[Summit] Fw: Featured Events at Brown through October 4

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Virtual Events
  Tuesday 22 September 12:00pm   When Walls Talk: Hidden and Forgotten Stories of Enslaved People    A slave house is like every other American home — a sacred place. It is also an irreplaceable piece of history that simultaneously embodies suffering, perseverance and strong family bonds. In this lunch talk, licensed preservation architect Jobie Hill discusses the interpretation of slave house architecture and how, in combination with details from the historical record and stories from actual inhabitants, it offers an authentic portrayal of slavery in our nation’s history and the potential to further collective growth.   Learn more
   Tuesday 22 September 4:00pm   Uncovering Lottery Shenanigans    It is very rare to meet anyone who has won a prize worth at least $600 or more in the lottery. Nonetheless, when researchers at Brown’s Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics looked at the publicly available data, they discovered that some individuals had won hundreds of those big prizes. This talk will describe the data they saw, what mathematics had to say about it, and the legal and illegal schemes that on-the-ground investigations revealed.  Learn more
   Wednesday 23 September 6:00pm   B-Lab 2020 Virtual Venture Showcase    Breakthrough Lab (B-Lab) is an intensive 8-week accelerator program that supports student entrepreneurs developing high-impact ventures. Learn about what the B-Lab 2020 cohort has been up to this summer. Student ventures will share their pitches as well as live remarks about what they are all working on at the moment. In the last half hour, attendees will have a chance to speak with the student founders themselves.  Learn more
   Friday 25 September 9:30am   Decolonization, Development and State Building in North Africa    This full-day conference explores the historical developments in the postcolonial Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia), all former French colonial territories. Across three panels, it will analyze the impact of decolonization across the three countries and interrogate the varied approaches to development and state building after prolonged periods of foreign rule, shedding light on its current place within the overlapping spheres of the Middle East, Africa and Europe.  Learn more
   Friday 25 September 3:00pm   Monuments, Murals and Movements: Reimagining the Art of Social Justice    In the summer of 2020, challenges to race, memorialization and icons of power predominated ongoing social, cultural and political action and art. In this talk, scholars will examine how social movements have redefined public space, articulated social justice issues through art, and defied long-standing national icons and monuments.  Learn more
   Monday 28 September 12:00pm   A Conversation with Heidi J. Larson on What Determines Attitudes Toward Vaccines    In this webinar hosted by Dean of the School of Public Health Dr. Ashish Jha, Heidi Larson — anthropologist and international expert on risk and decision science — surveys the social, psychological, political, historical and cultural factors that influence attitudes to vaccines. She will also discuss the role public health researchers play in dispelling rumors and misinformation in the era of COVID-19.  Learn more
   Tuesday 29 September 6:00pm   Exploiting Civil Rights in the Pursuit of School Punishment: How 1980s Federal Policymakers Criminalized Urban Education    Black Lives Matter protests erupting in cities across the nation have renewed calls to not only reform school discipline policies and abolish school police but also understand how the U.S. arrived at this moment. This talk will shed light on how 1980s federal policymakers used “A Nation at Risk,” arguably the most influential educational policy document in the post-Civil Rights era, to embark on a campaign to restore order and discipline. A Q&A session will follow.  Learn more
   Wednesday 30 September 1:00pm   A Conversation with Bina Venkataraman, Author of ‘The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age’    Instant gratification is the norm in our society. Whether it’s our finances, health, communities or the planet, it’s easy to avoid thinking ahead — but should we? And is it possible to do better even amid urgent crises? In this talk co-presented by the Institute at Brown for Environment & Society, author Bina Venkataraman, editorial page editor for The Boston Globe and former senior advisor for climate change in the Obama White House, explores why we need long-term thinking today, and how we can pull off in our lives, in the workplace and in society.  Learn more
   Thursday 1 October 12:00pm   Women Do Archaeology: (Being a Woman While) Searching for Women in Ice Age Alaska    Weaving together stories from Alaskan archaeology, feminist archaeological theory and research on the osseous tools from the Broken Mammoth Pleistocene site in Interior Alaska, this discussion highlights how personal experiences can shape the course of archaeological exploration. Hosted by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, this talk highlights the work of women archaeologists and anthropologists, inspired by 2020’s centennial commemoration of the 19th Amendment and Rhode Island’s Archaeology Month.  Learn more
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