{"id":15209,"date":"2018-01-18T05:33:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T05:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/18\/clark-to-host-daring-to-dream-today-conference-jan-19-20-to-honor-mlks-legacy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:43:13","slug":"clark-to-host-daring-to-dream-today-conference-jan-19-20-to-honor-mlks-legacy","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/18\/clark-to-host-daring-to-dream-today-conference-jan-19-20-to-honor-mlks-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark to host &#8216;Daring to Dream Today&#8217; conference Jan. 19-20 to honor MLK&#8217;s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<html><body>\r\n\r\nClark University will host a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/482795522103643\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radical Dreaming, King, and Intersectional Activism<\/a>&nbsp;conference, &#8220;Daring to Dream Today: Education and Hope in Difficult Times,&#8221; on Friday and Saturday, Jan.&nbsp;19-20, to honor the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.clarku.edu\/faculty\/facultybio.cfm?id=685\">Ousmane Power-Greene<\/a>, associate professor of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.clarku.edu\/departments\/history\/\">history<\/a>&nbsp;<em>(pictured)<\/em>, will present a lecture, &ldquo;Radical Dreaming: Re-evaluating MLK&#8217;s Radical Vision for Change,&rdquo;&nbsp;from noon to 2 p.m. Friday in Tilton Hall, second&nbsp;floor, Higgins University Center. Power-Greene will examine King&rsquo;s work in its historical context and ask&nbsp;questions such as &ldquo;how radical was MLK?&rdquo;; &ldquo;how has the narrative of his legacy been white washed?&rdquo;; and &ldquo;how do we remember and honor him today?&rdquo;\r\n\r\nA conversation caf&eacute; will follow. Topics will include spirituality and theology, anti-war and anti-imperialism, community education, jobs and labor organizing, student activism, white supremacy and liberalism, and gender and sexuality politics.\r\n\r\nAt 7 p.m., the student-run group Floetic Fridays will present &ldquo;Radical Dreaming and&nbsp;the Art of Resistance&#8221; in Bethune Intercultural Center (Dana Commons). The event will involve poetry, music, dance and visual art.\r\n\r\nOn Saturday, the conference opens at 9 a.m. in Bethune Intercultural Center (Dana Commons) for&nbsp;registration and breakfast, followed by a plenary session titled &#8220;Looking Back.&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.clarku.edu\/faculty\/facultybio.cfm?id=473\">Jude Fernando<\/a>, associate professor of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/major-or-minor-international-development-and-social-change\">international development and social change<\/a>, will facilitate a discussion that considers &#8220;Where are we now?&#8221; and &#8220;How did we get to our current social and political moment?&#8221; Speakers will include&nbsp;<a title=\"Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.highlandercenter.org\/employees\/ash-lee-woodard-henderson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson<\/a>, co-executive director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.highlandercenter.org\/our-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Highlander Center<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;New Market, Tennessee; Italo Fini, a youth activist for immigrant rights and campaign field organizer for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a>; and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.clarku.edu\/faculty\/facultybio.cfm?id=917\">Nigel Brissett<\/a>, assistant professor of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/major-or-minor-international-development-and-social-change\">international development and social change<\/a>.\r\n\r\nWorkshops and conversations will be held throughout the day, closing with a plenary session on &#8220;Looking Forward,&#8221; a discussion featuring the same three speakers, facilitated by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.clarku.edu\/faculty\/facultybio.cfm?id=693\">Eric DeMeulenaere<\/a>, associate professor of urban schooling in Clark&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.clarku.edu\/departments\/education\/\">Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe events are free and open to the public. Lunch is included.\r\n\r\nThe events are sponsored by Clark University&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/offices\/diversity-inclusion\">Office of Diversity and Inclusion<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/concentration-peace-studies\">Peace Studies concentration<\/a>, the Hiatt Center,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/concentration-africana-studies\">Africana Studies&nbsp;<\/a>of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2017\/01\/20\/clark-universitys-new-center-for-gender-race-and-area-studies-hosts-open-house\/\">Center for Gender Race and Area Studies<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/offices\/multicultural\/\">Office of Multicultural and First Generation Student Support<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/programs\/major-or-minor-community-youth-and-education-studies-cyes\">Community Youth and Education Studies<\/a>, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/academics\/departments-and-schools\/international-development-community-environment\">International Development Community and Environment department<\/a>.\r\n\r\nFor more information, call&nbsp;<a href=\"tel:508-421-3722\">508-421-3722<\/a>.<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark University will host a&nbsp;Radical Dreaming, King, and Intersectional Activism&nbsp;conference, &#8220;Daring to Dream Today: Education and Hope in Difficult Times,&#8221; on Friday and Saturday, Jan.&nbsp;19-20, to honor the legacy of the Rev. 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