“Career Compass: Navigating Life Beyond Clark” - Financial Literacy for You
2025-03-18 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Take control of your financial future with our engaging and interactive Financial Literacy workshop, led by expert Joseph Michael Ford.
Whether you’re just starting out or looking to refine your financial skills, this workshop is your opportunity to gain valuable knowledge and set yourself up for success!

Fishers, Foragers and Fine Diners
2025-03-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor
Ben Jamieson Stanley (they/them), Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware, will deliver an invited guest lecture at Clark University related to their recently published book: Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm.
While “climate fiction” has become privileged in the Global North, Global South representations more often trace environmental precarity to its roots in colonization and globalized capitalism. This talk situates 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. Connecting Zakes Mda’s 2005 novel The Whale Caller to contemporary cookbooks and restaurants, the talk follows the changing meanings of endangered mollusks such as abalone: from their role in indigenous foodways, to the 1990s “abalone wars,” and to the appropriation of “indigenous foods” in eco-gastronomic cuisine.
Admission is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 11:45 am for refreshments.

Ben Jamieson Stanley (they/them) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware, where they are directing the launch of a new Center for Environmental Humanities. Ben’s research focuses on how we narrate and understand relationships among globalization, empire, and environmental precarity. Professor Stanley has also published on topics such as climate fiction, veganism, botanical gardens as tools of both empire and resistance, and energy systems in Afrofuturist film. Their work can be found in journals such as ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, The Global South, and Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society. Professor Stanley is working on a second book tentatively titled Mobilities: Movement and Energy in a Changing South Africa, which brings together questions of energy transition, gender and sexuality, and transit justice.

Biology Department presents Elizabeth ‘Toby’ Kellogg
2025-03-19 15:00 - 16:00 | The Lasry Center for Bioscience
The Biology Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Elizabeth “Toby” Kellogg, principal investigator at the Danforth Plant Science Center. Kellogg’s lab studies genomes, growth, and development of sorghum, maize, and their wild relatives, using biodiversity research to make ecosystems and agriculture more sustainable.

Colloquium Speaker Series: Jason Jackson
2025-03-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center
Taxis versus Uber: The Global Rise of Platform Firms in Urban Mobility Markets

The last few decades have been characterized by the return of market liberalism: the belief that national societies and the global economy can and should be organized through the institutional mechanism of ‘self-regulating markets.’ The liberal ideal may well be exemplified by the rise of platform firms that offer the promise of perfect markets through computational techniques of connecting buyers and suppliers. These firms use algorithmic processes to construct and aggregate fragmented markets, thus capturing scale economies through network effects. The allure of platforms lies in the promise of economic efficiency and political liberty by providing market actors on both sides of the platform with freedom of choice. These technologies constitute a claim to modernity that is compelling to both policymakers and the public, enabling platforms’ role in the radical transformation of cities, while presenting a range of vexing challenges for democratic forms of urban governance. Platform firms claim to be technocratic and neutral even as they challenge the legitimacy of public sector control of urban spaces. This lecture focuses on the entry of ridehailing platform firms in urban mobility markets, spaces that are a variegated mix of large-scale, centralized public sector providers and relatively small, fragmented and often informal private sector players. Ridehailing’s ‘disruption’ has generated diverse reactions in different political economies and labor markets in the developing and industrialized world, but a common outcome is the concentration of power in oligopolistic platform firms, the institutionalization of increasingly precarious conditions of work, and the generation of resistance ‘from below’. The research suggests that ‘traditional’ centrally planned urban mobility systems such as taxis and mass transit, and ‘modern’ urban mobility platforms thus constitute alternative modes of market governance. Yet they rely on enabling legal rules that structure the distribution of power and authority as well as material gains and losses. The role of law is intertwined with three classic dualisms in the study of markets that shape the economic order: the dualism between markets and planning, formality and informality, and monopoly and competition.
Jason Jackson is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Director of the Political Economy Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Jason’s research is broadly concerned with the relationship between states and markets in processes of economic development and social transformation. Jason is currently engaged with projects on the role of anti-colonial economic nationalism in development; the rise of platform firms, the digital economy and the future of work; the return of industrial policy; and the global governance of public health. He is author of the forthcoming books Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: The Role of Capitalist Legitimacy in Indian Foreign Investment Policy (Harvard University Press) and Varieties of Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India (Cambridge University Press).

