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Prefiguring Buen Sobrevivir: Post-extractivist, Communitarian Feminist Practices for Good Survival

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 the idea of Buen sobrevivir, or “good survival”, as a radical, prefigurative politics grown out of communitarian feminist, post-extractivist praxis by Lenca women and their […]

Frank Conversations: Part 1 of Celebrating Frank Armstrong

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 between material culture and the grandeur—and banality—of landscapes across our country. Frank’s teaching is integral to his practice. He has spent the last twenty-one years […]

Video Games: The Path to Positive Collective Engagement

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 […]

Gaming the Humanities, and Humanizing 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 […]

Game Design for the End of the World

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, […]

A Q&A with Professor Abbie E. Goldberg

Join Clark’s LGBTQ+ Alumni Association for a special virtual Q&A event celebrating the publication of Psychology Professor Abbie Goldberg’s important upcoming book, “LGBTQ Family Building: A Guide for Prospective Parents.”

The Facts of Life: Woolf and the Queer Mock-Biography

“Queer Comedy Presents,” a three-event series sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities, English Department, and  Screen Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Media, Culture, and the Arts programs, launches […]

American Politics 101

Join the American Language and Culture Institute (ALCI) to learn more about American politics!