Between the Lines: A Conversation with Professor Benjamin Korstvedt
2025-02-12 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Goddard Library Floor 2, Strassler Campus Green Overlook
The Goddard Library staff invite you to a conversation with Professor Benjamin Korstvedt, facilitated by Professor Frances Tanzer. Dr. Korstvedt will discuss his new book, Bruckner’s Fourth: The Biography of a Symphony (Oxford UP, 2024), which “explores the creative development of this symphony” and “offers the first complete and coherent account of the compositional evolution of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony.”

We encourage you to read the book using Goddard Library’s access to the eBook, available to members of the Clark community.

Read an interview with Professor Korstvedt from the fall 2024 issue of Clark University Magazine »

Benjamin M. Korstvedt is the George N. and Selma U. Jeppson Professor of Music in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University, where he is also affiliated with the university’s programs in German Studies and Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is President of the Bruckner Society of America and serves on the editorial board of the New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition and the advisory board of the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, IFK Vienna, the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies, and the American Musicological Society, among others.

About Between the Lines:

Between the Lines is a Goddard Library speaker series aimed at an audience of the curious, both within Clark and beyond. The purpose of the series is to celebrate Clark faculty scholarship through an intellectually accessible conversation with the author about their life and work. Prepare to engage and be inspired by the research and creative works of our university’s diverse and distinguished faculty.

Black Pop-up Market
2025-02-12 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Grace and Lurie Conference Rooms, University Center, Clark University
Celebrate and support Black-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, and creatives in the Clark and Worcester communities.
Vendor space is still available. If you would like to participate, please fill out our vendor information form.
If you have any questions or know anyone else who may want to participate, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Mia Cariglia or Ashley Caruso.

Stuart Weitzman: ‘A Designer’s Entrepreneurial Journey on the Road Less Traveled’
2025-02-12 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall
Stuart Weitzman, an acclaimed designer and founder of the luxury shoe brand that bears his name, will discuss his entrepreneurial journey during a lecture on the Clark University campus. In his talk, he will share his experience in business and beyond, which will be particularly interesting to students interested in business, the creative arts, technology, and more.
Please note that video recording and audio capture are strictly prohibited during this event. Still photographs are permitted, but no recordings of any kind will be allowed.

Stuart Weitzman’s passion for design has been a lifelong pursuit, leading to the internationally renowned company that bears his name. He has been honored extensively for his unique approach to entrepreneurship and for his uncompromising commitment to prioritizing function as an integral element of fashion.
His shoes have dominated red-carpet events for many years and are worn by celebrity fans around the world. Beyoncé, Kate Middleton, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, and Jennifer Lopez are just a few who are regularly seen in his designs, along with millions of other women in over 70 countries.
Weitzman approaches his extensive charitable endeavors with equal commitment. Among these are his ongoing support for a wide range of hospitals and medical research centers, youth and sports organizations, and cultural institutions and museums. He regularly mentors students on their entrepreneurial and design aspirations, including at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, Caltech, Rice, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the London Business School. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business at Penn, where the university has honored him by renaming their design and architecture school the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
During his free time, you may find him on the tennis court or at the ping-pong table. If you’ve got a racket, he’ll welcome the challenge.

Stuart Weitzman: ‘An Entrepreneurial Journey on the Road Less Traveled’
2025-02-12 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall
Stuart Weitzman, an acclaimed designer and founder of the luxury shoe brand that bears his name, will discuss his entrepreneurial journey during a lecture on the Clark University campus. In his talk, he will share his experience in business and beyond, which will be particularly interesting to students interested in business, the creative arts, technology, and more.

Stuart Weitzman’s passion for design has been a lifelong pursuit, leading to the internationally renowned company that bears his name. He has been honored extensively for his unique approach to entrepreneurship and for his uncompromising commitment to prioritizing function as an integral element of fashion.
His shoes have dominated red-carpet events for many years and are worn by celebrity fans around the world. Beyoncé, Kate Middleton, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, and Jennifer Lopez are just a few who are regularly seen in his designs, along with millions of other women in over 70 countries.
Weitzman approaches his extensive charitable endeavors with equal commitment. Among these are his ongoing support for a wide range of hospitals and medical research centers, youth and sports organizations, and cultural institutions and museums. He regularly mentors students on their entrepreneurial and design aspirations, including at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, Caltech, Rice, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the London Business School. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business at Penn, where the university has honored him by renaming their design and architecture school the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
During his free time, you may find him on the tennis court or at the ping-pong table. If you’ve got a racket, he’ll welcome the challenge.

Horror Trivia By Candlelight
2025-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Grind, Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street, Worcester, 01610, United States
Come with a team or join one when you arrive for a night of creepy questions, Valentine’s Day-themed desserts, and a competition to win some excellent prizes! Part of the Women In Horror Month series of events.

