Department of Political Science Archives

Election 2024: A Conversation with the Political Science Department

Join Clark’s Political Science Department for a chance to look past the punditry and understand how scholars are analyzing the 2024 presidential election.
Constitution Day Lecture: ‘The Presidents and the People’

Corey Brettschneider, professor at Brown University and author of “The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It,” will present the 2024 Constitution Day Lecture.
Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Changes to College Sports

In the Spring 2024 Harrington Public Affairs Lecture, Elizabeth Sharrow, associate professor at UMass Amherst, will explore the reasons why sex-based inequalities remain in college athletics and identify institutional perversions that undermine efforts toward equality.
Suing Polluters in the Public Interest

The lecture will be presented by Josh Kratka, Senior Attorney of the National Environmental Law Center, Boston MA. The National Environmental Law Center (NELC) is a non-profit public interest litigation […]
Fall 2023 Shannon Lecture: Class Attitudes in America

The fall 2023 William V. Shannon ’47, LITT.D. ’64, Lecture will be presented by Spencer Piston, associate professor and director of advanced programs in political science at Boston University.
A Conversation with Judge Margaret R. Guzman ’89

The Honorable Margaret Guzman ’89, the first Hispanic judge to serve on the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, will visit Clark for a conversation about careers in law.
Dr. Aziza Ahmed gives lecture in observance of Constitution Day 2023

Dr. Aziza Ahmed presents “Abortion and the Supreme Court: Law, Health, and Politics after Dobbs” as Clark University observes Constitution Day 2023.
Harrington Public Affairs Lecture: Organizing as a Political Phenomenon

Dr. Deva Woodley will discuss organizing, which is a distinctly political activity, one that fosters the capacity for political actors to recognize themselves as political subjects.
The Latine Vote

How do we make sense of the politics of such a diverse and changing demographic as the Latine voters?
Speaker event: Being an African Francophone Refugee Scholar in American Academia

Please join us for a special event featuring Dr. Alfred Babo, who was an internationally known professor of development and anthropology at the national university in Côte d’Ivoire before becoming a political refugee in 2013.

Events

Speaker event: Being an African Francophone Refugee Scholar in American Academia

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