Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities Archives

Creating Immersive Multi-Person Responsive Environments

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.
Event Postponed: Creating Immersive Multi-Person Responsive Environments

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.
Fishers, Foragers and Fine Diners

Ben Jamieson Stanley from the University of Delaware will discuss their recent book, “Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm” focused on fisheries and foraging as a point of entry to South Africa’s Western Cape, where bustling culinary and environmental tourism coincide with hunger and stratification.
Fishers, Foragers and Fine Diners

Ben Jamieson Stanley from the University of Delaware will discuss their recent book, “Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm” focused on fisheries and foraging as a point of entry to South Africa’s Western Cape, where bustling culinary and environmental tourism coincide with hunger and stratification.
Clark Field Trip to the Fitchburg Art Museum

Students, faculty, and staff are invited on a field trip to Fitchburg Art Museum to view “Stephen DiRado, Better Together: Four Decades of Photographs” and participate in an interactive gallery talk. Free bus transportation and museum admission with a current Clark ID.
Clark Field Trip to the Fitchburg Art Museum

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

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.
The Last of the Nightingales: Film Screening and Discussion

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.
Introducing Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture

Professor 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.
Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit

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.