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I’m only human. I say that a lot: when I can’t get through my to-do list, when I make a mistake, when I am overwhelmed by circumstance or emotion. It takes the pressure off, lowers expectations, creates room for forgiveness. It’s a funny expression. Only human. It suggests something small, fallible, powerless — implying that we know fully what being human entails. This semester, we will explore the meanings of our own humanity. Together, we will consider the relationship between humans and the natural world, the built environment, technology, and one another. We will reflect on shifting understandings of race and sex; trace changing attitudes toward faith, science, and mortality; and question evolving meanings of intelligence and emotion. To frame our conversations, we will hear from religious and environmental scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker on the place of humans in the story of the universe; neuroscientist Emile Bruneau on the brain’s role in empathy; wearable computing pioneer and human cyborg Thad Starner on how computers make us more human; writer and transgender rights activist Janet Mock on growing up multiracial, poor, and transgender in America; and artist and curator Joanna www.clarku.edu/higgins Ebenstein on spectacle, death, and the body. Two new team-taught courses will explore our theme in different contexts: Professors Gino DiIorio (Theater), Ora Szekely (Political Science), and Kristen Williams (Political Science) will teach “Art and Empathy: Humanizing the >>

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” and Professors Betsy Huang (English) and Scott Hendricks (Philosophy) will offer “ and the Mind of the Other.” Finally, Across the Table, an exhibit by photographer Stephen DiRado, will fill the Higgins Lounge with images reminding us of the intimacy and beauty of everyday human interactions. As always, many members of the Clark community helped frame the scope and content of our public programming. I am grateful to Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Sarah Buie, Michael Butler, Sarah Cushman, Eric DeMeulenaere, Gino DiIorio, Stephen DiRado, John Garton, Toby Sisson, Kristen Williams, and Walter Wright for participating in the early brainstorming. Thanks also to Gino DiIorio, Jay Elliott, and Jennifer Plante for delivering another evening of scary stories. I am grateful to Jennifer Plante for joining me in a community conversation and to Barbara Bigelow, Sarah Buie, Eric DeMeulenaere, Patty Ewick and Walter Wright for helping us celebrate ten years of Difficult Dialogues at Clark. The Higgins School appreciates the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support. All best for a wonderful semester, FALL 2015 EVENTS 2015 FALL

AMY RICHTER Director, Higgins School of Humanities NEWS & NOTES FROM HUMANITIES FACULTY news¬e Judith Wagner DeCew (Philosophy) SunHee Kim Gertz (English) published Meredith Neuman (English) researched published “The Feminist Critique of “Das Wunder von Obama: A More a new book project on early American Privacy — Past Arguments and New Perfect Union and the German Soccer poetry while on fellowship at the Library Social Understandings,” in Social Championship of 1954” in Obama Company of Philadelphia and the Dimensions of Privacy (Cambridge and Transnational American Studies Historical Society of Pennsylvania. University Press, 2015). (Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2015). Robert Tobin (Language, Literature and Wes DeMarco (Philosophy) presented Culture) spoke on “Father-Son Love in “The Neuropragmatics of Freedom: Benjamin Korstvedt (Visual and Freud and Soseki” at the 2015 Congress Comment on Cahoone’s ‘Self- Social- or Performing Arts) lectured on the political of the International Association of Neural Determination?’” at the 2015 afterlives of Anton Bruckner and Gustav German Studies in Shanghai. meeting of the Metaphysical Society of Mahler at the Institute for Aesthetics America at the University of Georgia. of Music at the University of Music and Kristina Wilson (Visual and Performing Performing Arts Graz in Austria. Arts) published “Like a ‘Girl in a Bikini John Garton (Visual and Performing Suit’ and Other Stories: The Herman Arts) spoke at the Boston Museum Thomas Kühne (History/Strassler Center) Miller Company, Gender, and Race at of Fine Arts in conjunction with the convened a panel at the International Mid-Century” in the summer 2015 drawings exhibition Leonardo da Vinci Network of Genocide Scholars conference issue of the Journal of Design History. and the Idea of Beauty. His research in Cape Town, South Africa, exploring She presented a paper on the topic at was supported by the Higgins School how 19th-century European colonialism the Newberry Library American Art and of Humanities and the National and imperialism shaped the Holocaust Visual Culture Seminar in May. Endowment for the Humanities. and other genocides.

Getting Real about Climate Change at Clark Getting real about the climate challenge has been the focus of two exceptional conversations hosted by the Higgins School in the last eighteen months. The question of what “getting real” implies for the work of the University also has intensified, given these conversations and the Climate Change Teach-In they inspired.

The firstCouncil on the Uncertain Human Future took place over 2014, bringing together twelve leading female scholars, writers, and artists with expertise on and a deep concern about the potentially catastrophic implications of climate change. With support from the Andrew W. Mellon and Kaiser Family Foundations, the original Council met in three two-day retreats to exchange perspectives on the core questions: what is happening and why; what are the implications; and how do we wish to conduct ourselves in the face of these grave challenges? Each session drew from the expertise of a guest speaker — geologist Daniel Schrag, Director of the Center for the Environment at Harvard; artist and architect Maya Lin (via video); and award-winning author Rebecca Solnit. For more information, visit www.clarku.edu/higgins and click on the “Council on the Uncertain Human Future” initiative.

