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2000 Faculty Fellows Conference

"Landscapes of Depopulation"

Keynote Speaker

Sharon Zukin, Broeklundian Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College, CUNY: American Cities in the 20th Century: Cultural Sites of Growth and Decline

Faculty Fellow Presenters

Linda Housch-Collins, Assistant Professor, Law. Many African Americans Left Atlanta, but Most Chose to Stay: A Population and Community Study of Black Atlanta from 1880 to 1940

Cynthia Erb, Associate Professor, English: Lost Horizons: Cinema and the Tibet Crisis

Jerry Herron, Professor, English: I Remember Detroit: A Short History of American Forgetting

James E. Nawara, Professor Art & Art History, Depopulated Landscapes: An Exhibition

Ruth Ray, Associate Professor, English: Generational Exchange and the "Repopulation" of Detroit

John Richardson, Assistant Professor, Art & Art History: The Meaningful Object: A Visual Dialogue on Cultural Transformation, Urban Decay, and Renewal

May Seikaly, Professor, Near Eastern & Asian Studies: Space and Identity: Palestinian Displacement

Marilyn Zimmerman, Assistant Professor, Art & Art History: Woodward Avenue Rephotographic Project: Repopulating the Grand Boulevard