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Is Technology Good for Voting?

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

Americans have a love/hate relationship with technology when it comes to elections. As with so many aspects of modern life, the act of voting now depends on computer technologies to […]

The Worlds We Live In: A Community Conversation

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

Analog and digital realms are often more minutely entangled than we realize. Are there any aspects of analog and digital existence that are entirely separate, and do we even have […]

Reaper: Poems on Technology and Humanity

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

How do we seek to connect with one another in a time of distant drone warfare and overwhelming incarceration rates? In this reading of her most recent collection of poems, […]

Descendants: An Exhibition by Lou Jones

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

Lou Jones, The Ward Family, 2017, Nikon D800 Photographs preserve discrete moments in time, but they also encapsulate complexities of art and technology as well as social practice and lived […]

Art as Social Practice

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

Abraham Schroeder Socially engaged art exists at the intersection between powerful symbolic statements and quantifiable political change. Rooted in the long history of artistic traditions and more recent upheavals and […]

Health Care for Good: What We Need to Learn from Radical Clinics

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

In the 1960s and 70s, most urban centers in the US boasted a thriving array of radical clinics, often linked to political movements such as the Black Panther Party and the […]

Race/Memory/Public Space

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

Last July’s KKK march in Charlottesville, Virginia protesting the removal of the Robert E. Lee monument that dominated a city park was in some ways a rag-tag reenactment of the […]

Terror Rising: The Village Mob

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

A swarm of angry villagers emerges from the mist, torches lit and pitchforks drawn. Marching through the darkness, they hunt a monster, spurred on by fear and screaming for retribution. […]

Why Get Involved with Prison Education?

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

Steven King/Clark University Students and teachers, tutors and mentors, organizers and activists—all those involved in prison education programs can speak to the many overlapping benefits for individuals, families, and communities. […]

Why Bother with Prison Education?

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

Arguments for the value of prison education generally focus on larger social benefits, such as reduced recidivism. Arguments might also be made, however, for the less quantifiable but no less […]

What’s In It for Us? A Community Conversation on the Public Good

Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

The pursuit of common goals derives from a consideration of many individual perspectives—what we know from experience, what we imagine through compassion, and what we learn by listening to others. […]