Join the Higgins School of Humanities at Clark University for a screening of NUOC (Water) 2030 and a talk-back with the film's writer and director, Minh Nguyen-Vo. Stephen Levin, Associate Professor of English at Clark, will moderate the discussion.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
A symposium examining sexuality, human rights, Jews, gays, and their visualization in the context of German modernity will honor the late Professor Robert Deam Tobin and his vibrant contributions to scholarship and teaching.
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.
Dr. Alex Gil Fuentes (Yale University) and Dr. Eduard Arriaga-Arango (Clark University) will present a Clark faculty and staff workshop exploring Digital Humanities (DH) from a minimal computing perspective.
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.
