SHA 2026 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Mobility
Detroit, Michigan | January 7-10, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 7:30am - 5:30pm |
REG-3: SHA Registration Location: Ambassador Foyer |
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| 8:30am - 5:00pm |
BOOK 1: SHA Book Room Location: Ambassador 1 Hours: Thursday, January 8, 2026 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
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| 9:00am - 10:15am |
GEN 01 T: Drink and Foodways Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Christopher P. Barton, Chronicle Heritage 15min presentation + 15min break Florida Oranges and Other Meats: Correspondence, Competitions and Political Legitimacy in the Cuisines of British Colonialism 9:30am - 9:45am Distilling Traditions and Afro-Andean Spirits: The Hacienda La Ventilla Distillery 9:45am - 10:00am Collection and Utilization of Freshwater Mussels at River Raisin 10:00am - 10:15am “Mr. Peanut Goes to War”: The Archaeology of Peanut Butter and Class |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
GEN 11 U: Underwater Archaeology in the Southeast Location: Mackinac West Chair: Allyson G. Ropp, East Carolina University How Stable is a Wooden Shipwreck? Assessing the Cultural Transformations of Change 9:15am - 9:30am Sacre Coeur: Archaeological Reassessment of John’s Island Wreck 9:30am - 9:45am Shoals and Shipwrecks: Archaeological Explorations off Port Royal Sound, South Carolina 9:45am - 10:00am Adapting to a Shifting Shoreline: Remote Sensing and Archaeological Documentation of a Hurricane-Exposed Shipwreck 10:00am - 10:15am A Comparative Analysis of the Savannah Cannon Cluster Site (9CH1552) to Surviving 18th–19th Century Cannons in the Northeastern United States 10:15am - 10:30am The 2024-2025 Archaeological Investigation of the Tolomato Bar Anchorage, the Working Waterfront of Grant’s Villa (British Plantation 1768-1783) and Minorcan Farmsteads (1783-ca. 1850s) |
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| 9:00am - 11:00am |
FOR-413U: The Future of Deepwater Archaeology: Emerging Technology and Innovations Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Anne Nunn, Henry Jackson Foundation Chair: Hannah P. Fleming, HJF supporting DPAA The Future of Deepwater Archaeology: Emerging Technology and Innovations |
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| 9:00am - 11:15am |
GEN 10 U: Underwater Archaeology in the Great Lakes and Beyond Location: Mackinac East Chair: Ben Ford, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Launch Party: The Maritime History and Archaeology of Small Gasoline Boats in the Upper Great Lakes 9:15am - 9:30am Follow the Fish: The Evolution of Gill-net Fish Tugs on the Great Lakes 9:30am - 9:45am New Research on the Submerged Early Holocene Occupation of Lake Huron 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break Blue Collars and Green Gold: Rivers, Industrialization, and the Wage-Labor Economy 10:15am - 10:30am Gridlocked On The Great Lakes: The Wreck Of The Freighter John N Glidden 10:30am - 10:45am Citizen Scientists on the Great Lakes: A Tale of Lake Eire 10:45am - 11:00am Lake Erie Submerged Landscape Survey, 2024 and 2025 Results 11:00am - 11:15am Contrecoeur Unidentified Submerged Structure: Something’s Fishy? |
SYM-113T: The Potteries: The Heritage, Archaeology, and History of Stoke-on-Trent and the North Staffordshire Ceramics Industry Location: Cartier Chair: Alasdair Brooks, Re-Form Heritage Discussant: Teresita Majewski, Statistical Research, Inc. An Introduction to the Heritage and Archaeology of Stoke-on-Trent and the North Staffordshire Ceramics Industry 9:15am - 9:30am The Archaeology of Stoke-on-Trent’s Ceramics Industry – an Overview 9:30am - 9:45am Bethesda Methodist Chapel, Hanley – Cathedral of The Potteries 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break 'Smaller and Finer Things': Collecting Practices at the V&A Wedgwood Collection 10:15am - 10:30am Scotland's Ghost Industry: Shared Clay Stories, Global Trade and Intercultural Connections Made Through Industrial Pottery Manufacture. 10:30am - 11:15am 15min presentation + 30min discussion Staffordshire in America—A View from 19th-Century Baltimore |
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| 9:00am - 11:45am |