A second Council was held in winter 2015. This local UHF Council was co- facilitated by Ellen Foley (Interim Director of IDCE) and Sarah Buie (Senior Associate and Past Director of the Higgins School). The group included Clark faculty members Cynthia Caron, Jody Emel, Anita Fabos, Barbara Goldoftas, Ken MacLean, Amy Richter, Dianne Rocheleau, and Walter Wright. (left to right): President David Angel with Teach-In participants Susanne Moser, Sarah Buie, Ellen Foley, Chris Williams, and Anthony Bebbington. (Photo: Jane Salerno) The Council members, along with a Teach-In steering committee that included Chuck Agosta, Michelle Bata, Mary-Ellen Boyle, Tim Downs, Jude Fernando, Jim Gomes, Jenny Isler, Rob Johnston, Greg Trencher, and Chris Williams, were instrumental in supporting the Climate Change Teach-In on March 26, 2015. Spearheaded by Professors Buie, Foley, and Rocheleau, the event featured sessions by forty-five faculty members, keynote talks by climate scientist Susanne Moser (PhD ’97) and ecologist Christopher Uhl (Penn State), and a Council session. Over six hundred members of the community participated. Learn more at https://climatechangeteachin.wordpress.com/.

Discussions about how Clark will engage with this unprecedented issue are moving forward. There are plans to host additional local Councils, create a faculty forum around a series of climate-related public events, and hold a second Teach-In on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. i’m trying to say something about the human condition maybe i should try again

­— NIKKI GIOVANNI

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DIALOGUE SYMPOSIUM FALL 2015 Being Human

“What does it mean to be human?” While this question has long undergirded the humanities, today it possesses a sense of urgency that transcends academic disciplines. In popular and mass media, conversations about gender, race, and age lay bare the historic and cultural limits placed on human dignity and rights, challenging us to create more inclusive frameworks. Climate science, genetics, artificial intelligence, and medicine are just a few examples of areas transforming — and destabilizing — traditional boundaries of “the human.” Shifting from one context to the next, we seem simultaneously more and less limited by the natural world of which we are a part. Embracing the possible disembodiment of human consciousness, knowledge, and subjectivity, some even imagine that we are post-human.

This semester, our dialogue symposium takes up the timely and timeless question of our own humanity: What does it mean to be human right now? What has it meant in the past? What might it mean in the future? Together we will seek to describe and understand experiences that are both unique and universal. Perhaps it is this effort, less than its result, that ultimately will define what it means to be human.

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BEING HUMAN Facilitated by Jennifer Plante (Academic Advising) and Amy Richter (History) What does it mean to be human? This is a question we are all here to explore — in our educations and throughout our lives. We seek answers in evolution, psychology, and faith. Artists, philosophers, poets, and historians grapple to give form to experiences that are simultaneously unique and universal.

In this community conversation, we will consider what it means to be human. In what contexts have we tried to define humanity? How do various answers align with or challenge our own experiences and assumptions? When are we aware of our human identity — in moments of danger, frailty, stillness, or triumph — and what does this awareness reveal about our personal definitions?

Wednesday, September 9 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and Difficult Dialogues

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TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE IN DIALOGUE: CELEBRATING A DECADE OF DIFFICULT DIALOGUES AT CLARK Facilitated by Barbara Bigelow (Graduate School of Management), Sarah Buie (Visual and Performing Arts), Eric DeMeulenaere (Education), Patricia Ewick (Sociology), and Walter Wright (Philosophy) Human being is being in relation. From our earliest moments, we are in a flow of connection and exchange with others and the world. Truly, to be human is to be in dialogue. Through the dialogue work at Clark, we have become more cognizant of those dynamic opportunities and the gifts they offer.

Started with a grant from the Ford Foundation in December 2005, the Difficult Dialogues (DD) initiative at Clark has re-envisioned the process of communication in our community, in higher education, and in society by creating more conscious spaces for speaking, listening, and creative insight. Drawing on rich traditions of dialogic practice, it encourages conversations grounded in authentic speaking, listening to understand, suspension of assumptions, respect for difference, and the possibility of learning something new. The spirit and practice of dialogue permeates Clark’s classrooms, public programs, student life, and more. It supports community reflection on and engagement with major issues, including race, religion, gender, and climate change.

Join us as the Higgins School of Humanities celebrates ten years of DD at Clark. Together we will ask: Is there something distinctively human about dialogue? If so, why do humans need dialogue and its practices today more than ever?

Thursday, November 5 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and Difficult Dialogues

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Imagine experiencing Earth’s beauty for the first time ­— its birds, fish, mountains, and waterfalls. Imagine, too, the vastness of Earth’s home, the universe, with its numerous galaxies, stars, and planets. Surrounded by such magnificence, we can ask ourselves a simple question: Can we find a way to sink deeply into these immensities? And if we can, will this enable humans to participate in the flourishing of life? — Mary Evelyn Tucker

Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and living organisms, human beings, and human consciousness came to be. With this knowledge, the question of what role we play in the fourteen-billion- year history of the universe imposes itself with greater poignancy than ever before. In telling the story of Earth to our children, we must inevitably consider the role of humanity in its history and how we connect with the intricate web of life on our planet. In this talk, scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker will illustrate how Journey of the Universe, a film, book, and interview series, responds to these questions and asks anew, “How do we, as humans, belong?”

We encourage all attendees to screen Journey of the Universe before the discussion. For more information on the project or to watch a trailer of the film, visitwww.journeyoftheuniverse.org .

Thursday, September 24 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, International Development, Community, and Environment, the Graduate School of Geography, and the Environmental Science and Policy Program

Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer 2014) with John Grim. Tucker served and Senior Research Scholar at Yale on the International Earth Charter University where she teaches in a joint Drafting Committee from 1997–2000 master’s program between the School of and was a member of the Earth Charter Forestry and Environmental Studies and International Council. In 2011, she the Divinity School. She is a co-founder completed Journey of the Universe with and co-director with John Grim of the Brian Swimme, which includes a book Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale. from Yale University Press, an Emmy She is also the author of Worldly Wonder: award-winning film on PBS and Netflix, Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase and an educational series of twenty (Open Court, 2003) and the co-author interviews. of Ecology and Religion (Island Press,

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I need to have contact. I need to see the life in your eyes. — Stephen DiRado

Stephen DiRado is a Massachusetts-based American photographer whose art is inspired by his captivation with and admiration for the people in his community. His photographs portray the underlying intimacy of individual and group dynamics. The debut installation of Across the Table continues to explore this theme in more than one hundred works projected on a large scale. While joining family, friends, and acquaintances for dinner or drinks, DiRado takes hundreds of photos, prodigiously documenting every facet of each gathering. Motivated by the effectiveness of Stephen DiRado the reverse shot in films, he studies Michael, Steve and Donna, Dudley, MA, April 24, 2015 Digital photograph projected the theatrics and composition of individual photographs then juxtaposes them to create one continuous chronological action. DiRado’s work captures the mood and tempo of each event in a dramatic linear narrative, highlighting the psychological complexities of human interaction.

The exhibition will run from September 30 through December 16.

Opening Reception Wednesday, September 30 @ 4pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities

Stephen DiRado is a Professor of He has received fellowships from the Practice in Photography in the Studio New England Foundation for the Arts/ Arts Program at Clark University. His National Endowment for the Arts, the work has been featured in collections Massachusetts Cultural Commission, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Massachusetts Artist Foundation, the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, and most recently, the John Simon Massachusetts, The Museum of Fine Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Arts in Houston, the Harry Ransom For more on his work, visit www. Center in Austin, Texas, and the Natural stephendirado.com. History Museum in Berlin, Germany.

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Despite its early origins and adaptive functions, empathy is not inevitable. — Emile Bruneau

For over fifty years, the tireless efforts and boundless good will of thousands of people have poured into conflict-resolution programs aimed at decreasing intergroup hostilities. Nonetheless, mounting evidence shows that these efforts are prone to fall flat or even backfire. Nearly twenty years ago, research scientist Emile Bruneau learned this lesson when he volunteered at a summer camp for Catholic and Protestant children in Ireland. He has since turned to psychology and neuroscience to better understand the often unconscious processes that drive conflict. Using the lens of cognitive neuroscience, Bruneau will discuss how the human brain is set up to make “common sense” conflict interventions fail, and how even the most intuitive goals of these programs — empathy, trust, and friendship — can be deeply problematic in the face of social, political, and ideological divisions. Might functional neuroimaging (fMRI) provide a way to illuminate our unconscious biases and put humans on the path to peace?

Tuesday, October 6 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and the Department of Political Science

Emile Bruneau is a Research Lanka during one of the largest Tamil Scientist in the Brain and Tiger strikes in the history of that Cognitive Sciences Department country’s civil war, and Ireland during at the Massachusetts Institute of The Troubles. His research has used Technology. His research focuses both behavioral and neuroimaging on the psychological and cognitive techniques to examine conflict biases driving intergroup conflict and between Americans and Mexican interventions aimed at decreasing or immigrants, Americans and Muslims, circumventing these biases. Bruneau Hungarians and the Roma minority, has worked and lived in a number and Israelis and Palestinians. of conflict regions, including South Bruneau is the recipient of the 2015 Africa during the country’s transition Ed Cairns Early Career Award in from Apartheid to democracy, Sri Peace Psychology.

www.clarku.edu/higgins p > 7. DIALOGUE SYMPOSIUM being human An Extension of Self: The Present and Future of Wearable Computing Thad Starner

