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.

Hatcher Graduate Library

Events at this venue

Today

  • Do We Need to Decolonize Holocaust Museums?

    Hatcher Graduate Library

    Presentation by Erica Lehrer, PhD, MSP04; Professor of History at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada); Winter 2026 Institute Fellow, UM Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Hatcher Library Gallery Lab, Room 100H A central issue animating and transforming the museum sector today is the call...

  • Museums@Noon presentation by Gala Patenkovic

    Hatcher Graduate Library

    Exhibiting fun: Comics museums in France  Gala Patenkovic (MSP 21; PhD candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures) November 21 from 12:00 - 1:00 Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H or online via Zoom Comics, in France, are serious business. 1 in 4 books sold today is...

  • Museums@Noon presentation by Veronica Williamson

    Hatcher Graduate Library

    Where Objects are Placed: reflections on Aa-ashaachi as a guardian of sovereignty and Holisso as a threshold to community Veronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate, Germanic Language & Literature) September 12 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H When the Chickasaw Cultural...

  • Museums@Noon presentation by Hayley Crowell

    Hatcher Graduate Library

    How Specimens Change from Curiosities to Scientific Collections Hayley Crowell (MSP 22; PhD Candidate, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) January 24 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H or online via Zoom Natural history museums occupy a unique space in the world...

  • Bicentennial book launch/panel discussion

    Hatcher Graduate Library

    The book Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge: The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817–2017 presents a full color journey through the treasures of the University’s collections. A panel discussion with a focus on items from library collections will occur on Sept 26...