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,
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.
Join us for a reception celebrating the opening of “In the Early Years: A Photo Retrospective of Clark University, 1893-1914.” This exhibit, curated on the occasion of the Worcester Tercentennial, features images of a new institution striving to build its campus and establish an academic reputation.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Technology can give you superpowers. Where literature and film often transport you into the imagination and world-building of a pre-defined plot, there exist spaces where you are in control of the narrative and can experiment with abilities far exceeding your capabilities in the physical world. Games, like World of Warcraft or Fortnite and the virtual […]
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 […]
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 and the gaming community have helped millions around the world to stave off loneliness and improve their mental health through collaboration, cooperation, and competition. Of […]
Come show us your best moves in Just Dance! Toss some blue shells in Mario Kart! Spectators welcome. Feel free to hang out, have pizza, and watch the fun. Admission is free and open only to the Clark campus community. All guests are expected to comply with Clark’s most current vaccination and masking policies. Co-sponsored […]
