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SUMMARY:Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China
DESCRIPTION:What did the powerful men look like in Chinese history? How did they adorn their political image with power? Clark University professor Lex Lu (History) will explore these questions and more in a talk based on his recent book\, Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China (Cornell University Press\, 2024). Using rare archival materials from Beijing\, Shanghai\, and Nanjing\, he will examine textual and visual records of political imagery and recount behind-the-scenes maneuvering of image cultivation in Chinese politics. From Ming Prince Zhu Di’s usurpation to Mao Zedong’s iconic visual legacy\, Lu will illustrate the power\, influence\, and nuance behind ever-shifting standards of male beauty. \n\n\n\nA book signing will follow immediately after the discussion. Copies of Appearance Politics will be available for purchase. \n\n\n\nAdmission is free and open to the public.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nProfessor Lex Lu has taught classes on Chinese\, Japanese\, Korean\, Asian American\, and gender histories at Clark University since 2016. He is currently working on two research projects. One focuses on the history of aphrodisiacs in East Asia and its intricate relations with animal trade\, environment\, medicine\, and fertility\, which is funded by the Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities. Another is on the growth of affordable housing and the formation of modern building codes in the city of Shanghai at the turn of the 20th century. Lex is a registered General Contractor in the state of Rhode Island. He enjoys taking courses at trade school and is interested in construction of all sorts\, in particular\, residential construction. He plans to write a history book on affordable housing from a builder’s perspective. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nIn Appearance Politics\, Lex Lu argues that crafting an appealing and powerful outward image has long been a critical political tool in China. This strategy is evident in historical records\, imperial portraits\, physiognomic assessments\, photographs\, posters\, statues\, and digital images. Using rare archival materials from Beijing\, Shanghai\, and Nanjing\, Lu explores how political figures designed their images and examines the shifting standards of male beauty that shaped their choices. \n\n\n\nThe book analyzes five case studies: Ming Prince Zhu Di’s usurpation; the rise of Manchu masculinity and blended Han-Manchu beauty standards under Emperor Yongzheng; modern photography and Western beauty ideals in the early 20th century; Sun Yat-sen’s crafted image as the Republican founding father; and Mao Zedong’s iconic visual legacy.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/appearance-politics-legitimacy-building-in-late-imperial-and-modern-china/
LOCATION:Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons
CATEGORIES:Academic,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T200000
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SUMMARY:Concert: An Evening of Cosmic Lucifer
DESCRIPTION:Science fiction\, literature\, and experimental cinema collide in Cosmic Lucifer’s electrifying multidisciplinary presentation of “Blade Runner Reimagined” (in tribute to the composer Vangelis)\, “UBIK” (in tribute to author Philip K. Dick)\, “Alien” (in tribute to filmmaker Ridley Scott)\, and “Who Are We.” Composer and producer Robin Amos performs on a mix of analog and hybrid systems\, collected from his 50+ years as a pioneering synthesizer player. This performance includes a recorded collaboration with musician Blaik Ripton on analog and digital synthesizers. Glitch video artist Allison Tanenhaus specializes in trippy op art and anachronistic tech mashups. She creates the music’s dancerly\, larger-than-life visuals\, rich in psychedelic abstraction and unexpected dimensional qualities. \n\n\n\nAdmission is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Interactive Arts Collaborative through the Arts + Technology Program at Clark University \n\n\n\n\nGlitch video artist Allison Tanenhaus will discuss her unconventional creative path\, from typographic street art to experimental AI installations\, cat stickers to electronic music collaborations. Join us on April 16 at noon in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons. Click HERE for more details. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the PerformersCosmic Lucifer is an audio-visual collective rooted in dark wave\, film soundtracks\, and the Berlin School of electronic music. Founding member Robin Amos (Cul de Sac\, The Girls\, Infera Bruo\, Shut Up) melds custom sonic elements he crafts on his multi-decade synthesizer collection\, collaborating with electronic musicians Blaik Ripton and Dan Ciardi\, and guitarist Heath Finney. Digital artist Allison Tanenhaus creates the accompanying video segments\, casting an immersive\, multi-sensory spell.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/concert-an-evening-of-cosmic-lucifer/
LOCATION:Razzo Hall\, Traina Center for the Arts\, 92 Downing St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Humanities,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T133000
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SUMMARY:Breaking $#*% On Purpose
DESCRIPTION:Allison Tanenhaus\n\n\n\nGlitch video artist Allison Tanenhaus specializes in immersive op art\, anachronistic tech mashups\, and unexpected dimensional qualities. At a time when platforms pervasively cull personal data—and digital conformity is the norm—Tanenhaus views reclaiming devices\, embracing error\, and transforming shared environments as radical acts of autonomy\, mindfulness\, and community. Her earliest digital works were created via smartphone glitch apps; her recent work in AI seeks to similarly short-circuit machine-learning processes. She manipulates the software’s lean toward logic\, producing imagery and songs steeped in the saccharine\, saturated\, and surreal. In this talk\, Tanenhaus will share her unconventional creative path\, from typographic street art to experimental AI installations\, cat stickers to electronic music collaborations. \n\n\n\nAdmission is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Interactive Arts Collaborative through the Arts + Technology Program at Clark University \n\n\n\n\nScience fiction\, literature\, and experimental cinema collide in a concert by Cosmic Lucifer featuring psychedelic visuals by Allison Tanenhaus. Join us for this special event on April 16 at 7 p.m. in Razzo Hall. Click HERE for more details. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the SpeakerAllison Tanenhaus (she/her) is a New York–born\, Somerville–based glitch media artist. Using smartphone apps\, she glitches and restitches original photos and personal artifacts into vibrant otherworldly abstractions. Made with equal parts deliberation and experimentation\, the rainbow-hued mutations take on a psychedelic life of their own. Tanenhaus’ work has been showcased in 26 countries via exhibitions\, installations\, music videos\, live performances\, and guerrilla street art. Highlights include Boston Cyberarts\, Boston Museum of Science Planetarium\, and her traveling shows “GlitchKraft” and “Haus Party.”
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/breaking-on-purpose/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Humanities,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T133000
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SUMMARY:Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism
DESCRIPTION:Following the British conquest of Ottoman Palestine\, Jews across the British Empire—from Jerusalem to Johannesburg\, London to Calcutta—found themselves at the heart of global Jewish political discourse. As these intellectuals\, politicians\, activists\, and communal elites navigated shifting political landscapes\, some envisioned Palestine as a British dominion\, leveraging imperial power for Jewish state-building\, while others fostered ties with anticolonial movements\, contemplating independent national aspirations. In this talk\, Clark University professor Elizabeth Imber (History) explores the intricate interplay between British imperialism\, Zionism\, and anticolonial movements from the 1917 British conquest of Palestine to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. With context from her new book\, Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism (Stanford University Press\, 2025)\, Imber will show how the British Empire’s fate became central to Zionist and broader Jewish political thought during a time marked by profound urgency and exigency. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Higgins Faculty Series. Admission is free and open to the public\, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 11:45pm for refreshments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Imber is Associate Professor of History and the Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History at Clark University. Her work examines the cultural and political dimensions and intersections of Jewish history and European imperial history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book\, Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism (Stanford University Press\, 2025)\, explores the multifaceted nature of Jewish politics in the British Empire during the rise of anticolonial national and transnational political movements.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/uncertain-empire-jews-nationalism-and-the-fate-of-british-imperialism/
LOCATION:Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons
CATEGORIES:Academic,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T180000
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SUMMARY:Feeling and Knowing: An Uprooting of Things
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to feel things we know? How do we know what we feel? When do our emotions capture the truth\, and when do they deceive us? This Clark faculty roundtable will showcase lightning talks on the early modern roots of how we think about emotions today. It will examine how we can look to the past\, not for answers to our present realities but to offer new insights on who we have always been. Faculty will share snippets from their research about the ways emotions manifest to determine how we know ourselves and engage with each other.  \n\n\n\nFeatured speakers will include Lisa Kasmer (English)\, Justin Shaw (English)\, and Wiebke Deimling (Philosophy). Kathleen Palm Reed (Psychology) will offer commentary. Benjamin Korstvedt (Visual and Performing Arts) will moderate. \n\n\n\nThis event continues the Roots of Everything\, a lecture series sponsored by Early Modernists Unite (EMU)—a faculty collaborative bringing together scholars of medieval and early modern Europe and America—in conjunction with the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities. The series highlights various aspects of modern existence originating in the early modern world by connecting past and present knowledge. \n\n\n\nAdmission is free and open to the public.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/feeling-and-knowing-an-uprooting-of-things/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Health/Wellness,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T210000
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SUMMARY:Wallace W. Atwood Lecture: Mishuana Goeman\, University at Buffalo
DESCRIPTION:Mishuana Goeman\, Professor and Chair of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo and President of the American Studies Association\, will deliver the annual Wallace W. Atwood Lecture \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTreaty Art: The Visual Geographies of Expressive Citizenship\n\n\n\nThis talk explores the iconography of treaties in contemporary art practices in the context of one hundred years of the Indian Citizenship Act. The Act itself centers on the human and the closing of the co-constitutive power of the US and Canadian territorial sovereignty. The act attempts to domesticates Indians—and our lands– as citizens under the shroud of American Legal territorial sovereignty\, moving Indigenous lands to the purview of the secretary of the Interior in the US and under the patriarchy of the Indian Act in Canada. In contrast to this moment\, artists have long depicted an alternative vision of the relationship between belonging and land that exceeds settler borders and their colonial premises. I will examine examples of the reconfiguration of forms of territorial sovereignty through art practices that rethink land and relationships not only between landed points but also in relation to other humans and more-than-humans. How do contemporary art practices create not only a sense of belonging but also a sense of reciprocity and responsibility? How is a “sea to shining sea” affective regime of belonging disrupted by the visual impact of Indigenous artists who address colonization and forms of settler structures of belonging that are often gendered practices? What might we gain from examining public art and other built environments where the subtlety of assertion of treaty rights\, existing before the 1924 act\, is not so apparent to a North American public but is the iconography that creates a sense of belonging from those in reciprocal relationships with Indigenous Nations? How does expressive citizenship creatively refuse a hundred years of settler citizenship and disrupt colonial geographies based on patriarchal property logics? \n\n\n\nDr. Mishuana Goeman\, daughter through the patrilineal line of enrolled Tonawanda Band of Seneca\, Hawk Clan\, is a Professor and Chair of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo and President of the American Studies Association. Her monographs include Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (2013) and Settler Aesthetics: The Spectacle of Originary Moments in the New World (2023). She is also part of the feminist editorial collective for Keywords in Gender and Sexuality Studies (2021)\, which won the Choice Award in 2021\, and now is part of a Podcast series of the same name. Digital Projects where she is a co-pi include Carrying Our Ancestors Home (COAH\, 2019)\, Mukurtu California Native Hub (2020)\, and the Haudenosaunee Archival Research and Knowledge (Hark\, 2023)\, Mapping Indigenous L.A (2015-2024).
