[Summit] Fw: Featured Events at Brown through Sunday, December 19

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Events
  Monday 6 December 6:30pm   Community Partner Panel: Highlighting the Work of Local Nonprofit Leaders (Virtual)    Staff from Brown’s Swearer Center will lead a discussion with local nonprofit leaders in the Providence community who are confronting economic inequity, education, racial justice and more. Panelists will share more about the work they do to address the root causes of these issues and will explore the cultural dynamics operating in Rhode Island, including Brown’s relationship with the Providence community.  Learn more
   Monday 6 December 8:00pm   73rd Latin Carol Celebration: Mox Est Celebrandum    This joyful program of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, presented by Brown’s Department of Classics, is conducted entirely in Latin, with a bit of ancient Greek and Sanskrit. English translations are provided for those whose Latin is a little (or a lot!) rusty. Registration required. Sayles Hall, 81 Waterman Street.   Learn more
   Tuesday 7 December 12:00pm   History of the U.S. and Republic of Korea    This talk by Watson Institute visiting scholar and national defense fellow Hongkyu Kim will explore the historical relationship between the U.S. and Republic of Korea from 1866 to 2021, focusing on their critical and enduring military alliance. This presentation will briefly cover how the two have shared the prosperity and values of liberal democracy in the Asia-Pacific region and highlight the importance of this enduring partnership that has successfully maintained peace on the Korean Peninsula. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street.  Learn more
   Tuesday 7 December 4:00pm   Up and Doing: Two Presidents, Three Mistakes, and One Great Weekend ― Touchpoints to a Better World (Virtual)    Author and Class of 1957 Brown graduate James Harmon joins J. Brian Atwood, a visiting scholar in international and public affairs, for a discussion of his new memoir, “Up and Doing.” The book presents a tale of the deals that made Harmon a celebrated figure in the world of global investment and shows that the best way to do well is by also doing good.  Learn more
   Tuesday 7 December 6:00pm   Miracles ‘par hystoire’: Visual Storytelling and Invisible Disability (Virtual)    Is it possible to establish the genuineness of a past disability that has purportedly been miraculously cured? What if that past disability was an “invisible” one? And what to make of the testimony of a miracle recipient who cannot speak about their own past? Such are the questions that confronted the medieval investigators of miracles — questions that Julie Singer, a scholar from Washington University in St. Louis, will attempt to answer in this talk. Registration required.  Learn more
   Wednesday 8 December 7:30pm   Ghanaian Drumming & Dancing Concert    The Brown University Ghanaian Ensemble, led by Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, presents a performance of Ghanaian traditional music and dance. This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required. Grant Recital Hall, 105 Benevolent Street.   Learn more
   Friday 10 December 3:30pm   How Can We Make Philosophy More Diverse (and Interesting)?    Columbia University Professor of Philosophy Christina Mercer will present a talk titled “Question: How Can We Make Philosophy More Diverse (and Interesting)? Answer: Correct the Big Lie About Its Past and then Put That Past to Use!” Mercer’s work highlights inclusion in philosophy, and she created and oversees Just Ideas, a program that organizes philosophy courses in the Metropolitan Detention Center, a maximum security federal prison in Brooklyn. Room 106, Smith-Buonanno Hall, 95 Cushing Street.  Learn more
   Saturday 11 December 4:00pm   Brown University Chorus Performs Handel’s Messiah ($)    Frederick Jodry leads the Brown University Chorus, joined by the Providence Baroque Orchestra and the Choir School of Newport County, in a performance of Handel’s Messiah (Part I). Admission is $5 for students and $25 for general admission, and advance tickets are encouraged. Masks are required. Grace Church, 300 Westminster Street.  Learn more
   Tuesday 14 December 7:30pm   Perfect Storm: Women, Work, and the Covid-19 Pandemic (Virtual)    The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the inequalities that women experience daily, driving millions out of the labor market due to pandemic-related predicaments like school closures, lack of child care and layoffs, with women of color and low-income workers hit especially hard. What have the fault lines that COVID laid bare revealed about women, labor, class and justice? In this conversation, three panelists will discuss how society can move toward solutions to the longstanding inequities that put women so at risk, and what can be done today to improve conditions for tomorrow.  Learn more
   Wednesday 15 December 1:00pm   Cheeseburger Therapy: Peer-to-Peer Internet Therapy for Everyone (Virtual)    Humans naturally want to help each other, but modern society traps “mental health” behind expensive bureaucracies. Cheeseburger Therapy teaches ordinary people the skills of cognitive behavioral therapy and provides structured oversight to make it safe for them to help other humans through the internet — and get paid doing so. Cheeseburger Therapy began as research at the University of Washington but is now a functioning community that changes real human lives. In this talk, the project’s leader, computer scientist Michael Toomin will present the innovations that make Cheeseburger Therapy possible.  Learn more
   Thursday 16 December 12:00pm   Piano Recital: ‘The Ten-Finger Orchestra’    For the Cogut Institute for Humanities’ final in-person event of the year, pianist and Brown graduate Benjamin Nacar will perform a program of selected works by Strauss, Mozart and more, interspersed with short commentaries on the pieces. Room 305, Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 16 December 6:00pm   Conversations at the JNBC: Howie Sneider and Islay Taylor    The Steel Yard is one of the most exciting educational artistic enterprises in Providence, offering an award-winning industrial arts center, craft school, shared studio and so much more. In this talk, Executive Director Howie Sneider and Islay Taylor, the associate director in charge of residency programs, will talk about the past, present and future of the organization’s work. Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit Street.  Learn more

Exhibits
    Monday 12 April 9:00am to Tuesday 21 December 5:00pm   Sherds! (Virtual)    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
   Wednesday 5 May 9:00am to Tuesday 21 December 5:00pm   Out of Frame (Virtual)    What would happen if we took an important sweep of U.S. history — including that having to do with settler colonialism, slavery and exclusion — as foundational to the field of development as ideas, policy practice and discourse? Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Africana Studies Geri Augusto's Fall 2020 seminar “Development's Visual Imaginaries” took up the challenge to do so, exploring legislation and decrees, but also paintings, postcards and early photographs and films.  Learn more
   Thursday 23 September 4:00pm to Tuesday 21 December 5:00pm   reflection/abyss/vision/legacy    Inspired by an expedition into the multidimensional realms of Octavia E. Butler’s archives, writer Porsha Olayiwola and visual artist Dara Bayer explore patterns in the development of the individual and the collective. Butler, the first Black woman to win the Hugo Literary Award for science fiction, questions the cycle of self and spirit, and Bayer and Olayiwola shape their answers in “reflection/abyss/vision/legacy.” The work interweaves themes rooted in ancestry and the world’s future to create eight pieces in conversation. The exhibition is a portal inward and includes an altar space for visitors to imagine and reimagine possibility. Gallery, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, 94 Waterman Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 4 November 9:00am to Sunday 19 December 5:00pm   Trinities: An Exhibition by Jules Gimbrone    Jules Gimbrone’s immersive installations dissolve visual and aural binaries. Objects both sculptural and sonic reverberate across the space of the gallery, blending and bending light and sound into washes of color, tone and tempo. Meticulously calibrated by the artist, these structures are intentionally scored to produce physical sensations that migrate — unfixed — across the senses. Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.   Learn more
   Wednesday 13 October 9:00am to Wednesday 31 May 5:00pm   Seeing Silicon Valley    In “Seeing Silicon Valley,” Mary Beth Meehan uses photography to transform public spaces, works collaboratively to reflect communities back to themselves, and aims to jolt people into considering one another anew. Combining image, text and large-scale public installation, Meehan’s work challenges notions of representation, visibility and equity, and prompts people to talk with one another about what they see. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street, and Stephen Robert ’62 Hall, 280 Brook Street.   Learn more
   Monday 29 November 9:00am to Wednesday 8 December 9:00pm   Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice    The Center for Public Humanities at Brown University, the URI Providence Campus and the Tomaquag Museum present “Climates of Inequality,” a participatory public memory project created by university students, educators, and community leaders in more than 20 cities across the U.S. and the world. Through virtual reality, moving audio testimony and historical imagery from each community, the exhibition explores how the climate crisis and environmental injustice is intensifying inequality — and how the experiences of the hardest hit communities hold the key to confronting these issues and finding ways to move forward. 1st and 2nd floor Lobby Gallery, URI Feinstein Providence Campus, 80 Washington Street.  Learn more
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