Disturbances: An Exhibit of Select Materials from the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives
Opening Reception: Thurs., March 13, 2008, 6:30pm
Exhibit: March 14 - April 9, 2008,
John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St., Providence, RI
The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women is celebrating Women’s History Month 2008 with an exhibit at the John Hay Library at Brown. On display will be materials highlighting the historical achievements of Brown and Rhode Island women as well as documents tracing the intellectual gains made by feminist theorists working in universities across the country. Spanning several generations of activists and scholars, the collection recognizes the courage and intrepidity of women who dared to challenge and thereby disturb the status quo--through interrogation, agitation, and persistence.
Featured in the exhibit are the stories of such figures as Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, a Native-American/African American sculptor who battled with poverty as well as her own inner demons to create lasting works of art, and Annie Peck, who was refused admission to Brown in the 1870s but went on to become a celebrated mountaineer. The exhibit highlights the successful efforts of Sarah Doyle, the moving spirit behind the Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women, and the highly controversial work of such feminist scholars as historians Joan Wallach Scott and Louise Tilly and literary scholars Naomi Schor and Elaine Marks. Each of these theorists questioned conventional approaches to knowledge and contributed to making gender and sexual difference crucial categories of analysis. On display will be artifacts bearing witness to the bold Pembroke College and Brown University women athletes who insisted on playing “men’s” sports such as hockey and activists who staged walk-outs to protest racial injustice on campus.
The exhibit runs from March 14 to April 9, 2008 and is free and open to the public during normal library opening hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday (except March 24–28, Brown’s spring break, when the library closes at 5 p.m.). The Library is also open on Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (except for March 23 and 30).
The exhibit and opening reception are co-sponsored by the Pembroke Center Associates, the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center and the Friends of the Library.
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Treasures of the Hidden Chest
Lecture: Wed., April 2, 2008, 5:30pm
Manning Hall, Main Campus of Brown University, Providence, RI
Konrad Tuchscherer, Associate Professor of African History and
Director of Africana Studies at St. John’s University
Gallery, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Manning Hall, Main Campus
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
Dr. Tuchscherer is Co-Director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project at the Royal Palace of Bamum Kings in Foumban, Cameroon. His lecture will explore Africa’s many writing traditions and historical scripts. He will concentrate on his work in Cameroon to preserve endangered archives and his research on the literary past of the Bamum inspired by the discovery of a hidden chest left by a royal Bamum scribe.
Co-sponsored by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and the Friends of the Library of Brown University.
How Jewish is He?
Arthur Miller and the Holocaust
Fourth Annual Don Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship in American Theatre
Lecture: Wed., April 9, 2008, 7pm
Lownes Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St., Providence, RI
Christopher Bigsby, Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
Lownes Room, John Hay Library Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 7 p.m.
Known internationally as a major expert on American drama, Professor Bigsby has published more than thirty books covering American theatre, popular culture, and British drama. He is considered the premier authority on the playwright Arthur Miller and has recently completed a definitive biography, Arthur Miller: A Critical Study (2005). According to Prof. Bigsby, “Miller was often accused of denying or suppressing his Jewishness. This is an exploration of that, more particularly in the context of the Holocaust.”
An Evening with Helene Cardona
Lecture and book signing: Thurs., May 15, 2008, 7pm
List Art Center Auditorium, 64 College St., Providence, RI
Join us in spending an evening with Hélène Cardona, a distinguished poet, literary translator and actress
who will be visiting Brown University as part of the annual Yoken Lecture Series. A graduate of The American
Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, she studied with Ellen Burstyn at the Actors’ Studio, played Fuffi Drou
in Lasse Hallström’s Chocolat and Candy in Lawrence Kasdan’s Mumford.
She has translated What We Carry by Dorianne Laux into French, her father’s poetry from Spanish into English,
the Lawrence Bridges film Muse of Fire for the NEA and has received grants from the Durfee Foundation and the
French Cultural Services of Los Angeles.
Her first book, The Astonished Universe, an uplifting and luminous collection of poetry about consciousness, is the first bilingual edition in English and French from Red Hen Press. A book signing will follow her talk.
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