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SUMMARY:Visual Culture in India and the Museum
DESCRIPTION:Alison Byrnes\, a member of the 2006 MSP cohort\, recently returned from seven years teaching in India\, where she initiated a new Museum Studies Program. She will discuss museums in India through the lens of visuality. There is a mismatch between the cultural signals regarding value and significance\, determined by colonial Western influences\, in the Museum\, and those that exist elsewhere in India\, such as the Temple. In her talk\, Byrnes will re-examine Martin Jay’s theory of “scopic regimes” in terms of Indian visual culture\, and discuss the role of museums in a place where rapid urban growth and globalizing influences are causing tension with the values of “tradition.” \nPresented by Alison Byrnes\, MFA\, Art & Design \n  \nFriday\, February 10 at 12:00 pm in the UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) \n  \nBrownBag_Byrnes \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/visual-culture-in-india-and-the-museum/
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:The Image Reframed: Visions of Instability
DESCRIPTION:The Museum Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures 21st Charles F. Fraker conference. The two-day conference\, The Image Reframed: Visions of Instability\, will run from Friday\, February 10 to Saturday\, February 11. The conference will take place in the Michigan League.\nImages can sear\, blur\, fade\, or proliferate. Images can be captured\, scanned\, altered\, or reproduced. The image is a subject and an object; there is a categorical instability to the image that belies the hard dimensions of the frame. The conference will explore images\, the way they inform us about the past and the present\, and also the way they affect our notions of reality and personhood. \n  \nThe conference will facilitate a lively and broadly interdisciplinary engagement among Michigan students and faculty\, honored guests from around the country and the globe\, and distinguished keynote speakers Michael Taussig and W. J. T. Mitchell. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit sites.lsa.umich.edu/frakerconference \n  \nflyer \nprogram \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-image-reframed-visions-of-instability/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170128T180000
DTSTAMP:20170120T175629Z
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SUMMARY:Vagaries of Objectivity / Launen der Sachlichkeit
DESCRIPTION:The Museum Studies Program is proud to support a conference co-sponsored by the Departments of German and History of Art.  The two-day conference\, “Vagaries of Objectivity / Launen der Sachlichkeit” will run from Friday\, January 27 to Saturday\, January 28.  The conference will take place in the Rackham Graduate School. \nThe German word Sachlichkeit/Objectivity signifies an array of related\, yet distinct meanings–from expediency and simplicity\, to realism and functionalism. Since the late nineteenth century Sachlichkeit has circulated in many guises\, receiving both praise and condemnation\, as modern sensibility\, political disposition\, and critique of modernity. This conference brings together Michigan faculty and students\, as well as scholars in History\, German Studies\, and Art & Architectural History from around the country\, to present their research on the various implications and histories of the term Sachlichkeit/Objectivity. \nKeynote speakers include Professor Helmut Lethen (Universität Wien) and Professor Daniel Magilow (University of Tennessee\, Knoxville).  Other honored guests and University of Michigan faculty and graduate students will also participate. \nPlease see the full conference schedule attached. \nSachlichkeit Program poster
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/vagaries-of-objectivity-launen-der-sachlichkeit/
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School\, 915 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170113T120000
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SUMMARY:“History Compels Us to be Daring": Sites of Conscience in Action Around the World
DESCRIPTION:The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience was founded in 1999 with the radical idea that historic sites had an obligation to draw a connection between the history of their sites and their contemporary implications. Today\, we are more than 200 museums\, historic sites\, parks\, memory projects\, archives\, documentation centers\, and memorials around the world.  Whether remembering an era centuries or decades ago\, Sites of Conscience begin by facing all aspects of our history: stories of great cruelty\, great courage\, or everyday life. But we go a step further\, activating the historical perspective with public dialogue on related issues we face today and what we can do about them. I will explore what it means to be a Site of Conscience in practice today\, sharing a few of the ways that Sites of Conscience pick up the unfinished work of societies\, serve as safe spaces to tell multiple stories in contentious environments\, and provide a platform for individuals to share their stories. \nPresented by Julieta Cuellar\, Global Networks Program Manager at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience where she supports global exchange and learning as well as the development and implementation of global programs for the Coalition’s members around the world.  Julieta is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin\, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and Eastern European studies.  She also attended the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and the School of International Training.  Julieta’s studies and research have focused on the politics of memory in Serbia and the Balkans. \n  \nFriday\, January 13 at 12:00 pm in the UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) \n  \nPlease note: Ms. Cuéllar’s public lecture will be followed by a special opportunity for students to meet to discuss summer internship possibilities at one of the Coalition’s sites. This meeting will take place from 1-2 pm in UMMA’s Multi-Purpose Room \nBrown Bag Flyer Jan 13
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/history-compels-us-to-be-daring-sites-of-conscience-in-action-around-the-world-2/
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:Specimen Backlogs in the Age of Digitization: Strategies for Shedding Light on "Dark Data" before They Become Black Holes
