[Summit] Featured Events at Brown + Book Sale at Rochambeau Library

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Events
Thursday 3 February 4:00pmAt Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS CrisisIn this book talk, author Gowri Vijayakumar reveals how gender, sexuality and nation shape crisis response, and traces the realignments that crisis occasions for political and sexual life. “At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis” uses more than 150 in-depth interviews and ethnographic research across India and Kenya to show how activist groups of sex workers and LGBTQ people engaged, and often challenged, corporate donors, state agencies and biomedical experts; became central to India’s AIDS response; and transformed themselves in the process. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street. Learn more
Thursday 3 February 5:00pmMeet the Fellows: Spring 2022 Edition (Virtual)Discover innovative new research through virtual speed talks by 10 current fellows in the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, including faculty, postdocs and graduate and undergraduate students. Topics include the representation and reimagining of the Vietnam War in literature, readerly identification among British novelists, chronic fatigue syndrome and the ancient Maya.Learn more
Thursday 3 February 6:00pmConversations at the JNBC: Gonzalo CuervoGonzalo Cuervo, a progressive Democrat with decades of experience as a community advocate and public administrator, will speak on building a prosperous and sustainable neighborhood-based future for Providence. This weekly series brings together local artists, architects, writers, thinkers and musicians at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities to discuss their work with the public. Lecture Room, Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit Street.Learn more
Friday 4 February 9:00amIndian Agriculture After the Revolt (Virtual)Moderator Arvind Subramanian, former chief economic advisor to the Government of India, will lead a panel of six scholars and experts in a discussion on the future of Indian agriculture after the massive farmers’ protests in 2020 and 2021.Learn more
Monday 7 February 12:00pmMusic Now with Michael Veal (Virtual)In this talk, Michael Veal of Yale University will discuss the Dogon people of Central Mali and their impact on experimental jazz musicians of the 1960s and 1970s, with a focus on the stream of what might be called “Dogon jazz,” situating works by artists such as Julius Hemphill, Dewey Redman and The Art Ensemble of Chicago within broader currents of pan-Africanism, the Space Race, and jazz experimentalism.Learn more
Tuesday 8 February 4:00pmDefiant Memory, Enduring Voices: Transitional Justice in Latin America Film Series (Virtual)This film series brings together scholars, students and filmmakers in discussions about how cinema has mobilized calls for truth and reconciliation in Latin America. This third sub-series considers Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict (1980-2000) through Daniel Lagares’ and Mariano Lagudo’s “La búsqueda” and Melina León’s “Canción sin nombre.” The films will be available for free virtual viewing, and a roundtable will bring together six expert panelists in conversation.Learn more
Wednesday 9 February 1:00pmProject Sunshine’s TelePlay: Creating Peer-to-Peer Connections and Reducing Anxiety Through Play (Virtual)Project Sunshine is a longstanding international nonprofit that harnesses the healing power of play to serve children undergoing serious medical challenges. In response to volunteer restrictions at hospitals beginning in March 2020, Project Sunshine developed a new program delivery method, TelePlay, which connects children and families through our trained volunteers, via a HIPAA-compliant Zoom platform. This talk will outline promising preliminary results and discuss the possibility that TelePlay programming is effective in reducing anxiety.Learn more
Wednesday 9 February 2:00pmCarney Conversations: How We Decide to Love (Virtual)What does love do to our brains? Why do we fall in love? Why do we stay in love, and what makes us fall out of love? Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and to mark the occasion, two Brown scholars who study motivation and emotion will engage in a conversation led by the director and assistant director of Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science on how the brain is affected by love.Learn more
Wednesday 9 February 5:30pmBirds as Architects, Dads, and Hats: The Mother Bird Mitzvah in the Mishnah and Talmud (Virtual)In this talk, Barnard College’s Beth Berkowitz will address dominant perspectives on the mother bird mitzvah – its association with good luck, bad luck, and compassion – before showcasing rabbinic texts that evince interest in birds as ingenious builders, as fathers and not just mothers, as queer parents and altruists, as rebel spirits who resist captivity even unto death and, finally, in birds as co-inhabitants of the earth whose lives are parallel to as well as enmeshed with humans’.Learn more
Thursday 10 February 6:00pmConversations at the JNBC: Umberto “Bert” CrencaUmberto “Bert” Crenca is a Providence based artist, arts administrator, advisor and educator. He founded, and for many years led, the immensely successful arts organization AS220. Bert will discuss the impact of his work as an arts administrator on urban life in Providence and present some of his recent paintings. This weekly series brings together local artists, architects, writers, thinkers and musicians at the Center for Public Humanities to discuss their work with the public. Lecture Room, Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit Street.Learn more
Friday 11 February 10:00amThe Fractured Himalaya: India China Tibet 1949-62 (Virtual)Join Massachusetts Institute of Technology security expert Vipin Narang to discuss Nirupama Rao’s recent book, “The Fractured Himalaya: India China Tibet 1949-62.” A deep dive into understanding India-China relations, the book by the former foreign secretary of India examines how the past shadows the present in this relationship and shapes current policy options, strongly influencing public debate in India to this day. Learn more
Friday 11 February 4:00pmThe Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets and Schooling in the Chinese CityAuthor and Cornell University Associate Professor Eli Friedman will discuss his upcoming book “The Urbanization of People.” Based on extensive ethnographic research and hundreds of in-depth interviews, this interdisciplinary book details the policy framework that produces unequal outcomes as well as providing a fine-grained account of the life experiences of people drawn into the cities as workers but excluded as full citizens. McKinney Conference Room (Room 353), Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street.Learn more

