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Alumni & Friends Book Club: The Reading List: A Novel

Please join the Alumni & Friends Book Club for a discussion of The Reading List: A Novel by Sara Nisha Adams. “An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance […]

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, it’s a sense that life on the planet is increasingly under attack. Games –particularly video games – have explored these apocalyptic themes, often putting players […]

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 […]

April 7 and 8, 2022: Animating Absence: Photographs in Liquid Time

Speakers: Marianne Hirsch (Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, Columbia University) Leo Spitzer (K. T. Vernon Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College) Workshop: Representing Absence: Refugees, Forced Migration, and Aftermath  Marianne […]

How to Get Academic Credit for Your Summer Internship

Undergrads, wondering how to get academic credit for an internship? This overview of the Academic Internship Program (AIP) will cover:   Deciding: When do you really need credit for your internship?  […]

National Library Week: April 3-9, 2022

Celebrate National Library Week with Goddard Library! Alumni and Friends Online Book Club: The Reading List: A Novel. 5 April 2022, 6-7PM EST Zoom https://alumni.clarku.edu/april2022_bookclub  Sign up for a Worcester […]