DESCRIPTION:Millions of specimens and their associated data are housed in museum collections\, but only a small fraction of these are readily accessible through electronic means. These are now being referred to as “dark data” after a  term coined in the business/IT community  for the information assets that organizations collect\, process and store during regular business activities\, but generally fail to use for other purposes. Although dark data may represent significant costs\, they remain largely underutilized or unleveraged. In the context of museum collections\, these dark data are enormously valuable but untapped resources for the institution as well as the wider research and educational communities.  This has prompted many museums to step up efforts to digitize their collections so that they can be shared with a larger audience. \nSpecimen backlogs\, which may be comprised of partly cataloged or uncataloged material\, represent a substantial hindrance to the digitization of museum collections.  Backlogs may include data that are unstructured (and therefore difficult to organize) or\, in many cases\, simply unknown. Backlogs are particularly challenging when resources are limited and significant effort is required to make the data useful or accessible. In this talk I will provide an overview of digitization and organizational initiatives underway in the UM Museum of Paleontology Invertebrate Collections that are designed to deal with backlogs and “dark data” so that the value of the collections to the University and broader research/educational community is more fully realized. \nPresented by Daniel Miller – Collections Manager\, UM Paleontology Museum \nDecember 9 at 12:00 in UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125)
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/specimen-backlogs-in-the-age-of-digitization-strategies-for-shedding-light-on-dark-data-before-they-become-black-holes/
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SUMMARY:Inclusion Requires Fracturing
DESCRIPTION:Location:  University of Michigan Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \nAs museums strive to serve broad\, ever-diversifying publics\, it is no longer possible to deny the ways museums mirror and reinforce racial\, cultural\, and class inequities of the broader society. Skillful racial and cultural representation in interpretation and programming is not only an intellectual exercise; it is an ethical responsibility that requires fracturing the known through consistent individual and institutional self-reflection and action. This talk focuses on the challenging and often painful internal work toward developing diversity and strategies and actions supporting systemic change in museum representation\, interpretation\, and ideation. \nSwarupa Anila is director of interpretive engagement at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Key issues she pursues in interpretive planning practice include examining whose voices and perspectives are missing in museum interpretation\, how to integrate visitor voices to flatten museum and art historical knowledge hierarchies\, and how to design museum interpretation that supports dynamic\, meaningful visitor engagements with art. \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art \n  \nMSP Dec 6 Anila lecture
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/inclusion-requires-fracturing/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161118T120000
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SUMMARY:Access and the Archive: The Role of Documents Projects in a Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:This brown bag will examine my practicum experience working with the Documents Project at the International Center for Art of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston. The ICAA is the research institute arm of the Latin American Art Curatorial Department\, headed by the renowned Latin American Art curator\, Marí Carmen Ramírez\, and assisted in direction by María C Gaztambide\, who directs the DocsProject. Its mission is to promote research of the diverse artistic production of Latin American and Latino artists from Mexico\, Central and South America\, the Caribbean\, and the United States\, in order to educate audiences about the field of Latin American art and to open new avenues of intercultural exchange and dialogue\, inside and outside the museum. This presentation will discuss the work of researchers within the documents project\, from the day-to-day minutiae to the steps in long-term strategic planning. Ultimately\, this presentation seeks to encourage dialogue on the future and importance of digital documents projects as critical co-curricular spaces within research museums. \n  \nPresented by Catalina Esguerra – MA\, PhD Candidate\, Romance Languages & Literatures \nNovember 18 at 12:00 pm in UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) \nBrownBag_Esguerra
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/access-and-the-archive-the-role-of-documents-projects-in-a-digital-age/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161103T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161103T173000
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SUMMARY:FAILURE:LAB
DESCRIPTION:Location:  University of Michigan Museum of Art\, Apse \nFAILURE:LAB provides a great opportunity to come together with members of your community and crush the stigma of failure. FAILURE:LAB is filled with storytellers and entertainers recounting their most memorable brush with failure. The audience is encouraged to share their thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag #failurelab during the performances between stories. \nEvent organized by Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.  Co-sponsored by the Museum Studies Program. \nhttp://failure-lab.com/events/uofm/
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/failurelab/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161101T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161101T183000
