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.
Rackham Graduate School
Afterthought – Remembering a Pandemic
Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesFive events comprise a special program spotlighting COVID commemoration as a form of political resistance. This program offers interactions with commemorative art, invites students and visitors to think about art as a form of political and social action, and includes multiple opportunities to interact...
The Seduction, Refusal, and Retention of Universality in Collections Care
Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesRackham Graduate School Assembly Hall (4th floor) Please join the Museum Studies Program for its 20th anniversary keynote address by Cara Krmpotich, Director of Museum Studies at the University of Toronto. Universality as an intellectual and ethical imperative has substantially shaped museum work, including...
Riding the Wave: The changing role of museums and museum professionals
Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesRiding the Wave: The changing role of museums and museum professionals Presentation by Paula Gangopadhyay The presenter, a respected and recognized leader in the national museum, cultural, policy, philanthropy and education sectors, offers unique insight about the field gleaned from a highly successful 25 year...
“Archives and Futures: A View from ‘the most distant place’”
Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesShamil Jeppie, University of Capetown, South Africa Monday, Feb 12, 4-6pm Rackham Amphitheatre, 915 E. Washington Please join us for a reception with Shamil Jeppie immediately following the lecture. The Oxford English Dictionary describes Timbuktu as “the most distant place,” a view that comes out...
University Natural History Museums: Portals of Discovery in the Anthropocene
Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesA conversation between: James Hanken - Director, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Diarmaid O Foighil - Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, U-M Many of the world's great universities have natural history museums founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
Aspiration/Obligation? Imagining Intellectual Freedom in Museums
Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesAspiration/Obligation? Imagining Intellectual Freedom in Museums How Do Museums Respond to Public Challenges to Their Exhibitions? What Would a National “Bill of Rights” for Museum Visitors Look Like? Should Museums Limit Access to Potentially Controversial Materials? Since the 1930s, American libraries have organized their...
Vagaries of Objectivity / Launen der Sachlichkeit
Rackham Graduate School 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesThe Museum Studies Program is proud to support a conference co-sponsored by the Departments of German and History of Art. The two-day conference, “Vagaries of Objectivity / Launen der Sachlichkeit” will run from Friday, January 27 to Saturday, January 28. The conference will take...
