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The Latine Vote

How do we make sense of the politics of such a diverse and changing demographic as the Latine voters?

Clark Faculty & Staff Workshop: A Gentle Introduction to Minimal Computing and Digital Humanities

Dr. Alex Gil Fuentes (Yale University) in collaboration with Dr. Eduard Arriaga-Arango (Clark University) will present a faculty workshop exploring Digital Humanities (DH) from a minimal computing perspective. Drawing on examples and experiences from their own DH practice, they will discuss how the DH landscape has evolved in the last decade, becoming a complex and […]

Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and the Idea of Race

  Some scholars argue that Kant is a universal egalitarian, which can be seen in his cosmopolitan philosophy. In the essay “Toward Perpetual Peace” (1795), Kant supposedly offers provisions that displace the racist views that he previously held in the essays on race of the 1780s. Yet in this talk, Professor Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou (College […]

Beyond Apocalypse: Imagining Climate Futures

Professor Ursula K. Heise, UCLA   Novelists, journalists, film directors and artists have created fictional and nonfictional stories about anthropogenic climate change for the last fifty years. The majority of these stories focus on scenarios of large-scale disaster and end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, with cities under water as a prominent motif. Such stories have been criticized for scientific […]

Roots of the Bosnian Genocide

Between 1992 and 1995, Bosnian Serb forces humiliated, sexually abused, tortured, and killed Bosnian Muslims and Croats in a widespread, systematic way as part of the armed conflicts occurring across the former Yugoslavia.

Alternative Futures Faculty Research Collaborative – Planning Meeting

The Higgins School is excited to invite Clark faculty to a planning session for a new faculty research collaborative around the topic “Alternative Futures.” Curious what this will be? We are too! The idea emerged from faculty discussions last semester, and a core group of faculty will be meeting to help define the group and […]

Alumni & Friends Virtual Book Club

Join the Alumni & Friends Book Club on Thursday, March 23, as we honor Women's History Month. Clark's University Librarian, Laura Robinson, will lead us through a discussion about the book Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler.  “The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly—Joan of Arc, not GI Jane. But women, […]