Laura Gee (Tufts)
2025-03-20 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Laura Gee (Tufts)
Title: TBA
Date: Thursday, March 20
Time: 12:00-1:15 pm
Location: Jonas Clark Hall, Room 104

Driving In The United States Info Session
2025-03-20 15:00 - 16:00
Learn more about driving in the U.S. We will cover topics such as how to obtain your learner’s permit, how to obtain your driver’s license, driving school recommendations, maintaining a car & much more. Open to the Clark community.

“Career Compass: Navigating Life Beyond Clark” - Managing Student Loan Debt
2025-03-20 17:30 - 19:00 | ASEC 202
Navigate the ever-changing student loan landscape with confidence!
This Managing Student Loan Debt dynamic session will provide the latest updates and practical insights for borrowers, helping you understand federal and private loan repayment options, explore consolidation strategies, determine eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and recognize how to avoid student loan scams.

The Role of the Sudanese Diaspora in Humanitarian Preparedness, Response, and Recovery.
2025-03-21 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Navigating Displacement: a Sudanese Speaker Series on Migration, Policy, and Home
The Role of the Sudanese Diaspora in Humanitarian Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Presented by Dr. Bashair Ahmed, Shabaka. Join us on Zoom (use QR code or zoom link below):

CUSB: Beta Alpha Psi Series on Financial Literacy
2025-03-21 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-28 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-04 13:00 - 14:00
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

CUSB: Financial Leadership w/Alumnus Roman Viktorov, VP Finance, CFO Cisco
2025-03-21 13:30 - 15:00 | Clark University – Carlson Hall, CH120, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Finance is not just about achieving the highest margin. It is about building relationships, bringing together creative ideas, leveraging technology, and enabling new business models.
As Vice President of Finance and CFO of the $30B Americas organization, the largest of Cisco’s 3 geographic regions, Roman Viktorov partners with sales and customer experience leaders to deliver profitable growth, ensure optimal business performance, and enable business transformation.
Roman has taken on a variety of leadership challenges, from startups to more established businesses. Diverse roles at Cisco include Security, Customer Experience, and Sales Finance. Not afraid to dive into unfamiliar water, he has built and led new businesses from scratch, transformed underperforming organizations and streamlined processes within successful teams.
Join alumnus Roman Viktorov for an insightful discussion on financial leadership at a worldwide technology leader.
This guest is speaking in person only.

CUSB: Financial Leadership with Roman Viktorov ’92
2025-03-21 13:30 - 15:00 | Clark University – Carlson Hall, CH120, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Finance is not just about achieving the highest margin. It is about building relationships, bringing together creative ideas, leveraging technology, and enabling new business models.

As Vice President of Finance and CFO of Cisco’s $30B Americas organization, the largest of Cisco’s three geographic regions, Roman Viktorov partners with sales and customer experience leaders to deliver profitable growth, ensure optimal business performance, and enable business transformation.

Roman has taken on a variety of leadership challenges, from startups to more established businesses. Diverse roles at Cisco include Security, Customer Experience, and Sales Finance. Not afraid to dive into unfamiliar water, he has built and led new businesses from scratch, transformed underperforming organizations and streamlined processes within successful teams.

Join Roman Viktorov for an insightful discussion on financial leadership at a worldwide technology leader.

This guest is speaking in person only.

Local Experts, Global Issues: A Sustainability Conversation with Worcester Area Researchers
2025-03-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Goddard Library Fuller Music Room 422
Worcester Reads Writes and Makes: Sustainability and Climate Change, a Worcester-wide series developed by the Academic Research Collaborative (ARC) Libraries of central Massachusetts.

Join local experts from Worcester-area colleges and universities as they discuss their research on sustainability in their areas of expertise.

Speakers:

Dr. Mauri Pelto, Professor of Environmental Science, Nichols College, Dudley, MA
Dr. Donna Bartlett, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, MA
Additional speakers to be announced

Light refreshments will be served.

