September 14th, 2001: Special Event

Detroit 300 Conference

Keynote:

CHARLES BAXTER
A Reading by Charles Baxter

Visiting Speakers:

CONSTANCE BUDOROW
Executive Director of the Automotive National Heritage Association
"The Automobile National Heritage Area – Reading our Heritage in the Cultural Landscape"

BRIAN DUNNIGAN
Curator at The Clements Library, The University of Michigan
"Images of Early Detroit: Reading a Cultural History"

KEVIN BOYLE
Detroit Historian and Author, Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"The Rages of Whiteness: A Murder, Modernity, and the Making of Civil Rights Liberalism"

WSU Speakers:

MICHELE RONNICK
Associate Professor, Classics, Greek and Liberal Arts
"From Rome to Detroit: Augustus Woodward (1774-1827) and the Campus Martius"

BILL HARRIS
Playwright, Professor of English
"Detroit Sketches"
performed by Bill Harris and Council Cargle

JERRY HERRON
Professor, English and Director of American Studies
"Henry, Edsel, Diego and the Last Pedestrians"

CHARLES HYDE
Professor of History
"Southeastern Michigan and the Chrysler Corporation: Riding the Roller Coaster Together"