Dig into the Past
2025-10-07 14:00 - 14:45 (America/New_York) | Fuller Room (Goddard Library 422)
Attend this library workshop to learn how to find and work with primary sources within and beyond the library’s collection. During the session, you will develop search technique skills and explore library databases as well as other online resources. Participants will leave this workshop with a better understanding of the value of primary sources in research.

This workshop is part of the library’s Research Ready Workshop Series which includes:

Library Press Pass, Google Scholar Smarts, Cite Without Stress, and Dig into the Past.

Take part in as many workshops as you would like to learn essential research skills from Clark librarians in a casual setting!

The Case for Beauty in the Built Environment: Why Humanitarian Aid without Aesthetics Fails
2025-10-08 09:00 - 10:00
Foundations and Field Evidence

In crisis settings, urgent needs take precedence—but what role might beauty play in helping people rebuild and feel at home again?

This opening session of the ‘Beauty, Art, Belonging & the Neuroscience of Place’ webinar series lays the foundation for rethinking beauty as a core component of safety, healing, and belonging. Home Ground Lab co-founders introduce their framework for beauty as essential infrastructure, drawing from both research and refugee-led practice. Alongside insights from UN-Habitat Afghanistan’s post-conflict housing work and a time for Q&A, the session brings together field evidence, lived experience, and emerging neuroscience.

Participants are invited to consider how the built environment can either deepen harm or support recovery. Together, we’ll explore how beauty, too often dismissed as a luxury, may in fact be vital to restoring dignity and coherence in the aftermath of crisis.

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Speakers:

Dr. Devora Neumark is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher and co-founder of Home Ground Lab. With over 30 years of leadership in academia, policy, and creative practice, they advance beauty as essential infrastructure in displacement contexts, combining participatory art, contemplative practice, and policy to promote climate justice, community resilience, dignity, and social innovation.

Stephanie Acker, co-founder of Home Ground Lab, is a policy and communications practitioner whose work has centered on ‘home’ and has held roles with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, UNICEF, and the European University Institute. She has a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Stephanie Loose is the Country Programme Manager/Head of Office for UN-Habitat Afghanistan since October 2024. With over 25 years of professional experience in different countries, including in urban crisis and development settings, she strongly advocates for a humanitarian-development nexus. UN-Habitat has been implementing projects in Afghanistan for more than 30 years, applying people-centered, community-driven and area-based approaches.

Respondent:

Professor Cathrine Brun is Deputy Director at the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS), an independent research institute located between Beirut, Lebanon and Cambridge, UK. A human geographer, her research interests concern the ethics, politics and philosophy of humanitarianism through the lens of forced migration and conflict, young people, education, housing and home.

About the series: Beauty, Art, Belonging & the Neuroscience of Place

Co-hosted by Home Ground Lab & Clark University’s Integration & Belonging Hub

Can beauty help people heal? Rebuild? Belong?

This three-part webinar series explores how beauty, art, and design intersect with neuroscience, dignity, and resilience—especially in contexts of displacement, housing insecurity, and humanitarian response. From refugee camps and post-disaster neighborhoods to communities painting their way back to belonging, this series reveals a radical truth: Beauty is not a luxury. Beauty is infrastructure. Each session brings together global experts in neuroaesthetics, refugee leaders, urban designers, and humanitarian practitioners.

School of Climate, Environment, and Society Community Meeting
2025-10-08 13:30 - 14:30 | Sackler Sciences Center S121
You are a part of CES, and we want to hear from you!

Join us for a conversation about student involvement and representation.

GSG Colloquium Series: Dr. Lise Nelson
2025-10-09 12:00 - 13:00 | VIA ZOOM
Associate Professor and Interim Director in the School of Geography, Development and Environment at the University of Arizona

Illegality and the transformation of low-wage labor regimes in the context of rural gentrification

Over the last three decades, domestic amenity or “lifestyle” migration has stimulated a process of rural gentrification across the United States, shifting landscapes of production to landscapes of consumption—from Jackson Hole, Wyoming to Highlands, North Carolina. This talk draws on her recently published book, Illegality and the Production of Affluence: Undocumented Labor and Gentrification in Rural America. In that project Dr. Nelson investigates an under-appreciated dimension of rural gentrification: the recruitment of low-wage, mostly undocumented Latine immigrant workers essential to building and maintaining gentrifying landscapes and lifestyles. Dr. Nelson’s presentation focuses on the emergence and consolidation of immigrant-based labor regimes in two case study communities between the late 1990s and late 2000s, Steamboat Springs, CO and Rabun County, GA, drilling down into qualitative data that illustrate how and why employers in gentrification-linked sectors recruited what was an unfamiliar labor force in both places. Dr. Nelson traces how, over time, employers transformed their fundamental business model to reach new levels of profitability predicated on access to racially marked, “illegal” workers. Finally, Dr. Nelson discusses how these labor regimes shaped life and work for immigrant newcomers navigating rural landscapes of affluence.

