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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: Political Science Department through the Francis A. Harrington Public Affairs Fund

Suing Polluters in the Public Interest

Jefferson Academic Building, Room 222 (JF 222)

The lecture will be presented by Josh Kratka, Senior Attorney of the National Environmental Law Center, Boston MA. The National Environmental Law Center (NELC) is a non-profit public interest litigation […]

Sponsored by: The Epstein Pre-Law Fund

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Fall 2023 Shannon Lecture: Class Attitudes in America

Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center

The fall 2023 William V. Shannon ’47, LITT.D. ’64, Lecture will be presented by Spencer Piston, associate professor and director of advanced programs in political science at Boston University.

Sponsored by: Political Science Department

Law books, gavel, and scales of justice

A Conversation with Judge Margaret R. Guzman ’89

Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center

The Honorable Margaret Guzman ’89, the first Hispanic judge to serve on the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, will visit Clark for a conversation about careers in law.

Sponsored by: Pre-Law Advising
Aziza Ahmed

Dr. Aziza Ahmed gives lecture in observance of Constitution Day 2023

Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center

Dr. Aziza Ahmed presents “Abortion and the Supreme Court: Law, Health, and Politics after Dobbs” as Clark University observes Constitution Day 2023.

Sponsored by: The Law and Society Program

Harrington Public Affairs Lecture: Organizing as a Political Phenomenon

Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center

Dr. Deva Woodley will discuss organizing, which is a distinctly political activity, one that fosters the capacity for political actors to recognize themselves as political subjects.

Sponsored by: Political Science Department through the Francis A. Harrington Public Affairs Fund

The Latine Vote

Fireside Lounge, Dana Commons

How do we make sense of the politics of such a diverse and changing demographic as the Latine voters?

Sponsored by: Political Science Department

Guy-Uriel Charles

Divided America: Race, Political Power, and American Democracy

Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center

Clark University officially observes Constitution Day with a lecture by Guy-Uriel E. Charles, the Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Sponsored by: Office of the Provost

Harrington Lecture: American Universities and Their Local Communities Through History (with notes on Clark University)

Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center

Spring 2022 Harrington Public Affairs Presented by: Dr. Virginia Sapiro ’72  The majority of American colleges and universities founded before the 20th century were created as part of the founding and development of local communities. If we ignore the relationship between higher education institutions and their communities, we miss crucial parts of the history of […]

Sponsored by: Political Science Department through the Francis A. Harrington Public Affairs Fund