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Human Rights Archives, Visual Storytelling, and Transformative Education

Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons

University of Connecticut Professor Catherine Masud will discuss how human rights-themed archive collections can empower students as archivists, interpreters, and storytellers while they also work with local communities to build new archives.

Sponsored by: Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Race Equity in Corrections and Supporting Legislation

Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts 92 Downing Street, Worcester, MA, United States

This community conversation will focus on legislation to dismantle structural racism in the Massachusetts Department of Corrections.

Sponsored by: Prisoners Legal Services’ Racial Equity in Corrections Initiative

Geography Colloquium: Niwaeli Kimambo, Middlebury College

Jefferson 218

Urban dwellers are transforming rural land use and ownership in East Africa In this talk, Dr. Kimambo will share her ongoing work in Eastern Africa that links rural land use change to urban actors. The work uses remote sensing analysis to track the emergence of tree crops (e.g., pine, eucalyptus, and avocado). Remote sensing analysis […]

A Conversation with Curtis Chin

Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons

A conversation with Curtis Chin, the author of the best-selling “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” will be followed by an audience Q&A and reception.

Sponsored by: Dean of the College

Geography Colloquium: Loretta Lees, Boston University

Jefferson 218

Defensible Space on the Move: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice In this talk, Professor Lees will discuss Defensible Space on the Move: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and […]

PLAYED: How Music Orchestrates Thick Violence Against Black Girls on the Internet

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

Dr. Kyra Gaunt from the University at Albany, SUNY opens the Higgins School's spring 2024 symposium on Movement, revealing the obscured musical contributions of Black girls who twerk while also exposing how music perpetuates patriarchal violence.