February 23 at 7 p.m. Dana Commons African American Intellectual Lecture Series: Regine Jean-Charles, “‘Pour de drapeau pour la patrie’: Re-reading Haiti’s Revolution and Evolution through Flag Iconography” March 16 at 2:30 p.m. Leir I Conference Room, Anderson House Julia Schweifel, “Justice in the World of Harry Potter”; Ashley Bagley, “Post-9/11 Ideology and Rhetoric”; Johannes…
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Clark helps Worcester residents displaced by overnight fire
Clark University partnered with the city of Worcester on Tuesday to provide shelter to families displaced by a four-alarm fire. According to police reports, the fire broke out on Feb. 22 at about 2 a.m. in a vacant building on Charlton Street and started to spread to an adjacent apartment building. The Worcester Police evacuated…
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Vote online for Clark student in national for service award contest
Clark University student Eric J. Fuchs-Stengel is among 50 semifinalists in the Students in Service Awards sponsored by Washington Campus Compact and Inspireum. The awards recognize outstanding college students whose volunteer service positively impacts society and inspires others to serve. Semifinalists were selected by online voting. Students, educators, family and other community members are invited…
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‘Wood Work’ Gallery opening and Artists Talk this Wednesday
Wood Work: Wood as Material and Subject Schiltkamp Gallery, Traina Center for the Arts Gallery talk: Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 4:15 p.m. Opening reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Exhibit runs April 17 This exhibition includes the work of ten artists who use wood as their medium and conceptual source. In an era when technology…
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Check out The Scarlet online for campus news, student opinions, sports coverage, and reviews of local arts, culture, and cuisine. Now featuring Booze Reviews!
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Higgins School sponsors ‘Unauthorized Puritans’
The manuscript and print archive of Puritan New England challenges our notions of early modern authorship, says Meredith Neuman. Sermon literature is produced by the community – with no simple progression from oral performance to printed text and with no clear hierarchy between the efforts of the minister and the experience of the congregation. This…
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A deeper look at ‘Challenge Convention, Change Our World’
A concern for compassion is at the heart of every major religion and of many secular spiritual, philosophical or humanistic pursuits. In Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism it is an attribute of God or certain Gods; in Buddhism it is the path and practice above all others. However, religious intolerance, rampant consumerism, ethnic division, and…
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Professor Gertz celebrates master’s candidates’ success
Clark University English Professor SunHee Kim Gertz used a different approach last fall when she taught her Introduction to Graduate Studies seminar, adding a requirement that paved the way for her students to achieve on a level usually reserved for Ph.D. candidates. More…
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Celebration of Chinese Lunar New Year recheduled to Feb. 16
The Chinese Language Program of the Foreign Languages and Literatures department invites you to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, originally scheduled for Feb. 2 but postponed to February 16 due to snow. The celebration will feature a keynote address by Professor Janet Neipris of New York University, who will speak about”The Moral Responsibility of…
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Prof. Laurie Ross to speak on ‘Youth Work’: Feb. 3
The fourth seminar of the The George Perkins Marsh Institute and Jeanne X. Kasperson Library Seminar Series will take place on Thursday, February 3, 2011. Laurie Ross, Assistant Professor of Community Development and Planning, IDCE will speak on “Youth Work: Everyday Practice and Social Justice.” Seminars are open to all in the Clark community and…