Program sponsored by the Goddard Library, Clark University. Questions about the event may be addressed to library@clarku.edu.

OPT(Optional Practical Training) Workshop
2025-03-26 14:00 - 15:00
Want to learn more about Optional Practical Training(OPT)? This workshop will walk you through the procedure and regulations, and will offer you the opportunity to ask any questions.

Hong Ma (Tsinghua /HKS)
2025-03-27 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Hong Ma (Tsinghua /HKS)
Title: TBA
Date: Thursday, March 27
Time: 12:00-1:15 pm
Location: Jonas Clark Hall, Room 104

Sprintax Webinar
2025-03-27 13:00 - 14:00
Did you know that if you earned income in the US during 2024, you’re legally required to file a tax return by 15 April, 2025? It’s true! What’s more – even if you didn’t earn any income, you still need to submit Form 8843 to the IRS.
Join this webinar to learn about tax resources and how to file taxes. Register here:https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1735462996844225879

Entrepreneurship Program: Clark Tank Competition!
2025-03-28 09:00 - 15:00 | Clark University, Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center – 2nd Floor, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
The Clark Tank Marketing Pitch Competition allows students to pitch their businesses to a distinguished panel of marketing experts for a cash prize. Students prepare for the competition through a half-credit course, through which they learn the necessary marketing skills needed to grow their businesses.
Come support your fellow Clarkies as they vie to be the next Clark Tank winner!

Music Program Alumni Showcase
2025-03-28 15:00 - 19:00 | Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design, 7 Hawthorne Street, Worcester, MA, 01610
The Visual and Performing Arts Department at Clark University would like to welcome you to attend the first annual Clark University Music Program Alumni Showcase. Please join us in room 016 of the MACD for an afternoon of music, conversation and refreshments.

Passions: Clark University Chamber Chorus Concert
2025-03-31 19:00 - 20:30
The Clark University Chamber Chorus, led by Cailin Marcel Manson and assisted by Yelena Beriyeva, perform music and texts full to the brim of love narratives and metaphors: The Zigeunerlieder of Johannes Brahms, the Six Chansons of Paul Hindemith, and Daniel Pinkham’s Wedding Cantata.

Biology Department presents Liam Cleary
2025-04-02 15:00 - 16:00 | The Lasry Center for Bioscience
The Biology Department Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Clark doctoral student Liam Cleary, who studies how environments influence the genomic evolution of functional molecules at the species and population level.

Ask a Librarian
2025-04-03 11:30 - 13:30 | University Center Tables
Have a question about a research project or library resources and can’t make it to the library? Every Thursday librarians from the Goddard Library will be available at the tables outside the UC. Bring questions about navigating library databases, placing an interlibrary loan request, evaluating sources, and more. Stickers, information about library resources (did you know you can check out a laptop charger?) and a friendly librarian will be there.

Clark Field Trip to the Fitchburg Art Museum
2025-04-03 11:30 - 16:30 | Fitchburg Art Museum, 185 Elm Street, Fitchburg, MA, 01420, United States
Stephen DiRado, Better Together: Four Decades of PhotographsExhibit and Gallery Talk at Fitchburg Art Museum
* Free bus transportation open to Clark students, staff, and faculty with a current Clark ID. *
Join us for a field trip in honor of Stephen DiRado’s career retrospective exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM). This show features 75 black-and-white photographs, 1,001 projected color images, and three videos about the artist, his life, and his work process. During the visit, you’ll have an opportunity to engage with Prof. DiRado through an interactive gallery talk and to explore the other offerings at FAM.
Free bus transportation and museum admission are available to members of the Clark community – Clark IDs will be checked before boarding the bus and again at the museum entrance. Participants should meet at Atwood Hall (185 Woodland Street) at 11:45am, so the bus can depart Clark promptly at noon. We will arrive back on campus by approximately 4:30pm that day.
Want to ride the bus? Reserve your seat by March 24 at this link: https://bit.ly/ClarkFAM.
Want to drive your own car? Register for free museum admission by contacting HigginsInstitute@clarku.edu.
If you have mobility needs or require special assistance, please contact HigginsInstitute@clarku.edu or call (508) 793-7479.

This trip is sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities, the Media, Culture & the Arts program, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, and the Studio Art program. Please join us in extending sincere thanks to the Fitchburg Art Museum and director Nick Capasso for their continued generosity to the Clark community.

Colloquium Speaker Series: Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux
2025-04-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center
Hyperlocal Climate Services: Reflections of a State Climatologist

Dr. Dupigny-Giroux will discuss the multiple ways in which she as a teacher-scholar and Vermont State Climatologist serves as a portal for weather and climate information, education, outreach and analytical expertise to the people and agencies of the state of Vermont and beyond. These reflections will range from service-learning as a high impact pedagogy for graduating seniors, to the drafting of the state’s initial Climate Action Plan and the process-based dynamics of recent extreme weather events Vermont.

Excavating Women’s Testimony of the Armenian Genocide
2025-04-03 17:30 - 18:30 | Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons
Elyse Semerjdian is the Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies and a professor in the Department of History. She will discuss the limitations of the state archive and her methodology for locating women’s voices in the archival record. The lecture will highlight her use of photography and letters and highlight some of the earliest testimonies composed by women survivors to show how genocide weaponizes the sexual economy of the patriarchal household.

Zoom Registration Link

The Inclusion of Smallholders in Global Supply Chain Regulations
2025-04-04 16:00 - 17:00 | ASEC, Room 202
You are invited to attend The Inclusion of Smallholders in Global Supply Chain Regulations: The Case of EU Deforestation Regulation in Indonesia and Lao PDR.

Our speaker, Pheakkdey Nguon, Ph.D. ’16, is a 2025 Yale Emerging Climate Leader Fellow and Senior Forest Governance Expert at the European Forest Institute with extensive experience in environmental policies (EUDR, FLEGT, REDD+), sustainable landscapes, and climate initiatives. His current research exploring EUDR impacts on smallholder timber producers in Indonesia and Lao PDR is supported by a fellowship from the International Tropical Timber Organization.

You can also join us on Zoom (meeting ID: 982 5800 3742; passcode: [REDACTED]

This event is free for Clark students. Light refreshments will be served.

Between the Lines: A Conversation with Joseph de Rivera
2025-04-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Goddard Library Floor 2, Strassler Campus Green Overlook
Between the Lines: A Clark Author Series

Joseph de Rivera will discuss his book, “Forming a Global Community” (Vernon Press, 2022), which argues that our current global situation requires a non-dualistic personalist philosophy that suggests new economics, politics, and religion.

Learn more about the book »

Light refreshments will be served. This event will not be recorded.

About the Author:

Professor de Rivera is a senior research scholar in the Hiatt School of Psychology. He taught at Dartmouth and NYU before coming to Clark and founding the program in Peace and Conflict Studies. He is known for books and articles on the structural analysis of emotions, emotional climate, believed-in imaginings, field theory, foreign policy, violence, and cultures of peace.

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.

Introducing Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture
2025-04-09 13:30 - 15:00 | Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor, 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, 01603, United States
Join us as Clark University faculty member María Acosta Cruz (Language, Literature, and Culture) discusses her new book, Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture. In it, she examines Puerto Rico’s national culture through a complex web of references to the disasters that the nation has suffered and to how the environment has been portrayed. Sometimes Puerto Rican history, literature and arts highlight the drama of hurricanes and earthquakes. But often, the classics read in universities and gazed at in museums depict an Edenic garden of eternal spring. Since cultural depictions of the environment are never innocent and always have socio-political motivations, Acosta Cruz’s ecocritical project explores Puerto Rico through its unique convergences of calamities: cyclonic location and ecological instability, as well as continuous colonialism.
Admission is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 1:15pm for refreshments.
Sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities and the Department of Language, Literature, and Culture at Clark University
About the Speaker
Born and raised in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, María Acosta Cruz received her degrees in Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is a Full Professor of Spanish at Clark University. She explores language and culture issues concerning ecocriticism, nationhood, gender constructions, and Caribbean political and cultural history. Among her published works is Dream Nation: Puerto Rican Culture & the Fictions of Independence and the upcoming book Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture.

Biology Department Presents Laura Katz
2025-04-09 15:00 - 16:00 | The Lasry Center for Bioscience
