[Summit] Fw: Featured Events at Brown University through Sunday, November 25

[David Kolsky]

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Events
Monday 12 November 5:00pmErnesto Zedillo: Challenging the Challengers of GlobalizationErnesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico, gives the Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ‘60 Lecture on International Affairs. Today, Zedillo directs Yale University’s Center for the Study of Globalization and teaches international economics and politics. Tickets and ID are required. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. De Ciccio Family Auditorium, Salomon Center for Teaching, 79 Waterman Street.Learn more Tuesday 13 November 6:00pmScreening: ‘Grazing the Amazon’Less than 50 years ago, the Amazonian rainforest was mostly intact. Today, a portion the size of France has disappeared, mostly due to government incentives that for decades attracted thousands of farmers from southern lands. This documentary film traces the history of the Amazon's invasion by entrepreneurial ranchers and examines the responsibility of all major actors in the supply chain, including livestock growers, slaughterhouses and the government. Room 108, Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street.Learn more Thursday 15 November 4:00pmWomen of Color: Building Communities Through Entrepreneurship and LeadershipThe Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship hosts a panel featuring women entrepreneurs of color. Panelists including Providence City Councilwoman Nirva LaFortune and BeautyLynk founder and CEO Rica Elysee discuss their professional journeys and how our society can cultivate and nurture women of color with entrepreneurial ambitions. Crystal Ballroom, Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting Street.Learn more Thursday 15 November 5:00pmA Restless Melancholy: Celebrating Forrest GanderThe Department of Literary Arts hosts a two-day festival honoring poet, novelist and translator Forrest Gander, who taught at Brown and retired in the spring of 2018. Events include poetry readings, film screenings and a talk on the art of publishing contemporary poetry. Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.Learn more Friday 16 November 8:30amLiving Unfinished Business: The Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement, Memory, and Voting Rights TodayIn this day-long series of panels, veterans of the civil rights movement -- from photographers to community activists to lawyers and scholars -- discuss the distinctive legacies of the movement, the ways in which it is remembered and historicized, and the connections we can make between the movement and today’s voting-rights debate. Registration required. First Floor Seminar Room, Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit Street.Learn more Friday 16 November 8:00pm to Monday 19 November 10:00pmPerformance: ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’Brown University Gilbert & Sullivan presents its fall show, “The Drowsy Chaperone.” This love letter to the Jazz Age and old-fashioned show tunes delivers big laughs, show-stopping choreography and hummable melodies. Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting Street.Learn more Saturday 17 November 8:00pmConcert: Jay Hoggard and the World Music EnsembleVibraphonist and composer Jay Hoggard joins Brown’s World Music Ensemble for a concert of uplifting, genre-crossing music. The World Music Ensemble, directed by Ghanaian drummer and composer Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, brings Western instrumentalists together with traditional musicians from every culture, mixing the sounds of bongo, gyil, ukulele, tabla and more. Grant Recital Hall, 105 Benevolent Street.Learn more Monday 19 November 4:00pmAcross the Aisle: Post-Election DiscussionDemocratic National Committee Chair and 1983 Brown graduate Tom Perez and former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele lead a discussion on the midterm elections, partisanship in politics, and what’s next in Washington, D.C. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street.Learn more 
Exhibits
Saturday 12 May 2018 10:00am to Wednesday 1 May 2019 4:00pmDrone Warriors: The Art of Surveillance and Resistance at Standing RockFrom April 2016 through February 2017, thousands of Native and non-Native people made the North Dakota Plains their home to stand in opposition of the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline. As the protesters faced police, roadblocks and heavy surveillance, a group of photographic drone operators emerged within their ranks, sending their flying cameras up and over barricades to illuminate spaces hidden from the public, unmask the face of force and show the world the beauty of the surrounding landscape. Their images motivated countless Americans to join the resistance, whether in person, on social media or through donations — and kickstarted a new movement of aesthetic protest. Haffenreffer Museum, Manning Hall, 21 Prospect Street.Learn more Saturday 12 May 2018 10:00am to Wednesday 1 May 2019 2:00pmSacred is Sacred: The Art of Protecting Bears EarsFor centuries, Southern Utah’s Bears Ears region was home to Indigenous people who used its plants, animals and other natural materials to make their food, homes and culture. But while the area is rich in history, it’s also rich in oil and gas, and renewed calls for resource extraction threaten its natural and cultural landscape. This moving exhibition of contemporary and past art explores the beauty of Bears Ears and the ways in which Indigenous peoples have learned and healed through their fight to protect it. Haffenreffer Museum, Manning Hall, 21 Prospect Street.Learn more Friday 28 September 4:00pm to Friday 14 December 6:00pmUnfinished Business: The Long Civil Rights MovementThe Civil Rights movement was composed of ordinary black women, men and children, many of whom placed their lives on the line to fight the laws of racial segregation. This exhibition tells the story of the relationship between the black organizing tradition and the Civil Rights movement, tracing the tradition from the moment of emancipation until the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson. Carriage House Gallery, Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit Street.Learn more Wednesday 3 October 9:00am to Wednesday 19 December 6:00pmA Woman Was a WomanBrooklyn-based artist and feminist Sue Julien presents a series of portraits of women from both history and obscurity that illustrates the complexity of being female in a feminist world. Atrium Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.Learn more Thursday 13 September 9:00am to Monday 27 May 5:00pmJoy + JusticeHow do we live joyfully while working for justice? That question lies at the heart of this exhibit. The 22 artists assembled display a broad range of subjects, styles and traditions, but they share one common thread: connecting joy to justice. Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, 96 Waterman Street.Learn more Friday 26 October 8:30am to Friday 21 December 4:30pmLight-Writings: Koutroulou Magoula 2017-18This collection of images, taken by Brown and RISD students who dug up 6,000-year-old artifacts in central Greece last year, sheds light on archaeological field practices and the excavation process, an exercise that’s both artistic and scientific. Accompanying the photos are passages from the reflective, personal diaries of the students who participated in the project. Atrium, Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street.Learn more Friday 2 November 11:00am to Wednesday 19 December 4:00pmDanny Lyon: The Only Thing I Saw Worth LeavingIn the 1960s, photographer Danny Lyon made a name for himself photographing everyone from student leaders of the Civil Rights movement to convicts in Texas prisons, insisting they all be seen. This exhibition, part of a broader Brown Arts Initiative series titled “On Protest, Art and Activism,” spotlights some of Lyon’s most thought-provoking work. David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art, 64 College Street.Learn more Friday 5 October 9:00am to Friday 21 December 5:00pmTaming Nature: Gardens and the American WildernessLong before Europeans arrived, indigenous communities all over the world grew plants for subsistence, medicine and myriad other uses. Their small-scale cultivation stands in stark contrast to the export-driven, plantation-based monoculture Europeans introduced in the production of sugar, tobacco and cotton. This exhibition captures the spectacular range of early American gardens, from Mesoamerican chinampas to small plots of medicinal plants. Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street.Learn more All University Events 

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