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After Maria

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

In survival and in grief, with resilience and creativity, residents of Puerto Rico and other islands continue to live through the extreme, forced reversion from the digital world to analog life. After catastrophic failures of basic infrastructure, wrenching decisions and practical strategies have introduced radical approaches to the far-reaching consequences of colonialism, the implications of […]

Capturing and Eroding the Self: From Self – Portraiture to the Selfie

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

D.Q. Slotkins, Selfie of a Young Man in Red by Circle of Raphael, c. 1505/2017 The selfie is everywhere, but in some ways, it is nothing new. Self-portraiture—for critical examination, personal expression, public display, and demonstration of craft—has a long history, but in its current digital form does it expand or shrink one’s perception of […]

Undividing Digital and Analog: The Promise of Hybridity

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

In the last 25 years, we have displaced much of our culture, work, and recordkeeping into the digital domain. While this turn has vastly enriched many lives, it has also amplified divides, accelerated inequalities, elevated the possibility of historical amnesia, and brought us new and onerous forms of labor. But it is not irreversible. Digital […]

In Pursuit of Questions : A Community Conversation

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

Who, what, when, where, why, and how? From childhood, these questions construct the foundation of knowledge gathering and problem solving. Seemingly basic, they are essential to progressing from inquiry to answer, from simple thought to complex networks of understanding. And yet, these most central questions often are overlooked in our harried pursuit of information and […]

From Crime Scene to Courtroom

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

Is there such a thing as the perfect crime? Can someone truly disappear without a trace? In the right hands, forensic evidence can reveal the hidden story behind a crime scene. It also can give voice to the dead, who can no longer testify about the circumstances surrounding their fate. But do the clues left […]

Unsettled Nostalgia : Exhibition by Mohamad Hafez

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

Mohamad Hafez, Reflections What traces do lives pre- and post-war leave behind, and how do you represent the experience of forced migration? Reproducing the war-torn landscapes of contemporary Syria, Mohamad Hafez creates multi-media sculptures and paintings that represent Middle Eastern streetscapes and buildings besieged by civil war, deliberately contrasted with hopeful verses from the Quran […]

Decolonizing the Middle Ages

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

In the past few years, white supremacist appropriation of medieval symbols and imagery has become more visible than ever, from “white knight” KKK imagery to crests and shields at rallies. This alt-right cosplay is in part the outcome of unexamined biases in the popular imagination as well as blindspots within the academy. What is at […]

Shadows of Doubt

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

D.Q. Slotkins Was it a trick of the light? A figment of your imagination? Or just a dream from which you couldn’t quite wake? The yawning terrors of the night […]

Jefferson and the Hemingses of Monticello

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

In 1998, DNA testing corroborated what family histories and the archival record had shown all along. Thomas Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman on the Monticello plantation. This connection was denied by naysayers for centuries but is widely acknowledged today. An accurate account of the Hemingses is now shared at Monticello, thanks […]

I AM EVIDENCE : A Film Screening

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

Behind every rape kit is a survivor waiting for justice that may never come. Each day, thousands of kits containing potentially vital DNA evidence languish untested in police and crime lab storage units across the United States. Many have sat untouched for years, long past the statute of limitations for sexual assault. How could such […]