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SUMMARY:Presidential Lecture and Conversation: What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Free Speech?
DESCRIPTION:Tony Banout\, the inaugural executive director of the University of Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression\, will deliver the 2025 Presidential Lecture. \n\n\n\n\nwatch livestream\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTony Banout earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School\, where he was a Martin Marty Center Junior Fellow and Provost Dissertation Fellow. His career has spanned leadership in social sector organizations including healthcare and community organizing\, as well as academia. For over a decade\, he served as the senior vice president for Interfaith America\, guiding a national civic organization in the development of strategies and programs devoted to democratic discourse and civil conversation across deep difference. He has spoken and published widely on free expression\, constructive engagement of difference\, and the civic relevance of religious diversity. An advocate for ideological diversity and inclusion in academia\, Banout serves as a board member of the Heterodox Academy.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/presidential-lecture-and-conversation-what-are-we-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-free-speech/
LOCATION:Higgins University Center\, Tilton Hall
CATEGORIES:Academic,Education/Social Sciences
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SUMMARY:GSG Colloquium Series: Dr. Gillian Galford
DESCRIPTION:Shifting Frontiers: Land-Use Transitions and Agricultural Intensification in Brazil’s Cerrado\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGillian Galford\n\n\n\nResearch Associate Professor\, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources; Fellow of the Gund Institute for the Environment at the University of Vermont \n\n\n\nBrazil’s Cerrado\, the world’s most biodiverse savanna\, is being rapidly transformed by agriculture and global markets. In this talk\, Dr. Gillian Galford draws on geospatial and remote sensing analyses combined with geopolitical and socioeconomic perspectives to show how deforestation—primarily for pasture—often precedes cropland development. Shifts in crop rotations reveal both intensifying land use and expanding agricultural frontiers\, while global trade demand accelerates these changes. Together\, these dynamics illuminate the powerful forces reshaping one of Earth’s most critical ecosystems.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/gsg-colloquium-series-dr-gillian-galford/
LOCATION:Grace Conference Room\, Higgins University Center
CATEGORIES:Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T120000
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SUMMARY:GSG Colloquium Series: Julianne Baroody
DESCRIPTION:Senior Director\, Certification at Verra \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nREDD+ and the Voluntary Carbon Market\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDeforestation currently contributes 12 to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions\, and addressing it is critical to mitigating climate change. Julie will address the carbon crediting paradigm for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). Her organization\, Verra\, is a mission-driven nonprofit organization that uses standards\, among them the Verified Carbon Standard\, to drive finance to projects that credibly and transparently advance environmental change across the globe. Over the past few years\, Verra has worked with the Clark Center for Geospatial Analytics on developing jurisdictional risk maps and the allocation model for our pioneering REDD methodology. 
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/gsg-colloquium-series-julianne-baroody/
LOCATION:Grace Conference Room\, Higgins University Center
CATEGORIES:Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T120000
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SUMMARY:Economics Department Seminar: Balázs Zélity (Wesleyan University)
DESCRIPTION:Date: October 16\, 2025\, 12 – 1:30 pm \n\n\n\nRoom: JC118 \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Balázs Zélity (Wesleyan University) \n\n\n\nTitle: Demographics and International Capital Flows: An Empirical Assessment \n\n\n\nAbstract: This paper empirically investigates whether shifts in demographic structure have an impact on cross-border capital flows. Country-level panel data with global coverage is utilised in fixed effects regressions. Demographic variables are instrumented by their predicted values\, which are calculated using a shift-share methodology. Local projections estimates complement the results with a dynamic perspective. The main finding is that there is a persistent positive relationship between a country’s mean age and its current and financial account balance — suggesting that population ageing increases net capital outflows. The mechanisms for this result are investigated by decomposing the current and financial accounts into their components as well as exploring what dimension of a country’s population age structure matter the most. \n\n\n\nContact: Kensuke Suzuki\, Assistant Professor of Economics\, KSuzuki@clarku.edu
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/economics-department-seminar-balazs-zelity-wesleyan-university/
LOCATION:JC 118
CATEGORIES:Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability
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SUMMARY:Economics Society Social Exchange
DESCRIPTION:The Economics Society\, a student-led organization that fosters a community for students interested in the study and application of economics\, will host the first social event for the academic year 2025-2026. This time\, we invite all introductory class students to meet and connect with older economics students: ask questions about pursuing a major in economics at Clark\, get course recommendations from other students\, and meet fellow students in economics classes! We provide free pizza and drinks!  \n\n\n\nYou do NOT need to be a declared economics major to participate. Any and all students in economics are welcome!
