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SUMMARY:America at 250: a Conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III\, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
DESCRIPTION:America at 250: History\, Memory\, and Truth \nA Conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III\, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution\nTuesday\, March 31\, 6pm (doors open at 5:15pm)\nRackham Auditorium\, 915 E. Washington St.\nFree & open to the public \nMuseums are the classrooms of our country. They play a crucial role in helping us understand the nation’s complex past. Join us for a dynamic conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III\, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution\, and Lynette Clemetson\, director of Wallace House Center for Journalists\, as they reflect on the significance of the 250th anniversary of the United States. At a moment in which discussions about our shared past and collective future feel especially urgent\, this event offers an opportunity to learn from a leader who has devoted his career to informing and inspiring Americans to strive for the public good. \nQ&A will follow and copies of Secretary Bunch’s book “A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush\, Obama\, and Trump” will be available for purchase. \nLonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian. He assumed his position June 16\, 2019. As Secretary\, he oversees 21 museums\, 21 libraries\, the National Zoo\, numerous research centers\, and several education units and centers. Two new museums—the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum—are in development. Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Bunch chronicled the creation of the museum in his book A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush\, Obama\, and Trump and is the first historian to be Secretary of the Institution. Since 2024\, Bunch has been Honorary Professor of Practice at Queen’s University Belfast. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, Bunch received France’s highest award\, The Legion of Honor\, in 2021. \nLynette Clemetson is Director of Wallace House Center for Journalists\, home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists and the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists at the University of Michigan. She came to the university from NPR where she was Senior Director of Strategy and Content Initiatives. Her career in journalism spans newspapers\, magazines and audio across a range of platforms. As a reporter\, she was a Washington-based correspondent for The New York Times and Newsweek. Prior to her domestic correspondent work\, she was an international correspondent for Newsweek based in Hong Kong\, where she covered the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule in 1997. She moved into digital strategy and leadership in 2008 as the founding managing editor of TheRoot.com\, launched for The Washington Post Company with Henry Louis Gates Jr. She is also the former Director of Content Strategy at Pew Center on the States. \nThis 2026 Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture is presented by the Institute for the Humanities in partnership with Wallace House Center for Journalists. Additional support provided by the Initiative for Democracy & Civic Empowerment\, Life-Changing Education\, Museum Studies Program\, U-M Library\, and the U-M Museum of Art.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/america-at-250-a-conversation-with-lonnie-g-bunch-iii-secretary-of-the-smithsonian-institution/
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SUMMARY:Balikan: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections
DESCRIPTION:On October 24-25\, 2025\, join the Inclusive History Project for Balikan: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections\, a two-day symposium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. This symposium brings together scholars\, archivists\, cultural heritage workers\, and community activists from across the globe who are collaborating and advocating to better represent and activate Philippine collections in libraries\, archives\, and museums. \nThe central question that will be explored throughout the two-day symposium is: What are the current and future directions of shared stewardship of Philippine colonial collections? The symposium will be a space to share resources and insights\, further explore and develop best practices for caring for Philippine collections across institutions\, and continue building networks amongst those pursuing reparative work related to Philippine collections. Speakers will discuss their efforts to rethink and intervene in institutional practices and bring Philippine collections closer to communities by pursuing outright repatriation\, knowledge sharing using digital tools\, and/or shared stewardship arrangements. \nThe Balikan: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections symposium is part of ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan led by Deirdre de la Cruz and Ricky Punzalan and operating in partnership with the Inclusive History Project at the University of Michigan. Learn more about the project. \nBalikan: Shared Stewardship & Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections is presented by the Inclusive History Project in partnership with the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program\, the Museum Studies Program\, the Bentley Historical Library\, the Clements Library\, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan\, the U-M Department of American Culture\, the U-M Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, the U-M Department of History\, the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA)\, the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)\, and the University of Michigan Library. \nFriday\, October 24\, 2025\nAll events will be held at the Rackham Graduate School\, Fourth Floor\, Assembly Hall\, 915 E Washington St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 \nWelcome and Keynote\n2:00pm – 3:45pm \nPanel: Shared Stewardship / Co-Curation\n4:00pm – 5:30pm \nOpening Reception\nBegins at 6:00pm \nComplete program details can be found here.
