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SUMMARY:Biology Department Bumpus Symposium
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URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/biology-department-bumpus-symposium/
LOCATION:The Lasry Center for Bioscience
CATEGORIES:Academic,Environment/Sustainability,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250423T133000
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SUMMARY:ClarkFEST Spring '25
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URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/clarkfest-spring-25/
LOCATION:Tilton\, Grace\, Lurie\, CMACD
CATEGORIES:Academic
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SUMMARY:Biology Department presents Mahima Gupta
DESCRIPTION:The Biology Department Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Mahima Gupta\, a Clark doctoral student in computational and mathematical biology.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/biology-department-spring-2025-seminar-series-mahima-gupta/
CATEGORIES:Academic,Science/Technology
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SUMMARY:Innovative Approaches to Belonging in Urban Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Innovative Approaches to Belonging in Urban Spaces: Reframing the Debate on Integration\, Migration\, and Inclusion from a Multidisciplinary Perspective\n\n\n\nRegistration required: bit.ly/iasfm20-webinar \n\n\n\nDiscussants: \n\n\n\n\nAnita Fábos\, Professor\, Department of Sustainability and Social Justice\, and co-Convenor of the Integration and Belonging Hub\, Clark University\n\n\n\nLeora Kahn\, Founder and Executive Director of PROOF: Media for Social Justice\, and co-Convenor of the Integration and Belonging Hub at Clark University\n\n\n\nTunggul Puji Lestari\, MA Student\, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies\, University of Washington\n\n\n\nCraig Mortley\, Ph.D. Student and Graduate Assistant\, School of Social Work\, University of Connecticut\n\n\n\nAdam Saltsman\, Associate Professor\, Department of Urban Studies\, Worcester State University\n\n\n\nAkino Tahir\, Senior Fellow\, Urban Refugee Research Group\, Resilience Development Initiative\n\n\n\n\nThis panel discussion brings together scholars and practitioners who explore belonging\, migration\, and displacement in urban settings through a multidisciplinary lens. The original panel was planned to be presented at the IASFM20 conference in Indonesia\, however not all panelists were able to make it\, so this virtual event provides an opportunity for all panel members to join and share their insights on how urban spaces can better include and empower displaced populations.  \n\n\n\nThe discussion will highlight diverse initiatives—spanning academic research\, media\, cultural studies\, and artistic expression—that center the voices of those with lived experiences of displacement and mobility. Panelists will critically examine how these approaches have challenged dominant narratives of migration and belonging and assess their impact on shaping more inclusive urban environments. \n\n\n\nThe aim of this interactive dialogue is to identify common challenges across these efforts and showcase innovative strategies that amplify marginalized perspectives in decision-making processes\, reshape urban discourses\, and foster empathy for the diverse experiences of displaced individuals. Following the pre-recorded panel discussion\, attendees will have the opportunity to engage in a live Q&A session with the panelists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsors: International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM); Resilience Development Initiative – Urban Refugee Research Group (RDI | UREF); Department of Anthropology\, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM); The Integration and Belonging Hub (IBH) at Clark University \n\n\n\nLearn more about the IASFM20 Conference here: https://iasfm.org/iasfm2025/  \n\n\n\nQuestions? Contact IBH@clarku.edu
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/innovative-approaches-to-belonging-in-urban-spaces-reframing-the-debate-on-integration-migration-and-inclusion-from-a-multidisciplinary-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Academic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T171500
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SUMMARY:The Last of the Nightingales: Film Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Image courtesy of Colorfool Films \n  \nDiscussion facilitated by Clark University faculty Stephen DiRado\, Matt Malsky\, and Max Ritts \nIn the late 1960s\, Bernie Krause was a prolific composer and foley artist who pioneered synthesizers and worked with industry giants such as Francis Ford Coppola\, The Doors\, and The Rolling Stones. But after one chance encounter with the sounds of the wilderness\, he chose to change his career path\, setting out to gather wild field recordings to help battle the climate crisis using acoustic information. More than half a century later\, his vast archive of captured soundscapes reflects dire habitat devastation in the world and yields urgent stories about the need for