...

  • Balikan: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections

    Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    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...