[Summit] Forthcoming Events at Brown University + Avon Cinema Showtimes

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Events
Wednesday 6 October 12:00pmData For Good: Improving Humanitarian Mine Action Through Open Source Conflict DataSince 2011, explosive remnants of war — bombs that fail to detonate or are abandoned during fighting — have posed an enduring, multi-generational threat in Syria. Jonathan Robinson, who specializes in aid worker security and conflict analysis, will discuss his experience using open-source conflict data to help find and remove explosive remnants, potentially saving countless lives. McKinney Conference Room 353, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street.Learn more
Thursday 7 October 12:00pmPerformance: ‘The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins’“The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins” is an original activist dance opera by the Haus of Glitter, a Providence performance and movement company. Members of the company created the dance opera after living in the former home of Esek Hopkins, commander of the Sally, a slave ship whose trans-Atlantic voyage was funded by the Brown brothers in the 18th century. Lecture Room, John Nicholas Brown Center, 357 Benefit Street.Learn more
Thursday 7 October 4:00pmScreening: ‘The Lizard’The Center for Language Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies have teamed up to present Kamal Tabrizi’s “The Lizard,” a 2004 comedy-drama about a petty thief who poses as a mullah, or Muslim mosque leader, to evade capture. The thief-in-disguise inadvertently attracts followers and inspires them to perform good deeds. Room 202, 195 Angell Street.Learn more
Thursday 7 October 6:00pmConversations at the JNBC: Marthe RowenMarthe Rowen, an architect, educator and artist, will present some of her recent travel drawings at the intersection of time and space, including panorama drawings she made while on a transcontinental Amtrak journey. Rowen’s talk is part of a weekly series that brings local artists, architects, writers and thinkers to Brown to discuss their work with the public. Lecture Room, John Nicholas Brown Center, 357 Benefit Street.Learn more
Friday 8 October 12:00pmRemaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era (Virtual)Author Ronald W. Schatz will virtually visit the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance to discuss his latest book, which tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management conflicts during World War II. Though the crew saw themselves as disinterested technocrats, Schatz argues that they were in truth utopian reformers aiming to transform the world: They would go on to exert broad influence on U.S. economy and society for 40 years.Learn more
Friday 8 October 8:00pmRecital: Roberto Plano, PianoAward-winning Italian pianist Roberto Plano comes to Brown for a recital of 19th and 20th century music by Russian and Hungarian composers, including Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Scriabin and Medtner. Grant Recital Hall, 105 Benevolent Street.Learn more
Wednesday 13 October 4:00pmUnderstanding the Crisis in Afghanistan (Hybrid)A panel of scholars and practitioners will come together to explain recent events in Afghanistan and their regional and global ramifications. Panelists include political scientist Christopher Clary, peace and security scholar Christine Fair, think tank fellow Husain Haqqani and global policy expert Dipali Mukhopadhyay. True North Classroom, Stephen Robert Hall, 280 Brook Street; also available to livestream.Learn more
Wednesday 13 October 6:00pmThe (Post)Colonial Predicament in Community Mental Health Services for American Indians (Virtual)While studying depression and problem drinking on the Fort Belknap Native American reservation, Joseph Gone heard a community member say, “We never was happy living like a white man.” Gone, an anthropologist at Harvard, realized that that observation captured an entire explanatory rationale about mental health on Native American reservations. In a talk, Gone will propose recasting Indigenous peoples’ “mental disorders” as post-colonial pathologies.Learn more
Thursday 14 October 12:00pmA Conversation with Dr. Noubar Afeyan (Virtual)Ashish K. Jha, dean of the School of Public Health, will join Dr. Noubar Afeyan, co-founder and chairman of the board of Moderna, for a conversation and interactive audience Q&A. In addition to his role at Moderna, Afeyan is also the founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, a company that conceives, creates, resources and develops first-in-category life science platform companies to transform human health and sustainability. Registration required.Learn more
Friday 15 October 5:30pmEl Anatsui’s Metamorphic Objects (Hybrid)Princeton University Professor of African and African Diaspora Art Chika Okeke-Agulu will discuss the shape-shifting, now globally familiar sculptures by El Anatsui, the internationally acclaimed Ghanian-born artist. El Anatsui’s most recent sculptures are constructed from repurposed, locally manufactured objects such as bottle tops, aluminum plates and rusted steel graters used to process garri, a West African staple food. Room 120, List Art, 64 College Street; also available to livestream.Learn more
Saturday 16 October 11:00amSlavery & Legacy Walking ToursIn the 18th century, slavery permeated every aspect of social and economic life in Rhode Island. The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice invites the community to learn about the history and legacy of slavery as it pertains to Brown and Rhode Island. Major stops on this hour-long walking tour, offered three times over the course of the day, include University Hall, the Slavery Memorial and more. Registration required. Begins at the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle, 190 Thayer Street.Learn more
Saturday 16 October 2:00pmStaying Real: The War on Truth — and How to Win ItTrolls. Disinformation. Canceling. Conspiracy Theories. If Americans’ grasp on reality seems to be under attack, that’s because it is. In a dramatically illustrated talk, Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, will explain the goals and tactics of the war on truth. Rauch will reveal the inner workings and hidden strengths of the country’s precious Constitution of Knowledge — and how to capitalize on them to fight back. Registration required. Room 001, Salomon Center for Teaching, 79 Waterman Street.Learn more

