Spring 1 5 Higgins of EVENTS CALENDAR LETTER from the DIRECTOR

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Given the challenging issues our society faces, spending a semester exploring play might seem a bit indulgent. But play itself is significant. Humans are thinkers and makers, but as Dutch historian Johan Huizinga argued in 1938, we are also players. Taylor Swift’s observation that “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play” notwithstanding, Americans seem to be playing less and less, as increases in leisure time are offset by new technologies that keep us tethered to work. Equally troubling, our culture’s insistent drive for results has placed outcome over process, completion over exploration, winning over learning or enjoying the game. Still we know play matters. Play inspires creativity, builds communities, reveals and challenges boundaries. It is a form of what we have come to refer to as effective practice, and as such may offer new insights into larger concerns.

So let’s play.

This spring, we will explore play as a complex activity in its own right and as a lens through which to view other societal issues afresh. We

will hear from psychologist Peter Gray, who studies the role of play in www.clarku.edu/higgins human evolution and in children’s intellectual, social, and emotional development; media scholar Nina Huntemann, an expert on gender, videogames, and gamer culture; historian Victoria W. Wolcott, whose >>

most recent book looks at the place of leisure and amusement spaces in the struggle for black equality; composer Joseph Bertolozzi, who reimagined the Eiffel Tower as a musical instrument and figured out how to play it; and Clark alumnus and filmmaker Jay Shapiro, who documented the baseball dreams of eleven- and twelve-year-old boys in Uganda.

Many members of the Clark community contributed ideas for events and speakers and helped frame the scope of the symposium. Thanks to Angela Bazydlo, Barbara Bigelow, Robert Boatright, Wes DeMarco, Gino DiIorio, Patty Ewick, Allison Fong, Betsy Huang, Sharon Krefetz, Meredith Neuman, Juan Pablo Rivera, Bob Ross, Toby Sisson, Shelly Tenenbaum, and Kristen Williams. I am grateful to Barbara Bigelow, Jennifer Plante, Dan Balel, and Gino DiIorio for their willingness to plan and facilitate the Community Conversations. Thanks to Ousmane Power-Greene, Jay Elliott, and Janette Greenwood for agreeing to give Higgins Faculty talks as part of this semester’s symposium. Finally, the Higgins School happily acknowledges the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its support.

As ever,

AMY RICHTER SPRING 2015 EVENTS 2015 SPRING Director, Higgins School of Humanities NEWS & NOTES FROM HUMANITIES FACULTY news¬e María Acosta Cruz (Language, Fox recently has presented his work in conference in London in July. She Literature and Culture) spoke about South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, also performed a short work entitled contemporary Puerto Rico at and the United Kingdom. “Witch-Hunting: What’s In It for Me?” the Brown Bag Lunch Seminar in New York City in November as part of Series “Interdisciplinary & Global Benjamin Korstvedt’s (Visual and past present futures with the New York Studies Division” at Worcester Performing Arts) article on “‘The Performance Artists Collective. Polytechnic Institute. Prerogative of Late Style’: Thoughts on the Expressive World of Schubert’s Late Gary Overvold (Philosophy) has Judith Wagner DeCew (Philosophy) Works” will appear in Schubert’s Late been appointed Emeritus Professor published “Information about Music in History and Theory (Cambridge of Philosophy. He also was named Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy” University Press, forthcoming 2015). Research Professor in Recent European in Philosophy for the Curious: Why Philosophy. Study Philosophy (Curious Academic Nina Kushner (History) has a new book Publishing, forthcoming 2016). titled Women and Work in Eighteenth- Amy Richter (History) published At Century France (Louisiana State Home in Nineteenth-Century America: Wes DeMarco (Philosophy) presented University Press, 2015), co-edited with A Documentary History (New York “The Limits of Priest’s Mathematical Daryl Hafter. University Press, 2015). Drawing Model of Buddhist Emptiness” at the upon advice manuals, architectural Northern New England Philosophical Matt Malsky (Visual and Performing designs, personal accounts, popular Association in October. His essay Arts) released a collection of chamber fiction, advertising images, and reform “Wise Questions: The Via Interrogativa” music, Geographies & Geometries, on the literature, it offers a broad interpretation has been accepted for inclusion in a PARMA label in July. He also contributed of home’s place in American culture, volume tentatively titled Wisdom and an article titled “The Grandeur(s) of politics, and daily life. Philosophy: East and West (Bloomsbury CinemaScope: Early Experiments in Academic, forthcoming). Cinematic Stereophony” to Living Stereo: Robert Tobin (Language, Literature Histories and Cultures of Multichannel and Culture) published “Discovering Everett Fox (Language, Literature, Sound (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Sexuality: The Status of Literature and Culture/Jewish Studies) published as Evidence,” in The Making of the The Early Prophets, a new annotated Meredith Neuman (English) presented Humanities, Volume III: The Modern translation of the biblical books of her work on the Mather family library Humanities (Amsterdam University Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. at the Society of Early Americanists Press, 2014).

Council on the Uncertain Human Future In 2014, the Higgins School hosted a national Council on the Uncertain Human Future (UHF), a sustained conversation on climate change among twelve distinguished scholars and artists. It was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in conjunction with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, and based at the Higgins School of Humanities. For more information on the Council’s work: www.clarku.edu/higgins-school-of-humanities/initiatives/council-on-uncertain-human-future.cfm

The Council now is spawning other initiatives, and a network of local UHF Councils is developing. The first such Council will take place this winter at Clark University, with twelve faculty participants from across the disciplines. Three other Councils are forming at SUNY Stony Brook, the University of Edinburgh, and the Smt Chandibai Himathmal Mansukhani College of the University of Mumbai, India. Both A Guide to Convening a Council and a Member’s Guide are available on the UHF website, and are designed for use in a range of communities, not only academic settings. We are eager to see the creation of other local UHF Councils.

On March 26, 2015, Clark will hold a campus-wide teach-in on The Uncertain Human Future as it relates to the climate crisis. Faculty are encouraged to cancel classes that day so that all members of the community can participate. The day will include plenaries, panels and dialogues, a campus-wide Council session, and a film festival as well as keynote talks by climate scientist Susanne Moser and ecologist Christopher Uhl (Penn State). The teach-in is co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, the Department of International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE), the Dean of the College, the School of Geography, and the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise.

Please contact Sarah Buie, Senior Associate and Past Director, Higgins School of Humanities ([email protected]) or Ellen Foley, Interim Director, IDCE ([email protected]) for further information. the work of play Everything good in life — love, nature, the arts, and family jests — is play. And when we actually play — whether we’re knocking down a tin battalion with a pea or drawing together across the net barrier in tennis — what we feel in our very muscles is the essence of that play which possesses the marvelous juggler, who tosses from hand to hand in an unbroken sparkling parabola … the planets of the universe.

— VLADIMIR NABOKOV, BREITENSTRÄTER — PAOLINO

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DIALOGUE SYMPOSIUM SPRING 2015 The Work of Play

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” “You’ve got to work hard to play hard.” Work and play often are placed in opposition; the latter serving as an antidote to or reward for the former. Or in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.”

But what about the work that play does? At its best, play shapes our identities, embodies and affirms human values, and fuels creativity.

This semester, our dialogue symposium asks where and on what terms play thrives in our achievement and results-oriented society. We will consider free play and games, cooperation and competition, sports and technology. How does play provide space for fantasy, diversion, and escape? When does it challenge the status quo and when does it re-inscribe existing hierarchies? Whether we view play as a biological imperative, a site of community, a civil right, a way to discover beauty, or a passport to cross national boundaries, there can be little doubt that the work of play is serious business.

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COME (THINK ABOUT) PLAY Facilitated by Barbara Bigelow (Graduate School of Management) and Jennifer Plante (Writing Center and Writing Program) Some forms of play are free and engage our curiosity by encouraging us to experiment with ideas, with movement, with fancy. Other forms have strict rules with clear winners and losers and are competitions of skill. Make-believe, music, baseball, and chess — all are “played.” So what exactly do we mean by play and what attracts us to its different forms? This question will help frame our dialogue and encourage us to reflect on the role of play in our lives.

Tuesday, January 27 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons Sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities

THE ART OF PLAY: AN IMPROV WORKSHOP Facilitated by Dan Balel (Theater) and Gino DiIorio (Theater) Improvisation involves listening, collaboration, and focus. It demands that we give up control, be present, and work in the service of imagination. In these respects, it distills the qualities of creativity and makes them visible, reminding us that what looks like play is often the product of hard work.

In this community conversation, we will explore theater games and improvisation exercises to develop the skills of imaginative play. Join us and see where imagination leads.

Tuesday, March 10 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons Sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities

difficult dialogues

DON’T BITE YOUR TONGUE Many of us were told from a young age that we should not discuss politics, sex, religion, race, or any potentially contentious issue at the dinner table. The Don’t Bite Your Tongue dinners break this convention — freeing us from “safe” observations and the fear of offending others. This semester, we will gather in different residence halls for dinner and dialogue on difficult topics with the intention of listening to and learning from one another in ways that challenge our underlying assumptions about ourselves and others. Dinner will be provided. Students, staff and faculty need only bring themselves and a willingness to be open to anything!

To suggest a topic, please contact Barbara Bigelow at [email protected].

Tuesday, January 13 @ 5:30pm | Maywood Street Hall Tuesday, February 10 @ 5:30pm | Hughes Hall Tuesday, March 10 @ 5:30pm | Johnson Sanford Center Tuesday, April 14 @ 5:30pm | Wright Hall

Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, Difficult Dialogues, Residential Life and Housing, the Dean of Students Office, and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion DIALOGUE SYMPOSIUM the work of play Real Play: Promoting Children’s Intellectual, Social, and Emotional Development Peter Gray

Children are designed, by nature, to play and explore on their own, independently of adults. They need freedom in order to develop; without it they suffer. The drive to play freely is a basic, biological drive. Lack of free play may not kill the physical body, as would lack of food, air, or water, but it kills the spirit and stunts mental growth. — Peter Gray, Free To Learn

Evidence from anthropology, psychology, and history demonstrates that free play is the primary means by which children learn to control their lives, solve problems, get along with peers, and become emotionally resilient. This capacity to learn through play evolved long ago, in hunter-gatherer bands where children acquired the skills of the culture through their own initiatives. In this talk, Professor Peter Gray will describe the defining characteristics of play and will show how they contribute to play’s educational and developmental power. He also will present evidence for a cause-effect relationship between the dramatic decline of play and the marked rise in emotional and social disorders in young people over the past sixty years. Running through Gray’s analysis is a commitment to improving children’s lives and promoting their happiness and learning.

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

Sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities

Peter Gray is Research Professor of human evolution and how children Psychology at Boston College and educate themselves through play and author of the internationally acclaimed exploration. He has expanded on these introductory psychology textbook, ideas in his book, Free to Learn: Why Psychology (Worth Publishers). He has Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will conducted and published research in Make Our Children Happier, More Self- neuroendocrinology, developmental Reliant, and Better Students for Life psychology, anthropology, and (Basic Books, 2013). He also authors a education. Most recently, Gray’s research regular blog called Freedom to Learn, for has focused on the role of play in Psychology Today magazine.

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Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s as one of only a few girls who played videogames in my community, I became accustomed to accusations from fellow players that I was not “really a gamer.” As a young adult playing online, those accusations turned into challenges that I was not “really a woman” but actually a male gamer hiding behind a female avatar. — Nina Huntemann

Can girls and women be gamers? This seemingly simple question reveals more complex debates about identity, community, and power in the world of videogames and beyond. In August of 2014, many feminist gamers became targets of #GamerGate, an Internet harassment campaign that moved from the virtual to the real world. In this talk, gamer, feminist, and media scholar Nina Huntemann will draw upon her own experiences and in-depth interviews with other self-identified feminist gamers to decipher #GamerGate and to explore four decades of the marginalization of female gamers. Her goal is not to lament the exclusion of women from gaming, but instead to demonstrate how feminist theory and theories of play constructively intersect, upending long-held assumptions about gender and videogames.

Thursday, February 19 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, the Department of Political Science, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Nina Huntemann is an associate and social practices of digital gaming. professor of media and film at Suffolk She has co-edited two books: Gaming University in Boston, Massachusetts. Globally: Production, Play and Place Her research focuses on the intersections (Palgrave, 2013) and Joystick Soldiers: of gender, culture and technology, The Politics of Play in Military Video applying feminist theory and cultural Games (Routledge, 2010). production perspectives to the industrial

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On a warm summer day in 1952, Marian Spencer … heard one of the ubiquitous radio ads for the city’s Coney Island Amusement Park … “Come on, kiddies. Come on out. Meet Uncle Al. Come out to Coney Island!” Spencer called the park to ask if they meant all children were welcome … She went on to say, “Ours is a Negro family.” The reply was, predictably, “Well now of course, that’s not my doing; it’s management’s decision, but I don’t think it means Negro children.” — Victoria W. Wolcott, Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters

In recent years, there has been a tremendous nostalgia for urban recreation of the early and mid- twentieth century. Old wooden roller coasters, lavish swimming pools, and swinging dance halls have been celebrated in documentary films and other forms of public history. Historian Victoria W. Wolcott will challenge this nostalgia, arguing that these public depictions ignore the racial exclusion on which recreation was premised — a system of segregation primarily enforced by white violence on urban beachfronts, playgrounds, and in commercial facilities like roller skating rinks and amusement parks. The incongruity of such violence coupled with images of families at play has hidden this history of racial struggle in recreational spaces, North and South. Wolcott will remind us that, before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregated amusement parks, teenagers congregated at forbidden swimming pools, and church groups picnicked in white-only parks.

Tuesday, February 24 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and the Department of History Wolcott’s talk is part of the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship Program.

Victoria W. Wolcott is Professor of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). In addition, History at the University at Buffalo, she has published articles in The Journal SUNY where she teaches courses in of American History, the Radical History African American history, urban history, Review, and the Journal of Women’s and women’s history. She is the author History among others. Her current of Remaking Respectability: African- book project, Living in the Future: American Women in Interwar Detroit The Utopian Strain in the Long Civil (University of North Carolina Press, Rights Movement, explores the role of 2001) and Race, Riots, and Roller interracial pacifist communities in the Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated civil rights movement. Recreation in America (University of

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— JOHAN HUIZINGA, HOMO LUDENS: A STUDY OF THE PLAY-ELEMENT IN CULTURE DIALOGUE the SYMPOSIUMwork of play Playing With Rules: Drawing on the Spirit of Sol LeWitt

Your work isn’t a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It’s a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it. – Sol LeWitt

In honor of artist Sol LeWitt’s dedication to the act of artistic creation as a form of play, the Higgins Lounge will be the site of a wall drawing produced by students in Assistant Professor Toby Sisson’s course, The Expanded Mark: New Strategies in Drawing. Over several weeks, visitors to the Higgins Lounge will witness the drawing take shape; line by line, the product of a collaborative experience. This site-specific artwork references the geometry of Dana Commons’ midcentury architecture while reminding us of the human activity that takes place within its space. The composition of the drawing is the collective effort of students and faculty translating the essence of Sol LeWitt’s playful wisdom.

The exhibition will run from February 26 through May 25.

Opening Reception Thursday, February 26 @ 4pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and the Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) was an occur with varied interpretations and American artist known as one of the individual mark making. Democratizing founders of Conceptual Art. LeWitt’s wall the practice of art making by inviting drawings were designed to be executed everyone to participate in the process, the by others based on his guidelines, artist is celebrated for his humility and encouraging the distinctions that generosity as well as his pioneering spirit.

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There is a voice inside that pile of iron, so I am going to try to draw it out … I want to compose the music so it exists. — Joseph Bertolozzi, on recording Tower Music

For over 100 years, the Eiffel Tower has been hailed as an architectural landmark, an engineering feat, a monument, a destination. Composer Joseph Bertolozzi has turned it into a complex and dynamic musical instrument, harvesting and transforming its sounds. His Tower Music or Musique de la Tour reflects an ambitious desire to find music where it lives and is part of a long-standing tradition of percussion works produced by found objects. Bertolozzi will share stories of his time playing one of the world’s most famous monuments, the music he created, and the possibilities of playing the world around us.

Monday, March 16 @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and the Department of Language, Literature and Culture

Joseph Bertolozzi is a composer whose reached #18 on the Billboard Classical works range from solo gongs to full Crossover Music Chart, and the music symphony orchestra to architectural can be heard as part of a permanent installations. His latest explorations installation at the bridge. Bertolozzi in sound have brought him to Tower became a percussionist in 2002 when Music, transforming the Eiffel Tower he gathered The Bronze Collection — into an instrument just in time for its more than 60 gongs and cymbals 125th anniversary in 2014. This project from around the world — on which builds upon Bridge Music, described by he performs and composes. Originally the New York Times as an “audacious trained as a concert organist, he has plan” to compose music using New performed in the United States and York State’s Mid-Hudson Bridge. The Europe on some of the finest and oldest resulting 2009 CD Bridge Music (Delos) organs in the world.

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HIGGINS FACULTY SERIES Beyond Basketball? The Re-Emergence of the Politically-Conscious Basketball Star Ousmane Power-Greene

If it feels important to me then I respond. If it doesn’t, I don’t. There are a lot of issues I have not talked about. For me, it is about knowledge and about a gut feeling that hits home for you. You feel it, and go about it. — LeBron James

Recently NBA players have spoken out against the racism of Donald Sterling, the former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, and protested the death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner by wearing “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts during pregame warm-ups. Such political consciousness is not new. Whether we consider Lew Alcinder and his student activism at UCLA, Magic Johnson and his work on behalf of AIDS education and prevention, or Lisa Leslie’s advocacy of women’s equality, professional basketball players have taken on visible roles in social and political movements. In this talk, Professor Ousmane Power-Greene (History/Office of Diversity and Inclusion) will consider basketball player activism from the Black Freedom Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s to the recent struggles against mass incarceration and police violence. Which social and political causes have inspired super-athletes such as LeBron James to use their position in society to speak and to act publicly? Do athletes, particularly basketball players, help or hinder social and political movements?

Tuesday, March 24 @ 4pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities

Ousmane Power-Greene teaches University Press, 2014), examines courses for undergraduate and black Americans’ efforts to agitate for graduate students on American history equal rights in the face of the American with a focus on African American Colonization Society and its attempts to internationalism and comparative compel free blacks to leave the United social and political movements. His States for Liberia. In Spring 2015, Power- book, Against Wind and Tide: The Greene is serving as Clark’s Interim Chief African American Struggle Against Officer of Diversity and Inclusion. the Colonization Movement (New York

p > 10. www.clarku.edu/higgins p > 11. the work of play State parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.

— ARTICLE 31, UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD DIALOGUE the workSYMPOSIUM of play Opposite Field: A Screening and Conversation with the Filmmaker Jay Shapiro ’04

I was expecting to see some rudimentary baseball — a lot of learning and some young boys playing the game for the first time. What I saw though was something else: these kids could really play. — Jay Shapiro, Opposite Field

Jay Shapiro’s journey into a baseball community in Uganda, East Africa reveals an inspiring world of boys and young men playing a familiar game in an unfamiliar place.

Bound by their love of baseball, they build a brotherhood that endures against the backdrop of personal tragedy, absent fathers, scarring legacies of war, and grinding poverty. A team of 11- and 12-year-old boys from the ghettos of Kampala carry the hopes of the nation as they attempt to become the first African team to qualify for the Little League World Series. Their remarkable tale is a triumph for anyone who has ever loved the game and a reminder that when the situation seems impossible, sometimes the most important thing we can do is “keep playing.”

Wednesday, April 1 @ 7pm | Jefferson Academic Center, Room 320

Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, the Office of the President, and the Steinbrecher Fellowship Program

Jay Shapiro ’04, the director and filmingOpposite Field, which had its producer of Opposite Field, studied world premiere at DOC NYC in November documentary and film production 2014. Shapiro has worked on several at Clark University. While an film projects including The F Word, The undergraduate, he was awarded Final Season, Vintage Baseball, and an Anton Fellowship to produce a Baseball Discovered. Most recently, he documentary in Ghana entitled Like Me, was Creative Marketing Director at MLB I am Here. He has spent three summers Advanced Media, directing and producing living in West Africa, including Ghana, baseball videos for television, in-stadium Burkina Faso, and Cote d’Ivoire. An avid screens, and multimedia outlets. baseball fan, he spent nearly three years

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HIGGINS FACULTY SERIES Baseball in the Classroom James Elliott and Janette Greenwood

I have snatched my share of joys from the grudging hands of Fate as I have jogged along, but never has life held for me anything quite so entrancing as baseball. — Clarence Darrow

Too often we imagine academics and athletics as separate parts of collegiate life. But in James Elliott’s English class on Literature of Baseball and Janette Greenwood’s History course on Baseball in American Society, the two realms merge when baseball becomes the subject of scholarly inquiry. Both courses consider the ways in which baseball has been interwoven into American literature, history, and culture. Elliott asks, “Why is baseball so attractive to American writers of all types, and how do they use the game and its players as the basis for suggesting who we are?” Greenwood considers, “How does baseball reflect the history of the U.S. and help us understand broader historical changes like immigration, urbanization, civil rights, and globalization?” In this talk, Professors Elliott and Greenwood will share their favorite examples of baseball’s place in American literature and history and will discuss what happens when students and faculty move sports into the classroom.

Wednesday, April 8 @ 4:30pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

Sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities

James Elliott specializes in American Janette Greenwood teaches a variety Literature and Literary Theory. About a of history courses at Clark, many of decade ago, he became certified as an which focus on race and ethnicity in umpire for high school, American Legion, the United States. Her most recent book and other baseball leagues in Western is First Fruits of Freedom (University Massachusetts and decided to meld of North Carolina Press, 2010), which his professional interests with his new examines the migration of former slaves vocational work. Thus, his First Year to Massachusetts during and after the Seminar on the Literature of Baseball Civil War. James Elliott was born.

Janette Greenwood

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ROOTS OF EVERYTHING SERIES SPREADING CANVAS: Marine Painting and Early Modern Ways of Knowing In the early modern period, Britain’s struggle for maritime ascendency was represented and understood through visual culture. For example, John Pine’s Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords (1739) depicts the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and Eleanor Hughes is the Associate uses maps, pictures, and text — a combination of visual cues that Director of Exhibitions and would become typical during the eighteenth century — to present Publications and Associate Curator at the Yale Center complex events. In this talk, Eleanor Hughes will consider these for British Art in New Haven, pre-Romantic modes of representation and will ask how they might Connecticut. be presented for contemporary audiences.

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.

Thursday, February 5 @ 5pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and Early Modernists Unite

English Department Colloquia

Wednesdays @ 2pm Anderson House, Leir I Seminar Room

January 21 Shamim Ahmad, Keith Dooley, and JT Thelen

February 4 Gino DiIorio (Visual and Performing Arts)

February 18 Ujwala Bandaru and Steph McGrath

March 18 Ashley Barry and Lingyun Tao

April 8 Johanna Seibert

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HENRY J. LEIR CHAIR IN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE SYMPOSIUM ON TOPICS IN THE GERMAN DISCOVERY OF SEX: Prostitution, Masculinist Homosexuality, and Pornography

Beyond the Femme Fatale: New Types of Prostitutes in Turn-of-the-Century and Weimar Berlin @ 3pm Jill S. Smith will challenge the stereotypes of prostitutes as either Jill S. Smith passive victims or destructive femmes fatales by discussing other, more complex forms of prostitution and commodified sexuality that emerged in Berlin between 1890 and 1933. Smith is the John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College and the author of Berlin Coquette: Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933 (Cornell University Press, 2013).

Is Homosexuality a Form of Genius? Reconsidering the Shaun Jacob Halper Masculinist Wing of the First Homosexual Rights Movement in Central Europe @ 4pm Shaun Jacob Halper will examine the beliefs of the masculinist, misogynist, and antisemitic wing of the German homosexual rights movement from 1897 to 1933, and the shadow they cast on homosexual life today. Halper is the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. He is writing a book on the life and thought of Mordechai Langer Peter Rehberg (1894–1943), a modern Jewish thinker and Hebrew poet.

The Revolution Is Your Boyfriend: Sexual Utopias after Reich and Marcuse @ 5pm Peter Rehberg will analyze Bruce LaBruce’s queer independent movie Raspberry Reich (2004), a pornographic parody about the German terrorist group Red Army Faction from the 1970s, through the lens of the Freudo-Marxist writings on sexual politics by Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse. Rehberg is DAAD Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, he is working on a book about queer masculinities in contemporary post-pornography.

Thursday, April 16 @ 3–6pm | Fuller Room, 4th Floor, Goddard Library

Friends of the Goddard Library

Claudia Bushman, Columbia University Professor of American Studies, will discuss “One Woman’s Boston,” a view of the city in 1870.

Wednesday, March 18 @ 4:30pm | Rare Book Room, Goddard Library Reception @ 4pm

Richard Bushman, Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, will present his research on 18th-century farmers and agriculture.

Wednesday, April 15 @ 4:30pm | Rare Book Room, Goddard Library Reception @ 4pm STRASSLER CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE henry j. leir STUDIESstrassler

STRASSLER CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE STUDIES HITLER’S FURIES: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields Wendy Lower (Claremont-McKenna College) will discuss her research on the enthusiastic involvement of German women in anti-Jewish atrocities in Eastern Europe. Lower’s work reveals a nuanced understanding of women’s participation in the Holocaust beyond their roles as mothers, wives, and supporters.

Monday, February 2 @ 4:15pm | Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House Co-sponsored by the Strassler Center and the Department of History

LA VORÁGINE The 2014–15 Critical History Lecture Series: Public History will continue with a musical program exploring genocide and mass violence in Latin America through expressions of cultural identity in works from Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Brazil that speak to the resilience and joy of the human spirit. See the ClarkArts music event listings on page 22 for more details.

Saturday, February 21 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts Pre-Concert Talk @ 6:30pm Co-sponsored by the Strassler Center and the Traina Chamber Music Fund

PUBLIC HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST During this final event of the 2014-15 Critical History Lecture Series: Public History, scholars Simone Schweber (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Harold Marcuse (University of California, Santa Barbara), and Andrew W. Port (Wayne State University) will explore different aspects of public history related to the Holocaust.

Wednesday, March 18 @ 4–7pm | Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House

TWENTY YEARS OF GENOCIDE STUDIES: A Critical Appraisal Eric Weitz (City College of New York) will deliver the keynote address opening the third International Graduate Students’ Conference on Genocide Studies: The State of Research 100 Years after the Armenian Genocide. Weitz will discuss widening the lens of Genocide Studies to include the history of human rights and to make human populations more central to its focus. This event is made possible through contributions from the Louis and Ann Kulin Fund, the Asher Fund, and other generous donors.

Thursday, April 9 @ 7:30pm | Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center

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— G. STANLEY HALL, ASPECTS OF CHILD LIFE AND EDUCATION CLARK ARTS strassler gallery clarkarts GALLERY EXHIBITION AWKWARD OTHER PARTY A collection of artwork by Rita Crocker and Leejin Kim will fill the Schiltkamp Gallery this spring. Examining culture and language across the transnational frame, the artists’ work reveals the anxiety that accompanies assimilation, language learning, socializing, negotiations, and even partying. Observing the awkwardness of trying to fit in, they investigate the discomfort and confusion of cross-cultural relationships. Crocker draws from her experiences of travel and repatriotism, and Kim from Korean and Korean-American pop culture.

Rita Crocker received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She has exhibited her work in New York, Dallas, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Baltimore, and on an international level in South Korea, England, France, Argentina, and Colombia. She has worked as adjunct faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and at the University of Antioquia in Medellín. She also has been a visiting artist at the Institución Universitaria Salazar y Herrera in Colombia and at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan.

Leejin Kim received her BFA from Seoul National University, her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD in media art and text from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has exhibited her work in Richmond, Oakland, Milwaukee, New York, and Philadelphia, and internationally in South Korea and England. She is currently the Art Director of the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) Museum and the Founder and Director of C.A.N., an online and print magazine issued by the CICA Museum in South Korea.

The exhibition will run from February 18 through April 3.

Opening Reception Wednesday, February 18 @ 4:30pm | Schiltkamp Gallery, Traina Center for the Arts

Gallery hours: SENIOR THESIS SHOW An exhibition of artwork presented by graduating seniors Schiltkamp Gallery, undertaking a final project in Studio Art. Traina Center for the Arts The exhibition will run from April 22 through May 17. Monday through Thursday 9am–9pm Opening Reception Wednesday, April 22 @ 4:30pm Friday 9am–4pm Schiltkamp Gallery, Traina Center for the Arts Saturday 12–4pm

Sunday 12–9pm

Admission: Free CLARK ARTS theaterclarkarts THEATER EVENTS TALK RADIO by Eric Bogosian directed by Hannah Yukon presented by CUPS Barry Champlain, a Jewish radio personality in Dallas, Texas, is a host Eric Bogosian with a caustic sense of humor and a knack for cutting people down with his controversial and politically liberal views. A former suit salesman, Champlain becomes famous through guest shots on the Jeff Fisher radio show and eventually gets his own top-rated program. But success comes with an unexpected price — attention from radical elements and alienation from his wife.

February 18–21 @ 7:30pm | Michelson Theater, Little Center

IN THE EVENT OF MY DEATH by Lindsay Joy directed by Ray Munro presented by the Department of Visual and Performing Arts This contemporary story follows eight small-town twenty-somethings who know each other from high school and share an impromptu time of mourning and celebration after the funeral of a mutual friend.

March 10–15 @ 7:30pm | Experimental Theater, Little Center $5, free with college ID

film event

TALES FROM THE ORGAN TRADE Documentary Screening and Conversation with Producer Felix Golubev Tales from the Organ Trade (2013) takes a gritty and unflinching look at the shadowy world of black-market organ trafficking: the street-level brokers, the rogue surgeons, the impoverished men and women who are willing to sacrifice their own bodies for a quick payday, and the desperate patients who face the agonizing choice of obeying the law or saving their own lives. With unprecedented access to all the players, the film explores the legal, moral, and ethical issues involved in this complex life and death drama. Felix Golubev, one of Canada’s top documentary producers, will offer commentary.

Friday, April 24 @ 1pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts Co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, the Cultural Studies and Communication Program, and the Screen Studies Program

www.clarku.edu/clarkarts p > 20. clarkartsCLARK ARTS clarkartsCLARK ARTS THE BIG MEAL by Dan LeFranc directed by Dan Balel presented by the Department of Visual and Performing Arts Somewhere in America, in a typical suburban restaurant on a typical night, Sam and Nicole first meet. Sparks fly. And so begins an expansive tale that traverses five generations of a modern family, from first kiss to final goodbye.

April 15–18, 22–25 @ 7:30pm | Michelson Theater, Little Center $5, free with college ID music MUSIC EVENTS ECCE concert The ECCE ensemble will perform Reiko Fueting’s light asleep, John Aylward’s Ephemera, and the premiere of Martin Boykan’s Piano Trio No. 4. Boykan, a celebrated composer and recent inductee to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, will offer a pre-concert talk.

This performance is supported by the Traina Chamber Music Fund of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts/Music. Residency activities with student performers and composers will be held on Sunday, February 8.

Saturday, February 7 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts Talk by Martin Boykan @ 6:30pm

PETER SULSKI faculty concert Violin/Viola Solo Recital J.S. Bach: The Complete Solo String Works, Part Eight Peter Sulski is a former member of the London Symphony Orchestra and is currently on the faculty as a teacher of violin/viola/chamber music at Clark University and College of the Holy Cross.

Peter Sulski Friday, March 20 @ 12pm | John and Kay Bassett Admissions Center

MYTHS, FAIRY TALES, AND GHOST STORIES: A WORCESTER MUSIC GUILD BENEFIT WITH DARLENE DOBISCH vocal recital Alumna Darlene Dobisch ’00 will present a program of vocal music accompanied on piano by Clark’s own Sima Kustanovich. Dobisch’s repertoire includes a broad spectrum of soprano roles, and she performs internationally as an oratorio and solo recital singer.

Darlene Dobisch This concert is co-sponsored by Clark’s Music Program and the Music Guild. Admission is free for Clark students, faculty, and staff. There will be a $20 charge for other attendees as part of the Music Guild’s fundraising efforts to support Music Worcester.

Sunday, March 22 @ 3pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

www.clarku.edu/clarkarts p > 21. clarkarts CLARK ARTS AARON TRANT: SOLO PERCUSSION concert This program by Aaron Trant will feature an accompaniment to the Chris Marker film La Jetée (1962). Trant is a cofounder, performer, and composer for the After Quartet, a group dedicated to the art of live musical accompaniment of silent film.

This performance and residency are supported by the Traina Chamber Music Fund of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts/Music. Residency activities with students will be held on the day of the concert.

Wednesday, March 25 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

TREVOR BABB concert Electric Guitar With Electronics Guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and composer Trevor Babb has performed with the Improvised Sound Collective, the Yale Recital Chorus and Orchestra, Ossia New Music, the Apeiron Ensemble, and the Benson Forum on Creativity. This program will feature recent compositions of contemporary classical music for electric guitar with electronics. Residency activities with students will be held on the day of the concert.

Friday, March 27 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

SOUND ENERGY: NEW MUSIC STRING TRIO concert Founded in 2014, Sound Energy will explore the wide range of sonic possibilities inherent in an ensemble that features Micah Ringham (violin), Ashleigh Gordon (viola), and Robert Mayes (cello).

This performance and residency are supported by the Traina Chamber Music Fund of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts/Music.

Monday, March 30 @ 8pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

special event

LA VORÁGINE concert The Worcester Chamber Music Society will explore genocide and mass violence in Latin America. The program, featuring guest artist J.P. Jofre, will include works by Capillas, Garrido-Lecca, Carrillo, Brouwer, Jofre, Villa-Lobos, and Piazzolla. Clark University Professor Ramon Borges-Mendez (International Development, Community and Environment) will offer commentary before the event.

This concert and residency are supported by the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Traina Chamber Music Fund of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts/Music.

Saturday, February 21 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts Talk by Ramon Borges-Mendez @ 6:30pm CLARK ARTS clarkartsCLARK ARTS special event

GELLER JAZZ CONCERT A Dave Liebman Celebration Join us for the second Geller Jazz Concert in honor of special guest saxophonist Dave Liebman. In a career that has spanned more than four decades, Liebman has played with Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Chick Corea, and other greats. He has received numerous honors, including the NEA Masters of Jazz award, the Jazz Educators Network Legends of Jazz award, multiple Grammy nominations, and the French Order of Arts and Letters.

In the first of two sets, Liebman will be joined by Adam Niewood (saxophone), Gene Perla (bass), and Lenny White (drums) in playing the music of Elvin Jones from Live at the Lighthouse. The second set will feature the Dave Liebman Quartet with Bobby Avey (piano), Ron McClure (bass), and Billy Hart (drums) playing the music of Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter.

This performance is made possible through the generous support of The Estate of Selma B. Geller. Residency activities with students will be held on the day of the concert.

Wednesday, March 18 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

ERIC HOFBAUER QUINTET concert Prehistoric Jazz: The Rite & 100 Years of Revolution For the first time on the Clark campus, jazz guitarist and new faculty member Eric Hofbauer will perform with his jazz quintet featuring Todd Brunel (clarinet), Junko Fujiwara (cello), Curt Newton (drums), and Jerry Sabatini (trumpet). The program will include innovative jazz arrangements of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.

Friday, April 17 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts please note... CHESTER BREZNIAK, EDEN MACADAM-SOMER, AND YUKIKO TAKAGI concert All ClarkArts events are free, unless otherwise noted, Clarinetist Chester Brezniak, violinist/composer Eden MacAdam- and open to the public. All Somer, and pianist Yukiko Takagi will perform Bartok’s Contrasts information is subject to and Khachaturian’s Trio as well as works by MacAdam-Somer, Lyle change. Please call the Visual & Performing Arts Events Office Davidson, Debussy, and others. at 508.793.7356 or email [email protected]. Look for Saturday, April 18 @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts 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 JANUARY January 13 Don’t Bite Your Tongue Dinner @ 5:30pm | Maywood Street Hall January 21 English Colloquium: Shamim Ahmad, Keith Dooley & JT Thelen @ 2pm | Anderson House, Leir 1 January 27 Community Conversation: Come (Think About) Play @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons FEBRUARY February 2 Hitler’s Furies | Wendy Lower @ 4:15pm | Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House February 4 English Colloquium: Gino DiIorio @ 2pm | Anderson House, Leir 1 February 5 Spreading Canvas | Eleanor Hughes @ 5pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons February 7 ECCE Concert @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts February 10 Don’t Bite Your Tongue Dinner @ 5:30pm | Hughes Hall February 10 Real Play | Peter Gray @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons February 18 English Colloquium: Ujwala Bandaru & Steph McGrath @ 2pm | Anderson House, Leir 1 February 18 Awkward Other Party Opening Reception @ 4:30pm | Schiltkamp Gallery, Traina Center for the Arts February 18–21 Talk Radio @ 7:30pm | Michelson Theater, Little Center February 19 Playing Like a Girl | Nina Huntemann @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons February 21 La Vorágine Concert @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts February 24 Dangerous Play | Victoria W. Wolcott @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons February 26 Playing With Rules Exhibit Opening & Reception @ 4pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons calendar at a glance at calendar MARCH March 10 Don’t Bite Your Tongue Dinner @ 5:30pm | Johnson Sanford Center March 10 Community Conversation: Improv Workshop @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons March 10–15 In the Event of My Death @ 7:30pm | Experimental Theater, Little Center March 16 Playing the Eiffel Tower | Joseph Bertolozzi @ 7pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons March 18 English Colloquium: Ashley Barry & Lingyun Tao @ 2pm | Anderson House, Leir 1 March 18 Public History of the Holocaust @ 4–7pm | Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House March 18 One Woman’s Boston | Claudia Bushman @ 4:30pm | Rare Book Room, Goddard Library March 18 Geller Jazz Concert | Dave Liebman @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts March 20 Solo Bach Violin/Viola Recital | Peter Sulski @ 12pm | John and Kay Bassett Admissions Center March 22 Worcester Music Guild Benefit | Darlene Dobisch @ 3pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts March 24 Beyond Basketball? | Ousmane Power-Greene @ 4pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons March 25 Solo Percussion Concert | Aaron Trant @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts March 26 Teach-In on the Uncertain Human Future | Event Details TBA March 27 Electric Guitar With Electronics | Trevor Babb @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts March 30 Sound Energy Concert @ 8pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts APRIL April 1 Opposite Field: Screening and Conversation | Jay Shapiro @ 7pm | Jefferson 320 April 8 English Colloquium: Johanna Seibert @ 2pm | Anderson House, Leir 1 April 8 Baseball in the Classroom | James Elliott & Janette Greenwood @ 4:30pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons April 9 Twenty Years of Genocide Studies | Eric Weitz @ 7:30pm | Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center April 14 Don’t Bite Your Tongue Dinner @ 5:30pm | Wright Hall April 15 18th-Century Farmers & Agriculture | Richard Bushman @ 4:30pm | Rare Book Room, Goddard Library April 15–18 The Big Meal @ 7:30pm | Michelson Theater, Little Center April 16 Symposium on Topics in the German Discovery of Sex @ 3–6pm | Fuller Room, Goddard Library April 17 Eric Hofbauer Quintet Concert @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts April 18 Chester Brezniak, Eden MacAdam-Somer & Yukiko Takagi Concert @ 7:30pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts April 22 Senior Thesis Show Opening Reception @ 4:30pm | Schiltkamp Gallery, Traina Center for the Arts April 22–25 The Big Meal @ 7:30pm | Michelson Theater, Little Center April 24 Tales from the Organ Trade: Screening and Conversation @ 1pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

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March 30 Sound Energy Concert @ 8pm | Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts All events are free, unless HIGGINS SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES APRIL otherwise noted, and open Amy Richter April 1 Opposite Field: Screening and Conversation | Jay Shapiro @ 7pm | Jefferson 320 director to the public. All events are April 8 English Colloquium: Johanna Seibert @ 2pm | Anderson House, Leir 1 Sarah Buie subject to change. senior associate and past director April 8 Baseball in the Classroom | James Elliott & Janette Greenwood @ 4:30pm | Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons Jennifer McGugan April 9 Twenty Years of Genocide Studies | Eric Weitz @ 7:30pm | Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center assistant director for administration For more information, contact and communication April 14 Don’t Bite Your Tongue Dinner @ 5:30pm | Wright Hall the Higgins School of Humanities Kathy Sloan April 15 18th-Century Farmers & Agriculture | Richard Bushman @ 4:30pm | Rare Book Room, Goddard Library at 508.793.7479 or email program coordinator April 15–18 The Big Meal @ 7:30pm | Michelson Theater, Little Center [email protected]. 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