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Rebuilding Reproductive Freedom in Abortion-Restrictive States

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 […]

Geography Colloquium: Mimi Sheller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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, […]

If You Become My Friend: A Film Screening and Conversation with Producer and Director Jennifer Potts

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, […]

Sponsored by: Clark Tank Venture Development Semi Finals

Concert and Talk-Back: Waking Up! Climate Action Jazz Suite with The Five Agents

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 […]

Workshop: Further Adventures in Digital Humanities Research Techniques

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 […]

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Postponed Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit

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 […]

Clark Arts and Technology Information Session

SOM OPT Workshop

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 […]

Oh! Horror! A Night of Spooky Storytelling

Latin Social Night

An evening of spooky storytelling with readings by special faculty guests, Jennifer Plante and Gino DiIorio, and other creative Clarkies.

Sponsored by: Computer Science Invited Talk

A/An: Book Launch and Poetry Reading

Dana Commons, Higgins Lounge

In this book launch, Professor Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez reads from their poetry chapbook. A/An, which uses 17th-century court records of the Salem Witch Trials to uncover the power and violence residing within the language of the legal system.

Sponsored by: Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities