ClarkFEST Spring '25
2025-04-23 13:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Tilton, Grace, Lurie, CMACD

Colloquium Speaker Series: Jason W. Moore
2025-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center
Jason Moore, an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, will present “Climate Revolts, Climate Crises, or, Why Climate Doomism is Bad History, Terrible Geography, and Even Worse Politics.”

The Trump Administration’s First 100 Days: Perspectives from History and Political Science
2025-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Clark University, Jefferson Academic Center, Room 320
Join Clark’s History and Political Science Departments for a chance to discuss the major developments of the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

Members of the History and Political Science department faculties will participate in a facilitated discussion intended to help our community interpret the local, national, and international impacts and implications of the Administration’s policies and decisions across a range of issues.

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Panel on Emerging Trends in AI
2025-04-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
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CUSB: Career Q&A for Graduating Students
2025-04-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Clark University – Carlson Hall, CH231, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Still have questions about the job search? Haven’t had time to visit CUSB Career Services or get your resume reviewed?

Beta Alpha Psi, in collaboration with the Stevenish Career Management Center, invites you to a supportive, drop-in session where you can ask last-minute questions about everything from job searching to crafting ATS-friendly resumes. It’s never too late to reach out to SCMC for career and job search guidance!

Nidhiya Menon (Brandeis)
2025-04-24 13:25 - 14:40
Speaker: Nidhiya Menon (Brandeis)
Title: TBA
Date: Thursday, April 24
Time: 1:25 – 2:40 pm
Location: Jonas Clark Hall, Room 215

Counternarratives: Repositioning the News
2025-04-24 13:30 - 14:30 | Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons, Clark University
Alexandra Bell

Alexandra Bell is an interdisciplinary artist who considers the ways media frameworks control how narratives involving Black communities are depicted and in turn disseminated under the aegis of journalistic “objectivity.” She accumulates news records, mines editorial databases, and restructures textually and visually produced narratives to control the elasticity of language and image. By physically outlining and revising editorial frameworks, she attempts to wrestle media depictions from dominant institutions and impart the power of interpretation and definition to the collective public.

She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award (2018), Catchlight Fellowship (2019), Soros Equality Fellowship (2019), Sarah Arison Artadia Award (2020), and a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University (2022).

She received her B.A. in Humanities from University of Chicago and an M.S. from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

Master Class with Alexandra Bell
2025-04-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Higgins Atrium, Dana Commons, 2nd Floor
Alexandra Bell

Join Alexandra Bell for a breakout workshop and group discussion following her talk (1:30–2:30 p.m.).

International Poetry Night
2025-04-24 17:30 - 19:00 | The Grind, Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street, Worcester, 01610, 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 represented as we can.

If you are interested in reading a piece (either an original or by a published author), please send an email to ngareca@clarku.edu with the name of the piece, the author, and an English translation of the piece. Though the pieces are to be read in their original language, the English translations are to be published so the audience can understand. We hope to see you there!

CUSB: Beta Alpha Psi Series on Financial Literacy
2025-04-25 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-02 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-09 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
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Connections@Clark Celebration
2025-04-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons, Dana Commons
Join us in celebrating and honoring the first-year and graduating class of Connections@Clark participants, including mentors. We will have a ceremony for the graduating seniors, a superlative celebration for current first-years, and a mix-and-mingle portion with food for the event.

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Theatre Arts Program Showcase
2025-04-25 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-26 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Little Center, Michelson Theater, Charlotte Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01610, United States
Dance and Devised Theatre students will present their work from the semester with special faculty and student guests.

Arbor Day Festival
2025-04-26 12:00 - 15:00 | Clark University Red Square, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Join the Arboretum Advocates, other student organizations, and members of the local community to celebrate Arbor Day. Refreshments, activities — including invasive plant removal — and free items will be available.

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Multicultural End-of-the-Year Celebration
2025-04-26 13:00 - 16:00 | Alden Quad and Dana Commons, Maywood Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01610, United States
Please join us for an end-of-the-year celebration of all of the many cultures at Clark. There will be food, music, and alumni engagement.

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Clark University Concert Band
2025-04-26 15:00 - 17:00 | Atwood Hall – Daniels Theater
The Clark University Concert Band will explore symphonic soundtracks from the stage to the big screen in this cinematic tour.

JazzFest
2025-04-27 12:00 - 17:00 | Campus Green, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Jazz Workshop Ensemble and Clark University Jazz Combos under the direction of Jerry Sabatini perform an afternoon festival of music in classic Jazz arrangements and other styles.

Older Jews and the Holocaust Symposium
2025-04-28 13:00 - 16:00 | Rose Library, Strassler Center
28 April 2025 |1 – 4 p.m. | Rose Library
Asher Lecture Series
Older Jews and the Holocaust Symposium
Speakers:Joanna Sliwa (Historian, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)
Elizabeth Anthony (Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC)
Michael Geheran (Deputy Director, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, United States Military Academy at West Point, New York)
Discussant:Glenn Dynner (Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies, Director of the Bennett Center at Fairfield University)
Older Jews and the Holocaust is a project dedicated to uncovering the often-overlooked experiences of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust. While many were tragically murdered, some survived and rebuilt their lives. This project moves beyond the conventional focus on their vulnerability and loss, instead highlighting the resilience and continuity of their prewar lives through the horrors of Nazi persecution and into the postwar period. It examines how they coped with trauma and how families, communities, and organizations responded to their unique needs.
This project is undertaken with assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, supported by the German Federal Ministry of Finance and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, as well as the Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation. A volume by the same title will be co-published by Wayne State University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in spring 2026.
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Clark Symposium sponsored by the Asher Family Fund

Late-Night Breakfast
2025-04-29 22:30 - 2025-04-30 00:00 | The Table at Higgins (University Center), 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01610, United States
Come gather in The Table at Higgins for this long-standing tradition where your Clark staff and administrators are there to greet you, wish you good luck as you close out your semester, and serve you a late-night meal! Late Night Breakfast is a part of Wellness Education’s coordinated “Feel Good Finals” and is a joyful time to take a break from working hard and come together for a community study break. Just bring your Clark ID with you and have your event pass ready.

Music Performance Showcase
2025-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Razzo Hall, 92 Downing St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Selected students from the Music Program will perform the final concert of the spring semester.

The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979
2025-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Rose Library, Strassler Center
Speakers:
Houri Berberian (Professor of History & Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, School of Humanities. Director of the Center for Armenian Studies)Talinn Grigor (Professor of Art and Architectural History, Modern and Contemporary Global Architecture and Art Critical, Race, Feminist, and (post) Colonial Theory)
Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women’s organizations, the authors trace minoritarian politics and the shifting relationships among doubly minoritized Armenian female subjects, Iran’s central nodes of power, and the Irano-Armenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties.
Engaging broader considerations around modernization, nationalism, and feminism, this book makes a conceptually rich contribution to how we think about the history of women and minoritized peoples. Berberian and Grigor read archival, textual, visual, and oral history sources together and against one another to challenge conventional notions of “the archive” and transform silences and absences into audible and visual presences. Understanding minoritarian politics as formulated by women through their various forms of public and intellectual activisms, they provide a groundbreaking intervention in Iran’s history of modernization, Armenian diasporic history, and Iranian and Armenian feminist historiography.
Sponsored by the Friends of Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Professor in Armenian Genocide Studies

Public History Walking Tour
2025-05-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Woodland, May, and Main streets
REGISTRATION CLOSED — TOUR FULL

Musicians, manufacturers, a laundress and a Swedish immigrant — the history of this neighborhood is remarkable not just because of its many examples of distinctive architecture, but because of the colorful stories of the men and women who initially shaped it. Join students in Clark’s Public History course for a walking tour that takes us back in time to the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. Hear about the homes, their inhabitants, and the community’s change over time!

The tour is part of Preservation Worcester’s Jane Week programming. Jane Week — named for Jane Jacobs, an urban theorist and activist who championed a community-based approach to city building — gives Worcester residents and visitors a chance to connect to each other, explore Worcester by foot and participate in interesting discussions on how we can enhance the design and function of our city.

CUSB Honors & Awards Ceremony
2025-05-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall
Come celebrate the members of the Clark University School of Business community that have received the year’s prestigious honors and awards, including induction into the Beta Gamma Sigma and Beta Alpha Psi Honor Societies.

International Student Graduation Celebration
2025-05-13 16:00 - 18:00
Join us in Tilton Hall to honor our graduating international students at our International Graduation Ceremony! We look forward to celebrating this big milestone with our international students.
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Lavender Graduation
2025-05-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall
Honoring and celebrating LGBTQIA+ members of the 2025 graduating class.

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First-Gen Pinning Ceremony
2025-05-18 11:00 - 12:30 | Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall
The First-Gen Pinning Ceremony honors the achievements of our first-generation* college students and first-generation 1.5** students at Clark University.

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*At Clark University, a first-generation college student (or first-gen) is defined as an individual whose parents/guardians did not complete a bachelor’s degree. This does not include siblings.

**The student is not necessarily the first in their family to go to college as defined above, but typically navigates college like many other first-generation college students due to self-identifying as not having prior exposure to or knowledge of navigating higher education.

Multicultural Graduation Ceremony
2025-05-18 14:00 - 15:30 | Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall
Multicultural Graduation honors the experiences and accomplishments of graduating multicultural students.

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