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First Year Success Advisor (FYSA) Office Hours
2025-10-09 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Asher Suite, UC
Have a question related to the first year and sophomore year experience (academics, time management, life skills, etc.)? Pop into FYSA Office Hours in the Asher Suite (Third Floor of the Higgins University Center) to chat with any of the First Year Success Advisors!

Club Purchasing Drop-In Hours
2025-10-09 14:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-16 14:30 - 15:30 | Asher Suite, UC
Stop by the Asher Suite (UC 3rd floor) to chat with Stacie, the Student Engagement Office & Budget Manager, about club purchasing/financial questions.

New Undergraduate Club Info Session
2025-10-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Grace Conference Room, UC
Are you curious about starting a new club? Attend this information session to learn all about the process, including application information, requirements, and timeline, and to ask questions.Attendance at an info session is strongly recommended to promote a smooth approval and onboarding process for new clubs!Please note that this information session is geared toward undergraduate students looking to start a new club. Graduate students looking to start a new club should contact their graduate school for more information!

People + Ruins: Remapping Demolished Spaces and Narratives in Haifa
2025-10-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor, 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Dr. Orwa Switat, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Palestinian Studies at Brown University, will present an innovative digital map and short films that trace the history of Haifa and its displaced spaces and memories.

Discussant:Prof. Elyse Semerdjian, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Reception immediately following the talk in Higgins Atrium.

Clark University Undergraduate Student Council Weekly Meeting (open to the public)
2025-10-09 19:00 - 20:30 | ASEC 202
Join us for the weekly Clark Undergraduate Student Council meetings (Open To The Public!) CUSC representatives meet to discuss potential motions, review and vote on new legislation, and share what they’re hearing from their constituents.Have something you’d like to share? Fill out our Public Comment Form.

Student Leadership Drop-In Hours
2025-10-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Asher Suite, UC
Got a quick question about leadership, club management, or getting involved? Stop by the Asher Suite (3rd floor of the UC) to chat with Meghan, Assistant Director of Student Leadership & Involvement, about a variety of topics such as:-Clark Engage questions/troubleshooting-Finding clubs of interest and -Clarifications about SLICE policies-Submitting tech activation forms, updated key lists, flyers/banners for approval-Assistance with proofreading club emails, documents, etc.-Quick questions that don’t require a full, formal meetingIf you have a more detailed question or would like a longer conversation, please schedule a meeting with Meghan using the QR code on her office door!Questions about club events should be directed to campus_life@clarku.edu, or stop by Maria’s drop-in hours!

Telling Stories with Maps
2025-10-10 13:30 - 14:30 | Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor, 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States

Hadwen Arboretum Volunteering
2025-10-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Hadwen Arboretum
Join Professor John Rogan in maintaining the Hadwen Arboretum through volunteering. Duties include trail maintenance, invasive removal, and other activities that change on a weekly basis. Please RSVP if interested and reach out to Prof. Rogan (JRogan@clarku.edu) with any questions or concerns.

Mid Autumn Moon Festival
2025-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Red Square

Weekly Shabbat Services and Dinner
2025-10-10 18:00 - 21:00 | Grace and Lurie Conference Rooms, University Center, Clark University
A weekly Shabbat service and meal that allows for people to practice their faith, foster community and learn more about what it means to be a part of Hillel

Weekly CUSC Grants Meeting
2025-10-13 18:00 - 20:00 | CUSC Office (First door on the left when entering the UC from the Green)
Weekly meeting for the CUSC grants committee to meet with grant applicants

SAS Fall Workshop: Notetaking 101
2025-10-15 12:30 - 13:30 | ASEC 313
Learn how to take notes from your textbooks or lectures. Open to students registered with SAS, you may bring a friend!

SLICE Student Programming Drop-In Hours with Maria
2025-10-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Asher Suite, UC
Got a quick question about club programming, event planning, space requests, or getting involved? Stop by the Asher Suite (3rd floor of the UC) to chat with Maria, Associate Director of Student Engagement & Programming, about a variety of topics such as:-Submitting tech activation forms, updated key lists, flyers/banners for approval-Clark Engage questions/troubleshooting-Finding clubs of interest -Clarifications about SLICE policies-Assistance with proofreading club emails, documents, etc.-Quick questions that don’t require a full, formal meetingIf you have a more detailed question or would like a longer conversation, please schedule a meeting with Maria’s booking page or using the QR code on her office door!Questions about starting a new club, Engage, and leadership training opportunities should be directed to campus_life@clarku.edu, or stop by Meghan’s drop-in hours Mondays & Fridays 1-2pm!

