Clark Art Lecture on Cross-Cultural Visualizations of Territory

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Oct. 22, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents "Here, Low, In This River Bend," a lecture by Adrian Anagnost (Tulane University / Clark Fellow), who charts a cross-cultural history of visualizing territoriality in the lower Mississippi River Valley and the Gulf of Mexico.

This free event takes place at 5 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium.

According to a press release:

Among Indigenous inhabitants, the area that would become New Orleans was known as Bvlbancha—the land of many tongues, or many waters. This region was located at the threshold of land and water and, by the eighteenth century, at the borders of empires—where multiple approaches to territorialization overlapped. For this lecture, Anagnost brings together Indigenous Plaquemine material culture with environmental history, European cartography and artistic practices, and embodied approaches to land management.

Adrian Anagnost is associate professor of art history and core faculty of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Anagnost's research and teaching is centered on the persistence of colonial spatiality for modern urbanism and contemporary art across the Americas. Author of Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art in the City in Modern Brazil (Yale University Press, 2022), which examines the politicized intersections of art, architecture, urbanism, and landscape in Brazil during the 1920s–1960s, Anagnost was also the co-leader of a 2021–22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar on comparative commemorations, exploring art, memory work, and activism surrounding the continued spatial legacies of slavery and displacement in sites including Bvlbancha/New Orleans,Tenochtitlan/Mexico City, Mi'kma'ki/Nova Scotia, and Cibuquiera/St Croix. At the Clark, Anagnost will be completing a book on landscape, colonialism and ecology at the Gulf of Mexico and pursuing research on contemporary art's preoccupation with Amazônia.

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. A reception at 5 pm in the Manton Research Center reading room precedes the event.

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Discrimination Against Muslim Americans Persists 25 Years After 9/11

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
07:00AM / Saturday, September 12, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Dozens of Muslim Americans were among people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Untold numbers of Muslim Americans have suffered countless acts of discrimination in their aftermath.

"Of course, you'll find several accounts of Muslims from all over the U.S. describing how they went from the unknown kids in the school to being stereotyped or ridiculed for their Muslim names," Sidra Mahmood recalled recently. "However, many Americans forget that the victims of 9/11 were also Muslim Americans.

"I can't forget the time when a classmate broke down in sobs when 9/11 came up in our classroom at the Islamic seminary I went to in Texas, because her father's best friend who was like an uncle to her, died on 9/11."

Today, Mahmood is a chaplain at Williams College. In 2001, she was growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, when terrorists forced two passenger jets into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and another plane into the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C. A third plane, which terrorists hoped to crash into a D.C. landmark, was brought down in western Pennsylvania after passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers.

The attacks, which ultimately claimed 2,976 lives, horrified people around the world, including in Mahmood's native land.

"I remember being aghast like anyone who witnessed the fall of the Twin Towers in real time," she said. "However, even as a child, fear gripped me about the possibility of war, especially once we learned that Afghanistan, right adjacent to Pakistan, would be attacked by the U.S. My mother had told me about the 1971 war between India and Pakistan when she remembered hiding in the dark after bomb sirens would go off in Punjab after intentional blackouts.

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