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Between Ruin and Rebellion: Everyday Sovereignties in Okinawa’s Black District

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito, an Uchinanchu scholar and postdoctoral fellow/visiting assistant professor in English at Amherst College, will examine these stories and the relationship between place and narrative to highlight the practice of everyday sovereignties in Okinawa’s Black District during a lecture for the Higgins School of Humanities on Monday, April 8 at 4:30pm ET in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons on the Clark University campus.

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

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

The Higgins School of Humanities is hosting the Worcester premiere of “If You Become My Friend,” a documentary about frefugees who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took control in 2021 and eventually resettled in Worcester.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Changes to College Sports

Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center

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.

Sponsored by: Department of Political Science

Colonial Reckoning: The Hidden History of the Census in France

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Jennifer J. Davis, Associate Professor of History at The University of Oklahoma and co-editor of the "Journal of Women’s History," will explore the roots of the modern census in France and the United States in a common document: a count of residents in colonial New France (Canada) in the year 1666. Laurie Ross, Professor and Director of the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice at Clark University, will provide commentary.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Rebuilding Reproductive Freedom in Abortion-Restrictive States

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Kathryn Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at the UC Berkeley School of Law, will examine how are organizers are confronting post-Roe restrictions on reproductive rights in a talk at Clark University on Wednesday, March 20 at 1:30pm.

SOM Seminar: “Venture Capital 101” with alumnus Howard Goldstein

Carlson Hall

STUDENTS! Join Clark alumnus Howard Goldstein for a fantastic seminar on venture capitalism.  What is venture capital? How, why and where is it utilized? Who provides it and what do they expect when investing? Who needs it and what are the trade offs in exchange for getting it? Howard Goldstein is the Managing Partner of […]