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Roots of the Bosnian Genocide

Between 1992 and 1995, Bosnian Serb forces humiliated, sexually abused, tortured, and killed Bosnian Muslims and Croats in a widespread, systematic way as part of the armed conflicts occurring across the former Yugoslavia.

Beyond Apocalypse: Imagining Climate Futures

Professor Ursula K. Heise, UCLA   Novelists, journalists, film directors and artists have created fictional and nonfictional stories about anthropogenic climate change for the last fifty years. The majority of these stories focus on scenarios of large-scale disaster and end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, with cities under water as a prominent motif. Such stories have been criticized for scientific […]

Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and the Idea of Race

  Some scholars argue that Kant is a universal egalitarian, which can be seen in his cosmopolitan philosophy. In the essay “Toward Perpetual Peace” (1795), Kant supposedly offers provisions that displace the racist views that he previously held in the essays on race of the 1780s. Yet in this talk, Professor Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou (College […]

Clark Faculty & Staff Workshop: A Gentle Introduction to Minimal Computing and Digital Humanities

Dr. Alex Gil Fuentes (Yale University) in collaboration with Dr. Eduard Arriaga-Arango (Clark University) will present a faculty workshop exploring Digital Humanities (DH) from a minimal computing perspective. Drawing on examples and experiences from their own DH practice, they will discuss how the DH landscape has evolved in the last decade, becoming a complex and […]

The Latine Vote

How do we make sense of the politics of such a diverse and changing demographic as the Latine voters?

Arab American Heritage Month Exhibit

During Arab American Heritage Month, students in ARAB 102 – Elementary Arabic II will showcase their Arabic language skills and knowledge of Arab cultures in an exhibit on display at the library.

‘The Ethicist’ Kwame Anthony Appiah presents ‘Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers’

Kwame Anthony AppiahProfessor of Philosophy and Law at New York University“The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine   PLEASE NOTE: Admission to the event is free and open to the public, but advanced registration is required. Reserve your spot now: https://bit.ly/appiah-clark. How is it possible to consider the world a moral community when there […]

Wilson Rare Book Room Open House

To celebrate National Library Week, Goddard Library will host an open house in the Wilson Rare Book Room.  On display will be examples of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Print Books from the Jonas G. Clark Collection.

Teaching During Wartime

Join the School of Professional Studies and the International Center for a presentation with Svitlana Ustychenko, The Director of the Language Center at Cherkasy State Business College in Ukraine.