POS-01 (T/UW): Technological Applications in Archaeology Location: Renaissance Foyer Cost Effective Side-Scan Sonar System: Can Professionals Tell The Difference? Buttoned Up in History: Comparing Elemental Composition of Copper Alloy Buttons from Frederick County, Virginia The Application of X-Ray Fluorescence on Enchanted Castle House and Germanna Ceramics Discover Old D'Hanis: Reflecting on Movement of the the Virtual Archaeology Game (from Unity to Unreal, from University to Community, from NOLA to Detroit) Ground Penetrating Radar and Historical Archaeology at the Lake George Battlefield State Park, New York Patterns of GPR Data for Burials from the Middle of the 20th Century of Children Under 4.5 years of Age Memento Mori: Teaching Historical Funerary Practices Through the Re-creation of Victorian Era Postmortem Photography Comparison of Methods for Estimating Ancestry of an Early Christian-Era Burial from Menorca, Spain A Case of Probable Coxa Profunda from 6-8th Century Menorca, Spain Benzene: Historical Use and Abuse |
SYM-124T: Camp Nelson, Civil War Depot and Emancipation Center for Kentucky Location: Richard A & B Chair: W. Stephen McBride, Greenbrier Valley Archaeology Discussant: William B. Lees, University of West Florida (retired) 15min intro + 15min presentation Camp Nelson, KY: More than a Civil War U.S. Army Depot 9:30am - 9:45am “Everyone of my children wears a Silver Dime…to keep off the Witches Spell”: Archaeology of Camp Nelson’s Refugee Camp 9:45am - 10:00am History and Archaeology at the Camp Nelson Home for Colored Refugees, Camp Nelson, Kentucky 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Searching for Simpsonville: Collaborative Efforts to Locate a Civil War Mass Grave through Oral History, Archival Research, and Remote Sensing 10:30am - 10:45am The Camp Nelson Military Prison: Archaeological and Historical Insights into a Civil War Detention Facility 10:45am - 11:00am Animal Remains from the William Berkeley Sutler's Store at the Camp Nelson Civil War Depot (15JS78) 11:00am - 11:15am Beans for Breakfast: Revisiting the Archaeobotany of Camp Nelson 11:15am - 11:45am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Geophysical Investigations at Camp Nelson: Past Accomplishments and Future Potential |
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| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
FOR-109T: Traversing Michigan’s Historical Archaeology: Places and Stories That Matter in the American Experience, Part 1 Location: Ontario West Chair: Michael S. Nassaney, Western Michigan University Traversing Michigan’s Historical Archaeology: Places and Stories That Matter in the American Experience, Part 1 |
FOR-363T: “What Produced This Feeling?" Marking The Passing Of Mark Leone And His Contributions To Archaeology Location: Ontario East Chair: Matthew M. Palus, University of Maryland Chair: Christopher N. Matthews, Montclair State University “What Produced This Feeling?" Marking The Passing Of Mark Leone And His Contributions To Archaeology |
SYM-163T: Remaking the City: Archaeology, Mobility, and the Legacies of Urban Renewal Location: Cabot Chair: Rebecca Graff, Lake Forest College Chair: Krysta Ryzewski, Wayne State University Discussant: Kelly Britt, Brooklyn College 15min intro + 15min presentation Environmental Remediation and Archaeological Sites: When Your Mitigation is My Adverse Effect 9:30am - 9:45am Reframing the Ruins: Urban Archaeology and Contemporary Art 9:45am - 10:00am Between Archaeology and Architecture: Materializing the Silenced Heritage of Little Burgundy 10:00am - 10:30am 15min presentation + 15min break Growing Futures in Long Shadows: Soil Health in Chicagoland’s Post-Industrial Community Gardens 10:30am - 10:45am A Living City: Urban Renewal’s Legacy Collections in Washington, DC 10:45am - 11:00am Stories Beneath the Sunken Garden: Interdisciplinary Archaeology in an Urban Renewal Landscape 11:00am - 11:15am A Different Tune but the Same Song: Examining the Cycle of Urban Renewal in Nashville 11:15am - 12:00pm 15min presentation + 30min discussion Archaeology, Emotions and Urban Displacement: The Working-class Neighborhood of Vaakunakylä in Oulu, Finland |
SYM-378T: The Ambivalence of Emptiness Location: Brule A & B Chair: Guido Pezzarossi, Syracuse University Chair: Alanna Warner-Smith, American University Discussant: Michael Roller, N/A Violence through Absence: Examining the Effects of Colonial Emptying on Archaeological Practice 9:15am - 9:30am Cartographic Emptiness: Analyzing Representations of the Brothertown Indian Nation 9:30am - 9:45am Performing Femininity on the Frontier: (In)Visibility and Isolation in the Domestic Life of Susan Hempstead Gratiot at a Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin Homestead 9:45am - 10:00am Exhausted Bodies 10:00am - 10:45am 15min presentation + 30min discussion Designed to Empty: A Quarantine Station at the Turn of the 20th Century Gallops Island, Boston, MA 10:45am - 11:00am Empty Promises: Railroad Capitalism and Toxicity in the First Gilded Age 11:00am - 11:15am Hope and Despair at the Recycling Center: An Ethnoarchaeological Analysis 11:15am - 11:30am Disposed: The Long-term Afterlives of Industrial Waste 11:30am - 12:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Where There’s Smoke, There’s A Smoke-free Campus: Discourses of Emptiness and Materialities of Heteropic Smokescapes On A College Campus |
