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| Year | Event | Subject | Link | Speaker(s) |
2018 | "How Do We Make Our Schools Safe?" | Henry L. McClendon, Jr. of the International Institute for Restorative Practices; James Makowski, Corporate Counsel for Michigan Gun Owners, Inc.; Helena Kelly, Easterseals and Master Trainer, Michigan ACE Initiative; and Terrence Haugabook, Prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan, and Director of Community Outreach for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. | ||
2018 | Conference 15 | "Religion and Citizenship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The End of Disbelief?" | Saeed Khan, Lecturer in the Department of Near East & Asian Studies at Wayne State University. | |
| 2018 | Conference 15 Plenary | "Civil Religion and Citizenship" | Link | Bryan Turner, professor of Sociology at the Institute for Religion, Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University |
2017 | Immigration | Ruby Robinson, Supervising Attorney with the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and Amy Bloom, Oakland Schools. | ||
2017 | Conference 14 Keynote | "Rethinking Violence and Citizenship In the Age of Mass Incarceration" | Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy. | |
2017 | Refugees in America |
| Former Michigan Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, and Andrew Moore, Professor of Law at University of Detroit-Mercy and founder of the immigration law clinic at Detroit Mercy Law. | |
2016 | Guns in Michigan | James Makowski, Esq., Corporate Counsel to the Michigan Gun Owners’ Association, and Linda Brundage, EdD, Executive Director of the Michigan Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence. | ||
2016 | Conference 13 Poetry Reading | Gender and Citizenship | Melba Joyce Boyd, Professor in African American Studies at Wayne State University, with Marion Hayden, Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan | |
2015 | Conference 12 Plenary Panel | Detroit Bankruptcy | Nathan Bomey (Detroit Free Press) moderates a panel with Peter Hammer (Wayne State Law School), Sheila Cockrel (Former Detroit City Councilwoman), Laura Trudeau (Kresge Foundation), Shirley Lightsea (Detroit Retired City Employees Association), and Ryan Plecha (Lippitt O'Keefe Gornbein) | |
2015 | Conference 12 Keynote | Governance and Citizenship | Frederick Cooper, distinguished New York University historian of Africa. | |
2014 | "Weaving Citizenship Into the Star-Spangled Banner" | Marilyn Zoidis, Director of Historical Resources, The Henry Ford | ||
2013 | Conference 10 Book Speaker | "Isma'ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community" | Jonah Steinberg, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Global Studies at the University of Vermont. | |
2013 | Conference 10 Keynote | "The Questions Facing Citizenship Today" | Rogers Smith, chair of the Penn Program on Democracy and Constitutionalism at the University of Pennsylvania. | |
2013 | Conference 10 Keynote |
| Marc Kruman, Director, Center for the Study of Citizenship | |
2013 | "Religion & Ethnicity, Diaspora & Identity" | Seán McLoughlin, Professor of the Anthropology of Islam, University of Leeds, and Saeed Khan, Lecturer in the Department of Near East & Asian Studies at Wayne State University. | ||
2012 | "Debating Same-Sex Marriage" | John Corvino, WSU Professor, philosopher and prominent gay advocate, and Maggie Gallagher, nationally syndicated columnist and co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage. | ||
2012 | Citizens United | Former US Congressman Joe Schwarz, Cynthia J. Pasky (Founder, President & CEO Strategic Staffing Solutions), Harold Beznos (President, Beztak Properties), and Jocelyn Benson (Wayne State University Law School). | ||
2012 | Conference 9 Keynote |
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| Peter Levine, Associate Dean in Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Civic Life |
2012 | Conference 9 Book Session | Lyon: "Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory", and Williams: "They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War 1" |
| Cherstin Lyon, Professor of History, California State University, San Bernardino, and Kidada Williams, Associate Professor of History, Wayne State University. |
2012 | Conference 9 Keynote | "Age and Citizenship" |
| Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Medical and Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley |
2011 | "White Collar Crime in the Age of Enron & Madoff" |
| U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, private practice attorney Harold Gurewitz, and Wayne Law professor Peter J. Henning | |
2011 | "Cultural Anxiety, Collective Identity" |
| Saeed Khan, Lecturer in the Department of Near East & Asian Studies at Wayne State University. | |
2011 | Conference 8 Plenary |
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| Kathleen Canning, Professor of History, Women’s Studies, and German at the University of Michigan. |
2011 | Conference 8 Plenary |
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| Susan Wells, Temple University, author of Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Work of Writing |
2010 | "Are Corporations Citizens?" |
| Joel Gora, Brooklyn Law School, Steven L. Winter, Wayne State University Law School; moderated by Linda Beal, Wayne State University Law School. | |
2009 | "Lincoln, Obama, and the State of the American Union" | Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania |
