• 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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, […]

  • Environmental Humanities – Launch Panel

    Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

    Faculty members will introduce and explore all that Environmental Humanities encompasses.

  • Leir Lecture Series

    Spirituality and the Ethics of Conservation: The Collapse of Marine Fisheries in West Africa

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

    Presented byEmmanuel Akyeampong, PhDEllen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard UniversityMinister for Worship and Formation, Harvard University Memorial Church In the 1960s, economist and […]

  • Roots of Everything

    Feeling and Knowing: An Uprooting of Things

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

    Join the Early Modernists Unite research collaborative for a Clark University faculty roundtable on the early modern roots of how we think about emotions today.

  • The David Atamian Journals: An Unparalleled Record of the Armenian Genocide

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

    Speaker: Dr. Khachador Mouradian (Lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University, and the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist in the African and Middle Eastern Division […]

  • The Logic of Genocide

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

    Speaker:  Aleksander Hemon (Professor, of Creative Writing, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University.) Hemon is most recently the author of The World and All That It Holds (2023). He is […]