Campus News & Events

Campus news, announcements and events of broad appeal.

Clark Catering is going zero!

Waste!  Clark Catering, Sustainable Clark and Physical Plant are currently working together to completely eliminate garbage from our catering menu. You may have noticed the compost bins at catered events in the U.C.; they popped up in the beginning of October and are the first step in creating waste-free catering for the whole campus.  By…

Critical Geography conference, Nov. 4-6, examines radical politics in age of crisis

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University and the journal Human Geography, the 18th Annual Conference on Critical Geography seeks to bring critical geographers together to engage with a world in crisis. Historically, crises have been viewed as moments of political opportunity; as points in time where hegemonic contradictions are revealed and contested. This…

This week in The Scarlet

This week in The Scarlet: Clark Undergraduate Student Council election results are in! We’ve also got a review and slideshow of the new encaustic show at Traina, Kindred Spirits. Claire Tierney talks about the new student athlete alcohol policy Marc Kadushin reviews Brew City Michelle Scott gives you the details on the new occupancy sensors around campus Gwen Walsh talks about the…

Janelle Monae interviewed in the Scarlet

Clark student Sampson Wilcox gets into the head Janelle Monae in this exclusive interview with The Scarlet. She talks about her upbringing, inspiration, and why her style is so out of this world. Get to know the artist who performed at Clark University’s big fall show last Monday! http://clarknews.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/artist-archandroid/

‘Kindred Spirits’ opening is Oct. 5; exhibit runs through Dec. 12

September 28 through December 12 | Schiltkamp Gallery, Traina Center for the Arts   Gallery Opening and Reception Wednesday, October 5 from 5:30 to 7:30pm This exhibition of diverse artworks is united by the use of an extraordinary medium—encaustic. This fall, the Schiltkamp Gallery presents a collection of artists’ works revitalizing this ancient material through contemporary painting, printmaking and sculpture.…

Lecture to address ‘Male Maternity in Nietzsche’

Andrew Parker: “Male Maternity in Nietzsche: Queering the Mother’s Gender” Monday, Oct. 3; 4:30 p.m. Estabrook 303 Andrew Parker, professor of English at Amherst College, is the editor or co-editor of a number of important collections of essays that helped shape the emergence of queer theory in the 1990s, including “Nationalisms and Sexualities” (1992) and…