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Video Exhibition: ‘Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement’

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

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.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Workshop: Further Adventures in Digital Humanities Research Techniques

Clark University Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design - Mac Lab 404

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, […]

Workshop: Further Adventures in Digital Humanities Research Techniques

Clark University Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design - Mac Lab 404 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA

Join the Higgins School of Humanities and the Interdisciplinary Program in Data Science at Clark University for a digital humanities workshop that introduces textual analysis, mining, and visualization; and databases, including concepts such as structured data, SQL, and exploring data.

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.

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

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor

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 […]

Sponsored by: Higgins Institute

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

Geography Colloquium: Mimi Sheller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Grace Conference Room

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, […]

Alumni and Friends Virtual Book Club

Zoom

In honor of Women’s History Month, University Librarian Laura Robinson will lead the Alumni and Friends Virtual Book Club in a discussion of “Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women who Revolutionized Food in America” by Mayukh Sen.

Sponsored by: Alumni and Friends Engagement

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