Speaker Series
All Clarke Speaker Series events are free and open to the public. Please contact us at Clarke@cmich.edu or 989.774.3864 if you need accommodation.
A reception in the Clarke Historical Library will follow each talk.
Fall 2023
Delia Fernández-Jones
Department of History, Michigan State University
IN-PERSON EVENT
7:00 p.m.
October 10, 2023
Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium, Park Library
Catherine Cangany, Executive Director
Jewish History Museum of Michigan
IN-PERSON EVENT
7:00 p.m.
October 26, 2023
Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium, Park Library
In April 1910, the prices of kosher meat in Detroit soared. Inspired by events in New York and New Jersey, local Jewish women organized and enforced a boycott of kosher meat, even opening a co-op market to help feed the community, taking on the Gilded Age robber barons’ ‘beef trust.’
Jack Dempsey
"Midwest Woman Speaks:
The Civil War Story of Ellen Woodworth"
IN-PERSON EVENT
7:00 p.m.
November 30, 2023
Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium, Park Library
Historian Jack Dempsey will share his research into Ellen Preston Woodworth and her husband, Samuel, who left a record of their experiences during the U.S. Civil War; their correspondence and other manuscripts are held in the Clarke Historical Library. Dempsey’s new book, When Slavery and Rebellion Are Destroyed: A Michigan Woman’s Civil War Journal (University of Georgia Press, 2023), connects the experiences of this couple to the national struggle over slavery and freedom.