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/economics-society-social-exchange/
LOCATION:JC218
CATEGORIES:Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T130000
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SUMMARY:GSG Colloquium Series: Dr. Lise Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Associate Professor and Interim Director in the School of Geography\, Development and Environment at the University of Arizona \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIllegality and the transformation of low-wage labor regimes in the context of rural gentrification\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOver the last three decades\, domestic amenity or “lifestyle” migration has stimulated a process of rural gentrification across the United States\, shifting landscapes of production to landscapes of consumption—from Jackson Hole\, Wyoming to Highlands\, North Carolina. This talk draws on her recently published book\, Illegality and the Production of Affluence: Undocumented Labor and Gentrification in Rural America. In that project Dr. Nelson investigates an under-appreciated dimension of rural gentrification: the recruitment of low-wage\, mostly undocumented Latine immigrant workers essential to building and maintaining gentrifying landscapes and lifestyles. Dr. Nelson’s presentation focuses on the emergence and consolidation of immigrant-based labor regimes in two case study communities between the late 1990s and late 2000s\, Steamboat Springs\, CO and Rabun County\, GA\, drilling down into qualitative data that illustrate how and why employers in gentrification-linked sectors recruited what was an unfamiliar labor force in both places. Dr. Nelson traces how\, over time\, employers transformed their fundamental business model to reach new levels of profitability predicated on access to racially marked\, “illegal” workers. Finally\, Dr. Nelson discusses how these labor regimes shaped life and work for immigrant newcomers navigating rural landscapes of affluence. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nZoom information: \n\n\n\n──────────Marjorie Miller is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://clarku.zoom.us/j/91560508472Meeting ID: 915 6050 8472—One tap mobile+16468769923\,\,91560508472# US (New York)+16469313860\,\,91560508472# USJoin instructionshttps://clarku.zoom.us/meetings/91560508472/invitations?signature=9iaxC7t2Ys44va_XLiJl8zVcfx11naHQCbLZvGrk-rY
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/gsg-colloquium-series-dr-lise-nelson/
LOCATION:VIA ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T163000
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SUMMARY:The Constitution in Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Professor Aziz Rana will deliver the Constitution Day Lecture\, addressing the question: “What is the relationship between the constitutional system and today’s democratic backsliding\, including with respect to basic civil liberties?” The talk will explore the strengths and weaknesses of the Constitution\, highlighting its role in current legal crises as well as the costs of our still pervasive culture of constitutional veneration. \n\n\n\nProfessor Rana’s research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development. His first book\, The Two Faces of American Freedom (Harvard University Press)\, situates the American experience within the global history of colonialism\, examining the intertwined relationship in American constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power and expansion. His latest book\, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them (University of Chicago Press\, 2024)\, explores the modern emergence of constitutional veneration in the twentieth century — especially against the backdrop of growing American global authority — and how veneration has influenced the boundaries of popular politics. \n\n\n\nA prolific scholar and public intellectual\, Professor Rana is the author of numerous articles essays and op-eds for such venues such as The University of Chicago Law Review\, California Law Review\, UCLA Law Review\, Texas Law Review\, the Yale Law Journal Forum\, n+1\, Dissent\, The Boston Review\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\,  New Labor Forum\, Jacobin\, The Guardian\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Nation\, Jadaliyya\, Salon\, and The Law and Political Economy Blog.  \n\n\n\nDr. Rana received his A.B. from Harvard College summa cum laude and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He also earned a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University\, where his dissertation was awarded the University’s Charles Sumner Prize. \n\n\n\nRefreshments will be served\, and the event is open to the public. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Provost’s Office and the Political Science Department through the Francis A. Harrington Public Affairs Fund 
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-constitution-in-crisis/
LOCATION:Grace Conference Room\, Higgins University Center
CATEGORIES:Education/Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T120000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Speaker Series: Jason W. Moore
DESCRIPTION:Jason Moore\, an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University\, will present “Climate Revolts\, Climate Crises\, or\, Why Climate Doomism is Bad History\, Terrible Geography\, and Even Worse Politics.”
