​Award-Winning Cartoonist To Give Lecture at Clark

From Clark University: Clark University will host “Cartooning; Sense, Nonsense, Applications,” a lecture by award-winning cartoonists James Sturm and Caleb Brown at 4 p.m., on Wednesday, February 8, in the Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons, 2nd Floor. This lecture kicks off an exhibit that will be on display through Monday, May 22. Both are part of the Higgins School of Humanities’ spring dialogue symposium, “What’s so funny?” which includes lectures, community conversations and exhibits on humor.

Sturm is an award-winning cartoonist and cofounder of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). His writings and illustrations have appeared in The Onion, The New York Times, Slate, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and GQ. He is the founder of theNational Association of Comics Art Educators (NACAE), an organization committed to helping facilitate the teaching of comics in higher education. Brown also works as a cartoonist and consultant at CCS.

Sturm and Brown will speak about how cartooning helps communicate complex information, share powerful and precise visual narratives, and engage readers of all ages, nationalities and socio-economic backgrounds. Their exhibit includes cartoons that have been used to problem-solve in medicine, business, education, and other fields, and illustrates how “applied cartooning” can be used to take on issues as varied and complex as global warming, depression, dementia, sexual assault, reproductive health, and discrimination.

This free, public event is sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, Difficult Dialogues and the Media, Culture and Arts Program. For more information, call 508-793-7479 or email HigginsSchool@clarku.edu.

A complete list of all events in the spring symposium is available at https://www2.clarku.edu/higgins-school-of-humanities/.

Founded in 1887 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University is a liberal arts-based research university addressing social and human imperatives on a global scale. Nationally renowned as a college that changes lives, Clark is emerging as a transformative force in higher education today. LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice) is Clark’s pioneering model of education that combines a robust liberal arts curriculum with life-changing world and workplace experiences. Clark’s faculty and students work across boundaries to develop solutions to complex challenges in the natural sciences, psychology, geography, management, urban education, Holocaust and genocide studies, environmental studies, and international development and social change. The Clark educational experience embodies the University’s motto: Challenge convention. Change our world.

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Image courtesy of Clark University (The World is Made of Cheese by Marek Bennet and James Sturm)