Funny is not necessarily the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of Virginia Woolf, but this talk — the first in a three-event series, ‘Queer Comedy Presents’ — will show how the author used humor both wickedly and well.
This discussion will provide an opportunity for Clark faculty, staff, and students to engage in conversation around the strategic priorities of the Higgins School in partnership with the University’s strategic framework team.
Our series Nourishing Teaching, Learning & Research in the Arts & Humanities continues! These discussions will provide an opportunity for Clark faculty, staff, and students to engage in conversation around the strategic priorities […]
The Fall 2022 Symposium on the Environmental Humanities, “Animal Affects, Absences, and Planetary Politics,” will feature three leading climate change scholars.
The next installment of our series, “Nourishing Teaching, Learning & Research in the Arts & Humanities,” will include a conversation about Improving financial support for research/creative work,
Calling all Clark University arts and humanities faculty! Bring one of your syllabi as well as your stories of teaching successes and challenges to share, and join us for an […]
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 […]
In this virtual lecture, Professor Ursula Heise (UCLA) will explore recent climate change narratives from different parts of the world – including North America, South America, and South East Asia – and the ways in which they negotiate the tension between large-scale disasters and the new normalcy of everyday life under conditions of climate change.
Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou (College of the Holy Cross) examines Kant’s discussion of enslavement and colonialism in his essay, “Toward Perpetual Peace” (1795). Clark University's Cara Berg Powers offers commentary.
How is it possible to consider the world a moral community when there is so much disagreement about the nature of morality? Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Ethicist" for New York Times Magazine, discusses a new approach to living a moral life in the modern age.