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/colloquium-speaker-series-jason-w-moore/
LOCATION:Lurie Conference Room\, Higgins University Center
CATEGORIES:Campus/Community,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T100000
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SUMMARY:Home and Belonging: The Predicament of Arriving and Returning
DESCRIPTION:Registration required: https://clarku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HLt5rOvMQh6eQAb7aoDiPw \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted by the Integration and Belonging Hub at Clark University. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr. John Nassari\, https://www.johnnassari.co.uk \n\n\n\nNassari is a forced migration scholar and an award-winning photographer\, author and filmmaker based in London. Nassari was a Senior Lecturer in Refugee Studies at the University of East London from 2007 to 2013 and served as Program Committee Chair for the 12th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference held in Nicosia\, Cyprus. His interests include refugee identity\, memory and narrative\, and the formation of refugee lives in visual practice. He has conducted extensive research on Cypriot refugees and has published numerous journal articles\, including ‘Postmemory blues: the predicament of arriving and returning\,’ which he will be discussing during this talk. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? Email the Integration and Belonging Hub (IBH@clarku.edu) or Anita Fábos (afabos@clarku.edu)
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/home-and-belonging-the-predicament-of-arriving-and-returning/
LOCATION:Virtual Event via Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Academic,Campus/Community,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Education/Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T143000
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SUMMARY:From History to Headlines: Trans Resilience in the Modern Rainbow Scare
DESCRIPTION:Erin Reed \nThis presentation traces the evolution of transgender identity from ancient examples through the rise of modern trans figures\, highlighting shifts in cultural perception\, visibility\, and representation. It examines ongoing developments in transgender healthcare\, from updated treatment guidelines to changes in how care is accessed\, and outlines the growing legislative challenges aimed at transgender communities. Finally\, it offers concrete steps for individuals to become better allies\, advocates\, and informed observers amidst a rapidly shifting social and legal landscape. \nErin Reed (she/her) is a transgender journalist based in Washington\, D.C.  She tracks LGBTQ+ legislation around the United States for her subscription newsletter\, ErinInTheMorning.com. Her work has been cited by the AP\, Reuters\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and many more major media outlets.  You can follow her on X: @ErinInTheMorn. \nDownload flyer
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/from-history-to-headlines-trans-resilience-in-the-modern-rainbow-scare/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Academic,Campus/Community,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Education/Social Sciences,Health/Wellness,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T143000
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SUMMARY:The Embodied and Affective Language of Self-Immolation as Political Protest
DESCRIPTION:Sara Hassani \nThis talk by Sara Hassani\, professor of political science at Providence College\, examines the political significance of self-immolation among women and girls in Iran\, Afghanistan\, Tajikistan\, and Uzbekistan.  Through extensive interviews with survivors\, healthcare workers\, civil society\, and community members\, the analysis challenges dominant Western liberal frameworks that limit recognition of political self-destruction to acts performed at government building or accompanied by manifestos and collective movements.  These self-immolations – frequently mischaracterized as mere psychopathology – emerge as an embodied and affective language of protest against state-sanctioned gender-based violence\, oppression\, and coercive control.  The acts function symbolically to expose injustice\, shame perpetrators\, articulate resistance\, and foster solidarity through shared cultural understanding.  In so doing\, they call for a broader re-imagining of the role of embodied strategies\, symbolisms\, and affect in their relationship to contentious politics.  \nSara Hassani completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at The New School for Social Research where she was a Prize and ACLS/Mellon Fellow. Her work in political theory explores themes of political violence\, state\, policing\, and resistance.  She is currently working on a manuscript based on her APSA award-winning dissertation\, which examines the elevated rate of self-immolation among young women in Afghanistan\, Iran\, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Grounded in historical research and interviews with survivors and their caretakers and communities\, it sheds light on the multidimensional operation of police power enacted on women’s bodies and the unconventional political agency they exercise under and against that police power. \nDownload flyer
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/sara-hassani-presents-the-embodied-and-affective-language-of-self-immolation-as-political-protest/
LOCATION:Grace and Lurie Conference Rooms\, University Center\, Clark University
CATEGORIES:Academic,Education/Social Sciences,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T130000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Speaker Series: Darla Munroe
DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for more details!\nDarla Monroe
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/colloquium-speaker-series-darla-munroe/
LOCATION:Lurie Conference Room\, Higgins University Center
CATEGORIES:Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T193754
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SUMMARY:Language Exchange Partner Meet Up