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SUMMARY:What if?  Demand the Impossible.  On Museums and the Struggle for Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Location:  University of Michigan Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \nWhat if museums were to acknowledge their complicity with systemic forms of oppression\, and commit to a reparations movement as part of a process of truth and reconciliation? \nWhat if museum and exhibition programs at universities were to foster a form of fugitive studies? \nWhat if access and equity were to truly be at the center of museum work? \nThrough an exploration of current and fictitious museums\, works in progress and not yet realized projects\, this talk examines these “What if” propositions\, and takes the impossible as the only realistic option for museums in these fiercely urgent times. \nThis talk is inspired by Bill Ayers’ most recent book Demand the Impossible: A Radical Manifesto (Haymarket\, 2016)\, where he asks us to “unleash our radical imaginations and push ourselves to break the straightjackets of conventional thinking.”  Join in a conversation about how museums and other cultural institutions might fulfill a moral obligation to recognize the capacious\, colorful\, and diverse world of all that is beautiful\, true and just. \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of  Art. \n  \nLisa Yun Lee (PhD) is the Director of the School of Art & Art History\, an Associate Professor\, and member of the Art History\, Museum and Exhibition Studies\, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lisa is also the co-founder of The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council\, an organization dedicated to creating spaces for dialogue and dissent and for reinvigorating civil society. As the previous Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum\, she oversaw a new core exhibition\, and reinvigorated public programming that connected the museum with contemporary social justice struggles.  She most recently served on the American Alliance of Museum’s Direct Care task force that made new recommendations around the ethics of direct care.  She researches and writes about museums and diversity\, cultural sustainability\, and spaces for fostering radically democratic practices. Lisa received her BA in Religion from Bryn Mawr College\, and a PhD in German Studies from Duke University. She is the Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC\, and she serves on the national boards of the American Alliance of Museums\, Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life\, the Ms. Magazine Advisory Board\, and the boards of Rebuild Foundation\, the National Public Housing Museum\, Young Chicago Authors\, and 3Arts. \nLisa Yun Lee 8.5 x 11
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/whatif/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161021T120000
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SUMMARY:Supporting Youth through Environmental Education: Teaching\, Learning\, and Design at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens
DESCRIPTION:Efforts to enhance the scientific capacity of youth often target schools and focus on reforming the existing science curriculum. An often overlooked and underestimated venue for science teaching\, learning\, and design are out-of-school settings. Everyday experiences in these settings can support science learning for a wide range of youth and help develop positive associations with science and influence people’s identities as science learners. Learning experiences in these settings have the potential to reflect a view of science as influenced by individual youth experience as well as social and historical contexts. This presentation will explore the challenges and potential for the development of a non-residential nature experience at the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens. It will cover the theoretical underpinning that guides its design and the tension inherent in institutions that tend to represent or reflect the dominant culture\, which can present a conflict for those from non-dominant groups. \nPresented by Benjamin Tupper – PhD Candiate\, Educational Studies/Science Education \nOctober 21 at 12:00 pm in UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) \nBrownBag_Tupper
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/supporting-youth-through-environmental-education-teaching-learning-and-design-at-the-matthaei-botanical-gardens/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161013T171000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161013T171000
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SUMMARY:Tactics for the Anthropocene: Not an Alternative
DESCRIPTION:Location:  Michigan Theater (603 E. Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor) \nNot An Alternative is a NY-based collective that works at the intersection of art\, activism\, and critical theory. Its mission is to affect popular understandings of histories\, symbols\, and institutions through the occupation and redeployment of popular vernacular\, semiotics\, and memes. Named in The New York Times and ArtNet’s “Best in Art in 2015” round-ups\, the group’s work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. Their latest project\, The Natural History Museum\, is a mobile and pop-up museum that highlights the socio-political forces that shape nature\, yet are excluded from traditional natural history museums. \nPresenting for the group\, co-founder Beka Economopoulos is the VP at Fission Strategy\, a consultancy specializing in new media communications. She is also a senior trainer and Advisory Board member at the New Organizing Institute. \nSupported by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural Historyand the University of Michigan Museum Studies Program.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/tactics-for-the-anthropocene-not-an-alternative/
LOCATION:Michigan Theater\, 603 E. Liberty St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161004T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161004T183000
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SUMMARY:Taking a Look in the Mirror: Transformative Change within Museums
DESCRIPTION:Location:  University of Michigan Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \nMuseums do not exist in a vacuum. The external environment around museums is in a state of constant change. Yet\, it seems as though museums continue to approach diversity and inclusion work through community outreach and programs. It is time for museums to transform. We must look internally at organizational culture and traditional work practices in order to spark transformative change across the field. This talk focuses on concepts and practices to shift work culture to help museums evolve into inclusive institutions. \nChris Taylor blends passion for history\, diversity\, and inclusion work in his job as the Chief Inclusion Officer at the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS). As part of the Executive Leadership Team of the organization\, he is responsible for creating and implementing a strategic vision to create an inclusive work culture and help staff develop inclusive work practices. In addition\, he works to build healthy\, sustainable relationships with the many diverse communities of Minnesota. \nChris Taylor lecture anouncement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/taking-a-look-in-the-mirror-transformative-change-within-museums/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160923T120000