immediate change. \nThe Last of the Nightingales\, directed by Masha Karpoukhina\, invites audiences to experience the rich acoustic beauty of the living world through Bernie’s ears\, exceptionally attuned over decades. More than half of the ecosystems recorded in his immense archive are now completely silent or will never be heard in their original voice again due to the profound effects of climate change on the stability\, biodiversity\, and resilience of virtually all ecosystems on Earth. As more and more soundscapes fall silent\, Bernie reminds us that it’s not too late to begin listening. \nAdmission to the screening is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be offered. \nSponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities and the Environmental Humanities Research Collaborative at Clark University
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-last-of-the-nightingales-film-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T090000
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SUMMARY:Home and Belonging: The Predicament of Arriving and Returning
DESCRIPTION:Registration required: https://clarku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HLt5rOvMQh6eQAb7aoDiPw \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted by the Integration and Belonging Hub at Clark University. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr. John Nassari\, https://www.johnnassari.co.uk \n\n\n\nNassari is a forced migration scholar and an award-winning photographer\, author and filmmaker based in London. Nassari was a Senior Lecturer in Refugee Studies at the University of East London from 2007 to 2013 and served as Program Committee Chair for the 12th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference held in Nicosia\, Cyprus. His interests include refugee identity\, memory and narrative\, and the formation of refugee lives in visual practice. He has conducted extensive research on Cypriot refugees and has published numerous journal articles\, including ‘Postmemory blues: the predicament of arriving and returning\,’ which he will be discussing during this talk. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? Email the Integration and Belonging Hub (IBH@clarku.edu) or Anita Fábos (afabos@clarku.edu)
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/home-and-belonging-the-predicament-of-arriving-and-returning/
LOCATION:Virtual Event via Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:Academic,Campus/Community,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Education/Social Sciences
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Integration and Belonging Hub":MAILTO:IBH@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T160000
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SUMMARY:Biology Department Presents Laura Katz
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URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/biology-department-presents-laura-katz/
LOCATION:The Lasry Center for Bioscience
CATEGORIES:Academic,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250402T150000
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SUMMARY:Biology Department presents Liam Cleary
DESCRIPTION:The Biology Department Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Clark doctoral student Liam Cleary\, who studies how environments influence the genomic evolution of functional molecules at the species and population level.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/biology-department-spring-2025-seminar-series-liam-cleary/
LOCATION:The Lasry Center for Bioscience
CATEGORIES:Academic,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T173000
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SUMMARY:Local Experts\, Global Issues: A Sustainability Conversation with Worcester Area Researchers
DESCRIPTION:Worcester Reads Writes and Makes: Sustainability and Climate Change\, a Worcester-wide series developed by the Academic Research Collaborative (ARC) Libraries of central Massachusetts.\n\nJoin local experts from Worcester-area colleges and universities as they discuss their research on sustainability in their areas of expertise.\n\nSpeakers: \n\n 	Dr. Mauri Pelto\, Professor of Environmental Science\, Nichols College\, Dudley\, MA\n 	Dr. Donna Bartlett\, Professor of Pharmacy Practice\, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences\, Worcester\, MA\n 	Additional speakers to be announced \n\nLight refreshments will be served.\n\nProgram sponsored by the Goddard Library\, Clark University. Questions about the event may be addressed to library@clarku.edu.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/local-experts-global-issues-a-sustainability-conversation-with-worcester-area-researchers/
LOCATION:Goddard Library Fuller Music Room 422
CATEGORIES:Academic,Environment/Sustainability,Health/Wellness
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T100000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250304T024200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T135940Z
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SUMMARY:The Role of the Sudanese Diaspora in Humanitarian Preparedness\, Response\, and Recovery.