Exhibits
Thursday 22 October 9:00am to Wednesday 21 December 5:00pmTranscendent Futures (Virtual)"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 Wednesday 21 December 5:00pmTransient Matter: Assemblages of Migration in the Mediterranean (Virtual)“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 Tuesday 21 December 5:00pmSherds! (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 5:00pmOut 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
Monday 1 February 9:00am to Tuesday 21 December 5:00pm‘A Blind Horror Beyond All Proportion’: The Racial Imaginaries of H.P. Lovecraft (Virtual)In recent decades, the view that Lovecraft was a “racist” has become a well-worn fact. Instead of reaching toward this conclusion, this exhibition holds it as a premise, thereby creating a series of questions: In what ways do Lovecraft’s thoughts about race surface in his fiction? If his thoughts on race can’t be divorced from his writing, how can readers critically “metabolize” it so that they understand and appreciate it differently? Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, what are the implications of the fact that some of the most enduring aspects of Lovecraft’s work are “great” not despite his race thinking but because of it?Learn more
Thursday 9 September 11:00am to Sunday 28 November 5:00pmArrows of Desire: Harry Gould Harvey IV and Faith WildingFriends, collaborators and intergenerational activists whose practices both enrich and reflect one another, Harry Gould Harvey IV and Faith Wilding have emerged from the pandemic with this exhibit exalting the works of poet William Blake. Works by Wilding — an influential feminist artist and activist, Rhode Island resident and visiting scholar at Brown’s Pembroke Center — include watercolors that pay homage to women writers, poets and theorists who influenced her own feminist organizing, while Harvey, a prolific draftsman, produces delicate works on paper framed in elaborate, hand-wrought wood both foraged and found. David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Building, 64 College Street.Learn more
Thursday 23 September 4:00pm to Tuesday 21 December 5:00pmreflection/abyss/vision/legacyInspired 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 9 September 9:00am to Sunday 28 November 5:00pmChampion Trees: Barbara BosworthBarbara Bosworth consistently documents the variety of ways humans move through and around the natural world. Using a large-format 8x10 camera, she captures moments that range from fleeting to enduring, encounters with people banding migratory birds to scenic views from the New England Trail. On view in the List Lobby are four works from her “Champion Trees” series, black-and-white prints in triptych and diptych form that mark the largest examples of native tree specimens in the United States, according to the National Register of Champion Trees. Lobby, List Art Building, 64 College Street.Learn more
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I'M YOUR MAN 
OCTOBER 8–14, 2021
DAILY AT 3:45 & 6:20

COMING SOON: 
WARREN MILLER'S WINTER STARTS NOW
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2021 AT 6:00 & 9:00  

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Alma (Maren Eggert) is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom (Dan Stevens), a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy. The film is a humorous tale about the questions of love, longing and what makes a human being human.

Directed by Maria Schrader
Rated R
Running time 105 minutes 

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  |   WARREN MILLER'S WINTER STARTS NOW 
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2021 AT 6:00 & 9:00 

For years we’ve been kicking off winter in true Warren Miller fashion, and we’re back for another round. This season, the snow will feel a little deeper, the jumps a little higher and the views from the top will be just a bit more inspiring.

Join friends Marcus Caston, Amie Engerbretson, JT Holmes and more. Meet rising stars Madison Rose and Noah Elliott, and follow along on a disabled ski descent of Denali with Vasu Sojitra and Pete McAfee.

Head to Sugarloaf where we’ll meet the minds behind the manufacturing of Winterstick Snowboards, and meet Phil & Amy Taisey, who craft Amalgam Skis out of their garage. Follow Vermont native Jim Ryan around Sun Valley with some new friends.

Tap into your inner snow season stoke this season because "Winter Starts Now." Find out more about the 72nd annual ski and snowboard film at warrenmiller.com. Purchase tickets here:

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