Public programs facilitate dialogue between academics and professionals, informing scholarship and strengthening practice.
Multiple day conferences, year-long colloquia, individual lectures, “conversations” between individuals, hands-on workshops, and Museums at Noon talks featuring our graduate students all contribute to the remarkable richness of MSP offerings.
Video recordings of some MSP lectures are archived for viewing in our Media Gallery.
Events
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Do We Need to Decolonize Holocaust Museums?
Hatcher Graduate LibraryPresentation by Erica Lehrer, PhD, MSP04; Professor of History at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada); Winter 2026 Institute Fellow, UM Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Hatcher Library Gallery Lab, Room 100H A central issue animating and transforming the museum sector today is the call...
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Penny Stamps Speaker Series – Aanikoobijigan film screening at Michigan Theater
Michigan Theater 603 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesThe Museum Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor the Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Aanikoobijigan film screening at Michigan Theater (603 E. Liberty Street, Ann Arbor). Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the...
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In the Shadow of the Empire: Calcutta’s Victoria Memorial and its Cast of Moving Statuary
Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann ArborPresentation by Tapati Guha-Thakurta October 23 at 4:00 pm Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall (505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor) With a focus on Calcutta’s landmark monument – the most grandiose of the memorials to the Queen of all the ones built across the...
