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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 […]

CANCELED: American Roadsides Conversation Café – Part 2 of Celebrating Frank Armstrong

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 with Frank Armstrong at a later date, and we will announce future plans as they evolve. We appreciate your understanding and your continued support of […]

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, […]

The Future of Video Games: Race, Play, and the Speculative Imagination

  In this talk, which is written as a love letter, Professor TreaAndrea M. Russworm (she/her) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst examines different modalities of Black cultural life—hip hop, Blaxploitation film, popular fiction, and simulation games—as spatial-speculative tools for playing in a broken world. What can Black speculative thinking teach us about navigating the […]

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!

Queer Comedy Presents: A Night of Stand-Up with Robin Tran

Stand-up comedy rising star Robin Tran is "often edgy, always fiercely intelligent and hilarious" (Queer Review) We’re welcoming Robin Tran for an evening of stand-up comedy! Reservation required » Robin […]