• Bring Your Own Lunch English Conversation Table

    ALCI Lounge, Jonas Clark 208

    Come by the ALCI Lounge (Jonas Clark 208) between 12 and 1 o’clock to have lunch with fellow students and staff, and practice speaking English. Though you have to bring your own lunch, Nico makes a pretty nice cup of coffee! All students, staff, and speakers of any language are welcome!

  • A/An: Book Launch and Poetry Reading

    Dana Commons, Higgins Lounge

    In this book launch, Professor Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez reads from their poetry chapbook. A/An, which uses 17th-century court records of the Salem Witch Trials to uncover the power and violence residing within the language of the legal system.

  • Bring Your Own Lunch English Conversation Table

    ALCI Lounge, Jonas Clark 208

    Come by the ALCI Lounge (Jonas Clark 208) between 12 and 1 o’clock to have lunch with fellow students and staff, and practice speaking English. Though you have to bring your own lunch, Nico makes a pretty nice cup of coffee! All students, staff, and speakers of any language are welcome!

  • ALCI Orientation Spring 2025

    ALCI Lounge, Jonas Clark 208

    Incoming ALCI students are welcome to join us for our Spring 2025 Orientation.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Fishers, Foragers and Fine Diners

    Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor

    Ben Jamieson Stanley from the University of Delaware will discuss their recent book, “Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm” focused on 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.

  • International Poetry Night

    The Grind, Higgins University Center 950 Main Street, Worcester, United States

    In honor of April being National Poetry Month, please join us for a night of multilingual performances of poetry, short stories, and songs. We invite all students, staff, and faculty to join us, both in the audience and on the stage! It is our goal to have as many of the 88 languages on campus […]

  • Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust: Inaugural Emerging Scholars Conference

    Strassler Center 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

    Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons Albert M. Tapper Annual Lecture Keynote: Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust: Inaugural Emerging Scholars Conference Speaker: Sarah Casteel (Professor of English, Carleton University) Holocaust Studies From the Outside In: Art and Relational Thinking in Times of Crisis In the aftermath of October 7th, as the contemporary meaning and relevance of […]

  • Critical AI, Predatory Data, & Community Resistance

    CMACD Buliding- 103, 104 Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States

    Dr. Anita Say Chan will discuss her most recent book and her experiences working with the Illinois Data Clinic. Dr. Chan serves as professor at the School of Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne. She will discuss her recent book entitled Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and our Fight for an Independent Future (U […]

  • Talking Syllabus: Slow Teaching

    Dana Commons – Fireside Lounge

    A Conversation with Professors Betsy Huang (English) and Joe Guzman (Sociology) about Slowing Down and Fostering a Culture of Deliberative Inquiry.  This event is sponsored by the Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies, the Office of the Dean of the College, and the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Assessment and Learning. Refreshments will be […]