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.

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  • Kelsey Museum Flash Talk – In Search of Hamzeh Carr

    Online via Zoom

    In 1925, the University of Michigan's archaeological expedition to Egypt commissioned artist Hamzeh Carr to make facsimiles of the colorful murals they were discovering, and these images have been widely reproduced ever since. But who was Hamzeh Carr? In preparation for a future exhibition...

  • Heritage Preservation and Ethics During Upheavals: A Roundtable

    Online via Zoom

    Wednesday, 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...

  • L’Internationale and the Democracy Pavilion for Europe

    Online via Zoom

    L’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...

  • Museums and their Communities: Curatorial Practices in Germany and the US

    Online via Zoom

    Museums and their Communities: Curatorial Practices in Germany and the US Panelists: Angela Jannelli, Historical Museum of Frankfurt Adam Levine, Toledo Museum of Art Samir Meghelli, Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Community Museum How do museums engage with local communities? This panel offers first-hand experience with...

  • Accessibility and Museums: Creating Inclusive Experiences

    Online via Zoom

    Over the past decade, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has promoted accessible methods in museum operations from collections management to exhibition design.  The UM Museum Studies Program is pleased to share in this important conversation regarding audience engagement with this session on accessibility...

  • MSP Student Engagement Board kick-off meeting

    Online via Zoom

    As we navigate the start of this new academic year, we are excited to share an important new initiative here at the Museum Studies Program. We are launching an MSP student engagement board (name TBD!)! Run by students and for students, we imagine the...

  • Nji Kchi-Nshinaabe’baniik Gdish-Chigemi Wi (We Do This for the Ancestors): The Basics of NAGPRA

    Online via Zoom

    When:  Friday, April 16th at 1:00pm Who:  Panelists: William Johnson - Ziibiwing Center of AnishinaabeCulture & Lifeways, Interim Director Veronica Pasfield - Bay Mills Indian Community NAGPRA Designee Amadeaus Scott - UMMAA NAGPRA Collections Manager Where:  Register/Webinar link can be found at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_agbr9WzoQaGnCxSfAc_YQQ   The Native American Graves Protection...

  • Reforming Remembrance

    Online via Zoom

    Tuesday, 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...

  • MSP20 Capstone Presentations

    Online via Zoom

    MSP20 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: ...