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   Wednesday 18 October 5:00pm   Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture    Fifty years ago, it might've been easier to identify with a single race when filling out forms in America. A lot has changed since then, including the ratio of people who do not neatly fit into the categories presented in applications today. In a lecture hosted by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Jennifer Ann Ho will discuss the "Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture.” Ho will explore concepts relating to the ambiguity of race with a particular focus on the boundaries society places on Asian Americans who are multiracial, or transracial adoptees. Ho is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and an associate director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The event begins at 5 p.m. in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Room 130 (Carmichael Auditorium), 85 Waterman St.  https://www.brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/events/2017/10/jennifer-ho-“racial-ambiguity-asian-american-culture”
   Wednesday 18 October 5:45pm   Live Webcast—Warren and Allison Kanders Lecture Series, Nick Cave: In Conversation    Live Webcast—Warren and Allison Kanders Lecture Series: Nick Cave: In Conversation A live webcast of the Warren and Allison Kanders Lecture Series featuring artist, educator and dancer Nick Cave will be available here. Cave, best known for his intricately made wearable sculptures called “Soundsuits” will be joined onstage by Denise Markonish, curator at MASS MoCA, where Cave recently exhibited his monumental installation, “Until.” The live webcast is available to all those who were unable to secure a ticket.   
   Wednesday 18 October 6:30pm   Musical Geometry, Games, and Multimedia Art    In a lecture that explores the connection between elementary musical concepts and the basic concepts of recent geometry, Brown's Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics presents a lecture by Dmitri Tymoczko titled "Musical Geometry, Games, and Multimedia Art." Tymoczko, who studied music and philosophy at Harvard, and philosophy at Oxford University, will discuss the principles at the intersection of these concepts and then provide a real world demonstration of these ideas at work. Tymoczko is currently a professor of music at Princeton, where he has teaches composition and theory. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. on the 11th floor of the ICERM building, 121 S. Main Street.  https://icerm.brown.edu/public_lectures/pl-17-mggm/
   Wednesday 18 October 7:00pm   Elizabeth Willis to deliver inaugural C.D. Wright Lecture    Poet Elizabeth Willis will deliver a lecture titled "Silent Letters, Talking Pictures, and the Punchdrunk Gospel of the Bone Man’s Dictionary," as part of the Program in Literary Arts' inaugural C.D. Wright Lecture series. Willis is the author of several books including "Alive: New and Selected Poems," which was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. A faculty member at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Willis is the author of essays on poetry, politics, gender and labor that have appeared in Transatlantica, Evening Will Come, Contemporary Literature, Arizona Quarterly and other journals. The lecture series honors the memory of poet C.D. Wright, who mentored generations of poets at Brown since 1983 before her passing. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St.  https://www.brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/events/cd-wright-lecture-elizabeth-willis
   Thursday 19 October 5:00pm   Brothers at Arms    Larrie Ferreiro, author of “Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It,” explains how the success of the War of American Independence depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation, Ferreiro argues that the real story is that the American nation was born as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy.  MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Main Green.https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2017/1...  
   Thursday 19 October 5:30pm   Global and Grass-root    Throughout the Maya region, millions of ethno-linguistic Mayan descendants confront poverty and ethnic discrimination on a daily basis. Surrounded by architecture built by their ancestors, these descendants don't usually have access to the vast archaeological knowledge about their cultural heritage. Patricia McAnany is a director of an organization that's recognized this problem. In an event sponsored by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, McAnany will deliver a lecture titled "Global and Grass-root: How InHerit Cultivates Community-Collaborative Maya Archaeology." McAnany will discuss how cultural heritage programs at InHerit have promoted discussions about the past, supports collaborative research and built relationships with Mayan communities. Chair of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, McAnany is the recipient of research awards from the National Science Foundation and the Archaeological Institute of America. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Room 015, 85 Waterman St.  https://www.brown.edu/research/facilities/haffenreffer-museum/events/2017/10/patricia-mcanany-global-and-grass-root
   Friday 20 October 8:00pm   Concert performances: Brown University Orchestra    Brandon Keith Brown, the newly appointed director for the orchestral program, will lead the Brown University Orchestra for a pair a concert performances. Described by the Department of Music as a conductor that embodies the "American spirit with German musical tradition," Brown will lead the orchestra for the first time this academic year. Composed mostly of students who auditioned for positions, the Brown University Orchestra is made up of 110 members that include violists, cellists, bass players and many other musicians. Free and open to the public, both events begin at 8 p.m. in Sayles Hall, Auditorium, the College Green.  