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/wallace-w-atwood-lecture-mishuana-goeman-university-at-buffalo/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Tilton Hall\, Higgins University Center – 2nd Floor\, 950 Main Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Campus/Community,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T130000
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SUMMARY:Geography Colloquium Series: Dr. Richard Harper
DESCRIPTION:Wood banks & Urban Forestry: Exploring the Relationship \n\n\n\nDr. Richard (Rick) Harper\n\n\n\nIn recent years\, wood banks have arisen to provide free firewood to fuel-poor households as means of offsetting winter heating costs. Wood banks also offer a number of community-based benefits including the potential to derive utility from excess urban wood generated through routine arboricultural practices\, like pruning & tree removals. Join Dr. Rick Harper (Univ. of Massachusetts\, Amherst) as he outlines the existence of known wood banks and explore the potential for continuing collaboration and research.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/geography-colloquium-series-dr-richard-harper-jay-dampier/
LOCATION:Lurie Conference Room\, Higgins University Center
CATEGORIES:Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
CREATED:20260112T174345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T161253Z
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SUMMARY:Geography Colloquium Series: Dr. Erica Smithwick
DESCRIPTION:Will the most damaging wildfire occur in the East?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2024 and 2025\, thousands of wildfires burned in novel settings across the East\, including unprecedented fires in populated regions like Long Island\, New York\, Massachusetts\, and the Carolinas.  While fires in the East have been considered rare\, intensifying drought combined with limited preparedness could portend significant vulnerabilities in the future.  Comparing wildfires in the West to wildland fire management in the East\, this talk will explore the environmental\, social\, and governance frontiers in understanding this region’s potential risk. \n\n\n\nDr. Erica Smithwick\, Distinguished Professor of Geography at Penn State\, is a landscape and ecosystem ecologist. She is the Director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute\, and Associate Director of the Institute of Energy and the Environment. Smithwick leads the Penn State Climate Consortium\, which brings together interdisciplinary researchers in partnership with society to develop climate solutions. Additionally\, she serves as program co-chair for Transdisciplinary Research on Environment and Society. Smithwick is also a former director of the Ecology Institute and the Center for Landscape Dynamics.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/geography-colloquium-series-dr-erica-smithwick/
LOCATION:Grace Conference Room\, Higgins University Center
CATEGORIES:Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T150000
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SUMMARY:Toby Sisson: ‘Bearing Witness’ Exhibition and Gallery Talk
DESCRIPTION:Toby Sisson. Jimmy’s Blue Sky. 2023\, Collage of Cut Paper\, Photograph\, Encaustic Monotype Prints\, An American Journey series\n\n\n\nJoin us for a lunchtime gallery talk to celebrate an exhibition by Clark University professor Toby Sisson that explores oral history from the Great Migration — the movement of 6 million Black people from the south to the north between 1910 and 1970. Sisson’s artwork is a visual meditation on her late father’s origin story in the Mississippi Delta and the family narrative constructed by its retelling. Composed as a series of collages that portray abstract truths in the absence of material proof\, these pieces from her An American Journey series counter silences within the historical record of Black America. Professor Asha Best will facilitate. \n\n\n\nAdmission to the gallery talk is free and open to the public. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 1:15 p.m. for refreshments. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition will be on display through December 5\, 2025\, but hours may vary. Please contact HigginsInstitute@clarku.edu for more information or to arrange a viewing.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/toby-sisson-bearing-witness-exhibition-and-gallery-talk/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
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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:20251028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T203000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
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SUMMARY:Oh! Horror! HallowZine
DESCRIPTION:Image by [Robin]/stock.adobe.com\n\n\n\nWe invite all Clarkies for a night of zine- and collage-making in celebration of Halloween. Channel Dr. Frankenstein and assemble something beautiful and new from the cut-up pieces of dead media (no grave-robbing necessary). Create a zine about the history of Halloween\, recant found memories of holidays-past\, review horror movies or The Monster Mash\, or design the most chilling zine all about gothic horror\, cryptozoology\, or anything else your heart can handle. Horrific creations are encouraged\, but not required. \n\n\n\nSpecial guest Katie Stebbins\, an expert zine maker and Digital Projects Librarian at the Goddard Library\, will provide a brief presentation and be available to offer insight to first-time zine makers! \n\n\n\nMaterials – old magazines\, glue sticks\, scissors\, markers – will be provided but crafters are welcome to bring their own supplies as well. Trick or treat at our candy buffet between slicing and dicing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdmission is free and open only to members of the Clark community. This event is sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/oh-horror-hallowzine-2/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Music/Film,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
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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: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:20250925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
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SUMMARY:Geography Colloquium Series: Dr. Timur Hammond
DESCRIPTION:The Transmitted Past: Toward a Rethinking of Geography\, Temporality\, and Community\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do we make a common world? This talk answers that question by focusing on the role that temporality plays in the making of both places and communities. Articulating a concept of the ‘transmitted past\,’ Timur Hammond\, associate professor in the Geography and Environment Department at Syracuse University\, argues that geographers ought to think of the past as what Annemarie Mol would term the ‘multiple.’ Such an approach helps us better understand the instruments through which we both know and construct the past; the possibility for different pasts to be spatially co-present and yet socially distinct; and the moments of friction and encounter when different places and their pasts breach one into the other. These insights\, Dr. Hammond suggests\, have broader implications for how geographers and others understand the politics and possibilities of the present moment.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/gsg-colloquium-series-dr-timur-hammond/
LOCATION:Grace Conference Room\, Higgins University Center
CATEGORIES:Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
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SUMMARY:International Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:In honor of April being National Poetry Month\, please join us for a night of multilingual performances of poetry\, short stories\, and songs. We invite all students\, staff\, and faculty to join us\, both in the audience and on the stage! It is our goal to have as many of the 88 languages on campus represented as we can. \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in reading a piece (either an original or by a published author)\, please send an email to ngareca@clarku.edu with the name of the piece\, the author\, and an English translation of the piece. Though the pieces are to be read in their original language\, the English translations are to be published so the audience can understand. We hope to see you there!
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/international-poetry-night-2/
LOCATION:The Grind\, Higgins University Center\, 950 Main Street\, Worcester\, 01610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Music/Film,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T143000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
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SUMMARY:Counternarratives: Repositioning the News
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Bell\n\n\n\nAlexandra Bell is an interdisciplinary artist who considers the ways media frameworks control how narratives involving Black communities are depicted and in turn disseminated under the aegis of journalistic “objectivity.” She accumulates news records\, mines editorial databases\, and restructures textually and visually produced narratives to control the elasticity of language and image. By physically outlining and revising editorial frameworks\, she attempts to wrestle media depictions from dominant institutions and impart the power of interpretation and definition to the collective public. \n\n\n\nShe is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award (2018)\, Catchlight Fellowship (2019)\, Soros Equality Fellowship (2019)\, Sarah Arison Artadia Award (2020)\, and a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University (2022). \n\n\n\nShe received her B.A. in Humanities from University of Chicago and an M.S. from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/counter-narratives-repositioning-the-news/
LOCATION:Higgins Lounge\, 2nd Floor\, Dana Commons\, Clark University
CATEGORIES:Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
CREATED:20241218T001508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T160043Z
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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:20250415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T171500
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
CREATED:20250217T233910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T135743Z
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SUMMARY:The Last of the Nightingales: Film Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Image courtesy of Colorfool Films \n  \nDiscussion facilitated by Clark University faculty Stephen DiRado\, Matt Malsky\, and Max Ritts \nIn the late 1960s\, Bernie Krause was a prolific composer and foley artist who pioneered synthesizers and worked with industry giants such as Francis Ford Coppola\, The Doors\, and The Rolling Stones. But after one chance encounter with the sounds of the wilderness\, he chose to change his career path\, setting out to gather wild field recordings to help battle the climate crisis using acoustic information. More than half a century later\, his vast archive of captured soundscapes reflects dire habitat devastation in the world and yields urgent stories about the need for immediate change. \nThe Last of the Nightingales\, directed by Masha Karpoukhina\, invites audiences to experience the rich acoustic beauty of the living world through Bernie’s ears\, exceptionally attuned over decades. More than half of the ecosystems recorded in his immense archive are now completely silent or will never be heard in their original voice again due to the profound effects of climate change on the stability\, biodiversity\, and resilience of virtually all ecosystems on Earth. As more and more soundscapes fall silent\, Bernie reminds us that it’s not too late to begin listening. \nAdmission to the screening is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be offered. \nSponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities and the Environmental Humanities Research Collaborative at Clark University
