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Higgins Arts and Humanities Faculty Pedagogy Luncheon

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

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 open-ended and collegial conversation about teaching strategies and experiences. Lunch will be provided. Reply requested at the link below: RSVP: Arts & Humanities Faculty Pedagogy […]

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Fall 2022 Symposium on the Environmental Humanities

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

The Fall 2022 Symposium on the Environmental Humanities, “Animal Affects, Absences, and Planetary Politics,” will feature three leading climate change scholars.

Sponsored by: Clark University Visual and Performing Arts

Community Conversation: A Taste for Public Humanities

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

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 of the Higgins School in partnership with the University’s strategic framework team. This event is open only to the Clark community; please register at the […]

Benjamin Franklin’s Guide to Arithmetic and Abortifacients

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

In 1748, Benjamin Franklin reprinted an introductory arithmetic book from England with his own significant reworking and additions. One of the supplements to The American Instructor, which Franklin described as “better adapted to these American Colonies,” was a medical handbook that included a recipe for abortion. Today, we may not see the combination of abortifacients […]