Black History Month Blood Drive
2025-02-13 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Clark University, Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center – 2nd Floor, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Commemorate Black History Month by rolling up a sleeve to give blood or platelets. Visit the Rhode Island Blood Center online to schedule a donation time — walk-ins are also welcome!
Diverse donations are critical for patients who require specific blood types for transfusions. Patients with sickle cell disease, an inherited red cell disorder that is most common among African Americans, require very closely matched blood products because their bodies make antibodies directed towards transfused red blood cells. This disease affects over 100 thousand people across the U.S., making a diverse blood supply critical for the region’s overall public health.

Navigating Law School: A Panel Discussion with Law Students
2025-02-13 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ASEC 111
Thinking about a career in law? Hear from a panel of recent Clark graduates who are currently enrolled in law school. Our alumni panelists will offer advice about preparing for law school and the application process, studying for the LSAT, financing your law school education, and more.

CUSB: Beta Alpha Psi Series on Financial Literacy
2025-02-14 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-02-21 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Join our special guest, Nancy Rosedale, business community officer at Bank of America, for an insightful Financial Literacy Workshop Series. Learn essential financial skills that will help you manage your money, protect against fraud, and build a secure financial future.
Session 1 (Oct. 25): Banking Basics and Income and Paychecks
Session 2 (Nov. 1): Financial Safety and Spending and Saving
Register to attend

Sound Casserole: Clark University Concert band and Clark University Jazz Workshop Concert
2025-02-15 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Atwood Hall – Daniels Theater
The Clark University Concert Band, under the direction of Samantha McGill, and the Clark University Jazz Workshop Ensemble, under the direction of Jerry Sabatini, will perform an afternoon of music.

Sound Casserole: Clark University Concert band and Clark University Jazz Workshop Concert
2025-02-15 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Atwood Hall – Daniels Theater
The Clark University Concert Band, under the direction of Samantha McGill, and the Clark University Jazz Workshop Ensemble, under the direction of Jerry Sabatini, will perform an afternoon of music. Join us in Atwood Hall, or watch the livestream of the event through the Visual and Performing Arts Department’s YouTube page.

Black Arts Explosion
2025-02-15 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Dana Commons, Higgins Lounge, 01610
Support your local Black artists at our annual pop-up market featuring BIPOC artists from Clark and the larger Worcester community.

Black History Month Celebration Dinner: Empower Your Plate
2025-02-15 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join Harvest Table for a special Black History Month dinner in the main dining hall.

Virtual Workshop: PowerAutomate Basics
2025-02-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | via Zoom
PowerAutomate is a secret weapon within the Microsoft arsenal of tools: as the name suggests, you can use it to automate simple tasks that utilize different Microsoft apps, such as Outlook, Excel, Teams, Forms, and more.
In this workshop, we’ll go over:

PowerAutomate navigation and access

Potential use cases

Creating your own PowerAutomate flows

…and more!
Click here to register.
Faculty & staff only. Please contact techtraining@clarku.edu with any questions.

XOXO, Data: Finding and Evaluating Datasets
2025-02-18 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Goddard Library Fuller Music Room 422
Looking for a dataset for your research project or wanting to explore what is freely available? In celebration of Love Data Week, the Goddard Library offers a workshop on finding useful datasets and critically evaluating them. You will learn basic searching skills for ICPSR, tips and tricks for finding open datasets, as well as what to consider when assessing a potential dataset. Light refreshments will be provided.

Behind the Screens: Alumni in Media and Communications
2025-02-18 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual
Join us in a dynamic virtual panel featuring accomplished alumni working in media, design, and communications. Get an insider’s look at their career journeys, industry insights, and the skills that have shaped their success.
This event is part of the Arts, Media, Design, and Communications Career Exploration Week.

ARTS, MEDIA, DESIGN, & COMMUNICATIONS WEEK
2025-02-19 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | MACD – First and Second Floor
Learn about organizations and their job & internship opportunities, discover potential career paths, and have fun building your professional network.
All majors and class years welcome!

Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit
2025-02-19 13:30 - 15:00 UTC | Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor, 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
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 1:15pm 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.

Women in Horror Month Student Panel
2025-02-19 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
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.

Biology Department presents Zeba Wunderlich
2025-02-19 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | The Lasry Center for Bioscience
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,

Conversation with Game Design & Interactive Media Alumni & Employers
2025-02-19 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a conversation virtually with alumni and employers who will discuss the game and game-adjacent industries, hiring trends, career pathways, portfolio tips, and more!
A watch party is available in MACD 404 for those who would like to gather in person for the Zoom.

