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News Broadcast about Kimberly Dozier’s Visit to Dickinson College on April 21
Recent Images From Our Programs
| Reda Zine, Cafe Mira Band Member Program information More Photos | Cafe Mira Program information More Photos | ||
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| Tahar Lamri Program Information More Photos | Tahar Lamri, Tullio Pagano, Marie Orton and Mark LeVine Program information More Photos | ||
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| Prof. Heather Merrill, Provost Neil Weissman, and Bill Clinton | |||
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| Mark Alexander Program Information More Photos | Mark Alexander, Senior Advisor for Barack Obama | ||
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Governor Ed Rendell, Professor Heather Merrill, and Neil Weissman | Lee Tankle, Governor Ed Rendell and Caitlyn Rice | ||
Comments About Our Programs
“…Dickinson has a really neat program called the Clarke Forum, which involves students in a year-long thematic, interdisciplinary examination of a particular issue. This year’s theme is energy. Last night I gave a talk titled The Interaction of Regulation, Markets, and Technology: Consumer Empowerment in the Electric Power Industry … I had a great time, and the faculty and students asked great questions…”
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The Clarke Forum’s Annual Theme
Each year the Clarke Forum devotes a major portion of its resources to activities organized around an annual theme. All members of the Dickinson community, including students, are invited to propose topics for annual themes. Annual themes have included: Democratization, Race & Ethnicity, The Politics of Identity, Environmental Sustainability, Citizenship, Corporations & Globalization, War, Crossing Borders, For Richer or for Poorer: Globalization under Attack, Religion and Political Power, and Energy.
2007-2008 Theme: A Gendered World
Gender is a central organizing principle of social life that informs everything from the taken for granted clothing we wear, our interactions with others, and our subjective understandings of who we are, to the kinds of work and social tasks we perform as we move through the gendered spaces of everyday life. Gender roles and meanings are different in every cultural context, but always inform patterns of social, political and economic inequality that are embedded in government, military, health, familial and educational institutions, legal systems, and the media. Women all over the world suffer disproportionately from violence, make less money than men, and have less access to power. Yet men all over the world die at younger ages than women, suffer from more heart attacks and serious mental illnesses, and are incarcerated at higher rates. This year’s Clarke Forum theme examines some of the ways that women and men live their lives as they are defined and define themselves in different political, economic, and cultural contexts.