October 3, 2005
Fall events and lectures at Clark University
All events are free and open to the public.
WORCESTER, MA
lecture
“Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language”
Wednesday, October 5, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, Clark University
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, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Winton Faculty Dining Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
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.
For more information, call 508-793-7479.
lecture
“Can We Prevent the Next Genocide?”
Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Cohen Lasry House, Kent Seminar Room, Clark University
Barbara Harff, Proventus Distinguished Visiting Professor and Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Naval Academy will present this lecture. This event is sponsored by Clark’s Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Fore more information, please call 508-793-8897.
installation
Denise Marika’s “Body Actions”
On display until November 6, 2005
Artist’s talk Thursday, October 27, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Opening reception
Thursday, October 27, 2005, 5:30 p.m.
Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, Clark University
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.
For more information, call 508-793-7479. Photos of Marika's work are available upon request.
lecture
“Aristotle on ‘Forced’ Actions”
Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:30 p.m.
Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
Join distinguished scholar and world-renowned authority Kevin Flannery, Dean, Faculty of Philosophy, Gregorian University (Rome), for a reflection, drawing upon Aristotle, of what makes an action truly one’s own. In conjunction with the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP). This is part of the Department of Philosophy Speaker Series.
For more information, call 508-793-7414.
modern history colloquium speaker
“Germans Abroad: The Herero and Armenian Genocides and the Origins of the Holocaust”
Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Kent Seminar Room, Cohen Lasry House, Clark University
From his work on ethnic and national conflict, genocides, and human rights, Eric Weitz, Professor of History, University of Minnesota will share his research on the Herero and Armenian Genocides. This event is co-sponsored by Clark’s History Department and the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Fore more information, please call 508-793-8897.
a new book
“From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa and the Third Reich”
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center, Clark University
A new book by Dr. Peter Hayes, Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies, Northwestern University, is a prize-winning study of the Degussa Corporation, which plundered precious metals in Nazi-occupied Europe, and produced and distributed Zyklon B. This event is sponsored by Clark’s Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Fore more information, please call 508-793-8897.
reading/slide presentations
Two Views from Mount Phousi
Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
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. For more information, call 508-793-7479.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in New England, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
Clark University
Worcester, Mass.
phone: 508-793-7635
www.clarku.edu
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