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.
Virtual Open House
The Museum Studies Program invites students enrolled in any graduate program at the University of Michigan to apply for the Fall 2022 cohort. This multidisciplinary graduate certificate program draws on ideas from the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences, and technology and provides countless...
L’Internationale and the Democracy Pavilion for Europe
Online via ZoomL’Internationale’s Democracy Pavilion for Europe aims to reenergize democracy as a desire and practice. It takes the arts’ potential as a starting point for imagining new epistemologies and ethics of living together within the limits of the planet. The pavilion responds to the current political moment...
What’s the Object of this Museum? Everyday Resistance at the National Public Housing Museum
U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesPlease join us for a presentation by this year's Museum Studies Program visiting scholar, Lisa Yun Lee, Executive Director, National Public Housing Museum (Chicago) Worker cooperatives to build a solidarity economy, contemporary art that grapples with history and unleashes radical imaginations about our collective futures, everyday...
“Proregress”: the allure of a word – Cuauhtémoc Medina
“Proregress”: the allure of a word Looking back at the 12th Shanghai Biennale (2018-2019) with Cuauhtémoc Medina Friday, March 25 from 4:00 – 5:30 pm Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 This lecture will discuss the curatorial strategies of the 12th Shanghai Biennale, inspired...
Heritage Preservation and Ethics During Upheavals: A Roundtable
Online via ZoomWednesday, April 6th 2022 4:00PM - 5:30PM EST Register in advance for this webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q2qwBPASQZG9OE3mCh1SHw Participants: Raymond Silverman (Professor, History of Art, Michigan) Deirdre L. C. Hennebury (Associate Director, Museum Studies Program, Michigan) Valentina Rozas-Krause (Postdoctoral LSA Collegiate Fellow and Lecturer, Michigan) Moderator: Paroma...
Africa’s Struggle for its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat 1965-1985 – Bénédicte Savoy
University of Michigan Museum of ArtBénédicte Savoy Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat 1965-1985 April 7 at 5:30 pm, UM Museum of Art (Helmut Stern auditorium) In the wake of postcolonial African independence, African intellectuals and politicians spearheaded a movement to pursue repatriation of artworks...
MSP 21 Capstone Presentations
Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann ArborPresentations for this evening are as follows: 6:00 pm “Deaccessioning Out Loud at UMMA" Presented by Katelin Mikos, Emily Na, Chuyi Zhu Host institution: University of Michigan Museum of Art 7:00 pm “Forward Motion: Expanding the Educational Breadth of the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant"...
MSP21 Capstone Presentations
Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann ArborPresentations for this evening are as follows: 6:00 pm “Realigning the Rails: The Opportunities of Reopening at the Southern Michigan Railroad Society" Presented by Melissa Gryan, Chad Machinski, Gala Patenkovic Host institution: Southern Michigan Railroad Society 7:00 pm “Marking Time: Reimagining Detroit’s Historical...
Engaging with Campus Collections – Digital Interpretation and Curation at UMMA & the Stearns Collection
Museums@Noon - Friday, April 15 at 12:00 pm Engaging with Campus Collections - Digital Interpretation and Curation at UMMA & the Stearns Collection Isabelle Gillet, PhD candidate in the History of Art Muting the Museum’s Omniscient Narrator Why do we trust museum labels...
Study Days at UMMA
University of Michigan Museum of ArtBring your laptop, bring your books, bring your notes, and set up shop at one of the many tables or couches that will be stationed throughout the museum and galleries. In addition to ample study space, throughout exam week you’ll find special self-care and...