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/balikan-shared-stewardship-and-ethical-returns-for-philippine-collections/
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SUMMARY:Afterthought - Remembering a Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Five 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 with artists on campus. Additionally\, art is proposed as a pathway for resisting the dominance of text in academic expression. \nSept 28: 1:00 – 3:00 pm\, GalleryDAAS – Exhibition reception:  “Half Built House” a COVID memorial by Laura Taylor (exhibition runs from Sept 28 – Oct 27) \nSept 29:  6:00 pm\, UM Museum of Art auditorium – Screening: A work-in-progress screening of “Afterthought” \nSept 30:  11:00 am\, Rackham East Conference Room – Workshop: A graduate student workshop on film & academic expression \nSept 30:  1:00 pm\, Rackham East Conference Room – Career Talk: Featuring the Editor & Producer for “Afterthought” \nSept 30:  3:00 pm\, Rackham East Conference Room – Panel Talk: A discussion of the role of art in COVID commemoration \n  \nAfterthought flyer \nFor additional details\, click here. \n  \nSponsored by Arts Initiative\, UMMA\, American Culture\, Latina/o Studies\, and the Museum Studies Program
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/afterthought-remembering-a-pandemic/
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SUMMARY:The Seduction\, Refusal\, and Retention of Universality in Collections Care
DESCRIPTION:Rackham Graduate School Assembly Hall (4th floor)\nPlease join the Museum Studies Program for its 20th anniversary keynote address by Cara Krmpotich\, Director of Museum Studies at the University of Toronto. \nUniversality as an intellectual and ethical imperative has substantially shaped museum work\, including the management and care of collections. Critiques of the universal—including universal museums—contribute to current and necessary conversations encouraging the decolonization of cultural institutions. At the same time\, the ethical impetus of universal design offers a new set of values with which to imagine the universal in museums. In this talk\, I consider moves from universalism to relativism\, and from singularity to plurality. In seeking to understand why universalism\, its refusal\, and its retention within museum spaces matters\, I propose that museums’ evolving interpretations of universality directly shape how they care—for their collections\, their publics\, and their environments. \nCara Krmpotich is Associate Professor and Director of the Museum Studies Program at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. She is Past-President of the Council for Museum Anthropology\, an Ontario Museums Association Councillor\, and Co-Director of the Great Lakes Research Alliance (GRASAC)\, an Indigenous-Settler network committed to reuniting Great Lakes cultural belongings with Great Lakes places\, knowledge systems and peoples. \nPlease join us online via Zoom if you are unable to attend in person:   https://umich.zoom.us/j/92878966443 \nKrmpotich flyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/the-seduction-refusal-and-retention-of-universality-in-collections-care/
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SUMMARY:Riding the Wave: The changing role of museums and museum professionals
DESCRIPTION:Riding the Wave: The changing role of museums and museum professionals \nPresentation by Paula Gangopadhyay \nThe 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 career. \nThe 21st century offers exciting opportunities for museums and museum professionals to rethink and reimagine their roles.  According to Gangopadhyay\, “The power of riding the wave and leveraging the opportunities for growth and sustainability lies within us.” The talk will offer insight into the importance of breaking the mold and present examples of how some organizations are succeeding as innovative leaders. \nPaula Gangopadhyay is the Deputy Director heading the Office of Museum Services at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in Washington DC. Prior to this role\, she served on the National Board of IMLS\, appointed by President Barack Obama. She has held several leadership positions in Michigan\, most recently serving as the Chief Learning Officer at The Henry Ford for eight years. \nRackham Graduate School\, East Conference Room (4th floor) \n  \n \nGangopadhyayFlyer
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/riding-the-wave-the-changing-role-of-museums-and-museum-professionals/
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SUMMARY:“Archives and Futures: A View from ‘the most distant place’”
