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Between Ruin and Rebellion: Everyday Sovereignties in Okinawa’s Black District

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito, an Uchinanchu scholar and postdoctoral fellow/visiting assistant professor in English at Amherst College, will examine these stories and the relationship between place and narrative to highlight the practice of everyday sovereignties in Okinawa’s Black District during a lecture for the Higgins School of Humanities on Monday, April 8 at 4:30pm ET in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons on the Clark University campus.

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Concert and Talk-Back: Waking Up! Climate Action Jazz Suite with The Five Agents

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Eric Hofbauer and The Five Agents will present Waking Up!, a climate action jazz suite, at Clark University on April 3, 2024 at 7pm in the Higgins Lounge. Immediately following the concert, Hofbauer and drummer Curt Newton will offer a talk-back on arts activism.

Sponsored by: Department of Visual & Performing Arts
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If You Become My Friend: A Film Screening and Conversation with Producer and Director Jennifer Potts

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

The Higgins School of Humanities is hosting the Worcester premiere of “If You Become My Friend,” a documentary about frefugees who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took control in 2021 and eventually resettled in Worcester.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

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Colonial Reckoning: The Hidden History of the Census in France

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Jennifer J. Davis, Associate Professor of History at The University of Oklahoma and co-editor of the "Journal of Women’s History," will explore the roots of the modern census in France and the United States in a common document: a count of residents in colonial New France (Canada) in the year 1666. Laurie Ross, Professor and Director of the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice at Clark University, will provide commentary.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities
Kathryn Abrams

Rebuilding Reproductive Freedom in Abortion-Restrictive States

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Kathryn Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at the UC Berkeley School of Law, will examine how are organizers are confronting post-Roe restrictions on reproductive rights in a talk at Clark University on Wednesday, March 20 at 1:30pm.

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Gallery Talk – Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Join the Higgins School of Humanities on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 10am for a gallery talk celebrating the opening of a video exhibition titled, "Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement," in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons on the Clark University campus.

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Black Pop-up Market

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Our second annual series of Black Pop-up Markets will support local black businesses, entrepreneurs, and creatives.

Sponsored by: School of Professional Studies

Teaching with AI in the Humanities: Talking About Practice

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Join the Higgins School for a gathering of humanists eager to share insights, challenges, and triumphs in harnessing AI tools for teaching. This event is open only to faculty at Clark University in Worcester, MA.

Kyra Gaunt

PLAYED: How Music Orchestrates Thick Violence Against Black Girls on the Internet

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Dr. Kyra Gaunt from the University at Albany, SUNY opens the Higgins School's spring 2024 symposium on Movement, revealing the obscured musical contributions of Black girls who twerk while also exposing how music perpetuates patriarchal violence.

First-Gen Panel

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Join us for a student-led panel of first-gen Clarkies.

Sponsored by: Office for Identity, Student Engagement, and Access

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Nuoc (Water) 2030: A Film Screening and Talk-Back with Director Minh Nguyen-Vo

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Join the Higgins School of Humanities at Clark University for a screening of NUOC (Water) 2030 and a talk-back with the film's writer and director, Minh Nguyen-Vo. Stephen Levin, Associate Professor of English at Clark, will moderate the discussion.

Sponsored by: Environmental Humanities Research Collaborative through the Higgins School of Humanities

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Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and the Idea of Race

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou (College of the Holy Cross) examines Kant’s discussion of enslavement and colonialism in his essay, “Toward Perpetual Peace” (1795). Clark University's Cara Berg Powers offers commentary.