Curious Conversations Speaker Series: Michael J. Brown

Event Details

Conner Prairie invites you to tune in as it hosts Curious Conversations, a series of talks by experts on Indiana history, covering topics in the areas of natural science, history, folklore, and civics.

November’s program features Michael J. Brown, executive director of the Indiana Jewish Historical Society, who’ll discuss the history of Jewish communities in Indiana.

An Indiana native, Brown served as a medic in the U.S. Army National Guard and Reserve, where he received an honorable discharge. He studied Jewish history at the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he graduated. He then became the executive director of Hillel at Southern Illinois University. Later, he worked in several Israeli tech startups in business development and marketing. He’s currently the executive director of the Indiana Jewish Historical Society and hosts a podcast called IN Jewish History. He researches midwestern Jewish migration patterns and has studied the history of antisemitism in Indiana.

To register for the talk, click on the RSVP link above. The program takes place in Conner Prairie’s Prairie House, #42 on this map.

For more information about Curious Conversations, visit Conner Prairie’s website or call 317.776.6000.

This program received support from an Indiana Humanities Action Grant