   Saturday 21 October 8:00pm   Set GO in Motion: An Evening of Spontaneous Choreographies    A performance by students in the TAPS Advanced Modern Dance course and Set Go ensemble members Shura Baryshnikov, Sarah Konner, Aaron Brandes and Bradley Teal Ellis asks what type of communication humanizes us in a time when we are increasingly detached and technologically dependent. The performance will feature Contact Improvisation, in which each dancer is relying on his/her/their own body, and exploring movement in relation to a partner and to the earth’s physical laws. Presented by the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. Free and open to the public. Ashamu Dance Studio, Lyman Hall, 83 Waterman Street  
   Wednesday 25 October 7:00pm   Reading: poet Paol Keineg    Breton poet and playwright Paol Keineg writes in French, Breton, and English. The author of more than twenty books including his recent poetry collection Triste Tristan, Keineg will read from his work as part of the Contemporary Writers Series. Cosponsored by the Program in Literary Arts and the Department of French Studies, the reading will take place in the McCormack Family Theater at 70 Brown Street.  
   Thursday 26 October 5:30pm   Reading: Leopoldine Core    Fiction writer and poet Leopoldine Core, author of the award-winning short story collection “When Watched,” and of a book of poetry, “Veronica Bench,” will read from her work in the Writers On Writing Reading Series. Presented by the Department of Literary Arts. Free and open to the public. McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street  
   Monday 30 October 7:00pm   Reading: Renee Gladman    Fiction writer and poet Renee Gladman will read from her work in Brown University’s Contemporary Writers Reading Series. The author of eleven published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians, Gladman is also an artist with a recently-released monograph of drawings and a collection of linked essay-fictions on the intersections of writing, drawing, and community. Her reading, which is sponsored by the Department of Literary Arts at Brown, is free and open to the public.  McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street  

Exhibits
    Wednesday 30 August 10:00am to Saturday 31 March 4:00pm   Northern Horizons, Global Visions: J. Louis Giddings and the Invention of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology    When Brown University acquired the King Philip Museum as a donation from Rudolf Haffenreffer's family, there was no space dedicated for the development of research and teaching in anthropology. An exhibition titled "Northern Horizons, Global Visions: J. Louis Giddings and the Invention of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology," aims to shed light on the profound contributions of anthropology pioneer James Louis Giddings as part of the 60th anniversary of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Featuring examples of Giddings' archeological research including Inuit snow goggles, projectile points, a fishing net and rare Iñupiat birchbark kayak, the exhibition serves as a celebration of Giddings' work and of his students that helped transform a small private museum with a Native American focus into a "university teaching museum with worldwide scope and global vision." The exhibition will be on display through the end of March 30, 2018, in the Haffenreffer Museum, the College Green. Exhibition hours are Tuesday-Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed on Mondays and University holidays. For more information, visit: https://www.brown.edu/research/facilities/haffenreffer-museum/northern-horizons-global-visions-j-louis-giddings-and-invention-haffenreffer-museum-anthropology  
   Thursday 31 August 10:00am to Saturday 31 March 4:00pm   Brewed for Thought: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Beer and Brewing    Determined to spotlight the various beer cultures around the world, the Haffenreffer Museum Student Group curated an exhibition titled "Brewed for Thought: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Beer and Brewing." The exhibition will highlight the important role beer has in social gatherings throughout various parts of the world and in various settings including ceremonies, relationships and even in medical treatment. In honor of the Haffenreffer family's gift to Brown University more than 60 years ago, the exhibition will feature objects linked to brewing and beer consumption from a broad range of communities including Bolivia, Peru, Kenya, Nepal, Tibet and the United States. The objects—which homage to the Haffenreffer family's roots as brewers—will provide a context for how fermented beverages have been consumed for the last 2,500 years. The exhibition will be on display through March 2018 in the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, the College Green. Exhibition hours are Tuesday-Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed Mondays and University holidays. For more information visit: https://www.brown.edu/research/facilities/haffenreffer-museum/brewed-tho...  
