[Summit] Fw: Featured Events at Brown Univ. through Sunday, March 18

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Events
  Tuesday 6 March 4:00pm   The Changing Ecosystem of News and Challenges for Freedom of the Press    Brown’s Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy hosts the Alexander Meiklejohn Lecture, a guest talk focusing on the theme of freedom and the U.S. Constitution. This year’s speaker is Harvard Law School Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Martha Minow, a human rights expert and advocate for women, minorities, children and those with disabilities. Minow addresses our changing media landscape and what it means for freedom of the press. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.  http://watson.brown.edu/events/2018/martha-minow-changing-ecosystem-news-and-challenges-freedom-press
   Tuesday 6 March 5:30pm   Annual Anita Glass Memorial Lecture with Michael Leja    The Department of the History of Art and Architecture presents the 2018 Anita Glass Memorial Lecture with Professor Michael Leja. Leja is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of “Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s” (1993) and “Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp” (2004). He is currently preparing “The Emergence of Picture Culture, 1835-1860.” Room 120, List Art, 62-64 College Street.  https://www.brown.edu/academics/art-history/upcoming-events-2017-2018
   Tuesday 6 March 7:00pm   Film screening and discussion: Amerika Square    “Amerika Square” is the final film in the series “Confined Spaces, Political Choices in New Films from the Middle East.” Comments by film series organizer Vangelis Calotychos, visiting associate professor of comparative literature, to follow screening.  Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.  https://www.facebook.com/events/188044811941911/
   Wednesday 7 March 4:00pm   Portrait of Resilience: Insights from Rural Appalachia    Psychology has finally begun to address the ways in which individual, family and community strengths help people overcome adversity. Sherry Hamby, director of the Life Paths Appalachian Research Center in Tennessee, gives a talk on rural Appalachians, still a strongly stigmatized group today. Hamby’s research paints a picture of rural Appalachia most don’t see—an environment strong with self-reliance, humility, spirituality and self-deprecating humor. Metcalf Research Building, Room 101, 190 Thayer Street.  https://www.brown.edu/academics/brain-science/events/clps-and-friedman-family-fund-special-seminar-portrait-resilience-insights-rural-appalachia
   Wednesday 7 March 5:00pm   Wendy Red Star: Visiting Artist Lecture    Artist Wendy Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society. Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Red Star’s work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts and performance. An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star seeks to incorporate and recast her research, offering new and unexpected perspectives in work that is at once inquisitive, witty and unsettling. Intergenerational collaborative work is integral to her practice, along with creating a forum for the expression of Native women’s voices in contemporary art. Room 120, List Art, 62-64 College Street.  http://arts.brown.edu/event/wendy-red-star-visiting-artist-lecture
   Wednesday 7 March 5:00pm   Opportunity in America: Improving Intergenerational Mobility with Big Data    Children's opportunities to climb the income ladder vary substantially depending upon where they grow up. But the question remains: what can we do about it? John N. Friedman, an associate professor of economics at Brown, will discuss how we can use big data to take this next step, using both higher education and place-based policies as examples. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.  http://watson.brown.edu/events/2018/opportunity-america-improving-intergenerational-mobility-big-data
   Wednesday 7 March 5:00pm   Walking Amongst the Stars    One of the most famous objects in the sky, the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, can be seen like never before, thanks to NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory … and Brown University. A newly released three-dimensional virtual reality and augmented reality experience of the data allows you to walk inside the debris from a massive stellar explosion. Kimberly Arcand of the Chandra X-ray Observatory will talk about the process of creating the first data-based 3D model and 3D print of an exploded star. The experience and talk are presented by the Science Communication Series, a project of Brown’s Science Center. Hazeltine Commons, School of Engineering, 184 Hope Street.  http://events.brown.edu/events/cal/CAL-00147ca3-61b79db6-0161-b997c682-00000d88events%40brown.edu/
   Thursday 8 March 5:00pm   Building a Chocolate City: African American Women in Jim Crow Washington, D.C.    “Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.” explores the untold history of women who transformed the burgeoning American capital into a black intellectual, cultural and political center. Black women living in and migrating to Washington during the late 19th and early 20th centuries fought to create new spaces, institutions, culture industries and organizations committed to evolving ideas about freedom and equality. This talk will home in on a few of the black women who challenged racial, gender and sexual oppression during the New Negro era. Light reception and book signing to follow. Smith Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 95 Cushing Street.  https://www.brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/events/2018/03/treva-lindsey-building-chocolate-city-african-american-women-jim-crow-washington-dc
   Friday 9 March 4:00pm   The Jazz of Physics: The Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe    Stephon Alexander, a Brown physics professor, revisits the ancient interconnection between music, the evolution of astrophysics and the laws of motion. He explores new ways music, in particular jazz, mirrors modern physics, such as quantum mechanics, general relativity and the physics of the early universe. The BassPas, Churchill House, 155 Angell Street.  https://www.brown.edu/academics/africana-studies/events-programs