Colloquium Speaker Series: Jenny Goldstein
2025-02-20 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Jefferson 218
Starting with solutions: A Global Political Ecology of Algae Innovation

Nature–society scholars have taken on the green energy transition — but what about green materials? Despite the fossil fuel extraction and high emissions profiles associated with cement, fertilizers, and plastics, there is little critical research on possible alternatives or on how a transition to a green materials future might take shape. Seaweed, however, is increasingly touted by scientists, policymakers, and investors for its potential as a climate-responsive replacement for fossil fuels in industrial applications such as plastics, fertilizers, fuels, and animal feed.
This talk presents preliminary research from the North Atlantic and Southeast Asia on the political–ecological dimensions of technological innovation in the global seaweed industry. Dr. Goldstein first outlines the current barriers to and consequences of scaling up seaweed cultivation for a low-carbon future. She then argues that the bio-technical innovation of turning seaweed into a climate-responsive technology is a crucial locus of power through which to understand how the green materials transition may reproduce, or reconfigure, global development dynamics.
Jenny Goldstein is an assistant professor of global development at Cornell University, an Atkinson Center for Sustainability faculty fellow, and a core faculty member of Cornell’s Southeast Asian Studies Program. Jenny, who is also the Director of Cornell’s Center for Social Sciences Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute (QuIRI), is a political ecologist and human geographer who studies how data infrastructures, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence mediate nature-society relations. Her current research investigates the role of seaweed in shaping the future of green industrial materials within the global bioeconomy.

Professionals in the Visual and Performing Arts Tell Their Stories
2025-02-20 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
This unique event will feature a panel of accomplished speakers who will share how their personal passions shaped their career paths in theater, art, and music. The evening will include a roundtable discussion with both alumni and industry professionals, offering valuable insights into their journeys.

Wanderungen
2025-02-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
An exploration of the life and songs of under-recognized composer Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel by Anastasia Black, Soprano and pianist Yelena Beriyeva.

Screening of the film Revenge
2025-02-21 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
In partnership with CUFSS, relax, eat some pizza and watch the Revenge (2017), directed by Coralie Fargeat (also of The Substance). This high contrast, glitter horror-revenge film takes place in the high desert and is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat! This screening is part of the Women in Horror Month series of events.

Black History Month Film Feature: ‘American Fiction’
2025-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Jefferson 320
In honor of Black History Month, the Clark University Film Screening Society presents “American Fiction,” a 2023 film based on the 2001 novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett. The film follows a frustrated African-American novelist-professor who writes an outlandish satire of stereotypical “Black” books — only for it to be mistaken for serious literature and published to high sales and critical praise.

Arts, Media, Design & Communications - Student Intern Panel
2025-02-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | ASEC 111

Career Fair Prep Day
2025-02-25 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | ASEC Lobby
As the Career Fair approaches, (March 12th), don’t miss this opportunity to polish your professional edge with:

Career Closet Pop-Up: Find free, professional attire to help you make a great first impression;
Resume Reviews: Get personalized feedback from a career advisor to ensure your resume shines;
Linkedin Headshots: Capture a professional photo to enhance your online presence.

Raphael Rogers: Representing Black Girl Magic with Contemporary Picture Books
2025-02-25 15:30 - 16:15 (America/New_York) | Dana Commons, Higgins Lounge, 01610
In this session, Education Professor Raphael Rogers will share details about his latest project, “Representing Black Girl Magic with Contemporary Picture Books.” The book focuses on the wave of recently published picture books by Black women writers who have pushed back against negative beliefs, countered negative stereotypes, and celebrated the joy and magic of Black girls and their families. The book, which features the voices and perspectives of more than two dozen Black women writers, explores how contemporary, culturally relevant, and responsive picture books can provide educators with a chance to teach about race and racism in the classroom and examines how and why these publications are changing the picture book and the educational landscape.
Professor Rogers will also be discussing his book during an author talk at the State Library of Massachusetts on February 19.

Responding to the Absence of Blackness and Anti-Blackness in Elementary-Level Classrooms
2025-02-25 16:15 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Dana Commons, Higgins Lounge, 01610
Education Professor Raphael Rogers will facilitate this conversation with picture book Author Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie. They will discuss the role contemporary picture books written by Black women can play in helping teachers respond to the absence of Blackness and Anti-Blackness in elementary-level classrooms.
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie is featured in Rogers’ 2025 book, “Representing Black Girl with Contemporary Picture Books.” Her book “Layla’s Happiness,” illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin, represents Black childhood joy with images and words. Rogers and Ekere Tallie will discuss why books like “Layla’s Happiness” should be a part of elementary school classrooms and library collections.
Ekere Tallie earned her MFA from Mills College and is an interdisciplinary artist and Ph.D. candidate in theatre arts and performance studies at Brown University. Her dissertation centers on “Black Otherwises” in the work of Ntozake Shange and weaves together performance studies methodologies, archival research, Black feminist theory, and African-based spirituality. Beyond “Layla’s Happiness,” Tallie is also the author of the poetry collections “Karma’s Footsteps,” “Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation,” and “Strut.” Additionally, her work has been published in North American Review, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Black Renaissance Noire, Vida, Crab Orchard Review, and Bomb.
