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 to see international teams play a game of League of Legends. These numbers have continued to grow with games like Animal Crossing: New Horizon, selling […]
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, […]
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, […]
This talk by Whitney (Whit) Pow (they/them) of New York University situates today’s queer and trans games movement within the histories, contributions, and politics of queer and trans people and […]
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.”
Join us as we launch the three-part “Queer Comedy Presents” series with a lecture by Professor Lauryl Tucker, Associate Professor of English at Sewanee: The University of the South. Funny […]
