Spring Symposium on Attachment to Place (3/14-3/15)

This March, the Clough Center will bring our year-long exploration of these questions to a culmination with a two-day symposium on “Attachment to Place in a World of Nations.” At this gathering, a cross-disciplinary group of leading scholars from around the world will join experts from our Boston College community for a series of dialogues on place, nationality, and global politics. Sessions will focus on topics related to the importance of place, including the Environment, Nations and Borders, Religion, Digital Space, Urban Planning, Land, and Commemoration.

Symposium speakers include distinguished authors and scholars of history and politics, and award-winning planners and practitioners: Timothy Snyder, Everett Fly, Priya Satia, Melanca Clark, Mona Hassan, Madeline Ostrander, Jonathan Wyrtzen,  Fabio Benincasa, Salim Cevik, Thomas Mitchell, Lacee Satcher, Anina Schwarzenbach, Bish Sanyal — and a featured poet, Bejan Matur.

The Symposium will also feature the launch of our 2023-24 Clough journal, with original articles on “Attachment to Place in a World of Nations” from the Center’s faculty, Fellows, and guest speakers. Please join us for the Clough Center’s major event of the year, and add your voice to the conversation. Required registration is free and open to the public.