Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:24:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Juan Pablo Rivera in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette https://www.telegram.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/10/31/clark-professor-juan-pablo-rivera-speaks-about-bad-bunny-controversy/86988009007/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:42:05 +0000 https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/?p=470 Bad Bunny 101: Clark professor discusses entertainer, controversy over Super Bowl show.

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]]> ‘The truth is hard, but must always be pursued’ https://www.clarku.edu/news/2025/10/30/enloe-the-truth-is-hard-but-must-always-be-pursued/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:34:46 +0000 https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/?p=463 Cynthia Enloe, longtime professor and researcher delivered her final scheduled lecture, “Feminist Curiosity is for These Dark Times.”

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]]> Goldberg receives award for contributions to family science https://www.clarku.edu/news/goldberg-receives-award-for-contributions-to-family-science/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:18:57 +0000 https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/?p=460 Psychology Professor Abbie Goldberg has received the 2025 Social Justice Award for Contributions to Family Science from the Inclusion and Diversity Committee of the National Council on Family Relations.

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]]> History professor’s novel plunges into issues of racial justice https://www.clarku.edu/news/2022/09/19/history-professors-new-novel-plunges-into-issues-of-racial-justice/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:20:33 +0000 https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/?p=498 Professor Ousmane Power-Greene discusses his work of historical fiction, that received critical praise by NPR and the NYT on the Challenge. Change. Podcast.

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]]> Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies celebrates a decade of impact https://www.clarku.edu/news/2024/09/18/center-for-gender-race-and-area-studies-celebrates-a-decade-of-impact/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:15:14 +0000 https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/?p=495 The Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies (CGRAS) marks a decade at Clark this year and welcomes a new director: Asha Best, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Geography.

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]]> Goldberg earns top family sciences prize https://www.clarku.edu/news/goldberg-earns-top-family-sciences-prize/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:11:32 +0000 https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/?p=457 A paper co-authored by Psychology Professor Abbie Goldberg has received the 2025 Wiley Prize in Family Sciences: The Alexis Walker Award.

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]]> Building equitable cities https://www.clarku.edu/news/2025/04/02/building-equitable-cities/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:38:37 +0000 https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/?p=466 Asha Best, an urbanist who studies mobility and urban informality, discusses how planners and developers can build just cities, where everyone lives equitably.

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]]> Difficult Dialogues https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/difficult-dialogues/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:43:45 +0000 https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/?p=281 In 2021 and 2022, the Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies hosted Clark’s Difficult Dialogues series. The series, led by Jie Park and Eric DeMeulenaere, provided a space for the campus to explore all sides of current, often divisive, topics through face-to-face conversations.

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In 2021 and 2022, the Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies hosted Clark’s Difficult Dialogues series. The series, led by Jie Park and Eric DeMeulenaere, provided a space for the campus to explore all sides of current, often divisive, topics through face-to-face conversations.

Topics

Racial Microaggressions, Macro-Impact, Intervening, and Interrupting and Care and Healing, 2021

The series aimed to create a space for inter- and intra-group engagement on the intersecting issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, nationality, and other locations of inequity on Clark’s campus and beyond. It offered a sustainable and generative space where differently-positioned community members can ask questions and engage in dialogue with integrity, care, and reflexivity. The series received support from the President’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fund.

Relationships Across Difference, 2022

The Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies hosted a four-part Difficult Dialogue series led by student facilitators that covered topics including: “How do we create meaningful relationships across difference?” The series was organized in conjunction with an academic course, CRES 230 – Difficult Dialogues on Race and Racism, that brought students together to develop as leaders and facilitators of on-going and much needed dialogues on race and racism at Clark University. 

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]]> Faculty Brown Bags https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/faculty-brown-bags/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:20:20 +0000 https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/?p=251 Launched in 2018, the Faculty Brown Bag showcases the work of newly hired faculty in CGRAS's participating programs.

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Launched in 2018, the Faculty Brown Bag showcases the work of newly hired faculty in CGRAS’s participating programs.

The aim of this series is to connect the CGRAS community with new faculty who have expressed interest in collaborating with CGRAS. It is also a great way to introduce the Clark community to the exciting work of our new CGRAS-affiliated faculty colleagues.

Past events

  • Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas, “An Absent Presence: Mapping Affective Heritage at the National September 11th Memorial and Museum”
  • Asha Best, “Risk/Management: Reflections on the Death of Eric Garner and the Problem of Black Mobility”
  • Gohar Siddiqui, “Technologies of Resistance and New Womanhood in Contemporary Bollywood Cinema”
  • Nigel Brissett, “I Left Because: Caribbean High Skilled Emigrants Reasons for Migrating”
Seminar Series overview

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]]> Democracy, Repression, and Resistance https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/democracy-repression-and-resistance/ Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:01:19 +0000 https://www.clarku.edu/gender-race-and-area-studies/?p=60 The seminar series explores democracy and human rights in the 21st century and the things that challenge and undermine our understanding of democratic norms.

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2024-2025 speakers

Diana Fu, associate professor, University of Toronto, speaker for the colloquium on Democracy, Repression, and resistance at CGRAS

Governing China’s Global Diaspora: Consent & Coercion

Diana Fu is associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto and a fellow at Brookings Institution, the Wilson Center, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Her research examines popular contention, repression, civil society, and authoritarian citizenship in contemporary China.

Loubna Qutami is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, speaker for the colloquium on Democracy, Repression, and resistance at CGRAS

Palestinian Feminism in the Time of Genocide

Loubna Qutami is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and currently a visiting postdoctoral research associate in Palestinian Studies at Brown University.  Qutami’s research examines transnational Palestinian youth movements after the 1993 Oslo Accords through the present. Her work is based on scholar-activist ethnographic research methods. Qutami is currently a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC).

Alexandra Bell, artist and presenter at the Democracy, Resistance, & Oppression Series at the Center for Center, Race and Area Studies, Clark University

Counternarratives: Repositioning the News

A masterclass with Alexandra Bell

Alexandra Bell is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates the complexities of narrative production, consumption, and perception. Utilizing various media, she deconstructs language and imagery to explore the tension between marginal experiences and dominant histories. Her work has been exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, MOMA PS1, Whitney Museum of American Art, MCA Chicago, Spencer Museum of Art, MFA Boston, and We Buy Gold.

Professor Johanna Vollhardt presenter at the Democracy, Resistance, & Oppression Series at the Center for Center, Race and Area Studies, Clark University

Civil Disobedience and Climate Activism: Resistance in Theory and Action

A conversation facilitated by Johanna Vollhardt

Dr. Vollhardt received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology (with a concentration in the Psychology of Peace and Violence) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology and is affiliated with CGRAS, CRES, HGS, and Peace and Conflict Studies.

Graphic design for an event in the Democracy, Resistance, & Oppression Series at the Center for Center, Race and Area Studies, Clark University

Possible Futures: A Pre-Election Pop-up Installation

Fireside Lounge, Dana Commons

Co-sponsored by CGRAS and the Becker School of Design and Technology.

Seminar Series overview

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