People look at me strangely when I walk down the street these days. However, I’m not particularly surprised; I have a box strapped to my waist with wires reaching out to my hand and up to my eye. I often hold silent conversations with myself, electronically taking notes on the world around me. Occasionally one of my observations triggers electronic memories and gives me new insights. No wonder people look at me strangely. You see, I’m one of the world’s first cyborgs. — Thad Starner

Google’s Glass captured the world’s imagination, perhaps more than any other head-up display. Yet, why would people want a wearable computer in their everyday lives? For over twenty years, Professor Thad Starner and his teams of researchers have been creating living laboratories to discover the most compelling reasons to integrate humans and computers. They have created “wearables” that augment human memory and the senses, focus attention, and assist communication. Is it possible that computers and wearable devices are transforming humans for the better, enhancing key abilities, and leaving more time and space for deeper connections? In this talk, Starner will discuss why wearables, more than any other class of computing to date, have the potential to extend us beyond ourselves.

Thursday, October 22 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities

Thad Starner is a wearable computing Starner is an inventor on over seventy pioneer; he has been wearing a head-up United States patents awarded or in display-based computer as part of his process. In addition to Google Glass, daily life since 1993 — perhaps the he has worked on a wireless glove longest such experience known. Starner that teaches the wearer to play piano is a Professor in the School of Interactive melodies without active attention; Computing at the Georgia Institute of a game for deaf children that helps Technology and a Technical Lead on them acquire language skills using Google Glass. In 1990, he coined the sign language recognition; wearable term “augmented reality” to describe computers that enable two-way the types of interfaces he envisioned at communication experiments with wild the time. He is a founder of the annual dolphins; and wearable computers for ACM/IEEE International Symposium on working dogs to better communicate Wearable Computers, now in its 18th with their handlers. year, and has produced over 450 papers and presentations on his work.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL CULTURE SERIES In Conversation with Janet Mock

All of these parts of myself coexist in my body, a representation of evolution and migration and truth. My body carries within its frame beauty and agony, certainty and murkiness, loathing and love. And I’ve learned to accept it, as is. — Janet Mock

New York Times bestselling author and advocate for trans women’s rights Janet Mock will engage in a conversation about her memoir, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More (Atria Books, 2014). Feminist critic bell hooks has described Mock’s work as “a life map for transformation.” Her account of growing up multiracial, poor, and transgender in America offers vital insight into the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population yet tells a coming-of-age story that taps into the universal human experience of making room for oneself in the world. A book signing will follow the conversation. Copies of Redefining Realness will be available for purchase at the Clark University bookstore and at the event.

Tuesday, October 27 @ 7pm | Jefferson Academic Center, Room 320

Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Office of the Provost, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Janet Mock is an author and cultural Colorlines, National Public Radio, and commentator who currently hosts the more. Her work has been recognized by weekly show So POPular! on MSNBC’s the Stonewall Community Foundation, all-digital network Shift and serves as the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education a Contributing Editor for Marie Claire. Network, the Anti-Violence Project, Mock has been featured in the HBO the ADCOLOR Awards, and the Sylvia documentary The Out List and in pieces Rivera Law Project. She also has been for The Washington Post, The New York nominated for a Women’s Media Center Times, Rookie, Salon, Slate, Feministing, Award and a GLAAD Media Award.

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We don’t know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can’t heave them into categories with labels and say they’ll act one way or another. That’d be silly. They’re people. People who do things. —

Hobgoblins. Vampires. Trolls. People. We are drawn to stories of monsters. Whether the subject of myth, legend, or contemporary popular culture, monsters help us process our fears and tap into our most basic survival instincts. Perhaps more important, they permit us to cast out the worst and best aspects of ourselves for closer inspection, enabling us to explore the outer edges of what it means to be human. Professors Gino DiIorio (Theater), Jay Elliott (English), and Jennifer Plante (Academic Advising) will once again kick off our celebration of Halloween by reading stories of monsters, demons, and the supernatural. Join us for a spooky evening in the Higgins Lounge…if you dare.

Wednesday, October 28 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities

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Perhaps this complication alludes also to the nature of death itself, and the formal and functional similarities between religion and medicine, which both seek to keep death and disease at bay. If ex votos and wax saints represent God’s intervention on our behalf against death and disease, medicine seeks science’s intervention. What is medicine, after all, but the latest (and arguably most successful) of a long line of strategies intended to cheat death, and ensure our personal survival, regardless of “fate,” “destiny,” or God’s will? — Joanna Ebenstein

Two centuries ago, the Anatomical Venus was considered a perfect tool to teach human anatomy to general audiences of museums and traveling shows. This enigmatic artifact, a life-sized wax model of the female body and its internal organs, now seems nearly incomprehensible. The once familiar mingling of beauty and death, medical expertise and spectacle confounds our contemporary expectations. In this talk, artist and curator Joanna Ebenstein will introduce us to the Anatomical Venus — memorably described as an “Enlightenment-era St. Teresa ravished by communion with the invisible forces of science.” Ebenstein will place the anatomized woman and her kin within their historical and cultural context in order to reveal the shifting attitudes towards death and the body that have rendered such spectacles strange. How has so much changed in a little over 200 years?

