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Colloquium Speaker Series: Jenny Goldstein

Jefferson 218

Professor Jenny Goldstein of Cornell University will present “Starting with solutions: A Global Political Ecology of Algae Innovation.”

Sponsored by: George Perkins Marsh Institute

Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit

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

In this talk, Clark University professor Elizabeth Blake (English) 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.

Sponsored by: Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities

The Power of Mapmaking in 17th-Century New England

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

Nathan Braccio, Assistant Professor of History at Clark University, explores how both Algonquian-speaking communities and English colonists made maps as tools in a struggle for cultural and physical control of the Northeast.

Sponsored by: Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities

Terror at the Opera

Jefferson 320

Join professional opera performers Rachel Hippert and Jose Heredia as they take you on a journey of horror music from the gothic to contemporary.

Sponsored by: Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities

Language Exchange Partner Meet Up

ALCI Lounge, Jonas Clark 208

Come and meet fellow Clark students and staff who are interested in learning and practicing a new language.

Sponsored by: American Language and Culture Institute (ALCI)

Palestinian Feminism in the Time of Genocide

Dana Commons - Fireside Lounge

Join co-sponsors Center for Gender, Race and Area Studies, and Peace and Conflict Studies as we host Loubna Qutami in a timely and thought-provoking discussion on Palestinian Feminism.

Sponsored by: Center for Gender, Race and Area Studies

Wallace W. Atwood Lecture: Mercedes Bustamante, University of Brasilia

Clark University - Tilton Hall 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Mercedes Bustamante, ecologist and professor at the University of Brasilia, Brazil,  will deliver the annual Wallace W. Atwood Lecture.

Sponsored by: Geography Department