Office Hours with Dean K.
2024-10-09 17:15 - 19:15, 2024-10-16 17:15 - 19:15 (America/New_York)
Visit clarku.edu/success to learn more about Student Success. Dean K. is also your Dean of Students, ultimately charged with ensuring that Clark University continues to be student-centered – any concerns as a student can be discussed with Dean K. Join Dean K. in the Academic Commons, located on the first floor of the Goddard Library!Attending this event fulfills Navigator Pathway programming: Reflect, design, and plan.

ROCU Caf Night: Fall Mix(l)er!
2024-10-09 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York)
Come decorate a pumpkin inspired by your radio show or learn about hosting a show. We’ll be listening to music and celebrating the Fall.

Even in Wartime, Local Feminists Resist
2024-10-10 12:00 - 13:15 (America/New_York)
Please join us for a talk with Professor Emerita Cynthia Enloe.
Enloe, a feminist theorist and writer, is internationally renowned for her work on gender and militarism and for her contributions to the field of feminist international relations. In 2017, she was selected to be named on the Gender Justice Legacy Wall installed in the International Crimes Court of The Hague. At Clark, Enloe served as director of the Women’s Studies Program and as chair of the Political Science Department, and received the Outstanding Teacher Award three times.

Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit
2024-10-10 12:00 - 13:30 UTC
A Clark Faculty Series Event
Presented by
Elizabeth Blake, PhD
Assistant Professor of English
Clark University
Forbidden 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.
Admission is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 11:45am for refreshments.
This event is sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities and the Department of English at Clark University.

About the Speaker
Professor 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.
About the Book
In 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.

Putting People at the Center of Nature
2024-10-10 12:15 - 13:15 (America/New_York)
Solange Bandiaky-Badji, Ph.D. ’08, will present “Putting People at the Center of Nature: The Role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Protecting Earth’s Ecosystems.” Dr. Bandiaky-Badji is president and coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative, a global coalition of over 150 grassroots organizations and their allies at the forefront of efforts to advance the rights of Indigenous peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant peoples to access natural resources and climate justice. The Rights and Resources Initiative engages with governments, multi-lateral institutions, and the private sector to adopt institutional reforms and practices for local peoples’ rights and self-determined development. Dr. Bandiarky-Badji earned her Ph.D. from Clark’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
This event, supported by the Debra I. and Jeffrey A. Geller Endowed Lecture Series, will be in person and livestreamed. Light refreshments will be provided.

Game Time with CPG
2024-10-10 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)

Register to Vote in the Kneller
2024-10-10 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Ready to register to vote? Community Engagement and Volunteering staff will be on hand to guide you through the registration process, answer any questions you may have, and provide information about upcoming elections. Whether you’re a new voter or need to update your registration, this is the perfect opportunity to ensure your voice is heard.

Screening and Panel: ‘Join or Die’
2024-10-10 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
This feature documentary follows the half-century story of America’s civic unraveling through the journey of legendary social scientist Robert Putnam — Clark’s 2023 Commencement speaker — whose groundbreaking “Bowling Alone” research into America’s decades-long decline in community connections could hold the answers to our democracy’s present crisis.
Following the film, engage in a lively discussion that delves into its themes and their relevance to our lives. This event promises to spark meaningful conversations and inspire action within our community. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with fellow attendees and reflect on the importance of solidarity in challenging times.

Mindfulness and Meditation
2024-10-11 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Why not come and unwind while doing a few mindfulness and meditate exercises. Dress comfortably while you learn some new meditation techniques that you can use on a daily basis. Open to anyone. Please contact Shawn McGuirk at smcguirk@clarku.edu if interested.

Voter Registration Hour
2024-10-11 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
As college students, you are eligible to vote in Worcester with Clark as your address (you can only be registered in one state/city at a time). Every Friday, the Community Engagement Office is hosting a dedicated voter registration hour, to assist any students interested in getting registered. You will need your license number or the last four digits of your Social Security number. You can use your Clark address or your home address if you live in Worcester. When you’re finished, drop the form into the box on the CEV table. A staff member will take all completed forms to City Hall and will make sure they make it there safely.

ClarkU Hillel Weekly Shabbat Services & Dinner
2024-10-11 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join ClarkU Hillel for our weekly student-led Shabbat services in Lurie at 6 p.m., followed by a Kosher Shabbat dinner in Grace at 7. Dinner is provided by the Clark Dining Kosher kitchen.
Shabbat is the Jewish Sabbath, which takes place from Friday evening through Saturday evening. Come for just the services, just the dinner, or both! All are welcome.
Check our Instagram, @ClarkuHillel, to see the weekly theme and any updates.

University Park Farmers Market
2024-10-12 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Right across from the Clark campus, the University Park Farmers Market hosts local farmers and vendors each Saturday, June through October. You’ll find fresh and local produce, meats, and more, plus fun family activities and even a food truck.
Visit the Regional Environmental Council on Facebook for each week’s schedule.