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GEN 09 T: Technical Analysis Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Marco G. Meniketti, San Jose State University Documenting Ancient Landscapes. A Case Study from the West Indies for 3D Imaging and Modeling 10:45am - 11:00am Investigating Anthropogenic Mercury in Soil Samples from an Early-Nineteenth-Century Fur Trade Site in Northern Wisconsin 11:00am - 11:15am Chemical Analysis of Archaeological Cupels and Crucibles Recovered from the Grounds of the Assay Office in Boise, Idaho 11:15am - 11:30am Taking a New Look at St. Mary’s City: Using GIS to Visualize Change over Time 11:30am - 11:45am Cutting Through the Noise: Application of Geophysical Survey Techniques on Historic Period Sites in CRM |
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| 11:00am - 11:45am |
SYM-153U: The Conservation of Materials from Underwater Sites Location: Mackinac West Chair: Chris Dostal, Texas A&M University Assessing and Protecting Collections, Before and After Conservation 11:15am - 11:30am Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Long-Term Care for Submerged Cultural Sites 11:30am - 11:45am Preserving the Seal: Conservation Treatment of CSS Georgia's Rubber Gaskets |
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
RL-1: Living Museums in the Sea Location: Michelangelo Host: Charles Beeker, Indiana University |
RL-2: Publishing for Early Career Researchers and Students Location: Michelangelo Hosts: Alasdair Brooks, Editor-in-Chief, Historical Archaeology; Sarah Holland, SHA Co-Publications Editor; and Mary Sue Daoud, Publisher, Springer |
RL-3: Words and Things: Textual and Linguistic Methods in Historical Archaeology Location: Michelangelo Host: Stephen Chrisomalis, Wayne State University |
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| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
GEN 05 T: Managing Collections Location: Nicolet A & B Chair: Leah A. Stricker, Preservation Virginia/Jamestown Rediscovery The State of the Jamestown Collection, Five Years On 1:45pm - 2:00pm Getting the Bandoliers Back Together: Establishing a Reference Collection 2:00pm - 2:15pm Building A Clothing-Related Study Collection at Historic St. Mary's City 2:15pm - 2:30pm The Rehabilitation of the Boise Chinatown Collection 2:30pm - 2:45pm Legacy in Layers: Digging into the Pleasant Hill Shaker Village Collections |
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| 1:30pm - 4:00pm |
SYM-169T: Landscapes of Movement: Research Contributions from the Northeastern U.S. Location: Cabot Chair: Holly Herbster, The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. 15min intro + 15min presentation Cultural Mobility on Martha’s Vineyard 2:00pm - 2:15pm From Duxbury to the Lebanon Crank and Beyond: Migrations of the Sprague Family on New England’s 18th-Century Frontier 2:15pm - 2:30pm “...whatsoever growes well in England, growes as well there”: A Comparison of Macrobotanical Assemblages from Colonial English Sites in New England 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break 300+ Years at the Dorothy Quincy Homestead: New Excavations at the 1635 Quincy Homestead Site in Quincy, Massachusetts 3:00pm - 3:15pm Buildings, Window Glass, and Glassmakers on the Move in Colonial New Jersey 3:15pm - 3:30pm The Institutional Pinelands: Insights from a New Jersey Assemblage 3:30pm - 4:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Work Hard, Play Hard: Life at the Pike Hill Mine in the late 19th Century |
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| 1:30pm - 4:15pm |
POS-02 (T/UW): People in Motion Location: Renaissance Foyer Excavation of a WWII-Era Outhouse Along the Alaska Highway The Alaska Highway Archaeological Project Food Scarcity during the Harsh Winter for the 97th Regiment Geospatial Analysis of the TNX-00252 Historic District Adventures in Archival Photography, Remote Sensing and African American Historical Archaeology of a WWII Military Cantonment in Alaska Exploring the History of Colonialism and Plant Utilization: An Analysis of Botanical Remains Collected from the Chena Townsite From Pan to Table: Salt Supply and Imperial Control in the South Indian Interior, 1870-1940 Taking Archaeology To Tusk: Towards An Archaeology Of The Historical Ivory Trade Challenging Narratives: Women's Diverse Roles Aboard Sailing Vessels During the Age of Sail |