DESCRIPTION:Navigating Displacement: a Sudanese Speaker Series on Migration\, Policy\, and Home \nThe Role of the Sudanese Diaspora in Humanitarian Preparedness\, Response\, and Recovery.  Presented by Dr. Bashair Ahmed\, Shabaka. Join us on Zoom (use QR code or zoom link below):
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-role-of-the-sudanese-diaspora-in-humanitarian-preparedness-response-and-recovery/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T160000
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CREATED:20250107T214825Z
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SUMMARY:Biology Department presents Elizabeth ‘Toby’ Kellogg
DESCRIPTION:The Biology Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Elizabeth “Toby” Kellogg\, principal investigator at the Danforth Plant Science Center. Kellogg’s lab studies genomes\, growth\, and development of sorghum\, maize\, and their wild relatives\, using biodiversity research to make ecosystems and agriculture more sustainable.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/biology-department-spring-2025-seminar-series-toby-kellog-2/
LOCATION:The Lasry Center for Bioscience
CATEGORIES:Academic,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T160000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
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SUMMARY:Biology Department presents Elizabeth ‘Toby’ Kellogg
DESCRIPTION:The Biology Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Elizabeth “Toby” Kellogg\, principal investigator at the Danforth Plant Science Center. Kellogg’s lab studies genomes\, growth\, and development of sorghum\, maize\, and their wild relatives\, using biodiversity research to make ecosystems and agriculture more sustainable.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/biology-department-spring-2025-seminar-series-toby-kellog/
LOCATION:The Lasry Center for Bioscience
CATEGORIES:Academic,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T133000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
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SUMMARY:Fishers\, Foragers and Fine Diners
DESCRIPTION:Ben Jamieson Stanley (they/them)\, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware\, will deliver an invited guest lecture at Clark University related to their recently published book: Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm. \nWhile “climate fiction” has become privileged in the Global North\, Global South representations more often trace environmental precarity to its roots in colonization and globalized capitalism. This talk situates fisheries and foraging as a point of entry to South Africa’s Western Cape\, where bustling culinary and environmental tourism coincide with hunger and stratification. Connecting Zakes Mda’s 2005 novel The Whale Caller to contemporary cookbooks and restaurants\, the talk follows the changing meanings of endangered mollusks such as abalone: from their role in indigenous foodways\, to the 1990s “abalone wars\,” and to the appropriation of “indigenous foods” in eco-gastronomic cuisine. \nAdmission is free and open to the public\, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 11:45 am for refreshments. \n\nBen Jamieson Stanley (they/them) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware\, where they are directing the launch of a new Center for Environmental Humanities. Ben’s research focuses on how we narrate and understand relationships among globalization\, empire\, and environmental precarity. Professor Stanley has also published on topics such as climate fiction\, veganism\, botanical gardens as tools of both empire and resistance\, and energy systems in Afrofuturist film. Their work can be found in journals such as ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment\, The Global South\, and Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society. Professor Stanley is working on a second book tentatively titled Mobilities: Movement and Energy in a Changing South Africa\, which brings together questions of energy transition\, gender and sexuality\, and transit justice. \n 
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/fishers-foragers-and-fine-diners/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor
CATEGORIES:Academic,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities
ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T210000
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SUMMARY:Creating Immersive Multi-Person Responsive Environments
DESCRIPTION:Clark University is excited to share the interactive digital artwork of Clark alumni Bill Saiff ’81 and Lorne Covington ’81\, founders of NOIRFLUX. They will discuss their unique approach and experience in creating multi-person responsive environments for public art\, communication\, education\, research\, and entertainment. Audience members will have an opportunity to engage in a lively Q&A and technology demonstration as part of the presentation. \nThis event is part of a larger joint effort by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities\, the Becker School of Design and Technology\, and the Department of Visual and Performing Arts to help Clark University faculty integrate extended reality (XR) and virtual reality (VR) technology in their courses and other scholarly and artistic endeavors. \nAttendance is free and open to the public thanks to generous foundation support. No prior knowledge or expertise are required to participate and enjoy.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/creating-immersive-multi-person-responsive-environments/
LOCATION:Clark University Center for Media Arts\, Computing\, and Design – Mac Lab 404\, 950 Main Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Humanities,Science/Technology
