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.

Community Participation and Consultation: Developing a Heritage Center at El Kurru, Sudan

University of Michigan Museum of Art, First Floor, Multi-Purpose Room 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

This event needed to be cancelled to to COVID-19 precautions. Title:  Community Participation and Consultation: Developing a Heritage Center at El Kurru, Sudan Date:  Friday, April 10 Time:  12:00 pm Location:  UM Museum of Art, Multi-Purpose Room (125) Presenter:  Shannon Ness (PhD candidate, Interdepartmental...

MSP19 Student Capstone Presentations

Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor

This event needed to be cancelled to to COVID-19 precautions. Presentations for this evening are as follows: 6:00 pm - "City of Champions: Detroit and the Olympics" Exhibit at the Detroit Public LIbrary Presented by Andrew Crocker, Chelsea Hendrus, Jiangyun Li Host site: University...

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

This event needed to be cancelled to to COVID-19 precautions. 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, April 17 Time:  12:00 pm Location:  UM Museum of Art, Multi-Purpose...

MSP19 Student Capstone Presentations

Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor

This event needed to be cancelled to to COVID-19 precautions. Presentations for this evening are as follows: 6:00 pm - Arab American National Museum: Best Practices for Using Maps in Museums Presented by Comfort Mtotha, Caroline Nemechek, Alexandria Rayburn Host institution:  Arab American National...

Learning from History at The Henry Ford – Two Perspectives

Online via Zoom

Please join us for a Museums at Noon conversation! Title:  Learning from History at The Henry Ford - Two Perspectives Date:  Friday, October 9 Time:  12:00 pm Location:  Online via Zoom (Meeting ID: 930 4573 8463 / Passcode 103356) Presenters: Bradley L. Taylor (Associate...

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...