DESCRIPTION:Please join us or our opening Language Exchange Partner event of the spring 2025 semester! \nCome and meet fellow Clark students and staff who are interested in learning and practicing a new language. We will engage in some multilingual conversation games and go over some strategies on how to be a good language partner. While it is preferred that you come with your language partner (this makes it easier to practice the language you want to learn)\, all are welcome. \nWe hope that you fill out a brief survey before you come to help us better match you to people with your language interests.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/language-exchange-partner-meet-up/
LOCATION:ALCI Lounge\, Jonas Clark 208
CATEGORIES:Campus/Community,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Education/Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T193754
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Speaker Series: Abbie Tingstad
DESCRIPTION:Many Arctics: What Does it Look Like and Why Is it Important for the Future of Governance in the Far North?\n\nThe Arctic is transforming in dramatic and complex ways through a myriad of pressures related to changes in climate\, social trends and demographic patterns\, economic opportunities\, geopolitics\, and technology. Although many discussions surrounding the Arctic’s future rightly focus on climate change\, the concept of “many Arctics” – or the inherent diversity within the Arctic region – reminds us that multiple factors and drivers of change shape different areas in the north in different ways. This diversity is something to be celebrated in cultural and other contexts\, but it can also create challenges for local communities and policymakers alike in navigating intense changes and resolving the many visions of the region’s future that exist among rights- and stake-holders. \nThis lecture will focus on aspects of ongoing research titled “Converging Pressures on Arctic Development” that is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic program. It will highlight geographical and geospatial research focused on characterizing the current and potential future human footprints in the region as a basis for exploring alternative scenarios for how today’s many Arctics might look by 2050. It will also present the results of a recently published paper examining diverging scenarios of socio-economic change. Despite the fact that the Arctic has been highlighted as an important area of dialogue and cooperation for decades\, this research suggests that finding common priorities – despite being more important than ever – may become even more difficult in the future.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/colloquium-speaker-series-abbie-tingstad/
LOCATION:Grace Conference Room\, Higgins University Center
CATEGORIES:Academic,Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241204T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241204T143000
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SUMMARY:Palestinian Feminism in the Time of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Loubna Qutami \nLoubna Qutami is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and currently a visiting postdoctoral research associate in Palestinian Studies at Brown University.  Qutami’s research examines transnational Palestinian youth movements after the 1993 Oslo Accords through the present. Her work is based on scholar-activist ethnographic research methods. Qutami is currently a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC).
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/palestinian-feminism-in-the-time-of-genocide-2/
LOCATION:Dana Commons – Fireside Lounge
CATEGORIES:Academic,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Education/Social Sciences,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T190000
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SUMMARY:Wallace W. Atwood Lecture: Mercedes Bustamante\, University of Brasilia
DESCRIPTION:Mercedes Bustamante\, ecologist and professor at the University of Brasilia\, Brazil\,  will deliver the annual Wallace W. Atwood Lecture. \nBeyond forests: non-forested ecosystems and global change\n \nNon-forested ecosystems dominate more than a quarter of the world’s land area. They are widespread in the tropics\, making up grasslands and savannas\, presenting significant carbon stocks and biodiversity. While important initiatives are concerned with the conservation of forest ecosystems\, non-forest ecosystems (NFE)\, in contrast\, have not received equal attention. The Brazilian Cerrado\, the second largest biome in South America and a global hotspot for biodiversity conservation due to its biological richness and rapid loss of habitats\, represents some of the most fundamental challenges of current global crises. Despite the successful reversal of deforestation trends in the Amazon\, Cerrado deforestation continues to increase\, imperiling a biome that has already lost more than 50% of its original cover. Environmental changes may exacerbate land-use competition due to complex feedback processes between human and biophysical components in the land system\, with more severe impacts seen in the tropics due to their more significant land-based mitigation potential. Such complexity highlights how careful spatial planning\, robust scientific evidence\, and a better understanding of the political context are essential for sustainable climate policies. The achievement of the Paris Agreement requires more robust and more ambitious climate action with emphasis on the integrity of all ecosystems and the protection of biodiversity\, as climate change\, biodiversity\, and ecosystems are inextricably linked. \nhttps://bustamantelab.com.br/en/mercedes-bustamante-2/
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/wallace-w-atwood-lecture-mercedes-bustamante-university-of-brasilia/
LOCATION:Clark University – Tilton Hall\, 950 Main Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Campus/Community,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241119T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241119T150000
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CREATED:20241031T012443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250119T041518Z
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SUMMARY:Governing China's Global Diaspora: Consent & Coercion
