• The Power of Mapmaking in 17th-Century New England

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

    Nathan 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.

  • Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit

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

    In 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.

  • Creating Immersive Multi-Person Responsive Environments

    Clark University Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design – Mac Lab 404 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA

    Clark 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.

  • Clark Field Trip to the Fitchburg Art Museum

    Fitchburg Art Museum 185 Elm Street, Fitchburg, MA, United States

    Clark 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.

  • The Last of the Nightingales: Film Screening and Discussion

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

    Join 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.

  • Stealing Rembrandts

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

    Anthony Amore, Director of Security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, discusses one of the most notorious art heists in history.

  • Celebrating the Legacy of Professor Amy G. Richter

    Dana Commons, Higgins Lounge

    Please join the Departments of History and Political Science, and the Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities to commemorate the life and impact of Professor Amy G. Richter. Professor Richter […]

  • CANCELLED: Creating Large-Scale Participatory Public Installations

    Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design Worcester, MA, United States

    Regretfully, we have had to cancel this week’s lecture, “Creating Large Scale Participatory Public Installations,” by Clark alums Lorne Covington and Bill Saiff on Thursday, October 23 at 7:30pm. We […]

  • Oh! Horror! HallowZine

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

    We invite all Clarkies for a night of zine- and collage-making in celebration of Halloween. Channel Dr. Frankenstein and assemble something beautiful and new from the cut-up pieces of dead media (no grave-robbing required!).

  • Understanding Bad Bunny

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

    Professor Juan Pablo Rivera will Puerto Rican artist —and 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer — Bad Bunny, a prominent representative and advocate of Puerto Rico and gender identity. Topics will include gender and politics, as well as Bad Bunny’s music videos and what they mean.

  • Toby Sisson: ‘Bearing Witness’ Exhibition and Gallery Talk

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

    This lunchtime gallery talk celebrates Professor Toby Sisson’s new exhibition (on display through Dec. 5), “Bearing Witness,” which explores oral history from the Great Migration — the movement of 6 million Black people from the South to the North between 1910 and 1970.