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| 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
FOR-111T: Traversing Michigan’s Historical Archaeology: Places and Stories That Matter in the American Experience, Part 2 Location: Ontario West Chair: Dean L. Anderson, State Archaeologist for Michigan (Retired) Traversing Michigan’s Historical Archaeology: Places and Stories That Matter in the American Experience, Part 2 |
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| 1:30pm - 4:45pm |
SYM-192U: Stories from the Shelves: Novel Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes Location: Mackinac East Chair: Eric Rodriguez-Delgado, UC San Diego Chair: Loren R. Clark, Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology Of Sediment and Surge: a Multi-Proxy Reconstruction for Tropical Cyclone Activity on the North Coast of Puerto Rico 1:45pm - 2:00pm Reading Between the Lines and Through the Water : The Application of Ground Penetrating Radar for Determining Sedimentation in the Submerged Cave Entrances of Quintana Roo, Mexico 2:00pm - 2:15pm The Pink Robot: How Underwater Archaeology can Support Middle and High School Student Engineers 2:15pm - 2:30pm Bouldnor Cliff: Refuge in the North, Key to the South 2:30pm - 2:45pm Stratigraphic Evidence of the Construction and Degradation of King Herod the Great’s Harbor at Caesarea Maritima, Israel Using Epiphytic Foraminifera (Pararotalia calcariformata) and the Elemental Geochemistry of Sediments ED-μXRF (Itrax) 2:45pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 15min break Tracking Human–Fish Interactions through Local Paleoecological Proxies: Otolith Records from the Taiwan Strait 3:15pm - 3:30pm Paleolimnological Reconstruction of Late Holocene Hydroclimate in the Bahamian Archipelago via X-Ray Fluorescence: A Paleoclimate Perspective on Archaeological Evidence 3:30pm - 4:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break Simulating Human and Megafauna Movement through the Now-Submerged Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Caves of Quintana Roo, Mexico 4:00pm - 4:15pm Introducing the Classics to a New Audience: Novel and (mostly) Familiar Approaches in Submerged Landscapes Studies 4:15pm - 4:30pm Diving Deeper for the Truth: A Decade of the Slave Wrecks Project 4:30pm - 4:45pm Life on the Edge: Advances in the Methodology and Theory of Submerged Landscapes |
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SYM-119U: Recent Findings in Maritime and Terrestrial Archaeology of WWII in the Pacific Location: Mackinac West Chair: Lucas S. Simonds, International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc. Chair: Matthew F. Napolitano, International Archaeology Discussant: Jennifer McKinnon, East Carolina University Up the Forward Slope: Mapping the Battlefield Landscape of Bundschu Ridge, War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Asan Unit, Guam 1:45pm - 2:00pm Penetrating the Canopy: Optimizing UAV-Based Lidar for WWII Battlefield Archaeology in Heavily Vegetated Terrain 2:00pm - 2:15pm The Battlefield Archaeology of Guadalcanal: the First U.S. Land Campaign of World War II 2:15pm - 2:30pm The WWII Amphibious Assault: A Case Study from Peleliu 2:30pm - 2:45pm Ship to Shore: A KOCOA Analysis of Saipan’s WWII Pacific Amphibious Landing Zone 2:45pm - 3:15pm 15min presentation + 15min break Archaeological and Historic Landscape Surveys of Orote Field, Naval Base Guam 3:15pm - 3:30pm Uncharted Obstacles: Underwater Debris Fields and the Challenges of Aircraft Identification Near Former WWII Bases 3:30pm - 3:45pm Echoes from the Loch: Underwater Archaeology at JBPHH’s WWII Sites 3:45pm - 4:00pm Underwater Archaeological Evidence of World War II Activities in Apra Harbor, Guam 4:00pm - 4:15pm Searching for a Japanese Artillery Position on Saipan 4:15pm - 4:30pm The Archaeology of Civilian Loss and Tragedy during WWII in the Mariana Island of Micronesia 4:30pm - 5:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Remnants of War: Using a Warfare Ecological Approach to Understand Effects of the Battle for Saipan on the Local Community |
