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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Monday, Sept. 9<sup>th</sup><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The PBB Disaster at 50: Reflections, Critical Lessons, and a Path Forward<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Brittany Fremion, CMU; Dr. Ben Peterson, Alma College; and Dr. Norm Keon, PBB Community Partner and Epidemiologist, Mid-Michigan District Health Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The panel will reflect on the 1973 disaster at the Velsicol Chemical Co. plant in St. Louis, Michigan, that led to large-scale contamination that exposed farm animals, wildlife,
and nearly 8.5 million Michiganders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tuesday, Sept. 24<sup>th</sup><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Christopher Paul Curtis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Making of an Author 101</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The David and Eunice Sutherland Burgess Lecture<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are honored to welcome award-winning author, Christopher Paul Curtis, to CMU. In his talk, he will trace his path to becoming a writer of historical fiction for children
and the importance certain people played along the way. Born in Flint, Michigan, in 1953, Curtis was working on an auto assembly line when he began writing. His esteemed novels center on African-American families and tackle tough issues with humor and honesty. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tuesday, Oct. 29<sup>th</sup><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in Their Contexts<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Blaire Morseau, MSU<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Morseau will discuss her new edited volume about 19th-century Potawatomi author Simon Pokagon and the ways he elevated thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge in
his stories. The Clarke’s collection of Simon Pokagon’s birch bark books, originally printed in 1893 and 1901, will be on view in the Clarke after the talk. Dr. Morseau is a citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi with ancestral ties to the Grand River Bands
of Ottawa, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All Clarke Speaker Series events will take place in the Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium, Park Library, beginning at 7:00 pm. All programs are free and open to the public.
For more information: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/uf8wucrm">https://tinyurl.com/uf8wucrm</a>, phone: (989) 774-3864, email:
<a href="mailto:clarke@cmich.edu">clarke@cmich.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#6A0032">Carrie Marsh
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Director, Clarke Historical Library<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Park Library 142B | 989-774-3965<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Central Michigan University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#6A0032;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Carrie Marsh
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Park Library 142B | 250 Preston Street
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<a href="mailto:marsh4c@cmich.edu"><span style="color:blue">marsh4c@cmich.edu</span></a> | <a href="http://www.cmich.edu/"><span style="color:blue">www.cmich.edu</span></a></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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