Building Worker's Power: Asia Floor Wage Alliance Wiranta Ginting is an organizer and labor rights educator, who has worked with trade unions, small grassroots NGOs and worker-led organizing programs in South-East Asia for twenty years. He leads workplace and community campaigns for decent work and living wages in global fashion supply chains. Currently, he is […]
Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia In an era of increased state involvement in natural resource governance, members of Bolivia’s “mining cooperatives” are commonly described as thieves of national wealth. Nevertheless, these small-scale miners won significant influence in Bolivia’s radically restructured Plurinational State, in which the rights of both Indigenous peoples […]
Building worker’s power: Workers united at Brooklyn Strategist Jennifer Taylor is a worker-organizer at the board game cafe Brooklyn Strategist. In late 2023, workers at Brooklyn Strategist joined those at three Hex & Co. locations as well as Uncommons to successfully demand union recognition. All of these workers have affiliated with Workers' United, the union […]
Conifer forest resilience to changing climate and fire regimes in the western US The combination of increasing area burned at high severity and warmer, drier post-fire conditions is making forests in the western United States vulnerable to ecological transformation. Dr. Kimberley Davis will examine how the interactive impacts of changing climate and wildfire activity are […]
Extractives@Clark presents a lecture by Cesar Diniz on illegal and mechanized mining in Brazil.
Despite the importance of weather modification in the context of climate change, it has not attracted much recent attention from social scientists. Emily Yeh will provide a wide-ranging and hopefully fun overview of weather modification in the US, China, and the United Arab Emirates through a geographical lens.
Extractives@Clark presents a talk by Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine, professor of Latin American and Caribbean jistory at Jackson State University, who has been researching the contentious development of one of the most important new oil fields in the Western Hemisphere.
Climate Change and Mobility Justice: The Kinopolitics of Climate Coloniality In this talk, Dr. Sheller will discuss what reactive border closures, wall building, and de-nationalization of undocumented populations around the world have to do with the climate crisis-mobility nexus. This talk highlights the interconnections of the climate crisis, unsustainable mobilities and climate-related migration. These (im)mobilities, […]
Greg Fiske of the Woodwell Climate Research Center will explore commonly used tools and techniques for making beautiful maps, as well as share challenges, success stories, and failures he has faced over 20 years of making maps for Woods Hole scientists.
Eric HofbauerGuitarist, Composer, Educator This event is presented as part of the Geller Jazz Series and is co-sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities at Clark University. The global climate emergency was already a major preoccupation for Boston-based guitarist and composer Eric Hofbauer in 2019 when the remarkable young climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a […]
Volunteers from across campus are invited to participate in the annual cleanup of University Park.
“Connecting the dots” in a changing planet Remote sensing data are noisy, which makes land change detection challenging, particularly for changes that are subtle, gradual, or transient. By connecting the dense time series observation “dots”, we can better model the land surface characteristics, and therefore, detect and attribute land changes that are usually “invisible” in […]