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T143000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250211T033117Z
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SUMMARY:From History to Headlines: Trans Resilience in the Modern Rainbow Scare
DESCRIPTION:Erin Reed \nThis presentation traces the evolution of transgender identity from ancient examples through the rise of modern trans figures\, highlighting shifts in cultural perception\, visibility\, and representation. It examines ongoing developments in transgender healthcare\, from updated treatment guidelines to changes in how care is accessed\, and outlines the growing legislative challenges aimed at transgender communities. Finally\, it offers concrete steps for individuals to become better allies\, advocates\, and informed observers amidst a rapidly shifting social and legal landscape. \nErin Reed (she/her) is a transgender journalist based in Washington\, D.C.  She tracks LGBTQ+ legislation around the United States for her subscription newsletter\, ErinInTheMorning.com. Her work has been cited by the AP\, Reuters\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and many more major media outlets.  You can follow her on X: @ErinInTheMorn. \nDownload flyer
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/from-history-to-headlines-trans-resilience-in-the-modern-rainbow-scare/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Academic,Campus/Community,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Education/Social Sciences,Health/Wellness,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T131500
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
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SUMMARY:School of Business: Faculty Research Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Join School of Business faculty\, staff\, and students for an interesting dive into some recent research by Professor Atefeh Yazdanparast Ardestani\, associate professor in the School of Business.\nTitle: Color Saturation and Anticipated Sensory Intensity: An Account of Psychological Proximity \nAbstract: Color saturation is an important and relevant attribute in products and packaging. However\, the role of color saturation in relation to sensory attributes beyond the visual sense remains under-investigated. To partially address this broader gap\, the present investigation aims to document the effect of color saturation on the anticipated intensity of attributes related to other senses (smell\, taste\, touch\, and sound). Four studies collectively find that higher saturation in products and packaging results in heightened anticipated sensory intensity and support that psychological proximity is the underlying mechanism of this effect. This effect is tested across different product categories (i.e.\, soap\, microfiber towels\, a music album\, and cookies) using both the coloring of the product and its packaging with the effect found across different senses (i.e.\, scent\, touch\, sound\, taste\, smell\, and texture). Further\, arousal and processing fluency are ruled out as alternative explanations. \nJoin in person or online via Zoom:  \nMeeting ID: 923 2657 7294  — Passcode: 539642
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/school-of-business-faculty-research-seminar-2/
LOCATION:Carlson 203
CATEGORIES:Academic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T143000
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SUMMARY:The Embodied and Affective Language of Self-Immolation as Political Protest
DESCRIPTION:Sara Hassani \nThis talk by Sara Hassani\, professor of political science at Providence College\, examines the political significance of self-immolation among women and girls in Iran\, Afghanistan\, Tajikistan\, and Uzbekistan.  Through extensive interviews with survivors\, healthcare workers\, civil society\, and community members\, the analysis challenges dominant Western liberal frameworks that limit recognition of political self-destruction to acts performed at government building or accompanied by manifestos and collective movements.  These self-immolations – frequently mischaracterized as mere psychopathology – emerge as an embodied and affective language of protest against state-sanctioned gender-based violence\, oppression\, and coercive control.  The acts function symbolically to expose injustice\, shame perpetrators\, articulate resistance\, and foster solidarity through shared cultural understanding.  In so doing\, they call for a broader re-imagining of the role of embodied strategies\, symbolisms\, and affect in their relationship to contentious politics.  \nSara Hassani completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at The New School for Social Research where she was a Prize and ACLS/Mellon Fellow. Her work in political theory explores themes of political violence\, state\, policing\, and resistance.  She is currently working on a manuscript based on her APSA award-winning dissertation\, which examines the elevated rate of self-immolation among young women in Afghanistan\, Iran\, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Grounded in historical research and interviews with survivors and their caretakers and communities\, it sheds light on the multidimensional operation of police power enacted on women’s bodies and the unconventional political agency they exercise under and against that police power. \nDownload flyer
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/sara-hassani-presents-the-embodied-and-affective-language-of-self-immolation-as-political-protest/
LOCATION:Grace and Lurie Conference Rooms\, University Center\, Clark University