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-last-of-the-nightingales-film-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250408T170207Z
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SUMMARY:Introducing Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us as Clark University faculty member María Acosta Cruz (Language\, Literature\, and Culture) discusses her new book\, Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture. In it\, she examines Puerto Rico’s national culture through a complex web of references to the disasters that the nation has suffered and to how the environment has been portrayed. Sometimes Puerto Rican history\, literature and arts highlight the drama of hurricanes and earthquakes. But often\, the classics read in universities and gazed at in museums depict an Edenic garden of eternal spring. Since cultural depictions of the environment are never innocent and always have socio-political motivations\, Acosta Cruz’s ecocritical project explores Puerto Rico through its unique convergences of calamities: cyclonic location and ecological instability\, as well as continuous colonialism. \nAdmission is free and open to the public\, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 1:15pm for refreshments. \nSponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities and the Department of Language\, Literature\, and Culture at Clark University \nAbout the Speaker \nBorn and raised in Cabo Rojo\, Puerto Rico\, María Acosta Cruz received her degrees in Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is a Full Professor of Spanish at Clark University. She explores language and culture issues concerning ecocriticism\, nationhood\, gender constructions\, and Caribbean political and cultural history. Among her published works is Dream Nation: Puerto Rican Culture & the Fictions of Independence and the upcoming book Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/introducing-disaster-nation-an-ecocritical-study-of-puerto-rican-culture/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T163000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
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SUMMARY:Clark Field Trip to the Fitchburg Art Museum
DESCRIPTION:Stephen DiRado\, Better Together: Four Decades of PhotographsExhibit and Gallery Talk at Fitchburg Art Museum\n* Free bus transportation open to Clark students\, staff\, and faculty with a current Clark ID. * \nJoin us for a field trip in honor of Stephen DiRado’s career retrospective exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM). This show features 75 black-and-white photographs\, 1\,001 projected color images\, and three videos about the artist\, his life\, and his work process. During the visit\, you’ll have an opportunity to engage with Prof. DiRado through an interactive gallery talk and to explore the other offerings at FAM. \nFree bus transportation and museum admission are available to members of the Clark community – Clark IDs will be checked before boarding the bus and again at the museum entrance. Participants should meet at Atwood Hall (185 Woodland Street) at 11:45am\, so the bus can depart Clark promptly at noon. We will arrive back on campus by approximately 4:30pm that day. \nWant to ride the bus? Reserve your seat by March 24 at this link: https://bit.ly/ClarkFAM. \nWant to drive your own car? Register for free museum admission by contacting HigginsInstitute@clarku.edu. \nIf you have mobility needs or require special assistance\, please contact HigginsInstitute@clarku.edu or call (508) 793-7479. \n\nThis trip is sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities\, the Media\, Culture & the Arts program\, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts\, and the Studio Art program. Please join us in extending sincere thanks to the Fitchburg Art Museum and director Nick Capasso for their continued generosity to the Clark community.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/clark-field-trip-to-the-fitchburg-art-museum/
LOCATION:Fitchburg Art Museum\, 185 Elm Street\, Fitchburg\, MA\, 01420\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Music/Film,Humanities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T133000
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SUMMARY:Fishers\, Foragers and Fine Diners
DESCRIPTION:Ben Jamieson Stanley (they/them)\, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware\, will deliver an invited guest lecture at Clark University related to their recently published book: Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm. \nWhile “climate fiction” has become privileged in the Global North\, Global South representations more often trace environmental precarity to its roots in colonization and globalized capitalism. This talk situates fisheries and foraging as a point of entry to South Africa’s Western Cape\, where bustling culinary and environmental tourism coincide with hunger and stratification. Connecting Zakes Mda’s 2005 novel The Whale Caller to contemporary cookbooks and restaurants\, the talk follows the changing meanings of endangered mollusks such as abalone: from their role in indigenous foodways\, to the 1990s “abalone wars\,” and to the appropriation of “indigenous foods” in eco-gastronomic cuisine. \nAdmission is free and open to the public\, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 11:45 am for refreshments. \n\nBen Jamieson Stanley (they/them) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware\, where they are directing the launch of a new Center for Environmental Humanities. Ben’s research focuses on how we narrate and understand relationships among globalization\, empire\, and environmental precarity. Professor Stanley has also published on topics such as climate fiction\, veganism\, botanical gardens as tools of both empire and resistance\, and energy systems in Afrofuturist film. Their work can be found in journals such as ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment\, The Global South\, and Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society. Professor Stanley is working on a second book tentatively titled Mobilities: Movement and Energy in a Changing South Africa\, which brings together questions of energy transition\, gender and sexuality\, and transit justice. \n 
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/fishers-foragers-and-fine-diners/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor
CATEGORIES:Academic,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
CREATED:20250307T215030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T140005Z
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SUMMARY:Creating Immersive Multi-Person Responsive Environments
DESCRIPTION:Clark University is excited to share the interactive digital artwork of Clark alumni Bill Saiff ’81 and Lorne Covington ’81\, founders of NOIRFLUX. They will discuss their unique approach and experience in creating multi-person responsive environments for public art\, communication\, education\, research\, and entertainment. Audience members will have an opportunity to engage in a lively Q&A and technology demonstration as part of the presentation. \nThis event is part of a larger joint effort by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities\, the Becker School of Design and Technology\, and the Department of Visual and Performing Arts to help Clark University faculty integrate extended reality (XR) and virtual reality (VR) technology in their courses and other scholarly and artistic endeavors. \nAttendance is free and open to the public thanks to generous foundation support. No prior knowledge or expertise are required to participate and enjoy.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/creating-immersive-multi-person-responsive-environments/
LOCATION:Clark University Center for Media Arts\, Computing\, and Design – Mac Lab 404\, 950 Main Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Humanities,Science/Technology
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T143000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
CREATED:20250211T033117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T135645Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
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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:20250221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250221T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
CREATED:20250121T221549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250121T221549Z
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SUMMARY:Screening of the film Revenge
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with CUFSS\, relax\, eat some pizza and watch the Revenge (2017)\, directed by Coralie Fargeat (also of The Substance). This high contrast\, glitter horror-revenge film takes place in the high desert and is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat! This screening is part of the Women in Horror Month series of events.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/screening-of-the-film-revenge/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Arts/Music/Film,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
CREATED:20250121T220947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250121T220947Z
UID:10000719-1739973600-1739980800@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Women in Horror Month Student Panel
DESCRIPTION:The Women in Horror Month Student Panel showcases research and discussion on a variety of different horror topics ranging from gender and queer studies to film techniques. If you’re interested in learning more about the genre of horror\, or you’re already a fan\, join us for an afternoon of scholarly terror.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/women-in-horror-month-student-panel/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250219T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250219T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T080159
CREATED:20250129T214215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T135253Z
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SUMMARY:Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit
DESCRIPTION:A Clark Faculty Series Event\nPresented by\nElizabeth Blake\, PhD\nAssistant Professor of English\nClark University \nForbidden fruit has long been a convenient metaphor for illicit knowledge and sexuality\, a trope easily traced to the garden of Eden. Modernist poets deployed this familiar figure in new ways\, insisting on the fleshy materiality of fruit as a way of representing other forms of fleshly pleasure. In her recent book\, Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms\, Clark University professor Elizabeth Blake examines this phenomenon as part of a larger exploration of the ways queer consumption restructures modernist literary forms. In this talk\, Blake focuses on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and H. D.’s “Priapus” to discuss the way modernist poets disrupt lyric traditions by setting intertextuality and phenomenological referentiality in tension in order to explore queer experience. \nAdmission is free and open to the public\, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 1:15pm for refreshments. \nThis event is sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities and the Department of English at Clark University. \n\nAbout the Speaker \nProfessor Elizabeth Blake specializes in gender and sexuality studies\, food studies\, and global modernist literature. Her research focuses on the ways queer pleasure is represented in the literature of the early twentieth century\, and how those representations come to reshape existing literary forms. Her first book\, Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms\, demonstrates that scenes of eating in modernist literature are sites of queerness\, depicting and enacting a kind of pleasure that exceeds normative models. She is also interested in the relationship between modernism and popular forms of cultural production\, including cookbooks\, dinner theatre\, genre fiction\, and women’s middlebrow fiction. Her second book project\, tentatively entitled Against the Love Plot\, traces the ways mid-twentieth century women’s fiction resists both normative models of love and normative plotlines that end in marriage. \nAbout the Book \nIn Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms\, Elizabeth Blake explores the way modernist writing about eating delves into larger questions about bodily and literary pleasure. Drawing on insights from the field of food studies\, she makes dual interventions into queer theory and modernist studies: first\, locating an embrace of queerness within modernist depictions of the pleasure of eating\, and second\, showing how this queer consumption shapes modernist notions of literary form\, expanding and reshaping conventional genres. Drawing from a promiscuous archive that cuts across boundaries of geography and canonicity\, Blake demonstrates how modernist authors draw on this consuming queerness to restructure a range of literary forms. Each chapter constellates a set of seemingly disparate writers working in related modes—such as the satirical writings of Richard Bruce Nugent\, Virginia Woolf\, and Katherine Mansfield—in order to demonstrate how writing about eating can both unsettle the norms of bodily pleasure and those of genre itself.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/modernist-poetics-and-queer-fruit/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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SUMMARY:The Power of Mapmaking in 17th-Century New England
DESCRIPTION:A map made by the Pequot Sachem Robin Cassacinamon during negotiations with the English colonist George Denison in 1662. It delineates Pequot Territory along the Connecticut Coastline\, land also claimed by the English. Courtesy of Massachusetts State Archives. \n  \nFor the English and Algonquian inhabitants of 17th-century New England\, paper maps were a rare and powerful tool. Mapmakers created them to establish borders\, facilitate cross-cultural communication\, and record spatial information. But maps were also used to misinform\, steal land\, and erase Indigenous cultural presence. In this talk\, Nathan Braccio\, Assistant Professor of History at Clark University\, will explore how both Algonquian-speaking communities and English colonists made maps as tools in a struggle for cultural and physical control of the Northeast. In doing so\, he will investigate how maps\, including those that we interact with in the present day\, promote particular value-laden ways of understanding the world. \nThis event continues the Roots of Everything\, a lecture series sponsored by Early Modernists Unite (EMU)—a faculty collaborative bringing together scholars of medieval and early modern Europe and America—in conjunction with the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities. The series highlights various aspects of modern existence originating in the early modern world by connecting past and present knowledge. \nWith thanks to the Department of History at Clark University for its support. \nAdmission is free and open to the public. \nAlso streamed live – register now: https://bit.ly/rootsmapmaking \n\nAbout the Speaker \nNathan Braccio is a historian of early modern New England. His research focuses on Indigenous and environmental history. Prior to coming to Clark\, he taught at Lesley University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Utah State University. His current book project\, Creating New England\, Defending the Northeast: Contested Algonquian and English Spatial Worlds\, 1500–1700\, investigates the different ways Algonquian-speaking peoples and Puritan colonists marked\, described\, and mapped the landscape. Braccio’s next project explores the culture of agrarian violence in colonial America. He earned his doctorate from the University of Connecticut and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from American University.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-power-of-mapmaking-in-17th-century-new-england/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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SUMMARY:Terror at the Opera
DESCRIPTION:Join professional opera performers Rachel Hippert and Jose Heredia as they take you on a journey of horror music from the gothic to contemporary in Terror at the Opera! Part of Clark’s Women In Horror Month events.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/terror-at-the-opera/
LOCATION:Jefferson 320
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Campus/Community,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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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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