Tuesday, November 10 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities

Joanna Ebenstein is a New York- of England, 2013). She acted based artist, event producer, curator, as curatorial consultant on the and independent scholar. She is the Wellcome Collection’s Exquisite creative director of the new Morbid Bodies exhibition (2009) and also has Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn and worked with The New York Academy creator of the Morbid Anatomy of Medicine, the Dittrick Museum of Blog and Library. She is the co- Medical History, and Museum Vrolik in author and featured photographer Amsterdam. Ebenstein’s photography of Walter Potter’s Curious World and writing have been exhibited and of Taxidermy (Constable, 2013); published internationally, and she co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy lectures regularly around the world Anthology (Morbid Anatomy Press, at a variety of popular and academic 2014); and a contributor to Medical venues. Find out more at http:// Museums: Past, Present, Future morbidanatomy.blogspot.com. (The Royal College of Surgeons

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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SCIENCE FICTION RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE SLEEP DEALER: A Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Alex Rivera Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2009) explores the paradox of a world connected by technology but divided by borders. Memo Cruz, a young man from a tiny village in Mexico, dreams of coming to the United States. Yet in this re-imagined borderland, crossing is impossible. Alex Rivera is a New York- based digital media artist and Instead, Memo ‘migrates’ in a new way — over the Internet. By filmmaker who uses visual connecting his body to the net, Memo can control a machine that storytelling techniques to give performs his labor in America, sending the benefit of his work voice to the Latino cultural without the body of the worker. His story illuminates new questions experience. His work has won about futuricity and technology as they relate to immigration multiple awards at the Sundance Film Festival and has been and global trade, ethnic relations, language, community, and screened at other film festivals environment. and venues across the world.

Thursday, October 15 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and the Science Fiction Research Collaborative

THE CULTURAL WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION: A Symposium on Translation, Negotiation, Appropriation Conformance, Estrangement, and Translation as Practice and Metaphor @ 3pm How is translation a matter of cultural negotiation? How applicable is translation theory to genre literature? Ken Liu will examine the origin of Chinese science fiction through translations of Western Ken Liu is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as works alongside his own translation of Chinese writer Liu Cixin’s well as a lawyer and programmer. Nebula- and -nominated novel The Three-Body Problem A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and (2008). Liu also will discuss how such a translational framework World Fantasy Awards, he has informs the writing of his debut novel, The Grace of Kings (2015), been published in The Magazine which melds Western and Chinese epic traditions. of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Clarkesworld, among others. Utopianism, Anti-Utopianism, and Cultural Appropriation: The Case of ’s @ 4pm Science fiction has frequently imagined both ideal and nightmarish societies, either to encourage the pursuit of the ideal or to critique such a pursuit. The genre’s history with regard to race includes the marginalization of people of color as well as various representations of the colonization of “new worlds.” Professor Jeffrey A. Tucker will explore how these issues converge in Mike Resnick’s controversial Jeffrey A. Tucker teaches novel Kirinyaga (1998), about Africans living in a pastoral utopia English at the University of in outer space. What does it mean for a white American author Rochester. He is the author of A Sense of Wonder: Samuel like Resnick to write such a novel? Should the novel’s themes be R. Delany, Race, Identity & interpreted as utopianist or anti-utopianist? Difference (2004) and co-editor of Race Consciousness: African Friday, November 6 @ 3–5:30pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons American Studies for the New Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and the Science Fiction Research Collaborative Century (1997).

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ROOTS OF EVERYTHING SERIES WHEN PUBLIC POWER CEASED TO BE PRIVATE PROPERTY Rafe Blaufarb The Koch brothers’ aggressive attempts to get their candidates elected to office and the impact of Citizens United have brought to the fore the relationship between private wealth and the control of public power. Today we recoil at the notion that public powers, Rafe Blaufarb is the Ben Weider such as the right of justice, the collection of taxes, and even Eminent Scholar and head of sovereignty could be owned, bought, sold, and inherited like a form the Institute on Napoleon and of property. Yet this was the norm in the western world only three the French Revolution at Florida centuries ago. From judgeships, military rank, and government State University. A specialist in Revolutionary and Napoleonic office to the Crown itself, all were considered to be, in some sense, France, he has authored the personal property of the holder. In this talk, Professor numerous books and articles on Rafe Blaufarb (Florida State University) will discuss the the social, political, and legal entanglement of public power and private property in early modern history of France during this France, examine how this confusion came to be seen as intolerable, period. and detail the explosive decoupling of property and power at the heart of the French Revolutionary project of 1789.

Clark University Professor Robert Boatright (Political Science) will offer commentary.

The Roots of Everything is a lecture series sponsored by Early Modernists Unite (EMU) — a faculty collaborative bringing together scholars of medieval and early modern England and America — in conjunction with the Higgins School of Humanities. Supported by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the series highlights various aspects of modern existence originating in the early modern world and teases out connections between past and present.

Tuesday, November 3 @ 4:30pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, Early Modernists Unite, and the Departments of History and Political Science

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HENRY J. LEIR CHAIR IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE WHAT IS QUEER ABOUT FRANKENSTEIN? George E. Haggerty will examine connections between Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and recent developments in Queer Theory. Haggerty is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His recent publications include Horace Walpole’s Letters: George E. Haggerty has just Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth-Century (2011) and completed a book titled Queer The Blackwell Companion to LGBT/Q Studies (2007). Friendship, and he is currently at work on a biography of Tuesday, September 8 @ 4pm | Location TBA Horace Walpole.

STORMTROOPER FAMILIES: Homosexuality and Community in the Nazi Party Andrew Wackerfuss will present themes from his recently published book on the meaning of homosexuality and personal relationships in the Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing, the Stormtroopers. Members of the party lived in a same-sex environment that enshrined bonds between male comrades. Simultaneously, they asserted Andrew Wackerfuss is a historian with the United States their political movement’s defense of heterosexual families. As Air Force, and he currently Stormtroopers verbally and physically battled over the definitions of teaches courses in European family, they brought conflicts over masculinity and homosexuality to history at Georgetown University. the center of Weimar Germany’s most important political debates.

Thursday, October 15 @ 4:30pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE HOLOCAUST, A BELATED ENTANGLEMENT Human rights are thought to be a direct response to the horrors of the Holocaust. Such conventional wisdom seems reasonable when considering the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948, just as the embers of war were cooling. However, Samuel Moyn is a Professor Professor Samuel Moyn will argue that the deep connection between of Law and History at Harvard human rights and the Holocaust actually emerged in the 1960s and University. His books include 1970s — when Holocaust memory burgeoned and decolonization Christian Human Rights presented Westerners with genocidal violence abroad. (forthcoming, 2015).

Monday, October 26 @ 4pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

FOR LOVE OF PARADOX: Human Rights and the Ends of Critical Theory In recent years, human rights have become a scholarly and pedagogical preoccupation within fields across the humanities, including the study of literary and critical theory. Professor Elizabeth S. Anker will analyze the merits and limits of this burgeoning focus while proposing a new agenda for a politically-engaged humanities. Elizabeth S. Anker teaches English and law at Cornell University. She is the author of Fictions of Dignity: Monday, November 16 @ 4pm | Location TBA Embodying Human Rights in World Literature (2012).

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STRASSLER CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE STUDIES EMPIRE, NATION-STATE, AND GENOCIDE Ronald Suny (University of Michigan) and Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania) will discuss genocide in the comparative contexts of the Ottoman and Russian Empires. Their recent scholarship challenges the common understanding of the Armenian Genocide as a plan by the Young Turks to eliminate Christians and homogenize Anatolia during the foundation of Turkey. In this talk, Suny and Holquist will explore why they and other scholars now understand the Armenian Genocide and other mass genocides of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a reorganization of empire based on new demographic policies.

Friday, October 23 @ 4pm | Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House Co-sponsored by the Departments of History and Political Science

RECOGNIZING PAINFUL LEGACIES THROUGH MEMORIAL CONSTRUCTION Architect Julian Bonder will join Professors Deborah Martin (Geography) and Kristina Wilson (Visual and Performing Arts) in examining how communities address painful legacies through memorial construction. Bonder’s well-known Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes, France, a port from which hundreds of Atlantic slave-trading expeditions set forth, will serve as the cornerstone for the discussion. The panel also will consider Bonder’s Holocaust-related work and other memorials to mass atrocity.

Wednesday, November 18 @ 7:30pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Geography and the Department of Visual and Performing Arts

PHILOSOPHY THE RESEARCH DOMAIN CRITERIA (RDOC) PROJECT: Hope or Hype for Revolutionizing Psychiatric Classification? In 2013, the US National Institutes for Mental Health introduced the Research Domain Criteria Project — an initiative that aims to revolutionize psychiatric classification by operationally defining mental disorders in terms of “behavioral and neurobiological Jacqueline Sullivan’s current research focuses on measures” rather than “clinical observations and patients’ epistemological problems phenomenological symptom reports.” Jacqueline Sullivan, Assistant that arise in the context of Professor of Philosophy at Western University, will argue that experimentation on learning and contemporary neuroscience requires drastic restructuring if the memory in cellular and molecular RDoC project is to achieve its purported goals. She will share her neurobiology. ideas for change and consider their feasibility in practice.

Thursday, September 24 @ 4:30pm | Location TBA

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­— ANATOLE BROYARD CLARK ARTS strassler gallery clarkarts SCHILTKAMP GALLERY EXHIBITION UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Landscape photographs by Greer Muldowney and Chris Miller This semester, the Schiltkamp Gallery will feature an exhibition of large-scale color photographs by Clark alumni Greer Muldowney and Chris Miller. Working on opposite sides of North America, the photographers turn their cameras on the landscape with very different intentions. Muldowney documents the encroachment of wind turbines along the East Coast. Miller’s work captures the Taku River watershed that runs through Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, highlighting its grandeur and by contrast, its toxicity due to mining operations. Greer Muldowney Providence Waste Water Treatment, 2012 Greer Muldowney is an artist and independent curator based in Boston. She currently teaches at Boston College and the New England Institute of Art. She was selected as a 2013 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship and a 2014 PDN 30: New and Emerging Photographer to Watch.

Chris Miller is a photojournalist and freelance photographer based in Juneau, Alaska. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Anchorage Daily News, Newsweek, and other national and international publications. Chris Miller Tulsequah and Flannigan Slough, 2013 The exhibition will run from October 7 through January 20.

Opening Reception Wednesday, October 7 @ 4pm | Schiltkamp Gallery, Traina Center for the Arts

visiting artist THERE ARE NO RULES Covering a span of fifty years, artist and educatorAl Souza will discuss the forces that have shaped his life’s work. Beginning his creative journey with a degree in engineering that led to designing helicopters, Souza later went back to school to pursue an MFA in painting. In the years that followed, his prolific career in the arts brought his work to the Edinburgh Art Festival in Scotland, La Biennale di Venezia in Italy, the Bienal de São Paulo in Brazil, and the Whitney Biennial in New York.

Gallery hours: Souza studied at the Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts in New York. He earned his MFA from University of Massachusetts Schiltkamp Gallery, Traina Center for the Arts Amherst. He has been a instructor at several institutions, including Smith College, Monday through Thursday Rhode Island School of Design, University 9am–9pm of California, San Diego, Clark University, Friday 9am–4pm and most recently, the University of Houston. Saturday Souza has received major grants from the National Endowment for the 12–4pm Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sunday International Association of Art Critics, and many others. 12–9pm Monday, October 5 @ 12pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts Admission: Free clarkartsCLARK ARTS music special event

BACH TO BACH: An informal festival Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) may be the most inexhaustible of all composers. Across genres, instruments, and styles, his works continue to fascinate musicians, from student to expert, amateur to professional.

This semester, explore the richness and complexity of Bach’s music through a series of special events, including a concert of sonatas, a solo cello recital, a concerto evening, and a performance of The Art of Fugue.

All festival events are free and open to the public. Join us in celebrating Bach’s mastery.

THE BACH CONSORT IN CONCERT The Bach Consort of Worcester is a string group that performs the music of J.S. Bach and other composers of the Baroque period. Founded in 2010 with a series of recitals featuring the Bach violin sonatas, the group plays regularly as part of Assumption College’s HumanArts series and is the house ensemble for the Salisbury Singers. Under the artistic direction of Michelle Graveline, the Consort features Clark’s Peter Sulski as a violin soloist.

Sponsored by The Stuart P. Anderson Endowed Fund and the Music Program of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts.

Friday, September 25 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

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BACH’S ART OF FUGUE IN COLOR J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue is one of his last great masterpieces and an encyclopedic exploration of the art and science of counterpoint and fugue. The final fugue was left unfinished at Bach’s death and thus has posed riddles ever since. Its highly intricate score presents challenges and opportunities to performers and listeners alike. Organist and harpsichordist Frances Conover Fitch will be joined by the Frances Conover Fitch Arcadia Viols and guest instrumentalists in highlighting the extraordinary depth of Bach’s work.

Fitch and members of the Arcadia Viols will offer a pre-concert demonstration that will be open to the Clark community and the general public in the afternoon.

Sponsored by Early Modernists Unite, the Higgins School of Humanities, the Traina Chamber Music Endowed Fund, the Stuart P. Anderson Endowed Fund, and the Music Program of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts.

Wednesday, October 21 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts Pre-concert Demonstration @ 4pm

AN EVENING OF BACH SONATAS This faculty concert will feature Peter Sulski on violin and viola, Ariana Falk on cello, and Andrus Madsen on keyboard. The program will include Violin Sonatas by J.S. Bach, a Trio by C.P.E. Bach, and a Viola da Gamba Sonata by J.S. Bach.

Sponsored by The Stuart P. Anderson Endowed Fund and the Music Program of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts.

Saturday, October 24 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

BACH, ALONE Clark faculty member Shay Rudolph will perform three of Bach’s intimate and intense suites for solo cello.

Sunday, November 8 @ 3pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

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SHERYL BAILEY TRIO & BEAN BAG WITH VOCALIST SARAH ELIZABETH CHARLES Celebrated jazz guitarist Sheryl Bailey will be joined on the bandstand by Jason Palmer, Noah Preminger, Ian Froman, Ron Oswanski, and special guest vocalist Sarah Elizabeth Charles for an evening of all-star Boston-based music, sweetened with an ice cream sundae bar.

This performance is made possible through the generous support of the estate of Selma B. Geller. Sheryl Bailey Wednesday, September 30 @ 8pm | The Grind, Higgins University Center

music MUSIC EVENTS A SPIRITED DOUBLEBILL: THE JOHN FUNKHOUSER TRIO AND THE SONIC EXPLORERS This concert will feature an energetic and accessible blend of modern jazz, funk, blues, twentieth-century classical, Indian classical, and European and American folk music. The John Funkhouser Trio will kick John Funkhouser Trio off the evening before the Sonic Explorers, featuring Jerry Sabatini, take the stage. A workshop with students will be held on the day of the concert.

Sponsored by The Relly Raffman Memorial Fund and the Music Program of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts.

Friday, November 6 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

CLARK UNIVERSITY CONCERT CHOIR Emily Isaacson, Director/Conductor

Friday, November 13 @ 7:30pm | Daniels Theater, Atwood Hall

CLARK UNIVERSITY CONCERT BAND Meghan MacFadden, Director/Conductor

Thursday, November 19 @ 7:30pm | Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center

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Friday, November 20 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

CLARK UNIVERSITY JAZZ WORKSHOP AND COMBO Eric Hofbauer, Director

Saturday, November 21 @ 7:30pm | The Grind, Higgins University Center

STUDENT RECITAL This special event will showcase the achievements of Clark music students who will perform works they have studied throughout the semester. The pieces will range from classical sonatas to modern compositions, classic songs, and jazz standards. Faculty member and pianist Sima Kustanovich will provide accompaniment.

Sunday, November 22 @ 3pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts theater THEATER EVENTS FOURTH BI-ANNUAL CLARK NEW PLAY FESTIVAL: Six new plays by Clark Undergraduates This collaborative project creates a hands-on learning environment, allowing student playwrights to evaluate their writing and better understand how a play moves from page to stage. It provides a rare opportunity for students to be involved in the development process. For many, it is the first chance to see their work produced — and hopefully not the last.

November 3–7, 11–14, and 17–21 @ 7:30pm | Michelson Theater, Little Center $5, free with college ID please note...

All ClarkArts events are free, unless otherwise noted, and open to the public. All information is subject to change. Please call the Visual & Performing Arts Events Office at 508.793.7356 or email [email protected]. Look for us on the web at www.clarku. edu/departments/clarkarts to confirm event information.

Follow us on Facebook: www. facebook.com/clarkarts Follow us on Twitter: @clarkarts Follow us on Instagram: clarkuarts SEPTEMBER September 8 What is Queer about Frankenstein? | George E. Haggerty @ 4pm | Location TBA September 9 Community Conversation: Being Human @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons September 24 The Research Domain Criteria Project | Jacqueline Sullivan @ 4:30pm | Location TBA September 24 Becoming Human | Mary Evelyn Tucker @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons September 25 The Bach Consort in Concert @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts September 30 Across the Table Exhibit Opening & Reception @ 4pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons September 30 Geller Jazz Nightclub | Sheryl Bailey Trio & Bean Bag @ 8pm | The Grind, Higgins University Center OCTOBER October 5 There Are No Rules | Al Souza @ 12pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts October 6 Empathy, Science, and the Pursuit of Peace | Emile Bruneau @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons October 7 Unintended Consequences Opening and Reception @ 4pm | Schiltkamp Gallery, Traina Center for the Arts October 15 Stormtrooper Families | Andrew Wackerfuss @ 4:30pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons October 15 Sleep Dealer: Screening and Conversation | Alex Rivera @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts October 21 Bach’s Art of Fugue in Color | Frances Conover Fitch @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts calendar at a glance at calendar October 22 Present/Future of Wearable Computing | Thad Starner @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons October 23 Empire, Nation-State, and Genocide @ 4pm | Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House October 24 An Evening of Bach Sonatas @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts October 26 Human Rights and the Holocaust | Samuel Moyn @ 4pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons October 27 In Conversation with Janet Mock @ 7pm | Jefferson 320 October 28 Not Quite Human Stories @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons NOVEMBER November 3 Public Power/Private Property | Rafe Blaufarb @ 4:30pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons November 3–7 Clark Undergraduate New Play Festival @ 7:30pm | Michelson Theater, Little Center November 5 Celebrating a Decade of Difficult Dialogues @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons November 6 Symposium: The Cultural Work of Science Fiction @ 3pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons November 6 John Funkhouser Trio & Sonic Explorers @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts November 8 Bach, Alone | Shay Rudolph @ 3pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts November 10 The Anatomized Woman | Joanna Ebenstein @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons November 11–14 Clark Undergraduate New Play Festival @ 7:30pm | Michelson Theater, Little Center November 13 Clark University Concert Choir @ 7:30pm | Daniels Theater, Atwood Hall November 16 Human Rights and the Ends of Critical Theory | Elizabeth S. Anker @ 4pm | Location TBA November 17–21 Clark Undergraduate New Play Festival @ 7:30pm | Michelson Theater, Little Center November 18 Recognizing Painful Legacies @ 7:30pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons November 19 Clark University Concert Band @ 7:30pm | Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center November 20 Clark Sinfonia Concert @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts November 21 Clark University Jazz Workshop & Combo @ 7:30pm | The Grind, Higgins University Center November 22 Clark Student Recital @ 3pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

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