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SYM-369T: Unearthing Craft and Customs Embedded in Clay: The Archaeology of Locally Made Coarse Earthenwares Location: Cartier Chair: Elizabeth A. Bollwerk, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Chair: Jillian E. Galle, None Exploring Early Models of Colonial Ceramic Consumerism in Virginia 1:45pm - 2:00pm Preliminary Results Of Digital Imaging Methods Applied To 18th- And 19th-Century Southeastern Colonoware 2:00pm - 2:15pm Characterizing Diversity and Temporal Change in Late 17th and Early 18th century Enslaved Household Pottery Assemblages from the Carolina Lowcountry 2:15pm - 2:30pm Identifying Enslaved Southeastern Native American Potters in the Caribbean 2:30pm - 2:45pm Colonowares in the South Carolina Backcountry: A (Preliminary) New Look at the Low-Fired Coarse Earthenwares from John de la Howe’s Lethe Farm 2:45pm - 3:00pm Assessment of a Colonoware Assemblage at a Mid-18th Century Farm Quarter Site in Northern Virginia 3:00pm - 3:30pm 15min presentation + 15min break Invisible Potters, Visible Signatures: Tracing Colonoware Production Communities Through Elemental and Attribute Analysis 3:30pm - 3:45pm Revisiting Coarse Earthenwares from Galways Plantation, Montserrat 3:45pm - 4:00pm Jamaican Coarse Earthenware I: Evidence for Market Production and Exchange from NAA and LA-ICP-MS 4:00pm - 4:15pm Jamaican Coarse Earthenware II: Identification of Diagnostic Attributes Related to Local Production and Vessel Function 4:15pm - 4:30pm An Archaeological Retrospective on Nevisian Coarse Earthenware 4:30pm - 4:45pm Colono Vessels From A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Manhattan Site 4:45pm - 5:15pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Clay, Custom, and Choice: A Comparison of Lowcountry Colonoware and Catawba Pottery from South Carolina |
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| 1:30pm - 5:30pm |
FOR-313T: Atlantic Pasts, Caribbean Futures: Honoring the Scholarship, Mentorship and Service of Doug Armstrong Location: Ontario East Chair: Matthew Reilly, City College of New York Chair: Mark Hauser, Northwestern University Chair: Laurie Wilkie, University of California Berkeley Atlantic Pasts, CaribbeanFutures: Honoring the Scholarship, Mentorship and Service of Doug Armstrong |
SYM-110T: Hearts in Transit: Emotional Journeys in Historical Archaeology Location: Cadillac A & B Chair: Tania Casimiro, University of Stirling Chair: Susana Pacheco, CFE-HTC NOVA University of Lisbon “New comers to a strange and sickly country”: Colonial Missionaries and Mobility in West Africa 1:45pm - 2:00pm Pensacola by Force and by Choice: Understanding the Movement of Enslaved People to Pensacola in Early 19th Century 2:00pm - 2:15pm One House, Three Foundations, Four Towns: Repatriating the Wentworth House 2:15pm - 2:30pm Lost at Sea, Mourning at Home: The Materiality of Absence in Fishermen Communities 2:30pm - 3:00pm 15min presentation + 15min break Othered in Transit: Emotional Displacement in Portuguese Colonial Exhibitions 3:00pm - 3:15pm “As Famous in New Orleans as the Mardi Gras”: A Taste of the Crescent City in the Highland Mountains 3:15pm - 3:30pm Finding Home, Building Community, Seeking Self: Archaeological Explorations of Queer and Trans Journeying 3:30pm - 3:45pm Migration, Identity, & Emotion at the Mission of Saint Joseph (Senegal) 3:45pm - 4:00pm “Strike a blow for Congress!”: Exploring Emotions in the Battle of Ridgefield 4:00pm - 4:15pm Remapping Belonging: Memory, Movement, and the Material Afterlives of the Portuguese Estado da Índia 4:15pm - 4:30pm Mapping the 1711 Walker Fleet: Bringing Back Multivocal Perspectives on the Wrecking Event 4:30pm - 4:45pm Wigs in the Wilds: Germanna, Westward Expansion and Memory of an Evolving Emotional “Expedition” 4:45pm - 5:00pm Emotions, Space, and the Female Experience: Three Lives in Historical Archaeology (1880–1920) 5:00pm - 5:15pm Understanding the Emotion of Displacement, Movement, and Abandonment in Southern Italy through Archaeology and Photography 5:15pm - 5:30pm The Schvitz’s Hidden Mikveh: Tracing Jewish Communal Spaces in 20th-Century Detroit |
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| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENT-2: Past Presidents Student Reception Location: 42 Degrees North Time: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
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| 6:00pm - 9:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENT-3: The “Streets of Old Detroit” Reception at the Detroit Historical Museum Location: Detroit Historical Museum Location: 5401 Woodward Ave, Detroit |
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