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Clarkson showcasing creative work of students April 14

Posted 4/1/11

POTSDAM -- A student conference hosted by Clarkson University’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the new Student Center Multipurpose Rooms on Thursday, April 14, showcases creative …

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Clarkson showcasing creative work of students April 14

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POTSDAM -- A student conference hosted by Clarkson University’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the new Student Center Multipurpose Rooms on Thursday, April 14, showcases creative and critical intellectual work of students from throughout the university. It is free and open to the public.

“What is a Critical Thinker? Students as Active Producers of Knowledge” is the theme of the third annual conference, which will include student presentations on gender, environmentalism, culture, art, politics, diversity, scientific engagement, and literature. Student presentations will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The conference will culminate at 5:30 p.m. with a keynote address, titled “A Liberal Descent: The Politics of Darwinism,” by University of Oklahoma History of Modern Science Professor Piers J. Hale.

Hale’s research interests focus on the ways in which the life sciences have contributed to the ways in which we think about what it means to be human.

Session titles include Science as Practice and Culture; Social and Cultural Experiences of 20th Century Medicine; From Your Kitchen to Your Planet: Environmental Policy Debates in Perspective, Media Constructs the Human; Gender, Sex & Language; The Practices of Space and Time; Debates in our Times; The Vote that Matters and the Public Influence that Counts; Past and Present Experiences of Globalization; Race and Work in “Ma Rainey’s” Black Bottom; The True Woman: Critiques of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; The Supreme Accomplishment is to Blur the Line Between Work and Play; and Alternative Realities.

For more information, contact JoAnn Rogers at 268-3985 or jrogers@clarkson.edu.