[Summit] Fw: Featured Events at Brown through Sunday, March 31

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Events
  Monday 18 March 5:00pm   The Rise of China: Past, Present and Future    
The Office of the President and the Office of the Provost host a panel discussion on science, medicine and more in China. The event features Professor of Geological Sciences James Head, Associate Professor of History Rebecca Nedostup, Professor of China Studies Ed Steinfeld and Professor of Epidemiology Tongzhang Zheng. Provost Richard Locke moderates. Doors open at 4:30 p.m.; a reception will follow. Room 101, Stephen Robert ‘62 Hall, 280 Brook Street. 
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   Tuesday 19 March 12:00pm   In Conversation with Tom Perez and Michael Steele    Tom Perez, a Brown alumnus and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, converses with Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, on topics including immigration, health care and the economy. Both Perez and Steele are senior fellows at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. An audience Q&A will follow. Room 101, Stephen Robert ‘62 Hall, 280 Brook Street.  Learn more
   Tuesday 19 March 4:00pm   The Sky’s The Limit: Women In Early American Planetaria    Between the Great Depression and World War II, there were just three women lecturers and planetarium directors in the U.S. Author, journalist and Brown alumna Amy Sohn gives a talk on the history of these three important women and explains what their vital, untold stories can teach us about women in science today. Room 168, Barus and Holley, 184 Hope Street.  Learn more
   Tuesday 19 March 4:00pm   The Past, Present and Future of Health Care Reform in the US    Dr. Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives a talk on American health care reform. Gruber is the author of “Public Finance and Public Policy,” a leading undergraduate text, and “Health Care Reform,” a graphic novel. Room 160, Warren Alpert Medical School, 222 Richmond Street.  Learn more
   Tuesday 19 March 4:30pm   Making Machines That Can Behave in the Real World    Michael Littman, a professor in Brown’s Department of Computer Science, delivers the annual Presidential Faculty Award lecture. Littman describes his own and others’ work in helping human users interface with computers, robots and other devices. Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street.  Learn more
   Wednesday 20 March 12:00pm   Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans    Why does the United States focus so much attention and resources on improbable foreign threats while comparatively underinvesting in preventing drug overdoses and the spread of disease? In a talk, Michael Cohen, co-author of “Clear and Present Safety,” details the once-unimaginable gains in human development around the world and explains how the U.S. can reorient its grand strategy to more effectively safeguard its citizens. Room 110, Stephen Robert ‘62 Hall, 280 Brook Street.  Learn more
   Wednesday 20 March 7:00pm   Screening: ‘Magic Carpet Ride’    The Center for Language Studies and Middle East Studies present a screening of the 2005 Turkish film “Magic Carpet Ride.” Samet, a failed comedic Superman impersonator, is accidentally recruited into a gang of car thieves and learns a few lessons along the way. Friedman Auditorium, Metcalf Research Building, 190 Thayer Street.  Learn more
   Wednesday 20 March 8:00pm   Concert: Brown Chamber Choir    The department of music hosts a send-off concert for a small group of singers from the Brown University Chorus as they prepare for a performance tour in Ireland. The group gives an intimate concert of music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ola Gjeilo and more. Grant Recital Hall, 105 Benevolent Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 21 March 6:00pm   SciToons: Behind the Scenes    SciToons at Brown creates animated videos to make science compelling and accessible to the public. At this event, students and faculty share the history of SciToons, show what happens behind the scenes, and give attendees a chance to vote on the topics they want to see covered in future SciToons videos. Reception to follow. Registration recommended. Room 130, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, 85 Waterman Street.  Learn more
   
Exhibits
    Saturday 12 May 2018 to Wednesday 1 May 4:00pm   Drone Warriors: The Art of Surveillance and Resistance at Standing Rock    From 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 to Wednesday 1 May 2:00pm   Sacred is Sacred: The Art of Protecting Bears Ears    For 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
   Thursday 13 September 2018 to Monday 27 May 5:00pm   Joy + Justice    How 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
   Tuesday 22 January 4:00pm to Saturday 15 June 6:00pm   River Mile Zero    Rhode Island artist Kate Aitchison explores human intervention of free-flowing waterways in new, large-scale works on paper depicting the power, awe and obstruction of hydroelectric dams. Upper Lobby, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 10 January 10:00am to Tuesday 30 April 5:00pm   Entwined: Botany, Art and the Lost Cat Swamp Habitat    In this exhibit, original watercolors of Edward Peckham sit alongside matching specimens collected generations ago in Providence’s Cat Swamp Habitat. The samples, long archived in the Brown University Herbarium, showcase the biodiversity that once existed in the city’s Wayland and Blackstone neighborhoods and provoke questions about the consequences of environmental change. Exhibition Gallery, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street.  Learn more
   Monday 4 February 8:30am to Friday 26 April 5:00pm   LatinXpression: The Absorbing Nature of Line    Drawn or painted lines can communicate boundaries, imitate nature or turn a person’s figure abstract. In this engrossing loan exhibition featuring nine Latinx artists living and working in Rhode Island, Los Angeles and New York, the focus is on lines and what they add to a work of two-dimensional art. Second Floor, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street.  Learn more
   Friday 15 February 9:00am to Friday 10 May 5:00pm   Memory Work    Through a series of paintings, Haitian-born artist Renold Laurent uses different materials, from oil and acrylic paint to coffee grounds, to draw attention to the ways in which artistic imagination can compensate for artists’ economic limitations. Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 94 Waterman Street.  Learn more
   Tuesday 5 March 8:30am to Friday 3 May 5:00pm   Maré de Dentro: Race, Gender, and Life in Rio de Janeiro’s Militarized Favelas    “Maré de Dentro” focuses on the lives of favela (shantytown) residents of Rio de Janeiro’s Complexo da Maré, the largest agglomeration of favelas in Brazil. The exhibition incorporates photographic and videographic projects by artists and local Maré activists beginning in 2013. Second and third floors, Stephen Robert ‘62 Hall, 280 Brook Street.  Learn more
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