CATEGORIES:Academic,Education/Social Sciences,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T130000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250220T022938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T022938Z
UID:10000773-1740657600-1740661200@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Application of Generative AI in Data-Driven Business Decision-Making
DESCRIPTION:The Computer Science Department’s Data Science Seminar Series presents a talk by Professor Hamidreza Ahady Dolatsara of the Clark University School of Business. \nHamidreza (Hamid) Ahady Dolatsara is a data scientist with research interests in health care analytics\, finance\, and transportation. Using data-driven studies\, he employs and improves state-of-the-art\, machine learning-based approaches to developing decision-support systems. As one example\, he investigated the long-term financial well-being of companies and their association with the adoption of blockchain technology. Ahady Dolatsara is keen on exploring new ideas that will have a positive impact on society.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/application-of-generative-ai-in-data-driven-business-decision-making/
LOCATION:Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center\, 121
CATEGORIES:Academic,Business/Entrepreneurs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250201T005420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250201T005420Z
UID:10000755-1740506400-1740513600@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Teach Us All: Movie Night
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of Teach Us All\, a documentary examining racial segregation and inequality in public schools 60 years after nine black students integrated Central High School in Little Rock\, Arkansas.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/teach-us-all-movie-night/
LOCATION:Jefferson 320
CATEGORIES:Academic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T160000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250107T214709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T155511Z
UID:10000682-1739977200-1739980800@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Biology Department presents Zeba Wunderlich
DESCRIPTION:Biology Department Spring 2025 Seminar Series-Zeba Wunderlich\, associate professor of biology and director of the Program in Molecular Biology\, Cell Biology & Biochemistry at Boston University. In her lab\, Wunderlich studies the regulation of gene expression; enhancers; developmental biology; systems biology; and innate immunology\,
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/biology-department-spring-2025-seminar-series-zeba-wunderlich/
LOCATION:The Lasry Center for Bioscience
CATEGORIES:Academic,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T160000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250121T220947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250121T220947Z
UID:10000719-1739973600-1739980800@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Women in Horror Month Student Panel
DESCRIPTION:The Women in Horror Month Student Panel showcases research and discussion on a variety of different horror topics ranging from gender and queer studies to film techniques. If you’re interested in learning more about the genre of horror\, or you’re already a fan\, join us for an afternoon of scholarly terror.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/women-in-horror-month-student-panel/
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250219T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250219T150000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250129T214215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T135253Z
UID:10000744-1739971800-1739977200@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit
DESCRIPTION:A Clark Faculty Series Event\nPresented by\nElizabeth Blake\, PhD\nAssistant Professor of English\nClark University \nForbidden fruit has long been a convenient metaphor for illicit knowledge and sexuality\, a trope easily traced to the garden of Eden. Modernist poets deployed this familiar figure in new ways\, insisting on the fleshy materiality of fruit as a way of representing other forms of fleshly pleasure. In her recent book\, Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms\, Clark University professor Elizabeth Blake examines this phenomenon as part of a larger exploration of the ways queer consumption restructures modernist literary forms. In this talk\, Blake focuses on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and H. D.’s “Priapus” to discuss the way modernist poets disrupt lyric traditions by setting intertextuality and phenomenological referentiality in tension in order to explore queer experience. \nAdmission is free and open to the public\, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 1:15pm for refreshments. \nThis event is sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities and the Department of English at Clark University. \n\nAbout the Speaker \nProfessor Elizabeth Blake specializes in gender and sexuality studies\, food studies\, and global modernist literature. Her research focuses on the ways queer pleasure is represented in the literature of the early twentieth century\, and how those representations come to reshape existing literary forms. Her first book\, Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms\, demonstrates that scenes of eating in modernist literature are sites of queerness\, depicting and enacting a kind of pleasure that exceeds normative models. She is also interested in the relationship between modernism and popular forms of cultural production\, including cookbooks\, dinner theatre\, genre fiction\, and women’s middlebrow fiction. Her second book project\, tentatively