Postponed Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit
A Clark Faculty Series Event Presented by Elizabeth Blake, PhD Assistant Professor of English Clark University Forbidden fruit has long been a convenient metaphor for illicit knowledge and sexuality, a […]
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Clark Arts and Technology Information Session
This fall, the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities will begin work on an exciting new four-year project with substantial support from an external foundation and in close […]
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Oh! Horror! A Night of Spooky Storytelling
An evening of spooky storytelling with readings by special faculty guests, Jennifer Plante and Gino DiIorio, and other creative Clarkies.
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FeaturedPost-Election 2024: What Just Happened?
Higgins Lounge at Dana CommonsWith the understanding that the election may still be undecided, we will gather the day after for a conversation about the results.
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A/An: Book Launch and Poetry Reading
Dana Commons, Higgins LoungeIn this book launch, Professor Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez reads from their poetry chapbook. A/An, which uses 17th-century court records of the Salem Witch Trials to uncover the power and violence residing within the language of the legal system.
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The Power of Mapmaking in 17th-Century New England
Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesNathan Braccio, Assistant Professor of History at Clark University, explores how both Algonquian-speaking communities and English colonists made maps as tools in a struggle for cultural and physical control of the Northeast.
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Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit
Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesIn this talk, Clark University professor Elizabeth Blake (English) focuses on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and H. D.’s “Priapus” to discuss the way modernist poets disrupt lyric traditions by setting intertextuality and phenomenological referentiality in tension in order to explore queer experience.
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Creating Immersive Multi-Person Responsive Environments
Clark University Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design – Mac Lab 404 950 Main Street, Worcester, MAClark University alumni Bill Saiff ’81 and Lorne Covington ’81, founders of NOIRFLUX, will discuss their unique approach and experience in creating multi-person responsive environments for public art, communication, education, research, and entertainment.
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Clark Field Trip to the Fitchburg Art Museum
Fitchburg Art Museum 185 Elm Street, Fitchburg, MA, United StatesClark University students, faculty, and staff are invited on a field trip to Fitchburg Art Museum to see “Stephen DiRado, Better Together: Four Decades of Photographs” and participate in an interactive gallery talk with the artist. Free bus transportation and museum admission are available to Clark students, staff, and faculty with a current Clark ID.
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FeaturedIntroducing Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture
Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesProfessor María Acosta Cruz discusses her new book examining Puerto Rico’s national culture through a complex web of references to the disasters the nation has suffered and how the environment has been portrayed.
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The Last of the Nightingales: Film Screening and Discussion
Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesJoin us for a screening and discussion of “The Last of the Nightingales,” an immersive journey with sound ecologist Bernie Krause to explore how natural soundscapes can help us overcome the climate crisis.
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Stealing Rembrandts
Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesAnthony Amore, Director of Security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, discusses one of the most notorious art heists in history.
