[Summit] Fw: Featured Events at Brown Univ. through Sunday, May 19

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Events
  Monday 6 May 7:00pm   Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Performance and Exhibit Night    The Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies hosts an evening celebrating the achievements and talents of students in the department. Groups will showcase their language skills and creativity in a series of varied and dynamic performances in Portuguese. A reception will follow. Room 001, Salomon Center for Teaching, 79 Waterman Street. 

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 http://events.brown.edu/featured/view/event/event_id/119277
   Tuesday 7 May 6:15pm   Bumps on the Path to Preventing Skin Cancer    Martin Weinstock, an epidemiologist and dermatologist, speaks about his journey as a medical professional. As a longtime faculty member at Brown and a practicing physician, Weinstock has encountered many challenges and has compelling stories to share. Room 105, Kassar House, 151 Thayer Street.  http://events.brown.edu/featured/view/event/event_id/119890
   Wednesday 8 May 12:30pm   Performance: Poetry & Music    Pianist and Brown graduate Benjamin Nacar joins Henry Majewski, professor emeritus of French studies, in a performance that includes commentary on the relationship between poetry and music. The program includes pairings of Victor Hugo and Franz Liszt, Charles Baudelaire and Claude Debussy, and Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn. Room 305, Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street.  http://events.brown.edu/featured/view/event/event_id/119278
   Wednesday 8 May 6:00pm   Echoes of the Everyday: Telling Stories in Sound    Students and staff at Brown share their in-progress sound work and audio storytelling at this interactive event hosted by the Department of Music. Attendees are invited to bring their own mug for tea. Studio 2, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  http://events.brown.edu/featured/view/event/event_id/119888
   Wednesday 8 May 6:30pm   What’s the big deal about calculus?    Millions of high school and college students feel compelled to take calculus classes, but many would be hard pressed to explain what it is or why it matters. In a talk, Cornell University applied mathematician Steven Strogatz clarifies the fantastic idea at the heart of calculus: where it came from; how it applies to countless fields, from medicine to technology; and how it has helped make the world modern. Floor 11, School of Public Health, 121 South Main Street.  http://events.brown.edu/featured/view/event/event_id/117791
   Thursday 9 May 8:30am   Feeling Its Presence: Race and the Poetics of Affect    How do our social structures influence the unique work of poets of color, and how do they affect those poets’ reception by critics and the general public? A series of panel discussions takes up the intersections between critical race theory, affect theory and poetics. The day-long conference ends with a lecture by Dorothy Wang, author of “Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry.” Room 305, Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street.  http://events.brown.edu/featured/view/event/event_id/119889
   Friday 10 May 3:00pm   Walking Tour: Brown’s Secret Treasures    Dietrich Neumann, director of urban studies at Brown, leads a walking tour of Brown’s secret treasures -- beautiful interior spaces that are widely unknown to the general public and even to most members of the Brown community. Maxcy Hall, 108 George Street.  http://events.brown.edu/featured/view/event/event_id/119279
   Saturday 11 May 5:00pm   Memory Dishes: Women and African Diasporic Cooking    The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice welcomes poet, storyteller and performer Maurisa Li-A-Ping for an evening of discussion, reflection and food. The dinner celebrates a new CSSJ exhibit highlighting the ways in which six Providence families of African descent have maintained and reimagined their culinary traditions. Guests are encouraged to bring a recipe or food-related memory to share. Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, 94 Waterman Street.  http://events.brown.edu/featured/view/event/event_id/119897

Exhibits
    Thursday 13 September (2018) 9:00am to Monday 27 May 5:00pm   Joy + Justice    How do we live joyfully while working for justice? That question lies at the heart of this exhibit. The 22 artists assembled display a broad range of subjects, styles and traditions, but they share one common thread: connecting joy to justice. Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, 96 Waterman Street.  Learn more
   Tuesday 22 January 4:00pm to Saturday 15 June 6:00pm   River Mile Zero    Rhode Island artist Kate Aitchison explores human intervention of free-flowing waterways in new, large-scale works on paper depicting the power, awe and obstruction of hydroelectric dams. Upper Lobby, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 10 January 10:00am to Tuesday 30 April 5:00pm   Entwined: Botany, Art and the Lost Cat Swamp Habitat    In this exhibit, original watercolors of Edward Peckham sit alongside matching specimens collected generations ago in Providence’s Cat Swamp Habitat. The samples, long archived in the Brown University Herbarium, showcase the biodiversity that once existed in the city’s Wayland and Blackstone neighborhoods and provoke questions about the consequences of environmental change. Exhibition Gallery, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street.  Learn more
   Friday 15 February 9:00am to Friday 10 May 5:00pm   Memory Work    Through a series of paintings, Haitian-born artist Renold Laurent uses different materials, from oil and acrylic paint to coffee grounds, to draw attention to the ways in which artistic imagination can compensate for artists’ economic limitations. Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 94 Waterman Street.  Learn more

   Saturday 6 April 1:00pm to Sunday 7 July 4:00pm   Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson: The Only Show in Town    Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson’s exhibition is their response to the plight of the saltmarsh sparrow, a species predicted to be extinct by 2050 due to climate change. The artists followed researchers in Rhode Island as they tracked the sparrows’ movements and habits in an ever-rising tide. David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art, 64 College Street.  Learn more
   Friday 5 April 9:00am to Sunday 30 June 5:00pm   Textual Afterlives: Generating Editions and Editing Generations of Americana    In the early modern period, there were no intellectual copyright laws in place to prevent editors and publishers to adapt texts in order to sell their wares. Authors would often change their work to reflect popular views of the time, and translators would often do far more than just translate. This exhibition follows several of the most celebrated texts related to the early modern Americas as they made their way from inaugural to subsequent editions, ruminating on this question: When does a text stop being “original” and start becoming something else? MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 4 April 9:00am to Friday 14 June 9:00pm   Wild Edible Botanicals    Since 2008, Jimmy Fike has been creating a photographic archive depicting America’s rich trove of wild edible flora. His botanical images function as reliable guides for foraging, and they ask the viewer to contemplate evolution and our relationship to the plant kingdom. Atrium Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  Learn more
   Saturday 4 May 9:00am to Friday 19 July 5:00pm   The Providence Album, Vol. 1    “The Providence Album, Vol. 1” explores the life, look and history of Providence in the 1960s through the photography of Carmel Vitullo and Harry Callahan. Photos show a city in an era of tremendous change, as residents began moving out of the city and into the surrounding suburbs at a rate faster than any American city except Detroit. Carriage House Gallery, Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit Street.  Learn more
   Saturday 20 April 9:00am to Friday 31 May 5:00pm   Blind Origin: New Work by Judd Schiffman    Artist and academic Judd Schiffman responded to objects selected from the collections of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World by creating a new series of ceramic sculptures. His work speaks to the meaning, stories and power we ascribe to objects, whether ancient or contemporary. Room 108, Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 18 April 9:00am to Friday 14 June 9:00pm   The Interior Landscape    A collaborative exhibition from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Forrest Gander and Indian ceramic artist Ashwini Bhat explores Tamil poetry, Indian temple architecture and fossil memories preserved in ancient ceramic objects. Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  Learn more
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