entitled Against the Love Plot\, traces the ways mid-twentieth century women’s fiction resists both normative models of love and normative plotlines that end in marriage. \nAbout the Book \nIn Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms\, Elizabeth Blake explores the way modernist writing about eating delves into larger questions about bodily and literary pleasure. Drawing on insights from the field of food studies\, she makes dual interventions into queer theory and modernist studies: first\, locating an embrace of queerness within modernist depictions of the pleasure of eating\, and second\, showing how this queer consumption shapes modernist notions of literary form\, expanding and reshaping conventional genres. Drawing from a promiscuous archive that cuts across boundaries of geography and canonicity\, Blake demonstrates how modernist authors draw on this consuming queerness to restructure a range of literary forms. Each chapter constellates a set of seemingly disparate writers working in related modes—such as the satirical writings of Richard Bruce Nugent\, Virginia Woolf\, and Katherine Mansfield—in order to demonstrate how writing about eating can both unsettle the norms of bodily pleasure and those of genre itself.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/modernist-poetics-and-queer-fruit/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T180000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250129T211617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T135225Z
UID:10000740-1739291400-1739296800@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:The Power of Mapmaking in 17th-Century New England
DESCRIPTION:A map made by the Pequot Sachem Robin Cassacinamon during negotiations with the English colonist George Denison in 1662. It delineates Pequot Territory along the Connecticut Coastline\, land also claimed by the English. Courtesy of Massachusetts State Archives. \n  \nFor the English and Algonquian inhabitants of 17th-century New England\, paper maps were a rare and powerful tool. Mapmakers created them to establish borders\, facilitate cross-cultural communication\, and record spatial information. But maps were also used to misinform\, steal land\, and erase Indigenous cultural presence. In this talk\, Nathan Braccio\, Assistant Professor of History at Clark University\, will explore how both Algonquian-speaking communities and English colonists made maps as tools in a struggle for cultural and physical control of the Northeast. In doing so\, he will investigate how maps\, including those that we interact with in the present day\, promote particular value-laden ways of understanding the world. \nThis event continues the Roots of Everything\, a lecture series sponsored by Early Modernists Unite (EMU)—a faculty collaborative bringing together scholars of medieval and early modern Europe and America—in conjunction with the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities. The series highlights various aspects of modern existence originating in the early modern world by connecting past and present knowledge. \nWith thanks to the Department of History at Clark University for its support. \nAdmission is free and open to the public. \nAlso streamed live – register now: https://bit.ly/rootsmapmaking \n\nAbout the Speaker \nNathan Braccio is a historian of early modern New England. His research focuses on Indigenous and environmental history. Prior to coming to Clark\, he taught at Lesley University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Utah State University. His current book project\, Creating New England\, Defending the Northeast: Contested Algonquian and English Spatial Worlds\, 1500–1700\, investigates the different ways Algonquian-speaking peoples and Puritan colonists marked\, described\, and mapped the landscape. Braccio’s next project explores the culture of agrarian violence in colonial America. He earned his doctorate from the University of Connecticut and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from American University.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-power-of-mapmaking-in-17th-century-new-england/
LOCATION:Clark University\, Higgins Lounge\, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor\, 36 Maywood Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250121T192354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250121T192354Z
UID:10000715-1738868400-1738875600@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Terror at the Opera
DESCRIPTION:Join professional opera performers Rachel Hippert and Jose Heredia as they take you on a journey of horror music from the gothic to contemporary in Terror at the Opera! Part of Clark’s Women In Horror Month events.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/terror-at-the-opera/
LOCATION:Jefferson 320
CATEGORIES:Academic,Arts/Music/Film,Campus/Community,Diversity/Equity/Inclusion,Humanities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities":MAILTO:higginsinstitute@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T160000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250107T214709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T134813Z
UID:10000705-1738767600-1738771200@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Biology Department presents Zeba Wunderlich
DESCRIPTION:Biology Department Spring 2025 Seminar Series-Zeba Wunderlich\, associate professor of biology and director of the Program in Molecular Biology\, Cell Biology & Biochemistry at Boston University. In her lab\, Wunderlich studies the regulation of gene expression; enhancers; developmental biology; systems biology; and innate immunology\,
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/biology-department-spring-2025-seminar-series-zeba-wunderlich-2/
LOCATION:The Lasry Center for Bioscience
CATEGORIES:Academic,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T160000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250107T214549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250107T214549Z
UID:10000681-1738767600-1738771200@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Biology Department presents Renee Petipas
DESCRIPTION:The Biology Department Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Renee Petipas\, a lecturer at the University of Vermont and a global change biologist who studies how aspects of global change — including habitat loss\, nitrogen deposition\, and extreme weather events — affect plant-microbe interactions\, microbe-mediated phenotypes\, and emergent properties.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/biology-department-spring-2025-seminar-series-renee-petipas/
LOCATION:The Lasry Center for Bioscience
CATEGORIES:Academic,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250130T130000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250124T022227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250408T145325Z
UID:10000734-1738238400-1738242000@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Inequality and Discrimination: Using Data Science in Psychology across Levels and Nations
DESCRIPTION:Join Psychology Professor Andrew Stewart as he discusses the multilevel and structural equation modeling used to examine the ideological foundations of discrimination and inequality between social groups. Pizza served as part of this Data Science Seminar Series.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/inequality-and-discrimination-using-data-science-in-psychology-across-levels-and-nations/
LOCATION:Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center\, 121
CATEGORIES:Academic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250122T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250122T160000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250107T214326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250107T214326Z
UID:10000680-1737558000-1737561600@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Biology Department presents Kara McKinley
DESCRIPTION:The Biology Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Kara McKinley\, assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology in Harvard University’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. \n 
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/biology-department-spring-2025-seminar-series-kara-mckinley/
LOCATION:The Lasry Center for Bioscience
CATEGORIES:Academic,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250115T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250115T160000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20250107T213719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250107T213719Z
UID:10000679-1736953200-1736956800@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Biology Department presents Lily Khadempour
DESCRIPTION:The Biology Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Lily Khadempour\, assistant professor at Rutgers University and a microbial evolutionary ecologist who focuses on insect-microbial symbiosis and eco-evolutionary dynamics.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/biology-department-spring-2025-seminar-series-lily-khadempour/
LOCATION:The Lasry Center for Bioscience
CATEGORIES:Academic,Science/Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260411T144216
CREATED:20241123T022827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250119T042027Z
UID:10000561-1733400000-1733403600@www.clarku.edu
SUMMARY:Colloquium Speaker Series: Abbie Tingstad
DESCRIPTION:Many Arctics: What Does it Look Like and Why Is it Important for the Future of Governance in the Far North?\n\nThe Arctic is transforming in dramatic and complex ways through a myriad of pressures related to changes in climate\, social trends and demographic patterns\, economic opportunities\, geopolitics\, and technology. Although many discussions surrounding the Arctic’s future rightly focus on climate change\, the concept of “many Arctics” – or the inherent diversity within the Arctic region – reminds us that multiple factors and drivers of change shape different areas in the north in different ways. This diversity is something to be celebrated in cultural and other contexts\, but it can also create challenges for local communities and policymakers alike in navigating intense changes and resolving the many visions of the region’s future that exist among rights- and stake-holders. \nThis lecture will focus on aspects of ongoing research titled “Converging Pressures on Arctic Development” that is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic program. It will highlight geographical and geospatial research focused on characterizing the current and potential future human footprints in the region as a basis for exploring alternative scenarios for how today’s many Arctics might look by 2050. It will also present the results of a recently published paper examining diverging scenarios of socio-economic change. Despite the fact that the Arctic has been highlighted as an important area of dialogue and cooperation for decades\, this research suggests that finding common priorities – despite being more important than ever – may become even more difficult in the future.
URL:https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/colloquium-speaker-series-abbie-tingstad/
LOCATION:Grace Conference Room\, Higgins University Center
CATEGORIES:Academic,Education/Social Sciences,Environment/Sustainability,Humanities,Science/Technology
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