The Detroit Observatory Seeing Anew Symposium is excited to offer three virtual panel sessions centered around the history and use of the University of Michigan's Detroit Observatory. Each panel will dive into different aspects of the observatory and capture its place in the past, present, and future of the University of Michigan. Links will be provided with registration.

Session 1, Noon: The Observatory and 19th-Century Science and Scholarship

Includes welcome from Dr. Gary Krenz, Director of the Detroit Observatory and Prof. Terry McDonald, Director of the Bentley Historical Library
Henry Cowles, Associate Professor of History
Gary Krenz, Director, Detroit Observatory
Terry McDonald, moderator, Director, Bentley Historical Library, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, and Professor of History