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SUMMARY:Negotiating Slavery? The Politics of Memory and the Transformations of a State Museum in Colombia
DESCRIPTION:In a context of controversy surrounding the peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla movement\, the country’s museums are currently experiencing deep transformations. State museums in particular face the challenge of becoming more democratic and inclusive institutions even as they remain subject to the policies and programs of the government in power. This presentation discusses the challenges of curating an exhibition about slavery in New Granada at the Museo Colonial\, a state museum in Bogotá\, Colombia. It explores ongoing questions about the role of the curator in negotiating different approaches to the question of how a state museum should interpret the history of slavery in a context of institutional transformation and debates about memory and national reconciliation. The presentation also addresses the challenges and opportunities for incorporating Afro-Colombian communities into the process of representing their own history given the structures of the museum and the Colombian state. \n  \nPresented by Ana Silva – PhD candidate\, History \nSeptember 23 at 12:00 in UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125)
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/negotiating-slavery-the-politics-of-memory-and-the-transformations-of-a-state-museum-in-colombia/
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
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GEO:42.276802;-83.738289
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160921T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160921T180000
DTSTAMP:20160916T153940Z
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SUMMARY:"Less than Perfect" - exhibition opening lecture
DESCRIPTION:September 21\, MSP Director and Curator/Professor of Archaeology\, Carla Sinopoli\, will present an opening lecture about the exhibit that she curated\, “Less Than Perfect.” The lecture will be held at the UM Museum of Art at 6:00 pm\, and a reception will follow at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology where the items are on exhibit. \nhttps://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/exhibitions/special-exhibitions.html
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/less-than-perfect-exhibition-opening-lecture/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other
GEO:42.276802;-83.738289
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170109
DTSTAMP:20160919T153053Z
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SUMMARY:Less than Perfect exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Location:  Kelsey Museum of Archaeology \nIn our society\, we are taught to strive for and expect perfection. Yet throughout our lives\, we learn as much or more from our flaws and failures as we do from our successes. Less Than Perfect celebrates failure and the lessons it teaches. Featuring objects that span more than 2000 years and four continents\, this exhibition explores the stories they tell about their makers\, their making\, and their use. \nThe exhibition—with objects from the Kelsey Museum\, the Museum of Art\, and the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology— is organized around three themes. Failed Perfection presents archaeological objects that failed in production to explore how researchers use them to study about ancient technologies. Deliberate Imperfection features beautiful and finely crafted objects whose makers deliberately introduced asymmetries or other imperfections into their products—and considers why artists choose to make imperfect things. Restoring Perfection highlights artifacts that were repaired in antiquity by people who strove to restore usefulness and beauty to broken or damaged objects. \nTogether these themes allow visitors to ponder the tensions between perfection and imperfection in their own lives and to explore how people in diverse cultures have addressed this divide. \nGuest curator:  Carla Sinopoli
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/less-than-perfect-exhibition/
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, 434  South State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160414T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160414T124500
DTSTAMP:20160815T040342Z
CREATED:20160815T040200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040342Z
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SUMMARY:New Voices and Detroit Museums: From Midtown and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Today\, the city of Detroit is once again taking its place at the heart of the United States’ cultural landscape—as a center of creativity\, imagination\, artistic production and social activism. Playing a key role in the new-found optimism that is taking root in Detroit are the city’s museums. Old and new institutions—from the Detroit Institute of Arts to the Michigan Science Center\, Charles Wright Museum of African American History\, the Belle Isle Conservancy\, and many other established and emerging museums and cultural institutions—have been infused with new energy\, fueled by exciting leaders and a renewed interest in the potential offered by Detroit’s public spaces. \nThe University of Michigan Museum Studies Program is pleased to host a half-day event exploring the myriad ways that Detroit’s museums are shaping the city’s present and future. This multi-format three-hour program features museum leaders and emerging professionals who will share their vision and contributions to this important work. Speakers include Dr. Tonya Matthews (President and CEO\, Michigan Science Center)\, Director Salvador Salort-Pons (Director\, President\, and CEO\, Detroit Institute of Arts)\, art historian and artist\, Professor Jeffrey Abt (Wayne State University)\, and three emerging leaders from Wayne State University’s Detroit Revitalization Fellows Program. \nFriday\, April 15 \n9:30 am – 12:45 pm \nUniversity of Michigan Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \nDetroit workshop program