DESCRIPTION:Shamil Jeppie\, University of Capetown\, South Africa \n\nMonday\, Feb 12\, 4-6pm\nRackham Amphitheatre\, 915 E. Washington\n\nPlease join us for a reception with Shamil Jeppie immediately following the lecture. \nThe Oxford English Dictionary describes Timbuktu as “the most distant place\,” a view that comes out of European explorations of West Africa and the challenges in reaching the place in the interior of the continent\, at the edges of the Sahara desert. Hardly anything was ever noted about Timbuktu’s place in a larger network of settlements with traditions of advanced literacy\, of scholars and scholastic manuscript book making and collecting. Centuries of learned activity were well-known among various local communities. Some settlements become more famous than others. “Timbuktu” somehow became the most famous name. But it was neither an invention nor without actual scholars. \nWhat can the ways these manuscript libraries were kept and conserved—but also dispersed and often destroyed—over the past century and more tell us about the place of archives from the period before European contact in parts of the African past? When and how do archives come to give us insight into more than experiences and conceptions of the past but ideas about the future? The recent attacks on cultural sites including libraries in and around Timbuktu provides an opportunity to ask questions about the constructions of collections and archives\, and their relation to writing about the past but also what they tell about visions of the future. These conflicts and the loss and hazardous movement of cultural artifacts and collections are far from over on the continent. \nShamil Jeppie is associate professor of history at the University of Cape Town and director of the Institute for Humanities in Africa. His research and publications focus on social and cultural history in South Africa and West Africa\, and he is founder of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project\, which explores the formation of a culture of collecting in Timbuktu. His books include Language\, Identity\, Modernity: The Arabic Study Circle of Durban (2007)\, and the co-edited volumes The Meanings of Timbuktu (2008)\, Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges (2010)\, andToward New Histories for South Africa: On the Place of the Past in Our Present (2004). \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/archives-and-futures-a-view-from-the-most-distant-place/
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SUMMARY:University Natural History Museums: Portals of Discovery in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between: \nJames Hanken – Director\, Museum of Comparative Zoology\, Harvard University \nDiarmaid O Foighil – Chair\, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, U-M \n  \nMany of the world’s great universities have natural history museums founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Faculty curators are often called upon to justify the considerable expense associated with the maintenance of enormous collections under their care. The research and educational value of these collections resides in their wealth of identified biological specimens\, collected from natural populations at known times and locations. That value compounds with time because they increasingly represent populations\, species\, biological communities and ecosystems that no longer exist. Using museum collections\, modern scientists can in effect time travel by accessing otherwise unavailable genomic and ecological information from collection specimens that allow us to track change through time. \n  \nThis ability has never been more needed: our impact on the planet’s biota\, climate and ecosystems is such that profound ecological change\, AKA the Anthropocene\, is upon us. University natural history museums can play a key role in documenting that change\, determining its scope and\, via online outreach\, communicating results to a global audience. The value and potency of university-based natural history museums may be greater now than ever before. \n  \nJames Hanken is Director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University. After earning A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in zoology from the University of California\, Berkeley\, he did postdoctoral work in developmental biology at Dalhousie University\, Nova Scotia\, and then assumed a faculty position at the University of Colorado\, Boulder. Professor Hanken moved to Harvard in 1999\, where he is also a professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and a member of the Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine Program. A member of the Executive Committee of the Encyclopedia of Life and a recognized teacher\, he has authored more than 130 scientific publications and edited four books\, and is also an accomplished nature and scientific photographer. \n  \nDiarmaid O’Foighil is Director of the Museum of Zoology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. Professor O’Foighil obtained a B.Sc. in zoology from NUI Galway\, Ireland\, in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Victoria\, Canada\, in 1987. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995\, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Friday Harbor Laboratories\, University of Washington\, and Simon Fraser University\, Vancouver\, and a research scientist at the University of South Carolina. He has served as the president of the American Malacological Society and on the editorial boards of Evolution and Malacologia. \n  \n*Note\, this event will be held at the Rackham Graduate School building (on the 4th floor\, West Conference Room) \n  \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Bicentennial \n  \nHanken and O’Foighil announcement
