Join the Higgins School of Humanities on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 10am for a gallery talk celebrating the opening of a video exhibition titled, "Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement," in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons on the Clark University campus.
Still from "Jump" (2016), courtesy of Stephen DiRado Join us for a gallery talk celebrating the opening of Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement, a video exhibition curated by Matt Malsky, Director of the Higgins School of Humanities. Special guests will include exhibition contributors and Clark University faculty members Philip Bergmann, Stephen DiRado, […]
Kathryn Abrams, J.D. This event is sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities in conjunction with Menstrual Equity Alliance and Pro-Choice Clark as part of Clark University's celebration of Women's History Month. All attendees are encouraged to bring donations of menstrual products, which will be distributed by Menstrual Equity Alliance to outreach organizations in […]
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, […]
In the Spring 2024 Harrington Public Affairs Lecture, Elizabeth Sharrow, associate professor at UMass Amherst, will explore the reasons why sex-based inequalities remain in college athletics and identify institutional perversions that undermine efforts toward equality.
The Higgins School of Humanities at Clark University is honored to host the Worcester premiere of If You Become My Friend. The documentary captures four unique stories of refugees who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took control in 2021 and eventually resettled in Worcester, MA. Their narratives demonstrate the diversity of the Afghan languages, cultures, […]
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 […]
Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students from Clark University and surrounding institutions! Register Now: https://bit.ly/helloworldmay3 Clark University Facilitators: Eduard Arriaga-Arango, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair Department of Language, Literature, and Culture Li Han, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Data Science Matt Malsky, Ph.D. Professor of Music Director, Higgins School of […]
Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement features a diverse array of short films that blend artists’ creative visions with scientists’ analytical perspectives. The exhibition is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. through May 20.
A Clark Faculty Series Event Presented by Elizabeth Blake, PhD Assistant Professor of English Clark University Forbidden fruit has long been a convenient metaphor for illicit knowledge and sexuality, a trope easily traced to the garden of Eden. Modernist poets deployed this familiar figure in new ways, insisting on the fleshy materiality of fruit as […]
This fall, the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities will begin work on an exciting new four-year project with substantial support from an external foundation and in close partnership with the Becker School of Design and Technology and the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Our goal will be to incorporate new digital […]
An evening of spooky storytelling with readings by special faculty guests, Jennifer Plante and Gino DiIorio, and other creative Clarkies.
