Co-sponsored Initiatives
Academic Year 2008-09
Brown Journal of History
Peer-reviewed Publication
History Departmental Undergraduate Group
German Studies and the Humanities: New Directions
Lecture Series
Fall Semester
German Studies
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: Literature and Philosophy in Ruins
Lectures Series
Fall and Spring Semesters
English
Sharing the Heritage: The Transformation of Holy Places in Jerusalem from the Late Byzantine to the Early Islamic Period
Lecture
December 2
Ancient Studies, Middle East Studies, Religious Studies
Thinking, Recording and Writing History in the Ancient World
Conference
December 12-14
Ancient Studies
Emancipated Memories: Uncovering the Hidden Faces of Slavery
Art exhibition
February 5 - March 20
John Nicholas Brown Center
The Anthropological Argument: The Rediscovery of Ancient Skepticism in Modern Thought
Lecture
February 6
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Being There: Personal Engagement in Academic Research
Panel Discussion
February 10
Royce Fellowships
Subjects & Objects, Words & Things
Lecture
March 5
2009 Graduate Student Lecture (English Department)
Women in the Archives
Conference
March 5-7
Women Writers Project and Sarah Doyle Women's Center
Immigrant Paradox
Conference
March 6-7
The Center for the Study of Human Development, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Education Department
Violence and Civilization
Conference
March 6-8
Archaeology and the Ancient World
Human Beauty and the Nature of Art in Modernity: from the Art Galleries to the Operating Theaters and Back
Lecture by Sander Gilman
March 11
Rhode Island School of Design, Chace Center
Workshop on Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture
An informal conversation with Sander Gilman
RISD, Ewing House
March 12
Gender, Modern China, and the Transnational Humanities
Colloquium
March 13
Pembroke Center, East Asian Studies, Africana Studies and International Affairs
Post-Colonial Melancholia
Conference
March 13-14
Comparative Literature
Theatricality and Performance
Conference
March 13-14
German Studies and Music
The Last Performance
Performance Collective
March 14
Literary Arts
Gay Pride Month
Month of April
Various dates and locations
Student activities
Cultured Jews: The Art and Science of Jewish Ethnography
Conference
April 5-7
Judaic Studies
The Bishop, the Pirate, and the Black Slave: Cuba's Renaissance Epic
Lecture by Peter Hulme
April 6
Hispanic Studies
¡Mi Gente! Pa'lante y Pa'ya: Moving Forward as a United People
Puerto Rican Cultural Week
April 6-9
Student activities
Students Under Occupation
Photography exhibit
April 10-17
Right to Education Photography Project
The Palestinian Arabs in Israel
Lecture by Muhsin Yusuf
April 15
Middle East Studies
Audible Montage or, Eurydice's Footfall
Performance
April 15
Theatre, Speech and Dance
The Kingdom of Kongo, the Kingdom of Angola, and the Thirty Years' War: African Diplomacy and Portuguese Politics in the Struggle for the Atlantic, 1620-48
Lecture
April 15
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Art Goes Public: Memorials and Interventions
Lecture
April 16
John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Scandinavian Music with Sven Ahlbäck
Lectures and workshop
April 16-18
Music Department
Tension in Society and Scholarship
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
April 17
History Department
International Writers Project: There Will Still Be Light: A Freedom to Write Literary Festival
Art exhibit
April 20-23
Literary Arts
Thinking About Food in a Globalized Century
Conference Keynote
April 23
Center for Race and Ethnicity and Johnson & Wales University
