Lectures and conferences Archives

Lectures and conferences

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Megan Marshall to speak about biography of Worcester poet Elizabeth Bishop

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Megan Marshall will speak about her recent biography and memoir, “Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast,” at Clark University at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 12,in Tilton Hall. Marshall is the first Charles Wesley Emerson College professor at Emerson College. She studied under Elizabeth Bishop, a Worcester-born and highly celebrated American poet and short story writer, while…
Transgender author Chris Edwards to discuss new memoir at Higgins event

Boston-area author and transgender advocate Chris Edwards will talk about his life-changing journey and read from his memoir, “BALLS: It Takes Some to Get Some,” at Clark University at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 16, in the Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons, 2nd Floor. The event is part of the Higgins School of Humanities’ spring dialogue symposium “What’s so funny?” which includes lectures, community…
‘Stay true to who you are’

Michael Sam, first openly gay NFL draftee, speaks at Clark
Historian explores African-American exiles’ struggle against ‘King Cotton’

In a recent lecture at Clark University, Ousmane Power-Greene, professor of history, put words to the African-American struggle against “King Cotton” and the desire to find a homeland — and a place to build community. The Graduate School of Geography hosted Power-Greene on Sept. 14 as the first speaker in the school’s Fall 2016 Colloquium Speaker Series. His talk, titled…
In President’s Lecture, civil rights pioneer encourages ‘constitutional conversation’

Robert Parris Moses received a standing ovation before he uttered a word. The raucous reception greeting Moses as he took the Razzo Hall stage to deliver the Oct. 8 President’s Lecture was a display of deep appreciation for the life and career of the prominent Civil Rights leader, who defied the violent racism of early-1960s…
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz talks about ‘living on the hyphen’

He came to Clark University on Sept. 30 to deliver the President’s Lecture, but novelist Junot Diaz quickly disabused the audience of any notion that his lecture would be like any other delivered within the walls of venerable Atwood Hall. Eschewing the podium to roam the stage, Diaz launched into a dialogue-driven presentation in which he used audience questions to…
President’s lecture takes the temperature of climate change

As climate change occurs, scientists continue to struggle with questions of how the human race must prepare, adapt, and meet its challenges. Daniel Schrag, director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, dived into some of these critical issues in his lecture, “The Anthropocene and Its Discontents: Climate Change and the Future of the…
Prominent education historian to deliver lecture at Clark on Dec. 1

One of the nation’s pre-eminent critics of high stakes testing, historian and author Diane Ravitch, will deliver the inaugural Dr. Lee Gurel ’48 Lecture at Clark University, “How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education,” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, in Tilton Hall at the Higgins University Center. Ravitch will talk about where the movement to reform…