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/new-voices-and-detroit-museums-from-midtown-and-beyond/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160413T200000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040342Z
CREATED:20160815T040055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040342Z
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SUMMARY:MSP15 Student Capstone Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Presentations for this evening are as follows: \n6:00 pm:  Re-creating a Thriving Gallery Space at the U-M Detroit Center \nPresented by Crystal Labrosse\, Kyle Frisina\, and Timnet Gedar \nHost institution:  University of Michigan Detroit Center \nChallenge:  To plan a season of 8-10 exhibitions for the 2017 calendar year related to the U-M Bicentennial and assist the U-M Detroit Center in long range planning for its exhibition space. \n7:00 pm:  Re-imagining the Motown Museum for Future Generations \nPresented by Lauren Stamm\, Megan Berkobien\, and Susan Dine \nHost institution:  The Motown Museum \nChallenge;  To develop recommendations for the Museum to redesign its activities to convey the Motown story for young visitors (K-8). \nA full schedule of all Capstone presentations can be found here:  Capstone Flyer 2016
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/msp15-student-capstone-presentations-2/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Student Presentation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T200000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040342Z
CREATED:20160815T035951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040342Z
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SUMMARY:MSP15 Student Capstone Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Presentations for this evening are as follows: \n6:00 pm Hospital Arts Bedside Museum Program \nPresented by Amy Albanese\, Allan Martell\, and Michael Pascual \nHost institution:  University of Michigan Gifts of Art Program \nChallenge:  Assist U-M Hospital’s Gifts of Art program to develop a program to bring museum content to bed-ridden hospital patients. \n7:00 pm “The Art of Making”: Designing an Interactive Exhibit for Pewabic’s Museum \nPresented by Hannah McMurray\, Sarah McLusky\, and Shannon Ness \nHost institution:  Pewabic Pottery \nChallenge:  To design an interactive exhibition that explores the creative process and the making of Pewabic pottery. \nA full schedule of all Capstone presentations can be found here:  Capstone Flyer 2016
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/msp15-student-capstone-presentations/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Student Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160319T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160319T150000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040343Z
CREATED:20160815T035815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z
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SUMMARY:University of Michigan Living Lab Symposium
DESCRIPTION:UM child development researchers who work in the Living Lab Program will be presenting exciting findings from our latest studies.  There will be lots of room for discussion about child development\, with a great mix of parents\, teachers\, and researchers in the room! \nWho We Are\nChild development researchers from UM who have been conducting research on social cognition and behavior with children in the Living Lab Program (at the Hands-On Museum and at the Museum of Natural History).\nEvent Date\nSaturday\, March 19\, 2016\nEvent Location\n4448 East Hall (530 Church Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109). There is a parking garage nearby (650 S Forest Ave).\nSchedule (feel free to come to some or all of it!)\n10am – 12pm\nWe’ll hear from researchers conducting studies in the Living Lab.  Each researcher will give a short\, dynamic talk about a study that’s been run in the Living Lab.  These short talks will be fun for everyone involved\, and are geared toward a diverse audience that includes parents\, teachers\, and other researchers.  The presentations by individual researchers will be capped off with a talk by Professor Susan Gelman (dept. of psychology). \n12pm – 1pm\nSnacks\, conversation\, and poster presentations of recent research. \n1pm – 3pm\nA discussion of the nature of university-community research partnerships\, and how to continue building partnerships like the ones we have with local museums.  This part of the day will feature a talk by Marta Biarnes\, one of the pioneers of the Living Lab model at the Boston Museum of Science. \nIf you have any questions\, please feel free to email me at craigsm@umich.edu
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/university-of-michigan-living-lab-symposium/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160317T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160317T120000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040343Z
CREATED:20160815T035347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z
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SUMMARY:Building Collections\, Building Knowledge\, Building Publics: Diversity at the Huntington
DESCRIPTION:Founded in 1919\, the Huntington Library\, Art Collections\, and Botanical Gardens originated with the collections of Henry and Arabella Huntington. As of 2014\, nearly three-quarters of a million people visit the grounds and buildings annually. In recent years\, the Huntington has become more intentional about reaching a broader audience and expanding its collections in directions that reflect the diversity of southern California. But what does it mean for an institution originally formed to preserve the home and possessions of a wealthy\, Europhilic white couple–an institution that is\, in fact\, still located in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in California–to embrace diversity\, inclusion\, and relevance? This presentation will discuss the Huntington’s past initiatives\, potential approaches\, and continued challenges in pursuing these goals. \nBrownBag_Tsay
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/building-collections-building-knowledge-building-publics-diversity-at-the-huntington/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160315T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160315T200000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040343Z
CREATED:20160815T035259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z