   Wednesday 6 September 11:00am to Sunday 29 October 4:00pm   What Remains    A 12 foot sculpture that's described as evoking 'dark spirits' is part of new exhibition on display at Brown's David Winton Bell Gallery. The exhibition by Visual Arts Professor Richard Fishman includes three unique series of pieces completed in the last two years and captures an evolution of his artistic direction. “What Remains” includes three types of work: sculptures emanating from his work with the Elm Tree Project; a series of freestanding sculptures that possess the thorny texture of a briar patch, according to Bell Gallery director Jo-Ann Conklin; and wall-mounted pieces that are described in the show’s catalogue as “works that concurrently are (and are not) drawings, prints, molds and sculptures.” The exhibition will run through Sunday, Oct. 29, in the Bell Gallery, located in Brown's List Art Center at 64 College Street. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Sept. 15, at 5:30 p.m. in the gallery. Exhibition hours are Monday-Wednesday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thursdays from 1-9 p.m. ; and weekends from 1-4 p.m. For more information, visit: https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/09/fishman  
   Wednesday 6 September 8:30am to Monday 6 November 5:00pm   Ethnos    As the immigrant community defends itself from the negative portrayals often painted of them at political rallies, a new photo exhibit by Brown neurologist Peter Snyder features intimate portraits of diverse populations that Rhode Islanders may know well. "Ethnos," a photo gallery that celebrates the various origins of Rhode Island's immigrant population, contains photos of children, parents and seniors as they live out their days in Belize, Ecuador and India. Making up nearly 14 percent of Rhode Island's population, immigrants and undocumented people in the Ocean State collectively contribute about $2.6 billion per year to the economy and have provided livelihoods for other residents in the state as founders of nearly 900 unique businesses, according to a report by the Migration Policy Institute. Dr. Snyder, whose academic research has led to more than 135 published articles, is currently the vice president and chief research officer for the Lifespan Health System. He has practiced photography, ceramics, sculpture and other artistic mediums for nearly three decades. The exhibition will be on display through November 6 in the Warren Alpert Medical School, 222 Richmond St. Exhibition hours are Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit: https://www.brown.edu/academics/medical/about/administration/biomed-communications/rotating-art-exhibits/ethnos  
   Friday 15 September 4:00pm to Thursday 19 October 4:00pm   Welcome to Camp America: Beyond Gitmo    In an exhibition titled "Welcome to Camp America: Beyond Gitmo," Debi Cornwall took "no-face" portraits of 14 former detainees of the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay whose lives have forever been altered by America's War on Terror. Although they are freed and living in nine different countries, the detainees faces aren't shown as a marker of their "indefinite detention." After the September 11 terrorist attacks, the United States incentivized the capture of “foreign fighters" in Afghanistan that potentially led to the wrongful imprisonment of hundreds of people, some of whom, were later abused and tortured, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Cornwall is a conceptual documentary photographer and 1995 Brown graduate who worked as a civil rights lawyer for 12 years. The exhibit is part of programming offered by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage that aims to explore the legacy and future of the military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. On display through October 19, the exhibition is available for viewing at the John Nicholas Brown Center, 357 Benefit St. Exhibition hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, visit: https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/09/guantanamo  
   Monday 16 October 9:00am to Thursday 21 December 5:00pm   Exhibition | Global Americana: The Wider Worlds of a Singular Collection     In conjunction with the John Carter Brown Library (JCB) institutional partner LAGLOBAL research network at the University of London and researchers at the Library, “Global Americana” highlights the JCB’s globe-spanning collection and the ingenuity of scholars from around the world who are taking advantage of its materials to advance research in a global frame. Cohering around the American continent, the texts speak to connections that move beyond continental and disciplinary borders, from China to the Nile, from natural history to the philosophical treatise, from indigenous Andeans to European creoles and American whalers. Many of the pieces in the exhibition were chosen by scholars who have either been in residence at the JCB or who are part of a global network that seeks to emphasize Latin America’s place at the center of global historical developments. Open 9:00 am-5:00 pm Monday through Friday. John Carter Brown Library, Main Green.https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/exhibitions  
   Monday 16 October 9:00am to Thursday 31 May 5:00pm   Exhibit: The Body As Site Of    In this exhibition, four contemporary artists of color engage in reflection on the complexity of identity, sometimes pushing back on misrepresentations, including stereotypes and cultural appropriation, other times presenting alternatives. Akujixxv, Devyn Galindo, Panteha Abareshi and Carolina Hicks’ artworks address the body as a site of personal agency, political activism, and vulnerability, while acknowledging that these topics are not necessarily discrete. Whether in the form of a photograph or an illustration, the emotionally evocative works convey multidimensional realities that challenge divisions of the physical and mental, the cerebral and visceral, and the spiritual and the material. Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA), Lippitt House, 96 Waterman Street.  
   Monday 16 October 9:00am to Friday 27 October 5:00pm   Object Q: New Works by Two Queerdos Obsessed with Images    Artists Sakura Kelley and Rosemary Engstrom question how the world is understood/framed/controlled. As a photographer, Kelley asks "what can photography do?" and examines how the frame of photography can be shifted. Similarly, Engstrom is interested in rejecting the parameters of normalcy in order to envision modes of queer existence. Exploring the role of play, Engstrom asks how play can be used to examine systems of control. Sarah Doyle Women's Center,26 Benevolent Street.  
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