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.
The Emperor’s New Ethnography: Debates at the Musée africain de Lyon
University of Michigan Museum of Art, First Floor, Multi-Purpose Room 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesAbigail Celis (PhD candidate, French Language and Literature) How do you do new ethnography with old tools? Ethnographic museums, in the past two decades, have been dancing a funny limbo. The academic fields that shaped them have abandoned many of the methods and primary...
Michigan Museums Association Annual Conference
The annual Michigan Museums Association annual conference has come to a close, and many of our Museum Studies Program faculty and alumni participated throughout the event. A full schedule of events and presentations that took place can be found at the MMA conference website,...
Gentrifiers or community anchors: are art museums good for urban neighborhood residents?
University of Michigan Museum of Art, First Floor, Multi-Purpose Room 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesJustin Meyer (PhD candidate, Urban Planning) My dissertation research examines how urban art museums impact their adjacent neighborhoods to understand when they contribute to gentrification (and the subsequent isolation or displacement of ethnic minorities and poorer households) and when they might help ‘anchor’ or...
The “Calculated Frightfulness” of ISIS: Threats to Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage in Historical Perspective
U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesGlobal Heritage at Risk University of Michigan Museum Studies Program Fall 2015 Lecture Series Speaker: Geoffrey Emberling, Assistant Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan Co-sponsored by the U-M Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Center for Middle East and North African Studies and...
“What Time Is It?’ – New Work by Tyree Guyton
Guyton’s new work builds on his well known Heidelberg Project addressing the social and economic adversities with which Detroit has struggled for the last fifty years. The exhibit marks a key moment of transition for Guyton as he shifts his attention from the Heidelberg...
Spending Some Time on the Inside: Jackson’s Cell Block Seven Prison Museum
University of Michigan Museum of Art, First Floor, Multi-Purpose Room 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesAmy Reimann (Executive Director, Ella Sharp Museum) In 2013, the Ella Sharp Museum of Jackson, Michigan, was approached about developing a plan for a museum at an operating penitentiary dedicated to telling the story of the Michigan Department of Corrections. The Cell Block Seven...
Daniel Gonzalez and Border Collective Workshop
American Culture's Border Collective Workshop will focus on the growth and changes in Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico, the U.S. and parts of Latin America. Day of the Dead is a celebration held on November 1st and 2nd to remember those that...
Chronopolis: Time and Urban Space – a German Studies Graduate Student Conference
Combining Reinhart Koselleck’s notion that time is conceived in spatial metaphors with Henri Lefebvre’s premise that space is socially produced, this conference invites papers that investigate how cities and time mutually determine and reflect each other. While the focus is on Germanspeaking cities, we...
Cultural Heritage in Sites and Museums in India: Challenges and Opportunities
U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesGlobal Heritage at Risk University of Michigan Museum Studies Program Fall 2015 Lecture Series Speaker: Shraddha Bhatawadekar, Nehru-Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow, Center for South Asian Studies and Museum Studies Program, University of Michigan Co-sponsored by the U-M Center for South Asian Studies...
To Amphipolis and Back Again: Crisis Management, Heritage Politics and Grassroots Activism as “New Heritage” in Greece
U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesGlobal Heritage at Risk University of Michigan Museum Studies Program Fall 2015 Lecture Series Speaker: Despina Margomenou, Lecturer, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan Co-sponsored by the U-M Department of Classical Studies Terrorism. Looting. Financial crisis. Political factionalism. Unregulated development. Neglect. The news...
