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Beyond Apocalypse: Imagining Climate Futures

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

In this virtual lecture, Professor Ursula Heise (UCLA) will explore recent climate change narratives from different parts of the world – including North America, South America, and South East Asia – and the ways in which they negotiate the tension between large-scale disasters and the new normalcy of everyday life under conditions of climate change.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities
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Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and the Idea of Race

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou (College of the Holy Cross) examines Kant’s discussion of enslavement and colonialism in his essay, “Toward Perpetual Peace” (1795). Clark University's Cara Berg Powers offers commentary.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Visiting Artist: Anne H. Berry

Anne H. Berry is a writer, designer, and associate professor in the Department of Art and Design at Cleveland State University. Her research focuses on race and representation and ethnic and racial disparities within the field of graphic design.

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The City Without Jews: Film Screening with Live Music

Set in the Vienna-like city of Utopia, H. K. Breslauer’s 1924 silent film “The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden),” based on Hugo Bettauer’s 1922 satirical novel, follows the political and personal consequences of an anti-Semitic law expelling the city’s Jews.

Geller Jazz Series: SUBA Trio — Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita, featuring Gustavo Ovalles

A unique fusion, SUBA is a collaboration of Cuban-born jazz piano virtuoso Omar Sosa and Senegalese kora (21-string harp lute) master Seckou Keita that brilliantly embraces jazz, Latin and African influences, and reflects the close and compassionate listening of artists engaged in a captivating musical conversation.

Geller Jazz Series: Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums Screening

“Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums,” is a new feature-length documentary on the life and music of Cuban-born pianist and composer, Omar Sosa. This screening will be followed with a Q&A session with filmmaker and Clark Professo Soren Sorensen and Sosa as well as Senegalese kora master Seckou Keita, and manager Scott Price.

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‘The Ethicist’ Kwame Anthony Appiah presents ‘Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers’

Clark University, Traina Center for the Arts 92 Downing Street, Worcester, MA, United States

How is it possible to consider the world a moral community when there is so much disagreement about the nature of morality? Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Ethicist" for New York Times Magazine, discusses a new approach to living a moral life in the modern age.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Worcester Youth Poet Laureate Adael Mejia

Poetry Reading and Discussion with Adael Mejía, Worcester’s Youth Poet Laureate

Fireside Lounge, Dana Commons at Clark University 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Adael “Ace” Mejía, Worcester's Youth Poet Laureate — a multifaceted artist, youth worker, and performer of Ecuadorean heritage — will give a poetry reading and participate in a moderated discussion.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities