September 12, 2005
Clark University’s Higgins School of Humanities Announces Fall Events
film screening and discussion
“Vendetta”
Monday, September 26
Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts
7:30 pm
Ronald Roose, Hollywood film editor, will show Vendetta (1999), a Christopher Walken film he edited for HBO and speak about it following the screening. This event is sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities. It is free and open to the public. For more information, call 508-793-7479.
lecture
Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language
Wednesday, October 5
Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts
7:30 pm
Is Spanglish a language? Who uses it and when? What kind of future does it have? Is it a threat to standard English? And why is the Royal Academy of Spanish in Madrid so angry about it? Ilan Stavans, Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, and a public intellectual described by The New York Times as the “czar of Latino culture in the United States,” will reflect on this and other issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. This is sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, the Communication and Culture Program, Foreign Languages and Literature, and Clark’s English Department. It is free and open to the public. For more information, call 508-793-7479.
lecture
“Beyond the Intellectual Quarantine: Islam, Muslims and the Media”
Thursday, October 20
Winton Faculty Dining Room, Higgins University Center
7:30 p.m.
Anisa Mehdi, Emmy award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, will discuss current issues in Islam, from misunderstandings about Islam nurtured by western media (i.e. treatment of women and international violence) to the struggle among Muslims to define their faith to themselves and others. This event is sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities. It is free and open to the public. For more information, call 508-793-7479.
An installation
“Body Actions”
Thursday, October 27
Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts
4:30 p.m.
Denise Marika, nationally renowned artist, will discuss her piece Battle, a video and photography installation currently on view in the Schiltkamp Gallery at the Traina Center. Marika’s work depicts the human body engaged in motion, conveying social tensions, ruptures and shifts and well as personal stories. This event is sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities. It is free and open to the public. For more information, call 508-793-7479.
film and discussion
A Short Radiography of Hip Hop in Cuba
Tuesday, November 15
Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center
7:30 p.m.
Despite significant social change in Cuba, blacks continue to be ostracized and subjugated to a colonial outlook. In 1995, a group of creative young people founded the Rap-Festival; since then, the government has taken control of the Hip Hop movement, undermining its intentions.
Ricardo Bacallao and Elvira Rodriguez Puerto, director and producer of this documentary on issues of hip hop and race in Cuba, will screen the film and hold a discussion afterwards.
This event is offered as part of the African American Intellectual Culture Series. It is sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and is free and open to the public. For more information, call 508-793-7479.
Reading/slide presentations
Two Views from Mount Phousi
Wednesday, November 30
Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center
4:30 p.m.
Studio art professors Sarah Walker and Sarah Buie each received Higgins funding for travel and research in Southeast Asia in the spring of 2004. Sarah Walker, Associate Professor of Painting and Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, will present slides of new work as well as paintings in progress that hinge on her research of temple design and ornamentation.
Sarah Buie, Professor of Graphic Design and Director of the Higgins School of Humanities, will do a reading/slide talk from a work in progress, In Search of the Reclining Buddha. This event is part of the Higgins Faculty Series. It is sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and is free and open to the public. For more information, call 508-793-7479.
** photos of Ilan Stavans (Spanglish event) and Anisa Mehdi (Islam, Muslims and the Media) are available upon request
Angela Bazydlo
Associate Director, Media Relations
(508) 793-7635
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