Learn how a team of graduate students from diverse fields and chronological specializations collaborated to produce the exhibit “The Leaders and the Rest: Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan” (on display at the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, Room 100, until February 25). Turned loose in the archive to find compelling stories, they identified four episodes in U-M history around which to organize the exhibit. The challenge then became interpreting those stories for a visual medium, linking them thematically, and constructing a physical exhibit that conveyed those connections. Members of the student team will talk about the challenges and rewards of this project, how it intersected with their graduate training, and what they learned by having to take into account a variety of stakeholders as they developed historical interpretations.

Featuring:
Michelle McClellan (Assistant Professor, History, Residential College)
Jonathan Farr (Lecturer, History)
Nora Krinitsky (Doctoral Candidate, History)
Emily Price (Doctoral Candidate, History)
Kate Silbert (Doctoral Candidate, History and Women's Studies)

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.