Celebrating the Legacy of Professor Amy G. Richter
2025-10-15 16:30 - 18:30 | Dana Commons, Higgins Lounge, 01610
Please join the Departments of History and Political Science, and the Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities to commemorate the life and impact of Professor Amy G. Richter.

Professor Richter taught history and women’s and gender studies at Clark for twenty-five years. She made an indelible mark on the University through her brilliance, service, teaching, and advising, for which she won numerous awards. Professor Richter passed away in June after a long battle with ALS.

All members of the campus community are welcome for this special celebration in her honor. Former students and colleagues will share remembrances, with a reception immediately to follow.

Queer & Trans Students of Color (QTSOC) Affinity Space Meeting
2025-10-15 17:00 - 18:00 | McCann Resource Room (1st Floor Dana Commons)
Join QTSOC, an affinity space that centers BIPOC students who are LGBTQIA+ to build community, share experiences, and explore the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality.

Men of Color Alliance Meeting
2025-10-15 18:30 - 19:30 | McCann Resource Room (1st Floor Dana Commons)
THE MEN OF COLOR ALLIANCE OR MOCA IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE THOUGHT-PROVOKING DISCUSSIONS AIMED AT NOT ONLY CREATING COMMUNITY BUT ALLOWING MEN OF COLOR TO EXPLORE INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITIES. We meet Biweekly Wednesdays in Fireside lounge at Dana Commons.

Crochet w. Abbi
2025-10-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Craft Studio
Get hooked on a new hobby 🧶! We are offering learn to crochet or knit workshops weekly! Come to the craft studio on Wednesdays at 7:00 pm to meet with our proctor Abbi who can help with any fiber arts questions you have! No experience or supplies necessary! Come learn the foundational skills of knitting or crochet and create some wearable pieces of art!

Weekly Game Night
2025-10-15 19:00 - 20:30 | The Grind, UC
Join us to unwind and play board games! No prior experience required, we have a great collection of games we’d love you to try! Whether you come every week or are looking for a fun way to spend the night, all are welcome.

Ping Pong Club Meeting
2025-10-15 20:30 - 22:00 | The Grind, UC
Come play some ping pong! All skill levels are welcome. See you there!

Drop-in for On-Campus Job Search Support
2025-10-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Career Lab
Visit us in the Career Lab on Thursdays from 11am-12pm for personalized job search tips and feedback!

Biology Fall 2025 Seminar Series Speaker, PJ Torres, College of the Holy Cross
2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:00 | The Lasry Center for Bioscience
His research group is interested in multiple aspects of ecology including: organic matter dynamics, ecosystem metabolism, food webs, disturbance, nutrient dynamics, invasive species, and tropical conservation. Our current focus projects are (1) Impacts of consumer assemblage extirpations and introduced species on tropical island aquatic ecosystems, and (2) Urbanization effects on community structure and ecosystem processes across Blackstone River headwaters.

Cynthia Enloe’s Final Clark Lecture: ‘Feminist Curiosity is for These Dark Times’
2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Tilton Hall
Feminist theorist and writer Cynthia Enloe 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, The Hague. At Clark University, Professor 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.

Her talk will be followed by a reception to celebrate her distinguished career.

For virtual attendance, join us via Zoom.

This event is sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies program and the Center for Gender, Race and Area Studies. It is co-sponsored by the departments of Political Science and Sustainability and Social Justice.

Economics Society Social Exchange
2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:30 | JC218
The Economics Society, a student-led organization that fosters a community for students interested in the study and application of economics, will host the first social event for the academic year 2025-2026. This time, we invite all introductory class students to meet and connect with older economics students: ask questions about pursuing a major in economics at Clark, get course recommendations from other students, and meet fellow students in economics classes! We provide free pizza and drinks!

You do NOT need to be a declared economics major to participate. Any and all students in economics are welcome!

Economics Department Seminar: Balázs Zélity (Wesleyan University)
2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:30 | JC 118
Date: October 16, 2025, 12 – 1:30 pm

Room: JC118

Speaker: Balázs Zélity (Wesleyan University)

Title: Demographics and International Capital Flows: An Empirical Assessment

Abstract: This paper empirically investigates whether shifts in demographic structure have an impact on cross-border capital flows. Country-level panel data with global coverage is utilised in fixed effects regressions. Demographic variables are instrumented by their predicted values, which are calculated using a shift-share methodology. Local projections estimates complement the results with a dynamic perspective. The main finding is that there is a persistent positive relationship between a country’s mean age and its current and financial account balance — suggesting that population ageing increases net capital outflows. The mechanisms for this result are investigated by decomposing the current and financial accounts into their components as well as exploring what dimension of a country’s population age structure matter the most.

Contact: Kensuke Suzuki, Assistant Professor of Economics, KSuzuki@clarku.edu
