Fall Reading Group (September 17): At this welcome reception we discussed an excerpt from Orhan Pamuk's The Innocence of Objects, with a specific focus on the last four pages: "A Modest Manifesto for Museums." The Innocence of Objects is the museum catalogue produced to go with Pamuk's Museum of Innocence in İstanbul, which was created in tandem with his 2008 novel of the same name. You can find more information about the museum project here.

Excursion to the Toledo Museum of Art (October 3): Rummagers visited the permanent galleries at the TMA as well as the temporary exhibition Ethiopia at the Crossroads.

Talk and Q&A with Sophie Ong (October 31): As a follow up to the group's visit to the Toledo Museum of Art, we hosted a Zoom conversation with Sophie Ong, who serves as the Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives at the TMA and was on the curatorial team for Ethiopia at the Crossroads. 

Fall Graduate Student Workshop (November 18): Group discussion and workshop of Dorota Zaprzalska's (Forsyth Visiting Graduate Student, History of Art) article on Byzantine icons and Assemblage Theory. 

U-M STAMPS Gallery Visit (January 29): To kick off the semester, we visited U-M's STAMPS gallery to see two temporary exhibitions: The Stampede and Impossible Conversations.

Workshop with Visiting Scholar, Seb Chan (March 20): This workshop in cutting edge museum praxis was part of the Museum Studies Program's visiting scholar program, which brought Seb Chan all the way from the ACMI in Melbourne, Australia to our campus in Ann Arbor. 

Winter Graduate Student Workshop (April 10): Group discussion and workshop of Albert Cavallaro's (History, Museum Studies) dissertation chapter titled "A Museum Moment Comes to Turkestan: the Rise of the Muslim Visitor in Tashkent, 1889-1904."

Excursion to the Cranbrook Art Institute (April 24): Group tour of the Cranbook Art Museum, Insitute, and Saarinen House in Bloomfield Hills, MI.