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SUMMARY:Do We Need to Decolonize Holocaust Museums?
DESCRIPTION: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 \nHatcher Library Gallery Lab\, Room 100H \nA central issue animating and transforming the museum sector today is the call to decolonize. This appeal began with Indigenous activists\, whose communities have been overwhelmingly hurt by the museum sector’s history and status quo. Museums of mass violence – Holocaust museums\, paradigmatic among them – have been largely exempt from decolonial critiques. As products of 20th and 21st-century social justice mandates and often created at the behest of survivor communities\, they seem at first glance not to be obvious targets for such scrutiny. Yet\, Holocaust museums are not free from entanglements with state power nor from inherited traditions and infrastructures of museum practice with their attendant biases\, exclusions\, and silences. This talk explores the potential value of decolonial museum theories and practices for Holocaust museums to renew and expand their social justice mandates. \n  \n \nEvent flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/do-we-need-to-decolonize-holocaust-museums/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Tour of  “Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World” exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 9 at 12:00 pm \nHatcher Library North\, First Floor\, Room 100J \nJoin Abigail Staub (MSP22 and PhD Candidate\, Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology) for a tour of an exhibit she curated in the Hatcher Gallery “Materia Magica: Materiality and Ritual in the Greco-Roman World.” \nA half hour tour will be led by Abigail Staub (MSP22\, PhD Candidate in Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology).  The exhibit is a collaboration and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library’s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection\, the Museum of Natural History\, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.  Artifacts include a diverse array of items which were created to communicate with and call upon various unseen\, supernatural forces for aid and protection. While the objects on display are disparate at first glance\, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves\, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as “magical” in traditional Western scholarship.  However\, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual\, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects’ oft-overlooked material dimensions\, asking us to consider how qualities like color\, texture\, and weight shaped an object’s perceived efficacy and meaning. \nThe tour is limited to 10 attendees\, so please sign up as soon as possible!
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/tour-of-materia-magica-materiality-and-ritual-in-the-greco-roman-world/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Museums@Noon presentation by Gala Patenkovic
DESCRIPTION:Exhibiting fun: Comics museums in France  \nGala Patenkovic (MSP 21; PhD candidate\, Romance Languages & Literatures) \nNovember 21 from 12:00 – 1:00 \nHatcher Gallery Lab\, Room 100H or online via Zoom \nComics\, in France\, are serious business. 1 in 4 books sold today is in the form of a comic book\, and ever since 1974\, the country has hosted one of the world’s largest international comics festivals. Having long recognized the medium as the “9th art”\, France prides itself in being one of the rare countries that has championed the potential of the medium early on\, and it’s not an overstatement to say that some of its comics authors and artists are considered national heroes. \nIn this presentation\, I will share the findings from my time spent in France researching an important cultural recognition of the medium: its museification. This talk will highlight my experience in comics museums in Angoulême and Blois. By paying close attention to the exhibition choices of these institutions\, I will question our understanding of what a museum space “should” be\, what it is\, and what potential it holds for the future. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-gala-patenkovic/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
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SUMMARY:Museums@Noon presentation by Veronica Williamson
DESCRIPTION:Where Objects are Placed: reflections on Aa-ashaachi as a guardian of sovereignty and Holisso as a threshold to community \nVeronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate\, Germanic Language & Literature) \nSeptember 12 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nHatcher Gallery Lab\, Room 100H \nWhen the Chickasaw Cultural Center’s 184-acre campus opened just outside of downtown Sulphur\, Oklahoma in 2010\, several shifts happened simultaneously: Sulphur—known for its healing waters—re-emerged as a geographically-central cultural site for the tribe; the Cultural Center itself also became administratively separate from a series of other tribal museums\, including the Chickasaw Capitol Building\, Old Council House Museum\, and Chickasaw White House (all located to the southwest in the Nation’s capital\, Tishomingo). Connected yet doubly separate from its peer institutions\, the Cultural Center has come to serve a series of unique and vital functions within the tribe. \nIn this talk\, I’ll draw on my Collections Management Intern experiences to examine two of the Cultural Center’s most impactful purposes: serving as an active guardian of tribal sovereignty by stewarding the tribe’s material history and providing a space that functions as a threshold to community for tribal individuals.  In doing so\, I hope to elucidate the role that the Cultural Center plays in comparison to the Chickasaw Nation’s other cultural initiatives and to consider the unrelenting importance of material history for tribal sovereignty. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-veronica-williamson/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
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SUMMARY:Feb 3 exhibit tour - "Frosted Memories: Exploring the Life and Works of Robert Frost”
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit tour:  “Frosted Memories: Exploring the Life and Works of Robert Frost” \nMonday\, February 3 at 12:00 pm \nSpecial Collections Exhibit Space (6th Floor\, Hatcher Graduate Library-South\, Room 660J) \nJoin your Museum Studies colleagues on February 3 at noon for a guided tour of “Frosted Memories: Exploring the Life and Works of Robert Frost” currently on exhibit in the Hatcher Graduate Library Special Collections Exhibit Space. \nThe tour will be led by special collections library assistant and museum studies minor student\, Elizabeth Zomeri (UM ’25). \nRegister in advance for the tour (space is limited). \n“Frosted Memories: Exploring the Life and Works of Robert Frost” runs 12/9/24 – 2/20/25 \nStep into the world of one of America’s most beloved poets\, Robert Frost. This captivating showcase delves into the rich tapestry of Robert Frost’s life and literary legacy. Explore the milestones and personal moments that shaped his journey from modest beginnings to literary icon. Discover the dual roles he navigated as both an inspiring educator and a profound poet\, influencing countless minds in the classroom and through his verses. Experience the magic of winter and the warmth of Christmas through Frost’s evocative poems\, capturing the natural beauty and insightful reflections that these seasons brought to his work. Celebrate Robert Frost’s status as a national treasure\, a poet whose words resonated across the United States\, earning admiration from presidents\, scholars\, and everyday readers alike. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/feb-3-exhibit-tour-frosted-memories-exploring-the-life-and-works-of-robert-frost/
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SUMMARY:Museums@Noon presentation by Hayley Crowell
DESCRIPTION:How Specimens Change from Curiosities to Scientific Collections [and Other Stories from a 400-Year-Old Natural History Museum] \nHayley Crowell (MSP 22; PhD Candidate\, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) \nJanuary 24 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm \nHatcher Gallery Lab\, Room 100H or online via Zoom \nNatural history museums occupy a unique space in the world of museology\, often facing challenges from both a humanities and scientific perspective. Much of their controversy stems from the very fact that the primary “items” stored and displayed in these museums were once living organisms. Because most natural history museums are associated with large research collections and universities\, they often house thousands (if not millions) of specimens. Tasked with the burden of accurately representing biodiversity\, history\, climate\, evolution\, and humanity’s role in all of these\, natural history collections are continuously undergoing physical and organizational changes to meet these ever-changing fields. \nHowever\, the wealth of knowledge and recent advances in museum-based scientific techniques (CT-scanning\, museomics\, etc.) provide a world of inspiring and innovative new ways to use these collections. These methods are especially important when examining historically-significant and rare museum specimens\, as each organism in these collections represent a unique snapshot of a place and time that cannot be replicated. \nIn this talk\, I will use the Natural History Museum of Denmark as a case study to discuss these issues from both a historic and modern perspective\, starting from its early origins as one of Europe’s first Kunstkammer (“Cabinet of Curiosities”) to its current role as a leading research institute in Europe. Along the way\, I will also share a series of anecdotes about the bizarre and surprising adventures that come with working in an early zoological collection. \nHayley is a 6th year PhD student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. Her main dissertation focuses on the evolution of ultraviolet coloration in reptiles and the use of museum specimens in scientific research. Prior to coming to the University of Michigan\, Hayley obtained a bachelor’s degree in biology from Shippensburg State University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s working on rattlesnake thermal ecology from California Polytechnic State University. She also worked as a biologist for the U.S. Geological Survey and National Park service for six years on invasive Burmese Pythons in Florida and sea turtles throughout the southeast and Caribbean. \nFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museumsnoon-presentation-by-hayley-crowell/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Bicentennial book launch/panel discussion
DESCRIPTION: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 at 5:00 pm at Hatcher Library. Panelists include Martha Conway\, director of the U-M Library’s Special Collections Library; Kevin Graffagnino\, director of the Clements Library; and Terry McDonald\, director of the Bentley Historical Library. \nCopies of the book will be available for sale and signing at the event\, and refreshments will be provided. \n  \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/bicentennial-book-launchpanel-discussion/
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
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