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Beyond Apocalypse: Imagining Climate Futures

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

In this virtual lecture, Professor Ursula Heise (UCLA) will explore recent climate change narratives from different parts of the world – including North America, South America, and South East Asia – and the ways in which they negotiate the tension between large-scale disasters and the new normalcy of everyday life under conditions of climate change.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Alternative Futures Faculty Research Collaborative – Planning Meeting

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

The Higgins School is excited to invite Clark faculty to a planning session for a new faculty research collaborative around the topic “Alternative Futures.” Curious what this will be? We […]

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Higgins Arts and Humanities Faculty Pedagogy Luncheon

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Calling all Clark University arts and humanities faculty! Bring one of your syllabi as well as your stories of teaching successes and challenges to share, and join us for an […]

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Nourishing Teaching, Learning & Research in the Arts & Humanities

Community Conversation: Growing the Pie

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

The next installment of our series, “Nourishing Teaching, Learning & Research in the Arts & Humanities,” will include a conversation about Improving financial support for research/creative work,

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Fall 2022 Symposium on the Environmental Humanities

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

The Fall 2022 Symposium on the Environmental Humanities, “Animal Affects, Absences, and Planetary Politics,” will feature three leading climate change scholars.

Sponsored by: Clark University Visual and Performing Arts
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Community Conversation: A Taste for Public Humanities

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Our series Nourishing Teaching, Learning & Research in the Arts & Humanities continues! These discussions will provide an opportunity for Clark faculty, staff, and students to engage in conversation around the strategic priorities […]

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Community Conversation: Cooking Up Some Scholarship and Creative Work, Together

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

This discussion will provide an opportunity for Clark faculty, staff, and students to engage in conversation around the strategic priorities of the Higgins School in partnership with the University’s strategic framework team.

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Queer Comedy Presents — ‘The Facts of Life: Woolf and the Queer Mock-Biography’

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Funny is not necessarily the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of Virginia Woolf, but this talk — the first in a three-event series, ‘Queer Comedy Presents’ — will show how the author used humor both wickedly and well.

The State of the Gaming Industry: A Conversation with Stanley Pierre-Louis ’92

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Stanley Pierre-Louis '92   The video game industry is one of America’s fastest growing and complex, a maze of legal, policy, and regulatory concerns and opportunities. The Entertainment Software Association […]

On Trans Game History: Networked Games, Glitches, Trans Studies, and the Digital

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

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 […]

Sponsored by: Clark University Women’s and Gender Studies Program