[Summit] Fw: Featured Virtual Events at Brown University through Sunday, April 18

[David Kolsky]

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Virtual Events
  
   Tuesday 6 April 12:00pm   Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco    In this talk, K. Meira Goldberg of the Fashion Institute of Technology will discuss the Blackness of flamenco, tracing how the dance’s ostentatious rebelliousness, tumultuous sensuality, quixotic idealism and fierce soulfulness embody resistance, the lament for what has been lost and the values and aspirations of those rendered imperceptible by abjection, enslavement and colonization. Goldberg’s talk will introduce audience members to performers such as El Negro Meri, the first male flamenco dancer to be captured on film, whose Blackness is only now becoming visible.  Learn more
   Tuesday 6 April 4:00pm   This Is America: Black Politics and US Democracy    What role does Black politics play in U.S. democracy? What are the future prospects for systemic change to the racist politics that have long shaped US democracy? This panel brings together prominent scholars of Black politics with diverse areas of specialization — social movements, law and U.S. political development, and feminist theory — to address the current era of Black protest focused on racial justice and anti-Black violence.  Learn more
   Wednesday 7 April 1:30pm   Public Health Research Day 2021    Public Health Research Day is an annual conference hosted by the School of Public Health to highlight the research accomplishments of its students, trainees and partners. One of several events being held to commemorate National Public Health Week, the poster session encourages interaction among members of the greater Brown community around public health research. This year’s poster session will be hosted virtually, and participants will present their posters live via Zoom to guests and judges.  Learn more
   Wednesday 7 April 4:00pm   Japan Week 2021: Yoshiya Nobuko and Reading Like a Girl    Kicking off the Department of East Asian Studies’ annual Japan Week, Boston University’s Sarah Frederick will deliver the lecture “Yoshiya Nobuko and Reading Like a Girl.” Nobuko was best known for writing for and about young women or “shōjo.” An important experience of girlhood for her was forming passionate friendships with other young women, which she argued could be the basis for ethical behavior throughout life. Her defining role in defining “girl culture” in Japan remains important to her influence on popular culture to this day.  Learn more
   Thursday 8 April 12:00pm   The Barnes Lecture: Ashish Jha and Paul Farmer    Dean of the School of Public Health Ashish Jha will join Harvard Medical School’s Paul Farmer in a conversation on humanism and medicine. A medical anthropologist and physician, Farmer has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world’s poorest people and has written extensively on health, human rights and the consequences of social inequality. His most recent book is “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History.” An interactive audience Q&A will follow.  Learn more
   Thursday 8 April 4:00pm   Presidential Faculty Award Lecture with Nitin Padture    This year’s Presidential Faculty Award Lecture, “The Promise of Innovations in Solar Photovoltaics,” will be presented by Nitin Padture, a professor of engineering and the director of the Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation. The Presidential Faculty Award was established by President Christina H. Paxson in the spring of 2013 to recognize members of Brown’s distinguished faculty who are conducting especially important and innovative scholarship.  Learn more
   Thursday 8 April 6:00pm   Should the Supreme Court of the United States of America be Reformed and How?    As part of the Janus Forum conversations series, professors Sanford Levinson and Scott Douglas Gerber will discuss the potential needs and strategies of reforming the Supreme Court of the United States. Should Supreme Court justices have term limits? Should the Court have a greater or smaller number of justices? If reforms are needed, how should they be achieved? Levinson’s and Gerber’s research careers establish them as experts on this topic, but with substantially different ideological perspectives.  Learn more
   Friday 9 April 4:00pm   Spoken Word Performance: torrin a. greathouse    This event will start with a reading by torrin a. greathouse from her second full-length collection of poems — new works that have not yet been heard by an audience. Her pieces focus on disability justice and embodied poetics, trans identity, intergenerational trauma and traumatic memory, mythmaking, the etymology and language histories, and the poetics and politics of desire. A Q&A session will follow.  Learn more
   Sunday 11 April 3:00pm   Mark Steinbach performs Messiaen’s La Nativité    Mark Steinbach, University organist and senior lecturer in music, will perform Oliver Messiaen’s “La Nativité du Seigneur, Neuf Méditations pour orgue” (“The birth of the Lord, Nine Meditations for Organ”), on the 1903 Hutchings-Votey pipe organ in Sayles Hall. The recital will be broadcast virtually. The premiere of La Nativité took place in 1936 in Paris with three separate performers, each performing three movements, but Steinbach will perform the work in its entirety.  Learn more
   Monday 12 April 9:00am to Saturday 15 May 5:00pm   Exhibit Opening: Sherds!    Pottery has proven to be a critical archaeological resource due to its widespread use and accessibility throughout time. Sometimes archaeologists find whole pots during their excavations, but more often than not, they encounter broken pieces called sherds. This exhibit looks at archaeologists’ experiences with sherds and what these seemingly insignificant pieces of pottery can tell us about the past.  Learn more
   Monday 12 April 11:00am   Employing the Body in Resistance: Hunger Strikes by Palestinian Political Prisoners    This workshop is designed to give wider exposure to incoming Postdoctoral Research Associate in Palestine and Palestinian Studies Ashjan Ajour’s work on Palestinian hunger striking. Although theoretically informed literature on hunger strikes in Northern Ireland and Turkey exist, there is an absence of such literature about hunger strikes in Palestine, and Ajour’s study provides a first step toward filling this gap.  Learn more
   Tuesday 13 April 5:00pm   Judith Butler: Debt, Guilt, Responsibility, Obligation    In this virtual talk titled “Debt, Guilt, Responsibility, Obligation,” feminist scholar Judith Butler will consider how best to de-link debt and guilt in the context of the intensification of student debt in recent years and the movement in favor of debt forgiveness. The argument will seek to show that public obligations to either free or affordable education rely upon a notion of the public good that severs debt from guilt.  Learn more
   Wednesday 14 April 12:00pm   Soundscapes of Early China: A Conversation on Exhibiting Ancient Bells    Keith Wilson, curator of ancient Chinese art at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, and Jeffrey Moser, assistant professor of East Asian art at Brown, will discuss cast bronze musical instruments from early China. They will explore some of the challenges that Wilson faced in developing the exhibition Resound: Ancient Bells of China (Oct. 14, 2017 – July 5, 2021), and discuss the strategies that he and his team adopted to give life to the fragile sounds and furtive musicality of these instruments.  Learn more
   Thursday 15 April 12:00pm   Book Launch: ‘African American Political Thought: A Collected History’    “African American Political Thought” offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action. Co-editors Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner have brought together leading scholars to reflect on individual intellectuals from the past four centuries, developing their list with an expansive approach to political expression.  Learn more
   Thursday 15 April 7:00pm   Social Security and Medicare: Why Generation Z Should Care    Many Americans harbor concerns about the future viability of social security, and they have questions about how it and Medicare are funded and how they work. Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works and the chair of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition, will join Taubman Center Interim Director Richard Arenberg to discuss the current politics and future health of social security and Medicare. Special attention will be paid to the question of what these programs mean to members of the younger generations.  Learn more
   Friday 16 April 12:00pm   How Brown Alumni are Creating Sustainable Solutions in the Fashion & Retail Industry    In this panel discussion, alumni entrepreneurs will share how they are changing the future of sustainability when it comes to innovative business models, supply chains and product development in the fashion and retail industries.  Learn more
   Friday 16 April 1:00pm   The Day I Lost My Shadow: A Conversation With Film Director Soudade Kaadan    Professor Nadje Al-Ali and Brown student Rita Slaoui will co-host a virtual panel with Soudade Kaadan, director of the film “The Day I Lost My Shadow.” In the film, as winter hits hard in Syria, all Sana wants is to cook a hot meal for her son. When a seemingly simple errand search for gas goes awry, Sana is dragged into Syria’s deep internecine conflicts, where people lose their shadows.  Learn more
   Friday 16 April 1:00pm   Economic Warfare Begins at Home    Jonathan Kirshner joins the Rhodes Center as the keynote speaker for the conference "Economic Warfare: What Can World War One Tell Us About 21st Century Conflicts?" to discuss how economic warfare begins at home. Assessments of the prospects for economic diplomacy typically focus on apparent material capabilities and their potential coercive power. Less attention has been paid to a crucial permissive factor: the robustness of the domestic social economy of a state contemplating the practice of economic warfare.  Learn more
   
Virtual Exhibits
    Thursday 22 October 9:00am to Thursday 30 June 5:00pm   Transcendent Futures    "Taking stock of where we’ve been. Moving beyond where we are." With the daunting challenges of the year 2020, including a global pandemic, renewed struggles for racial justice, and ongoing environmental and climate concerns, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America’s new art exhibit features more than 20 artists whose artwork explores hope, connection and community, as we collectively strive to build a world that works for everybody.  Learn more
   Monday 1 February 9:00am to Saturday 1 May 5:00pm   Transient Matter: Assemblages of Migration in the Mediterranean    “Transient Matter” brings the realities, perils and humanity of migrations and border-crossings to life through an exhibition of things discarded by migrants who crossed the Aegean to reach Greece, artwork created by migrants in camps and detention centers once there, and photographs and videos produced by the curators. Originally held in person, this online exhibition differs slightly to accommodate the transition from physical to virtual.  Learn more
   Monday 12 April 9:00am to Saturday 15 May 5:00pm   Sherds!    Pottery has proven to be a critical archaeological resource due to its widespread use and accessibility throughout time. Sometimes archaeologists find whole pots during their excavations, but more often than not, they encounter broken pieces called sherds. This exhibit looks at archaeologists’ experiences with sherds and what these seemingly insignificant pieces of pottery can tell us about the past.  Learn more
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