University Park Farmers Market 2024
2024-10-12 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)

CUFSS Presents: Lisa Frankenstein
2024-10-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Misunderstood and misfit teen Lisa has fallen head over heels for a tall dark stranger, the only problem is he’s been six feet under for quite some time. However, death won’t stop this mad scientist and chaos ensues as these two crazy teens navigate love, puberty, and murder. Join CUFSS on Sunday, October 13th in Jefferson 320 for the screening of Lisa Frankenstein, a horror romantic comedy that will have you on the edge of your seats with laughter and screams!

Career Closet Donation Drive
2024-10-15 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-16 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-17 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
The Career Connections Center, in collaboration with the Clark Thrift Store, recently launched the Clark University Career Closet, which offers free professional attire for students. The Closet is now located at the Clark Thrift Store on Main Street.
As the seasons change, we ask that you consider donating professional clothing items during the Career Closet Donation Drive, particularly the following:

Suits
Dress shirts
Blouses
Cardigan sweaters
Work dresses and skirts
Dress pants
Ties and belts

Please note that we are not accepting shoes at this time. All donated items should be clean.
Donations may be brought to the Career Connections Center front desk in the Shaich Family Alumni and Student Engagement Center or to ASEC Room 116.

Help our students look their best for their professional endeavors! If you have any questions, please email the Career Connections Center.

Stress Dough with Wellness Education
2024-10-15 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Join Leah from the Office of Wellness Education to make aromatherapy stress dough, and to learn more about what the Office of Wellness Education has to offer!

Academic Major Exploration Fair
2024-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for this year’s Academic Majors Fair to hone in on your academic interests! Meet with representatives from various departments and academic programs to learn about the opportunities offered. This event is perfect for new students who are thinking about what their major will be, and current students exploring new academic interests.Don’t forget to CHECK IN using your Corq Event Pass at this event! The Academic Majors Fair is a required event for the Navigator Pathway.

Group Dynamics Leadership Workshop
2024-10-16 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
This workshop is great for students at all stages of their leadership journeys, whether this is your first semester in leadership or you’ve been a campus leader for years. Part of the Undergraduate Leadership Pathway!

Biology Fall 2024 Seminar Series Speaker-Jane Waters, Providence Collge
2024-10-16 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)

Biology Fall 2024 Seminar Series Speaker-Jane Waters, Providence College
2024-10-16 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)

The Contemporary History of Radical Black Feminisms: Past, Present, and Futuremaking
2024-10-16 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Demita Frazier, a Black feminist, writer, teacher, social justice activist, and co-founder of Combahee River Collective, will offer reflections on the history and future of Black feminisms and participate in a conversation and Q&A with Clark faculty and students.
Please note: this is a masked event. Masks will be made available for those who need one.
This event is sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies and co-sponsored by The Higgins School of Humanities, the departments of Political Science, Language, Literature, and Culture, Sociology, English, Sustainability and Social Justice, History, and Africana Studies.
Download flyer for further details

Ts’msyen Showcase: Athena Callender and Saltwater Hank and The Pickle Jars
2024-10-16 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for this two-day event, hosted by Clark University, that will combine musical performances and critical discussion on the important work that Ts’msyen Indigenous communities are doing around culture and rematriation.
The opening remarks will be presented by Athena Callender, with musical performances by Saltwater Hank and The Pickle Jars.

Ts’msyen Showcase: Lecture by Robin Gray
2024-10-17 09:00 - 22:45 (America/New_York)
Clark’s critical discussion on the important work that Ts’msyen Indigenous communities are doing around culture and rematriation continues with a lecture by Robin Gray, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
All events are free and open to the public.
Reception to follow.
The Ts’msyen Showcase begins with an October 16 event featuring remarks by Athena Callendar and music by Saltwater Hank and the Pickle Jars.

Women in Entrepreneurship Panel
2024-10-17 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
The Women in Entrepreneurship Panel, hosted by the School of Business and the Entrepreneurship Club, is an amazing opportunity to hear from accomplished women entrepreneurs. Join us to hear about the panelists successful ventures and the paths that led them there, and have an opportunity to network and ask questions.
Lunch is provided.
RSVP by Monday, October 14, is required »
Expected panelists:

Stefanie Toise ’08, MBA ’11
Dara ’91 and Paige Adams
Patricia Norins Clapp ’95
Racquel Knight
Michelle Miller

Dynamic Yoga
2024-10-17 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Attending this event fulfills Navigator Journey programming: Reflect, Design, and Plan.

Federico Esposito (Tufts University)
2024-10-17 13:30 - 14:40 (America/New_York) | Jonas Clark Hall, Room 118
Speaker: Federico Esposito (Tufts University)
Title: Input Sourcing under Risk: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Firms
joint with Joaquin Blaum (BU) and Sebastian Heise (NY Fed)
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2024
Time: 1:25-2:40 pm
Location: Jonas Clark Hall, Room 120

MTQuran: Memorize the Quran
2024-10-17 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Whether you’re just starting or have already begun your memorization journey, this event provides a supportive community to help you stay motivated and committed. With regular meetups, tips, and encouragement, we aim to make Quran memorization a rewarding and collective effort. Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of level or experience. Let’s grow spiritually and reach our goals together!
