The University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities explores the issue of the colonial archive in relation to that of the colonial museum in the conference “Archive, Museum, and the Safe House of Language.” The conference derives from an exhibition the institute is mounting by University of Cape Town artist and writer Pippa Skotnes, based on her research in the Lucy Lloyd Archive from the Cape. In that archive, Skotnes discovered a dictionary from 1873 of a now- extinct “Bushmen.” She has constructed a magnificent multi-media exhibition of documentation, sculpture, and text. This conference brings six notable scholars together to address the issue of the colonial archive and museum in ways that challenge the kind, category, and historiographic inheritances of both. The conference will be followed by the reception for Skotnes's Exhibit “Book of Iterations,” 6:00pm, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.