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SUMMARY:Aspiration/Obligation?  Imagining Intellectual Freedom in Museums
DESCRIPTION:Aspiration/Obligation?  Imagining Intellectual Freedom in Museums \n\nHow Do Museums Respond to Public Challenges to Their Exhibitions?\nWhat Would a National “Bill of Rights” for Museum Visitors Look Like?\nShould Museums Limit Access to Potentially Controversial Materials?\n\nSince the 1930s\, American libraries have organized their work around a set of core principles that places users and their unrestricted rights of access to information as a professional imperative.  Codified in the Intellectual Freedom Manual and supported by the staff and financial resources of the ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom\, these principles include such diverse topics as the need for fully cataloged and accessible collections and collections information\, the need to respond to challenged materials and issues of censorship\, the assurance of diversity in collection development\, and guarding against the economic and technological barriers to access—in all over 400 pages operationalizing a system of professional practice that is championed by the field’s highest professional organizations. \nMuseums\, too\, believe that principles of intellectual freedom are issues that matter deeply in the admittedly different nature of their work.  Yet no formal policy addressing intellectual freedom issues exists in any of the field’s leading professional organizations and few individual museums have crafted anything equivalent to the ALA’s “Library Bill of Rights” and the “Freedom to Read\,” which articulate and protect the intellectual freedom rights of visitors. \nAspiration/Obligation? Imagining Intellectual Freedom in Museums seeks to redress this gap by starting a discussion about the standards that have been established for library users and to imagine how these defining practices might be adapted in museums to assure that museum exhibitions\, collections information\, programming\, and artifacts remain available to all as we enter an uncertain future. \n  \nGuest Speakers: \nJames LaRue\, Office of Intellectual Freedom\, American Library Association \nA Model for Core Values in Museums: The Public Library and the Defense of Free Speech \n  \nSvetlana Mintcheva\, National Coalition Against Censorship \nThe Museum as Flashpoint of Controversy \n  \n  \nRespondents: \nPiotr Adamczyk\, ArtStor \nSusan Kornfield\, Bodman PLC \nJuanita Moore\, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History \n  \nFriday\, March 17 \nAmphitheatre\, Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies\, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. \n  \nIntellectual Freedom Program Schedule
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/aspirationobligation-imagining-intellectual-freedom-in-museums/
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SUMMARY:Vagaries of Objectivity / Launen der Sachlichkeit
DESCRIPTION:The 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 place in the Rackham Graduate School. \nThe German word Sachlichkeit/Objectivity signifies an array of related\, yet distinct meanings–from expediency and simplicity\, to realism and functionalism. Since the late nineteenth century Sachlichkeit has circulated in many guises\, receiving both praise and condemnation\, as modern sensibility\, political disposition\, and critique of modernity. This conference brings together Michigan faculty and students\, as well as scholars in History\, German Studies\, and Art & Architectural History from around the country\, to present their research on the various implications and histories of the term Sachlichkeit/Objectivity. \nKeynote speakers include Professor Helmut Lethen (Universität Wien) and Professor Daniel Magilow (University of Tennessee\, Knoxville).  Other honored guests and University of Michigan faculty and graduate students will also participate. \nPlease see the full conference schedule attached. \nSachlichkeit Program poster
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/vagaries-of-objectivity-launen-der-sachlichkeit/
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School\, 915 E. Washington Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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