Events

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.

Reimagining Detroit’s Museum and Cultural District

Online via Zoom

In its Midtown district, Detroit boasts a concentrated set of high-powered cultural institutions. Clustered around the DIA, they include the Detroit Historical Museum, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Michigan Science Center, and the Detroit Public Library. In recent years,...

Curating Covid: Material and Visual Cultures of the Pandemic

Online via Zoom

December 2 at 12:00 pm (online lecture) While there is so far no known cure for Covid and the disease continues to kill thousands daily around the globe, humanity has spent the better part of this year attempting to make do – some by...

Our National Marine Sanctuaries, Protecting America’s Underwater Treasures: A Survey of Michigan’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve

Online via Zoom

Please join us for a Museums at Noon conversation! Title: Our National Marine Sanctuaries, Protecting America’s Underwater Treasures: A Survey of Michigan’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve Date:  Friday, January 29 Time:  12:00 pm Location:  Online via Zoom (register here) Presenter: Stephanie Gandulla, Maritime...

Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology – Panel 1

Online via Zoom

In this series of two webinars, we inquire into the University of Michigan’s archives, museums, visual and living collections to ask how they are implicated in the violent histories of settler colonialism in the United States and US colonialist rule over the Philippines. How...

Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology – Panel 2

In this series of two webinars, we inquire into the University of Michigan’s archives, museums, visual and living collections to ask how they are implicated in the violent histories of settler colonialism in the United States and US colonialist rule over the Philippines. How...

Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust

Online via Zoom

Presentation by Erica Lehrer, Concordia University Can inanimate objects store and communicate traumatic memory that cannot be directly expressed? This talk examines 'folk art' made by non-professional Polish artists – many of them village laborers – documenting the German Nazi occupation of Poland and...

MSP20 Capstone Presentations

Online via Zoom

MSP20 students will share their capstone project experiences with this year's host sites.  Presentations for this evening are as follows:   6:00 pm - The Belle Isle Aquarium: A Site of Living Detroit History Presented by Richard Bachmann, Barbara Caballero, Heidi Hilliker Host site: ...

Reforming Remembrance

Online via Zoom

Tuesday, April 13th 2021 at 1:00pm EST.  Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99936418245 Dutch artist Hans van Houwelingen will reflect on his ongoing research on commemorative monuments. Apart from the hardware of monuments, he explores how to reform the practice of commemoration itself. Van Houwelingen and the Indonesian artist Iswanto...