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Race Matters in World Language Study: The Case of African Americans Speaking Blackness in Brazil

Higgins School of Humanities, Dana Commons 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

This talk addresses how African Americans can more actively and meaningfully participate in language programs to show that identities and investments in diverse communities within and outside classrooms greatly influence Black students’ success in our field.

International Conference of Hispanic Women Filmmakers (CIMCiH): Chronographies

Higgins School of Humanities, Dana Commons 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

The International Conference of Hispanic Women Filmmakers (CIMCiH) intends to actively contribute to the body of scholarly work on Women Directors, specifically those whose films are conceived and conducted in Spanish. The second edition of CIMCiH, entitled "Chronographies", is an invitation to reflect on the power of time in front of and behind the camera. In film, is time friend or foe? To what extent is gender capable of subverting the rules of the temporal?

The Horizontal Gaze or the Portrait as a Mirror

Higgins School of Humanities, Dana Commons 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

In this talk, Óscar Fernández Orengo, a photographer specialized in portraying filmmakers, will explain the genesis of “La mirada horizontal” (“The horizontal gaze”), a series of 26 portraits of women in the film industry while reflecting on his experience as a portrait photographer, and the power of a photo as a vehicle of both individual and collective discovery.

Across Languages: A Writers’ Roundtable

Higgins School of Humanities, Dana Commons 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Four authors discuss the process of creative writing and translating, while giving glimpses into their forthcoming work. 

With Dad: Artist Talk and Screening

Higgins School of Humanities, Dana Commons 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Stephen DiRado will deliver an artist talk about his photographic journal chronicling his father’s decline into Alzheimer’s. Soren Sorensen also will screen his forthcoming short film about the project.

Declarations of Disgust

Higgins School of Humanities, Dana Commons 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Declarations of Disgust: Reflections on an Ideological Dimension of Music Criticism, ca. 1900 Classical music criticism was a remarkably vibrant genre of journalism at the end of the 19th century. […]

‘In the Flesh’: Exhibit of work by Professor Elli Crocker

Higgins School of Humanities, Dana Commons 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Professor Elli Crocker, a full-time member of the Clark faculty since 1994, is a representational painter whose work has focused on the human figure. "In The Flesh" will be on […]