Protected areas and other area-based governance systems are a cornerstone of conservation efforts. When well-designed and managed, these systems can reduce habitat and biodiversity loss, mitigate carbon emissions, and alleviate poverty. On the other hand, widespread evidence of the impermanence of protected areas – known as protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) – is […]
Extractives@Clark presents Andrew Curley (Diné) In 2021 the Navajo Generating Station, a long standing symbol of coal energy in the southwest, was demolished. The power plant ended operations the previous year, which signaled the end of coal mining in Black Mesa. In this presentation, Curley will discuss the deeper meaning and contestations of coal within […]
Laudato Si' Research Institute A multidisciplinary conference exploring the disproportionate impact of ecological degradation on women, with a special focus on environmental and gender injustice such as that arising from […]
"Extractives and GIS: Solar Panel Fields and Forest Loss in Massachusetts/ Uganda-Tanga Crude Oil Pipeline Potential Impact" Click here to access the Zoom link John Rogan - Professor at […]
Once the realm of science fiction fantasy, the prospect of huge machines being lowered onto fragile deep seabed ecosystems to mine for metals is now only two years away from […]
In the 21st century, American art museums are facing new challenges that demand significant institutional change. To ensure ongoing relevance, museums are being asked to be more responsive to, and […]
South American scholars and activists have proposed buen vivir and post-extractivism as utopian paradigms of alternative nature/society relationships rooted in indigenous knowledges. This talk reassesses and modifies these abstract concepts, proposing […]
Image courtesy of Stephen DiRado Frank Armstrong is an important American landscape photographer whose work over six decades has revealed aspects of the American character by focusing on interactions […]
Games, dev-jams, streams, and the culture surrounding them allow people to connect through formative and compelling shared experiences. In fact, over the past two years of unprecedented isolation, video games […]
Ashlyn Sparrow Games are the largest cultural and entertainment forms of our time. Pre-Covid, thousands of players would gather in parks to play Pokemon Go or in large stadiums […]
Seward, Alaska 2015 by Frank Armstrong We regret to announce that this event has been canceled due to unexpected circumstances. Fitchburg Art Museum hopes to reschedule the conversation café […]
Screenshot of "Cloud Theory," a game (in development) by Colleen Macklin Climate change, pandemics, political polarization, systemic racism, and capitalism run amok! If there’s anything that marks the 2020s, […]