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SUMMARY:2016 Museum Studies Visiting Scholar presentation: The Challenges of Pursing Intentionality
DESCRIPTION:The Cycle of Intentional Practice requires that museums clarify the impact they would like to achieve on their publics and realign all practices and resources to achieve that impact.  Clarifying impact\, though\, requires a knowledge of the museum’s organizational self and the public.  Given that most museum work is mission driven\, achieving impact may require that a museum shift how it thinks about and does its work so energies and attention are towards achieving intended results among audiences.  Achieving impact necessitates purposeful and intentional actions\, including: \n\nClarifying impact and identifying supporting measurable outcomes\,\nAligning resources (e.g.\, staff and dollars) to support achieving impact\,\nStudying results among audiences through research and evaluation\, and\nReflecting on one’s practice and evidence from visitor studies with the goal of organizational learning and improving practice.\n\nMuseums that are intentional promote inclusivity and internal and external collaboration; they value only doing work that will achieve intended results\, study the effect of the museum on people’s lives\, and are passionate about continuous professional and organizational learning. \nRandi Korn is the founding director of Randi Korn & Associates\, an organization with specialized knowledge and expertise to assist professionals in cultural organizations and the cultural sector at large.  Randi founded RK&A in 1989 after working in a variety of cultural organizations including art\, history\, science\, botanical gardens\, and natural history museums.  She has held positions such as executive director\, exhibit designer\, interpretive planner\, and evaluator. With a passion for learning and desire to strengthen the relationship between cultural organizations and people\, Randi is dedicated to using evaluation as a learning tool to improve personal and organizational practice.  Over the last several years\, she has focused on creating new services to help museums and other cultural organizations excel so they can achieve impact for the public good.  RK&A maintains a commitment to helping cultural organizations\, and museums in particular\, become more intentional and purposeful in their planning and daily work.  Ultimately the firm strives to use impact-driven planning and rigorous evaluation to help cultural organizations demonstrate\, with evidence\, the ways in which they contribute to the public good and make a difference in people’s lives and communities. \nKorn lecture announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/2016-museum-studies-visiting-scholar-presentation-the-challenges-of-pursing-intentionality/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160312
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160425
DTSTAMP:20160815T040343Z
CREATED:20160815T035148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z
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SUMMARY:"A Cloth of Earth and Sky"
DESCRIPTION:Every culture has found ways to restore body\, mind\, and spirit in nature.  In this exhibit\, African-American quilters from the Great Lakes region interpret how plants\, gardens\, and nature are embedded in cultural awareness and expressions of health. The exhibit includes inherited and contemporary works that express cultural legacy based in the art of quilting related to individual and shared healing. Sponsored by the Great Lakes African American Quilters Network & Matthaei-Nichols. \nExhibit runs March 12 – April 24 at Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/a-cloth-of-earth-and-sky/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T120000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040343Z
CREATED:20160815T034929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z
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SUMMARY:"History Compels Us to be Daring": Sites of Conscience in Action Around the World
DESCRIPTION:The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience was founded in 1999 with the radical idea that historic sites had an obligation to draw a connection between the history of their sites and their contemporary implications. Today\, we are more than 200 museums\, historic sites\, parks\, memory projects\, archives\, documentation centers\, and memorials around the world.  Whether remembering an era centuries or decades ago\, Sites of Conscience begin by facing all aspects of our history: stories of great cruelty\, great courage\, or everyday life. But we go a step further\, activating the historical perspective with public dialogue on related issues we face today and what we can do about them. I will explore what it means to be a Site of Conscience in practice today\, sharing a few of the ways that Sites of Conscience pick up the unfinished work of societies\, serve as safe spaces to tell multiple stories in contentious environments\, and provide a platform for individuals to share their stories. \nJulieta Cuéllar is the Global Networks Program Manager at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience where she supports global exchange and learning as well as the development and implementation of global programs for the Coalition’s members around the world.  Julieta is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin\, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and Eastern European studies.  She also attended the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and the School of International Training.  Julieta’s studies and research have focused on the politics of memory in Serbia and the Balkans.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/history-compels-us-to-be-daring-sites-of-conscience-in-action-around-the-world/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160219T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160219T120000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040343Z
CREATED:20160815T034821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z
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SUMMARY:“But Is That Even a ‘Real’ Museum”?  Exhibits and Their Objects at the Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum
DESCRIPTION:In my brown bag presentation\, I will discuss my experience completing an exhibits (and sometimes curatorial and sometimes collections) practicum at the Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum (HHOF)\, a non-traditional museum located downtown Toronto.  With an entrance located off a mall food court\, HHOF is considered by hockey fans to be their mecca\, housing their holy grail\, the Stanley Cup.  HHOF is a place to view NHL trophies (including the Cup)\, to honor hockey’s legends\, to learn about the history of hockey and the National Hockey League\, and to play hockey-related games.  As a historical museum\, tourist attraction\, and Hall of Fame it serves as an intriguing non-traditional museum.  To observe and classify HHOF through the lense of Duncan F. Cameron’s “The Museum\, a Temple or the Forum?” the visitor would have to pick both.  Working on exhibits done within a museum that acts as both Temple and Forum (and a little bit playhouse) gave me a greater appreciation for the constant role that visitors\, in addition to the museum’s mission statement\, must play in the development and creation of exhibits. \nBrownBag_Juillet
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/but-is-that-even-a-real-museum-exhibits-and-their-objects-at-the-hockey-hall-of-fame-and-museum/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160127T120000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040343Z
CREATED:20160815T034728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z
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SUMMARY:Where the Sacred and the Secular Meet:  The Politics of Display at a Monastery Museum in Ladakh\, India
DESCRIPTION:Removed from the sanctified spaces of temples and shrines\, and relocated to the secular sphere of museum galleries\, Buddhist objects are transformed from icons to artifacts\, from images to artworks. Within their new exhibition context\, new meanings and values are imposed on these objects based on the authority of the museum and the principles of research and education that it embodies.  But what if the museum is located within the sanctified space of a Buddhist monastery? How are the boundaries between art and relic\, aesthetic work and empowered icon\, scholarly authority and religious belief negotiated in these hybrid spaces? Who is the intended audience and what is the intended mission of a monastic museum? \nIn this presentation\, I will share my recent fieldwork at a museum project at Chemrey Monastery in Ladakh\, a Tibetan Buddhist region located in the western Himalayas of India. The proposed reconceptualization of an existing museum at this monastery has revealed the potential implications of wielding cultural preservation to respond to the growth of tourism and the expansion of modernization. Chemrey’s monastic museum offers a compelling case study for illuminating the widespread forces of change at play in the western Himalayas regarding the treatment and understanding of sacred art and local heritage\, and understanding the powerful resolution offered by the museum medium. \nBrownBag_Bloom
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/where-the-sacred-and-the-secular-meet-the-politics-of-display-at-a-monastery-museum-in-ladakh-india/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160115T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160115T140000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040343Z
CREATED:20160815T034613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z
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SUMMARY:German Studies Colloquium - January 15
DESCRIPTION:Alice Goff \n(German/History/Society of Fellows) \n“Stepping onto the Pedestal: The Silence of Art in Napoleonic Prussia” \nFriday\, January 15\, 2pm  \n3308 MLB \nAlice Goff is a historian of German cultural and intellectual life in the modern period. Her research and teaching focus on the history of museums\, aesthetics\, and the relationships between material objects and political thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a post-doctoral fellow with the Michigan Society of Fellows\, she holds appointments in the departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures and History. \nAlice is currently at work on a book project with the working title\, “The God Behind the Marble: Transcendence and the Art Object in the German Aesthetic State.” It tells the story of artworks caught up in the looting\, iconoclasm\, and shifting boundaries of German states during the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars and the consequences of their displacement for German political\, religious\, and intellectual practice at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By examining the development of private collections\, public museums\, and church treasuries\, this work examines the frictions that arose between the precarious fates of artworks on the ground and the assertions of art’s ideal autonomy in philosophy and criticism. Alice’s second book project takes up the history of German baroque royal collections–Kunstkammer– in the cultural politics and practices of the German Democratic Republic. \nAlice received her PhD in History from the University of California\, Berkeley in 2015. Her work has been supported by the Council for Library and Information Resources\, the DAAD\, and the Mabelle McLeod Lewis Foundation. \nFor inquiries or questions\, please contact moltke@umich.edu
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/german-studies-colloquium-january-15/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160113T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160113T173000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040343Z
CREATED:20160815T034222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z
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SUMMARY:Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews \nPresenter:  Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Chief Curator\, Core Exhibition\, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita  of Performance Studies\, New York University) \nDate:  Wednesday\, January 13 \nTime:  5:30 pm \nLocation:  University of Michigan Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium \nFacing the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes on the site of the Warsaw ghetto and prewar Jewish neighborhood\, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews completes the memorial complex.  At the monument\, we honor those who died by remembering how they died.  At the museum\, we honor them – and those who came before and after – by remembering how they lived.  Since POLIN Museum opened in April 2013\, almost a million visitors have passed through its doors.  This lecture explores the creation of the museum and its multimedia narrative exhibition\, a journey of a thousand years\, and its potential to be an agent of transformation that can move an entire society forward. \nKirshenblatt-Gimblett flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/rising-from-the-rubble-creating-the-museum-of-the-history-of-polish-jews/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20151204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20151204T120000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040343Z
