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Sensing the Climate of Racism

Imani Jacqueline Brown – Research Fellow, Forensic Architecture Lola Conte – Advanced Researcher, Forensic Architecture The zoom link for this talk, which will be fully remote. https://clarku.zoom.us/j/7700083474?pwd=b0R1TWZ2U0c5SXBpaTBHOUxzY2VMQT09

Sponsored by: Co-sponsored by the Debra I. and Jeffrey A. Geller Endowment and the George Perkins Marsh Institute

Sensing the Climate of Racism

Speakers include Imani Jacqueline Brown, research fellow, Forensic Architecture; and Lola Conte, advanced researcher, Forensic Architecture.

Sponsored by: Co-sponsored by the Debra I. and Jeffrey A. Geller Endowment and the George Perkins Marsh Institute

Seminar on IRB Approval Requirements and Exemption Under the Revised Common Rule

Lurie Conference Room

Understanding Requirements for IRB Approval and Exemption Under the Revised Common Rule: How to (Without Frustration) Compose a Successful Protocol for Human Subjects Research Robert J. Johnston (Director, GPMI and Chair, Clark University’s IRB) Linda Cote (IRB Administrator at Clark University) Institutional Review Board (IRB) review is required by federal law to ensure that research […]

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library

[POSTPONED] Marsh/Kasperson Lecture: Sustainable and Transparent Soy Supply Chains

Lurie Conference Room

Gustavo Oliveira, assistant professor of geography, will discuss “Sustainable and Transparent Soy Supply Chains? A Political Ecology Critique of Neo-Malthusianism and Eco-Modernization Theory.”

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library

Marsh Institute Seminar: HIV Prevention for Young Women in Zimbabwe

Lurie Conference Room

Economics professor Jon Denton Schneider will discuss his research on whether Zimbabwe’s school-based deworming interventions also reduce girls’ chances of contracting HIV as young women and if that, in turn, could have an effect on marriage market matching.

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library

From Research to Practice: The Need for Science-Driven REDD Policy

Lurie Conference Room

Rebecca Dickson, Ph.D. ’09, a geospatial analysis and modeling expert, will discuss the importance of creating science-driven REDD policy.

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library

Marsh Institute Seminar Series: Roundtable Discussion on Blackstone Collaborative

Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center

Stefanie Covino, Marsh Institute research scientist and director of the Blackstone Watershed Collaborative, will discuss creating partnerships between academia and the community to build climate resilience.

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library

Extractives@Clark Brown Bag Lunch: The Chilean Referendum

Jefferson 200

Professor Paul Posner will moderate a Q&A session with Beatriz Bustos Gallardo, professor at the Universidad de Chile, about the 2019 social revolt in Chile that led to the writing and referendum of a new constitution. The constitutional assembly included leaders from ecological movements, and an ecological lens was central to the whole document.

Sponsored by: Extractives@Clark