DESCRIPTION:Diana Fu \nHow does global China as a power project manifest itself in governing the diaspora abroad? How and why has China’s use of coercive power abroad—in particular\, transnational repression—increased under Xi? How has the party-state wielded coercive power alongside a wider toolkit of control against diaspora populations outside of its borders? And what makes China’s playbook of control distinctive compared to other authoritarian and illiberal states? This talk will present a comparative analysis of what\, if anything\, distinguishes the Chinese party-state’s governance of its global diaspora. \nDiana Fu is associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto and a fellow at Brookings Institution\, the Wilson Center\, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Her research examines popular contention\, repression\, civil society\, and authoritarian citizenship in contemporary China.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/governing-chinas-global-diaspora-consent-coercion/
LOCATION:Dana Commons – Fireside Lounge
CATEGORIES:Academic,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Education/Social Sciences,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T193754
CREATED:20241022T184006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T184006Z
UID:10000415-1730376000-1730379600@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Election 2024: A Conversation with the Political Science Department
DESCRIPTION:Join Clark’s Political Science Department for a chance to look past the punditry and understand how scholars are analyzing the 2024 presidential election. Faculty will interpret the widespread debates over gender\, immigration\, climate change\, civil rights\, and more. We’ll also discuss the election’s global implications\, from Latin America to Asia to the Middle East and beyond. \nPrice of Admission: One question (or more) that you’ve been wanting and waiting to ask about the election. \nHalloween candy will be provided!  \nThis event is supported by the Francis A. Harrington Public Affairs Fund
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/election-2024-a-conversation-with-the-political-science-department/
LOCATION:Jefferson 320
CATEGORIES:Campus/Community,Education/Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241002T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241002T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T193754
CREATED:20240830T170759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T201029Z
UID:10000181-1727895600-1727902800@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Azad: A live storytelling performance
DESCRIPTION:A woman’s magical\, multi-generational\, healing journey from the Armenian Genocide to the Syrian war in the tradition of Hakawati storytelling.\n\nAzad (“free” in Armenian\, Farsi\, and Kurdish) is a kaleidoscopic story within a story within a story\, centered on a storyteller’s discovery of her great-great-grandfather’s shadow puppets in Aleppo during the Syrian war.\n\nReception to follow.\n\nThis event is made possible through a grant from the Simonian Charitable Trust\n\nSponsored by the Armenian Church of Our Saviour and the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/azad-storytelling-a-live-storytelling-performance-3/
CATEGORIES:Arts/Music/Film,Campus/Community,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Education/Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T173000
DTSTAMP:20260428T193754
CREATED:20240829T203910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250119T035651Z
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SUMMARY:Constitution Day Lecture: ‘The Presidents and the People’
DESCRIPTION:Corey Brettschneider\, professor at Brown University and author of “The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It\,” will present the 2024 Constitution Day Lecture. \nThis talk is sponsored by the Political Science Department and the Office of the Provost through the Francis A. Harrington Public Affairs Fund. \nCorey Brettschneider \nCorey Brettschneider is a professor at Brown University\, where he teaches constitutional law and politics. He also authored “The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents\,” “When the State Speaks\, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality\,” and “Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government.” He is the editor of the Penguin/Random House “Penguin Liberty” series and the author of numerous articles in top political science journals and law reviews\, including the American Political Science Review\, Political Theory\, and The Texas Law Review. His constitutional law casebook is widely used in classrooms throughout the United States. Brettschneider’s writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The New York Times\, Politico\, and The Washington Post. He holds a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/constitution-day-lecture-the-presidents-and-the-people/
CATEGORIES:Education/Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240906T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240906T173000
DTSTAMP:20260428T193754
CREATED:20240904T224120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250119T035710Z
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SUMMARY:Defending Rights in an Era of Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Extractives@Clark presents lessons from frontline activists in East and Southern Africa\, the Amazon\, and the American South. \nAndrew Bogrand\, senior policy advisor for natural resource justice at Oxfam America\, where he focuses on civic space\, inequality\, and corruption. He is a policy advocate and strategic communicator who supports organizations and communities fighting for natural resource justice and human rights. Bogrand has managed high-impact global campaigns\, secured the release of detained activists\, and managed programs and fundraising efforts for leading NGOs. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post\, Truthout\, and Mongabay\, among other outlets. He holds a master’s from Stanford University and a bachelor’s from Claremont McKenna College.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/defending-rights-in-an-era-of-climate-crisis/