CREATED:20150910T024842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z
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SUMMARY:The God behind the Marble: Transcending the Object in the German Museum of Art
DESCRIPTION:Alice Goff (PhD post-doc\, Michigan Society of Fellows) \nThis presentation explores the relationship between aesthetic philosophy and art objects in public museums of art in German states in the first half of the nineteenth century. It argues that during this revolutionary period a conflict emerged between the ideal and the material registers of the museum’s public mission. As German museums sought to create spaces where visitors could leave behind the constraints of the material world and experience an ideal realm of beauty\, they also confronted works of art that resisted transcendence: objects whose material condition\, provenance\, and art historical interpretation defied attempts to enlist them into a realm of pure ideas and meanings. By looking at the conflicts that emerged in early public museums’ efforts to create physical environments that conformed to theoretical principles\, this presentation also reflects on the resonance of this history within contemporary museum practice.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/title-tbd-2/
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
ORGANIZER;CN="UMMSP":MAILTO:ummsp@umich.edu
GEO:42.276802;-83.738289
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20151201T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20151201T183000
DTSTAMP:20160815T040343Z
CREATED:20150910T032917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160815T040343Z
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SUMMARY:Crisistunity: Re-imagining Historic Sites at the National Trust
DESCRIPTION:Global Heritage at Risk\nUniversity of Michigan Museum Studies Program\nFall 2015 Lecture Series\nSpeaker: Katherine Malone-France\, Vice President for Historic Sites\, National Trust for Historic Preservation \nTerrorism. Looting. Financial crisis. Political factionalism. Unregulated development. Neglect. \nThe news is full of ongoing threats to heritage sites and museums around the globe. In this series\, speakers representing diverse countries examine contemporary threats to museums\, collections\, and historic sites in the Middle East\, Greece\, India\, and the United States. Series speakers will document the many factors fueling the ongoing loss of objects\, monuments\, and historical places and will explore why heritage destruction in distant regions should matter to those of us thousands of miles removed from the most horrific ongoing threats. We also focus closer to home to consider the challenges to heritage preservation in our own backyard. \nBut this is not solely an exercise in despair\, as speakers also examine the ways that international organizations\, national and local governments\, NGOs\, communities\, and individuals are responding to the challenges facing countless museums and heritage sites. The results are new ways of defining the meaning and significance of heritage for local communities\, new strategies for heritage documentation and care\, and new opportunities for us all to become engaged in caring for our own and our world’s irreplaceable cultural heritage. \nThis event will be held in the U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium at 6:30 pm. \nKatherine Malone-France is the Vice President for Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation\, leading its portfolio of 27 historic sites around the country to provide expansive and sustainable public benefit as they model exemplary preservation\, collections management\, and interpretation.  Prior to her appointment\, she served as the Senior Director of Outreach\, Education and Support at the National Trust.  Her leadership has also included a diverse range of collaborations with contemporary artists creating new works at National Trust Historic Sites and a revision of the National Trust’s collections management policy that has been hailed as a national model for its inclusion of historic structures by the American Alliance of Museums and the American Association for State and Local History.   Katherine also served as the Executive Director of the Burwell School Historic Site in Hillsborough\, North Carolina\, and the Assistant Director at the Decatur House\, a National Trust Historic Site and National Historic Landmark in Washington\, DC.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/crisistunity-re-imagining-historic-sites-at-the-national-trust/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:The "Calculated Frightfulness" of ISIS: Threats to Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage in Historical Perspective - Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The so-called “Islamic State” (also known as ISIS\, ISIL\, or Daesh) proclaimed itself a caliphate in June 2014. Like any new state whose continued existence may be in doubt\, this group has advanced its ideology through varied relationships to tangible material heritage. This talk will contextualize the horrifying destruction of monuments and looting of sites and museums within regional histories of “calculated frightfulness” (as one historian characterized a strategy of the ancient Assyrian empire)\, iconoclasm\, and other episodes of looting. It will also examine western responses to these actions\, from government silence\, to mobilization of archaeologists\, and uneven media coverage. \nPresented by Geoff Emberling – Kelsey Museum/Near Eastern Studies \nPanelists:\nGottfried Hagen – Near Eastern Studies\nPiotr Michalowski – Near Eastern Studies\nCarla Sinopoli – Museum Studies/Anthropology \nEmberling NES Lecture Series
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-calculated-frightfulness-of-isis-threats-to-middle-eastern-cultural-heritage-in-historical-perspective-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:MI
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