Exhibits
Wednesday 13 October 9:00am to Wednesday 31 May 5:00pmSeeing Silicon ValleyIn “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
Wednesday 12 January 9:00am to Tuesday 22 February 9:00pmAfter Hours: Annual Staff ExhibitionAfter Hours is the 10th annual exhibition highlighting the creative talents of staff members working in departments and programs throughout the University. The exhibition is on view weekdays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and weekends from noon to 6 p.m.  A closing reception will be held in the Atrium Gallery on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at noon. Atrium Gallery, Granoff Center for the Arts, 154 Angell Street.Learn more
Tuesday 18 January 9:00am to Sunday 20 February 9:00pmtranslat[ ] - The 14th Annual Dual Degree ExhibitionArtists from the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program were invited to submit work related to the topics of movement, transformation, flexibility, nuance, culture, language, erasure, revision and hybridization — all of which make up the 14th annual exhibition’s theme of “translation.” Granoff Center for the Arts, 154 Angell Street. Learn more
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| February SALESPECIAL BOOKSandBiography and History |

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| The Friends of Rochambeau is getting ready for a big sale of Special and rare and higher priced volumes. Mary Greene, curator of our special, rare and unusual books has been very busy preparing thousands of books for this sale with the help of able volunteers. 
Because the Library has changing needs we will have to relocate our storage areas and therefore MUST de-accession all of these books which have been waiting to be sold since March of 2020. 
Special and Rare Books will be priced from $4-75, some lower. A very large collection of Biography and History books will also be available at $1 per book or $5 a bagful. 
Special Hours for members of the Friends of Rochambeau will be Friday February 11 from 10-12. 
Open to the public:Friday February 11 from 12-5 - join at the doorSaturday February 12 from 10- 5 PMMonday February 14 from 1-7 PM

This is NOT our usual Big Sale: only vintage childrens' books at special prices will be available. The usual huge array of $1 and 50c books will not be available- but we will be selling 70+ boxes of Biography and History @$1 or $5 a bagful of these. No CDs or DVDs or Vinyl at this sale. 
The usual BIG book sale is planned for April...

Vaccination and masks are required for entry. Limit of 15 shoppers at a time in the sale area. Browsing limited to 1 hour if others are waiting to enter. 

We thank all of the members of the Friends of Rochambeau and library patrons your previous support of the Book Sales at Rochambeau and the LIbrary. 
Please feel free to email friend at friendsofrochambeau.org with questions.
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