Detroit 300 Partner Program

Fueling the Spirit of Detroit: Humanists and the Humanities in Detroit's History
Friday, September 14, 2001
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Walter P. Reuther Library
5401 Cass Avenue, Wayne State University

Sponsored by The Humanities Center, this conference will feature representatives from Wayne State University's College of Liberal Arts and College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs (CULMA); and from the Detroit Institute for the Arts (DIA), the Detroit Historical Museum, the Museum of African American Art and the Auto Heritage program. The event will mark Detroit's 300th birthday by bringing together scholars and students to commemorate the contributions to Detroit's cultural and humanistic landscape made by major and minor historical figures, including Augustus Woodward, Albert Kahn, Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, Diego Rivera and Ossian Sweet. The aim of the conference is to make the contributions of these historical figures known to the general public so that names of Detroit buildings, streets and locations may be related to the intellectual, religious, educational, artistic and other humanistic contributions made by these historical figures.