   Saturday 10 March 1:00pm to Sunday 18 March 6:00pm   Brain Week    For the third year in a row, Brain Week presents nine days of film screenings, art fairs, lectures and family-friendly interactive events aimed at raising awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. Brain Week celebrates the wealth of neuroscience research happening in Rhode Island, from genetic research to cutting-edge clinical work. From a viewing of the award-winning “Still Alice” to a talk on Alzheimer’s disease to an all-ages Brain Fair on the Brown campus, there’s a little something for everyone. Held in locations throughout the Brown campus, with additional events in Providence and South Kingstown.  http://www.brainweekri.org/schedule-2018/
   Sunday 11 March 4:00pm   Mark Steinbach Performs Music of Bach, Buxtehude, Hindemith, Ligeti    Inspired by his research on the historic organs of Saxony and Brandenburg, Mark Steinbach, an organist and senior music lecturer at Brown, gives a recital of organ music by Bach, Buxtehude and Hindemith on the 1903 Hutchings-Votey pipe organ in Sayles Hall. He’ll also perform the rarely-played “Harmonies” by György Ligeti. Sayles Hall, 81 Waterman Street.  https://www.brown.edu/academics/music/events/mark-steinbach-performs-music-bach-buxtehude-hindemith-ligeti
   Monday 12 March 5:30pm   Black Flow and the Labor of Love    Speaker Tina Campt engages the work of black filmmaker and cinematographer Arthur Jafa to explore “flow,” a term used to name the transformative ways black visual artists reckon with contemporary assaults on blackness and capture black practices of refusal in the afterlife of slavery. Jafa’s unique work challenges viewers to think about the inseparability of black joy and black suffering. Pembroke Hall, Room 305, 172 Meeting Street.  https://www.brown.edu/academics/humanities/events/cogut-institute-events
   Thursday 15 March 6:00pm   Cinema Ritrovato on Tour    As part of an ongoing collaboration between Brown and the Cineteca of Bologna, Italy, the Italian Studies Department presents the fourth-annual Cinema Ritrovato on Tour. The film festival, a winter edition of the outdoor festival held every summer in Bologna, features recently restored cinematic masterpieces by Michelangelo Antonioni, Luciano Emmer, Augusto Genina and Marco Ferreri brought overseas from one of Europe’s most renowned centers for film restoration. Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  https://events.brown.edu/events/cal/CAL-00147ca3-60e47918-0160-e5da7de0-000027a3events@brown.edu/
   Thursday 15 March 6:30pm   Radical Monarchs: Centering Girls of Color in Transformative Justice Movements    Radical Monarchs’ vision is to empower young girls of color to harness their brilliance and leadership and make the world a more radical place. The movement’s cofounders, Anayvette Martinez and Marilyn Hollinquest, will explore the concept of radical joy in this lecture organized by the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Womxn’s History Series and the LGBTQ Center’s Queer Legacy Series. Building for Environmental Research and Teaching, Room 130, 85 Waterman Street.  http://watson.brown.edu/clacs/events/2018/queering-across-borders-queer-legacy-series-2018
   Thursday 15 March 7:00pm   Caribe Negro Performance    The second-annual Caribe Negro interactive performance examines the interwoven dynamics of race and national construction in the making of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. This event aims to bring together members of the Brown and Providence communities by providing a space to discuss Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic as sites of constant negotiations and struggles to carve out spaces for black communities. Grant Recital Hall, 105 Benevolent Street.  http://watson.brown.edu/events/2018/caribe-negro-performance
   Friday 16 March 5:30pm   BAI Songwriting Series: Deem Spencer: In Concert    Emerging hip hop artist Deem Spencer performs from his recent project "we think we alone," followed by a conversation with Brown undergraduate and rapper Javon Stephenson. Presented by the Brown Arts Initiative. Studio 1, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  https://events.brown.edu/events/cal/CAL-00147ca3-60f9128d-0160-fb0b5838-00001537events%40brown.edu/

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...  
   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.  https://www.brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/events/2017/09/exhibit-body-site-0
   Friday 23 February 7:00pm to Sunday 11 March 8:00pm   38th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition    The 38th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition will take place at the David Winton Bell Gallery features work from a host of Brown students. An opening reception will be held on Friday, February 23 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. List Art Center, 64 College Street.  https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/arts/bell-gallery/
   Wednesday 28 February 5:30pm to Thursday 22 March 9:00pm   Exhibition: The Wall    An exhibition of work by artist Gregory Thielker, “The Wall” combines painting, found objects and video to create a complex oral and visual portrait of the border territory between the United States and Mexico. Thielker’s exhibition is a timely examination of border geography and its human connections. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 1 at 5:30 p.m. Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  https://events.brown.edu/events/cal/CAL-00147ca3-5fa0083e-015f-a1473bcf-0000465fevents%40brown.edu/
   Thursday 1 March 8:30am to Friday 20 April 5:00pm   ‘Trials, Tragedy & Resilience’ Montserrat Exhibit    “Trials, Tragedy & Resilience” is an exhibit recognizing and celebrating Montserrat’s rich cultural heritage on the 250th anniversary of its St. Patrick’s Day slave uprising. Montserrat, a small island and British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, has long been a center of cultural diversity and tension and has in the last 20 years been radically transformed by its active volcano. The histories presented here commemorate the resilience Montserratians have displayed over time in their responses to difficult conditions imposed by slavery, colonialism, resource scarcity and catastrophic natural disasters. Rhode Island Hall Atrium, 60 George Street.  https://events.brown.edu/events/cal/CAL-00147ca3-61e0d09f-0161-e20ebcbf-00001f37events@brown.edu/
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