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 ZoomIn 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,...
Museum Narratives and Transnational Reputations: History, State Legitimacy, and Contested Heritage in Ukraine and Spain
Please join us for a Museums at Noon conversation! Title: Museum Narratives and Transnational Reputations: History, State Legitimacy, and Contested Heritage in Ukraine and Spain Date: Friday, November 13 Time: 12:00 pm Location: Online via Zoom (Meeting ID: 963 1071 4395 / Passcode: 685197) Presenters: Grace Mahoney...
Curating Covid: Material and Visual Cultures of the Pandemic
Online via ZoomDecember 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 ZoomPlease 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 ZoomIn 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 ZoomPresentation 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...
Interdisciplinary Partnerships and Community Collaborations in Museum Practice – Two Perspectives
Online via ZoomPlease join us for a Museums at Noon conversation! Title: Interdisciplinary Partnerships and Community Collaborations in Museum Practice - Two Perspectives Date: Friday, March 26 Time: 12:00 pm Location: Online via Zoom (Meeting ID: 910 0130 8478 / Passcode: 617448) (direct link) Presenters: Christina DiFabio (PhD...
MSP20 Capstone Presentations
Online via ZoomMSP20 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 ZoomTuesday, 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...
