4605 Cass Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201
USA
Each term, Semester in Detroit and the U-M Detroit Center partner to organize community classroom events that are free and open to the public. Detroit community members join together with U-M students, faculty and staff to learn more about Detroit’s past and present. Format varies from traditional panels to poetry readings to trips to jazz and cultural clubs throughout Detroit. Topics of discussion range from Education Reform to the Contemporary Labor Movement to implementing the Detroit Future City Framework. Always dynamic and sometimes quite hot! Free to everyone and always preceded by some yummy food! So check out the dates below and plan to participate this fall!
1/22 – 1967: Part 1 -What Happened and Why – Stephen Ward and David Goldberg, Dan Aldridge
2/5 -A General Gordon Baker Jr. Memorial Panel
Detroit 1967: Part 2 – The Aftermath – Stephen Ward and Dan Aldridge, Maria Guadiana, Roy Levy Williams
2/19 – We Are Here: A multilayered presentation on the roles men and boys of color play in the development and healing of communities – Anita Gonzalez and Antonio Lyons and company
3/12 – Detroit Music Beyond the Motown Sound – Lolita Hernandez and Ozzie Rivera
3/26- Foundations and Detroit “Development” – A Public Evaluation – Craig Regester and Dale Thomson, Shea Howell, Ed Egnatios
4/9- Digging Deeper into Detroit’s Downtown “Boom” – Craig Regester and Ryan Felton
4/16 – Final Reflection – Lolita Hernandez/Craig Regester
Free transportation is provided by the MDetroit Center Connector which departs the Central Campus Transit Center (CCTC) at 5:40pm on Thursdays.
