Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor at Clark University’s Department of International Development, Community, and Environment and Women’s and Gender Studies, will appear in the finale of the acclaimed, five-part PBS series, “Women, War & Peace.” The final episode, titled “War Redefined,” premiered on Nov. 8. Click here for program details and rebroadcast schedules. More…
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Polar photographer Chris Linder will present ‘Science on Ice’ lecture Nov. 9
Chris Linder, “Science on Ice” Wednesday, Nov. 9; 7 p.m. Dana Commons, Second Floor Lounge Using images from his newly published book “Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions,” Chris will explore how scientists survive and thrive in the polar regions, from Antarctic penguin colonies to the Greenland Ice Sheet. Chris will also talk about his…
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Belly Dance classes offered Fridays at noon; free to students, faculty and staff
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Prof. Gil Pontius is lauded for ‘out of the box’ GIS lecture in Netherlands
Professor Gilmore Pontius, of Clark’s Graduate School of Geography, gave the traditional Schermerhorn lecture at the ITC: Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente, Netherlands. Speaking to an audience of 350 people, including 120 newly arrived master’s students from 36 countries, Prof. Pontius explained the merits of learning the latest…
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Watch interview with Prof. Cynthia Enloe from Graduate Institute, Geneva
Research Professor Cynthia Enloe was recently interviewed at The Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, where she had presented the lecture “Who’s Afraid of Gender Analysis? Feminist Clues to Who Underestimates Power.” Visit Clark Voices to watch the interview.
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Critical Geography conference, Nov. 4-6, examines radical politics in age of crisis
Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University and the journal Human Geography, the 18th Annual Conference on Critical Geography seeks to bring critical geographers together to engage with a world in crisis. Historically, crises have been viewed as moments of political opportunity; as points in time where hegemonic contradictions are revealed and contested. This…
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Geography dept. to co-host 18th Annual Critical Geography Conference
The Graduate School of Geography is proud to co-host, with the journal Human Geography, the 18th Annual Critical Geography Conference at Clark. The keynote address by Neil Smith, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4 in…
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Lecture to address ‘Male Maternity in Nietzsche’
Andrew Parker: “Male Maternity in Nietzsche: Queering the Mother’s Gender” Monday, Oct. 3; 4:30 p.m. Estabrook 303 Andrew Parker, professor of English at Amherst College, is the editor or co-editor of a number of important collections of essays that helped shape the emergence of queer theory in the 1990s, including “Nationalisms and Sexualities” (1992) and…
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Prof. Grandia wins Fulbright Canada award to study herbicide-cancer links
Liza Grandia, Assistant Professor at Clark University’s International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) Department, has been granted a Fulbright Canada Award to conduct research at McGill University. Grandia will focus on Dow Chemical’s NAFTA challenge of Canada’s ban of the herbicide 2,4-D, due to its alleged links to cancer causation. More…
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More than 1,000 expected at int’l summit on conflict-free minerals and Congo
More than 1,000 people from around the globe will travel to Clark University on September 24th to participate in an international summit on Informed Activism: Scarce Resources, Armed Conflict and Congo. Convened by the University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, in partnership with Los Angeles based Jewish World Watch, the summit will shine a bright light on…