CATEGORIES:Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230809T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230809T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T193754
CREATED:20230724T171617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250407T202929Z
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SUMMARY:The Belonging Talks: Sandra Grudić\, ‘The Messiness of Belonging’
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another installment of the Integration and Belonging Hub Webinar Series. \nSandra Grudić ponders the messiness of belonging\, drawing upon her refugee — and non-refugee — experiences.\n\n\n\nSandra Grudić was born in Bosnia and Hercegovina\, where she lived until she was thirteen years old. Due to the ethnic war and genocide in her home country\, Sandra and her family had to flee their hometown in 1993 and became refugees — first in Germany\, then in the United States. Barely a teen when she became a refugee\, Sandra learned German and English quickly and soon entered higher education. She attained her bachelor’s in secondary social science education from the University of South Florida\, and her master’s in comparative political science from the American Public University. Currently\, Sandra is a doctoral candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Her dissertation is a microstudy of neighborliness and neighborhood violence in Bosanski Novi\, a small border town in northwestern Bosnia\, during the Bosnian conflict\, 1992–1995.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-belonging-talks-sandra-grudic-the-messiness-of-belonging/
CATEGORIES:Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability,Health/Wellness,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T193754
CREATED:20221014T174427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250407T201348Z
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SUMMARY:Exploring/Recording Stories of Survival: Gatumba Survivors Project
DESCRIPTION:Exploring/Recording Stories of Survival: Gatumba Survivors Project\nWith Professor Chris Davey and guest\, Espoir Nindeba\n\nExplore Professor Davey’s Open Digital Project at https://commons.clarku.edu/gatumba/\n\nOn Aug. 13\, 2004\, 166 people were massacred\, and around a hundred were injured\, at a UN refugee camp near Gatumba\, Burundi. Most of the victims were members of the Banyamulenge community — a Congolese Tutsi ethnic group — fleeing outbreaks of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Banyamulenge refugees were deliberately targeted by the Forces Nationales de Libération (FNL)\, a Hutu supremacist rebel group fighting in Burundi’s civil war. During the massacre\, hundreds of FNL fighters beat drums and sang Christian hymns as they shot\, stabbed\, and burned refugees. The next day\, an FNL spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack.\n\nDespite investigations by the UN and Human Rights Watch confirming the involvement of the FNL and its then-leader Agathon Rwasa\, the justice system stalled for political reasons. Most survivors of Gatumba have resettled from Burundi as refugees in the US\, UK\, Rwanda\, Kenya\, and other countries.\n\nThe purpose of this archive is to preserve witnesses to this massacre and evidence its lifelong impact on survivors\, as well as document the lives of this refugee group.\n\nThis will be a hybrid event. https://clarku.zoom.us/j/98578069306\n\nProfessor Chris Davey is Charles E. Scheidt Visiting Assistant Professor of Genocide Studies and Genocide Prevention\, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.\n\nThe Goddard Library Open Project Series is an event series dedicated to highlighting open collections made available through Clark University’s Institutional Repository\, Digital Commons.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/exploring-recording-stories-of-survival-gatumba-survivors-project/
CATEGORIES:Campus/Community,Education/Social Sciences,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221004T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221004T153000
DTSTAMP:20260428T193754
CREATED:20220624T194255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220624T194255Z
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SUMMARY:American Politics 101
DESCRIPTION:Join the American Language and Culture Institute (ALCI) to learn more about American politics!
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/american-politics-101/
CATEGORIES:Education/Social Sciences,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T183000
DTSTAMP:20260428T193754
CREATED:20211027T070723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T153054Z
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SUMMARY:The Ecology of Genocide - Felipe Milanez
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Felipe Milanez\, Professor at the Institute for Humanities\, Arts and Sciences Professor Milton Santos and the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Culture and Society\, of the Federal University of Bahia\, Brazil \nThis presentation investigates the relationships between the physical destruction of humans and of nature in the Brazilian Amazon. It pays particular attention to the extreme situation of the remaining indigenous peoples in isolation. Historically\, the Amazon has given refuge to massacre survivors and provided the means to rebuild worlds destroyed in wars of conquest. The capture of territories and the control of resources are perennial engines of contemporary genocide perpetrated against indigenous and traditional communities in Brazil\, despite the fundamental rights established by the Federal Constitution of 1988\, a contradiction which has accelerated with the rise of fascist military authoritarianism and the disproportional effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on indigenous and traditional peoples. Resisting genocide and defending forests\, rivers and the ecology of life are deeply interconnected. \nWatch video of event \nSponsored by A new Earth conversation (NEC) and the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. \n 
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-ecology-of-genocide-felipe-milanez/
CATEGORIES:Academic,Campus/Community,Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability
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