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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T113000
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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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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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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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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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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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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/
CATEGORIES:Arts/Music/Film,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
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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/
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250219T150000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20250121T192354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250121T192354Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20241123T022827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250119T042027Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20241122T030722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250119T042643Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T220000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20241101T220737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250119T041554Z
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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=America/New_York:20241120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20240817T231549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240817T231549Z
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SUMMARY:Screening: ‘Oblivion\,’ an Opera by John Aylward
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of Oblivion\, a filmed opera by John Aylward\, professor of music at Clark. The opera\, inspired by Dante’s “Pergatorio\,” was filmed on the Clark campus. \nThe opera’s cast includes Cailin Marcel Manson\, professor of practice and director of the music program. In addition\, Kevin McGerigle\, associate professor of practice in theatre arts\, served as the technical director. Several Clark students also worked behind-the-scenes on the film. \nRead more about “Oblivion” on ClarkNOW
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/screening-oblivion-opera-john-aylward/
LOCATION:Dana Commons\, Higgins Lounge\, 01610
CATEGORIES:Academic,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=UTC:20241119T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241119T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
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=UTC:20241119T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241119T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20241030T230506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T230506Z
UID:10000494-1732021200-1732028400@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Study Abroad Tea House
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a cup of tea in Jonas Clark 208(ALCI lounge) and learn about study abroad opportunities and faculty-led summer programs.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/study-abroad-tea-house-2/
LOCATION:ALCI Lounge\, Jonas Clark 208
CATEGORIES:Academic,Campus/Community,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241119T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241119T114500
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20241030T230232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T230232Z
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SUMMARY:Peace Corps Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever considered joining Peace Corps? Please come to Jefferson Room 320 to get informed by the regional Peace Corps Recruiter as they talk about their experiences and the application process. Additionally\, you will be informed on the new Peace Corps Prep program.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/peace-corps-discussion/
LOCATION:Jefferson 320
CATEGORIES:Academic,Campus/Community,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241114T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241114T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20240819T175159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250119T035158Z
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SUMMARY:A/An: Book Launch and Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:A Clark Faculty Series Event\nPresented by\nMandy Gutmann-Gonzalez\, MFA\nAssociate Professor of Practice in English\nClark University \nIn this book launch\, poet Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez reads from their chapbook A/An. Using 17th century court records of the Salem Witch Trials as a sounding board\, A/An mines the archives to uncover the power and violence residing within the language of the legal system. Through a series of poems modeled after examinations of particular witches\, Gutmann-Gonzalez acts as a medium for these voices from the past. In A/An\, poetry and archive wrestle\, shattering these legal documents that act as gravestones and spilling the voices caught therein. \nAdmission is free and open to the public\, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 11:45 a.m. 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 \n \nMandy Gutmann-Gonzalez is a Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text\, image\, archive\, and translation. They are the author of La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas) and A/An (End of the Line Press). Their work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from The Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets\, Lambda Literary\, The Center for Book Arts\, TAKT Residency in Berlin\, The Frost Place\, Studios at MASS MoCA\, the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities\, and MacDowell. They teach creative writing at Clark University. \n  \nAbout the Book \nUsing 17th-century court records of the Salem Witch Trials as a sounding board\, A/An mines the archives to uncover the power and violence residing within the language of the legal system. As state-legislated violence\, witch hunts were constitutive to the colonial order\, reinforcing what was normal and what was aberrant. Rather than regarding the witch hunts as historical curiosity or speculating to fill the gaps\, A/An considers the court examination as poetic form\, a hybrid of legal language and lyric utterance. In these poems\, English becomes foreign to itself\, having distorted through time and slipped through the sieve of law\, through the inevitable erasures of matter and the ideological erasures of the archive: the gaps marked “[illegible due to fold in paper]\,” and the silences that remain unmarked. In a poetics of the “[…]”\, A/An engages with textual gaps as lacunae. In A/An\, poetry and archive wrestle\, shattering these legal documents that act as gravestones and spilling the voices caught therein.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/a-an-book-launch-and-poetry-reading-8/
LOCATION:Dana Commons\, Higgins Lounge\, 01610
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20240814T224945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T224945Z
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SUMMARY:Post-Election 2024: What Just Happened?
DESCRIPTION:With the understanding that the election may still be undecided\, we will gather the day-after for a conversation about the results. Bring your questions for Clark University experts\, as we address: what we know about election returns; when and how decisions will be made and how information will be communicated; the important roles played by different constituencies in the process; the historical precedents involved; and the psychological impacts of perceived threats\, uncertainty\, resistance\, and protest. \nModerated by: \n\nAsha Best\, Director\, Center for Gender\, Race and Area Studies (CGRAS)\n\nWith panelists: \n\nRobert Boatright\, Political Science: American political parties\, campaigns\, and elections\nJack Delehanty\, Sociology: Progressive religious activism and conservative Christian discourse\nCyril Ghosh\, Political Science/Law & Society: Democratic inclusion in contemporary American political culture\nOusmane Power-Greene\, History: African American social and political movements\nJohanna Vollhardt\, Psychology: Psychology of collective violence\, oppression\, and resistance\n\nAdmission is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be offered. \nThis event will also be streamed live – registration details to be announced soon. \nSponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities in partnership with the Department of Political Science and the Center for Gender\, Race\, and Area Studies at Clark University
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/post-election-2024-what-just-happened-2/
LOCATION:Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241029T203000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20240924T194123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250119T035000Z
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SUMMARY:Oh! Horror! A Night of Spooky Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:The Higgins Institute presents Oh! Horror! — an evening of spooky storytelling\, with readings by special faculty guests\, Jennifer Plante and Gino DiIorio\, and other creative Clarkies. This event is a reimagining of a Higgins favorite with even more stories\, more treats\, and\, oh\, more horror! Readers from across the campus community will recount original stories and recognizable tales in a celebration of creativity and the joy of Halloween. Boo! \nIf you are interested in participating as a reader\, please contact Gloria Potts (gpotts@clarku.edu) at the Higgins Institute. \nOtherwise\, just join us for the fun…if you dare.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/oh-horror-a-night-of-spooky-storytelling-5/
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Campus/Community,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241022T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241022T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20240817T223954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240817T223954Z
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SUMMARY:Clark Arts and Technology Information Session
DESCRIPTION:This fall\, the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities will begin work on an exciting new four-year project with substantial support from an external foundation and in close partnership with the Becker School of Design and Technology and the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Our goal will be to incorporate new digital technologies into our cross-disciplinary arts curricula\, to increase accessibility to these advanced technologies for all students in their creative work and scholarship\, to promote the faculty’s curricular goals for their students\, and to foster creative collaborations among the arts disciplines as well as between the arts and other areas of study on campus. \nJoin us for a kick-off reception and information session for all interested parties. Refreshments will be served. Additional details will be announced soon.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/clark-arts-and-technology-information-session/
CATEGORIES:Academic,Humanities,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241010T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241010T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T143854
CREATED:20240830T220847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250119T034951Z
UID:10000108-1728561600-1728567000@www.clarku.edu
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 11:45am 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-9/
CATEGORIES:Academic,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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SUMMARY:Insights from an UN Internship Experience
DESCRIPTION:Summer funding award winner Anser Ali Khan presents his experience at the United Nations.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/insights-from-an-un-internship-experience/
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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