Detroit School Series - Teaching Detroit - Panel

At the kickoff event of the 2016-2017 series, panelists will discuss their different approaches to the challenge of teaching Detroit: how they bring Detroit into their classrooms, how Detroit shapes their pedagogy, and how they introduce and contextualize Detroit as a case in relation to other urban spaces and train young minds to grapple with Detroit. The event will be moderated by Angela Dillard, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and the Earl Lewis Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. Panelists will include Stephen Ward, Faculty Director of the Semester in Detroit program and Associate Professor in the Residential College and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; Ren Farley, Dudley Duncan Professor Emeritus of Sociology and a research scientist at the Population Studies Center; and Carolyn Loh, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Wayne State University. The discussion will be held Friday, October 21, from 4:30 to 6:15 pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110) in Weill Hall.