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Geography Colloquium: Niwaeli Kimambo, Middlebury College

Urban dwellers are transforming rural land use and ownership in East Africa In this talk, Dr. Kimambo will share her ongoing work in Eastern Africa that links rural land use change to urban actors. The work uses remote sensing analysis to track the emergence of tree crops (e.g., pine, eucalyptus, and avocado). Remote sensing analysis […]

A Conversation with Curtis Chin

A conversation with Curtis Chin, the author of the best-selling “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” will be followed by an audience Q&A and reception.

Geography Colloquium: Loretta Lees, Boston University

Defensible Space on the Move: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice In this talk, Professor Lees will discuss Defensible Space on the Move: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice co-authored with Elanor Warwick (RGS-IBG Book Series, Wiley, 2022). She will evaluate the geographical/spatial concept of Defensible Space, which has been influential in designing […]

Alumni & Friends Virtual Book Club: Black History Month

Join members of the Clark Black Alumni Association (CBAA) at a Virtual Book Club on Thursday, February 8, as we celebrate Black History Month! Clark's University Librarian, Laura Robinson, will lead us through a discussion about the book “Kindred” by Octavia Butler.

Celebrate Movement with Dance Workshops

The Visual and Performing Arts Department and the Higgins School of Humanities present a week of dance workshops — ballet, hip hop, and flexn — as part of the Higgins Spring 2024 symposium, “Movement.”

Geography Speaker: Wiranta Ginting, Asia Floor Wage Alliance

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 […]

Geography Colloquium: Andrea Marston, Rutgers University

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 […]

Teaching with AI in the Humanities: Talking About Practice

Calling all Clark University Faculty: Chances are that you have been thinking about your teaching, student work, and ChatGPT – software powered by artificial intelligence. Though still a rapidly developing technology, generative AI is already able to deliver nuanced text that mimics natural human writing… sometimes. Yet responses to ChatGPT seem to range from excitement […]

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Geography Speaker: Adam Kader, Arise Chicago Worker Center

Building Worker's Power: Workers' Centers and the Future of the Labor Movement Arise Chicago partners with workers and faith communities to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes. Adam Kader served as Arise Chicago's Worker Center Director for 14 years before becoming Public Policy Director in 2021. Before joining Arise […]