Upcoming - On Campus
Zugunruhe Lecture Series
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University presents Zugunruhe, a new installation by Rachel Berwick, from Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, through Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010. In conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery will host a series of lectures on related topics, including art, history, anthropology, zoology, and ecology. All lectures will be held in the List Art Center Auditorium:
- · Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
Paula Findlen, the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History at Stanford University
“Athanasius Kircher’s Marvelous Machines” - · Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 6 p.m.
Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery, London
“The Trouble With Nature” - · Thursday, February 4, 2010, 6 p.m.
Peter P. Marra, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.
“Understanding the Migratory Connectivity of Birds” - · Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 6 p.m.
Nancy Jacobs, associate professor of history, Brown University
“Africa, Europe, and the Birds Between Them” - · Thursday, February 11, 2010, 6 p.m.
David Wilson, founding director of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles
“Nikolai Fedorov, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and the Roots of the Russian Space Program”
Click here for more information.
The David Winton Bell Gallery is located on the first floor of List Art Center, 64 College St.
The Zugunruhe Lecture Series is supported in part by the Creative Arts Council and the Marshall Woods Lectureship at Brown University.
Who Counts?:
Science, Demography and the Social
"'There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama':
The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism"
November 17 - 4:00pm
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Jennifer L. Hochschild
Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African-American Studies
Harvard University
For the first time in American history, the United States' 2000 census allowed individuals to choose more than one race. That new policy sets up our exploration of whether and how multiracialism is entering Americans' understanding and practice of race. Using a policy feedback framework, we find that multiracialism is becoming institutionalized, that the small proportion of Americans who define themselves as multiracial is growing, and that the evidence suggests a continued rise.
Increasing multiracial identification is also made more likely by racial mixture's growing prominence in American society. However, the politics side of the feedback loop is complicated by the fact that identification is not identity; traditional racial or ethnic loyalties and understandings remain strong, including among potential multiracial identifiers. We expect mixed race identity to be contextual, fluid, and additive, so that it can be layered onto rather than substituted for traditional monoracial commitments. If this development continues to take hold, it has the potential to change much of the politics and policy of American race relations.
February 11
Omnia El Shakry
Associate Professor of History
UC Davis
Series Presented By:
COSTS, the Anthropology Department, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, the History Department, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University.
Nature and Legacy:
Humanists, Scientists and the Environment
We are pleased to announce that the focus of the second annual Humanities/Science Project is the environment.
The Humanities/Science Project is a three-year collaborative program launched by the Committee on Science and Technology Studies and the Cogut Center for the Humanities, fostering critical conversations about life and knowledge. In 2008-2009 the focus was on the scientific and cultural history of evolutionary theory, in the 150 years since the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.
2009-2010 will feature an environmental film series as well as a four-part speaker series called “Nature and Legacy: Humanists, Scientists and the Environment.” Panel discussions will include the topics of “Toxicity,” “Climate Change,” and “The Return of Nature.”
Sponsored by the Committee on Science and Technology Studies, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Center for Environmental Studies, Environmental Change Initiative, John Nicholas Brown Center, and Urban Studies Program.
September 23
"Butte, America"
Film screening and discussion with the filmmakers
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106
7:00 - 9:00pm
This documentary, narrated by Gabriel Byrne, reveals the social and environmental costs of mining in Butte, Montana. This is the New England premiere the film chronicles industrial exploitation and its effects on the people and the land. It is the New England film premiere.
This New England film premiere will be followed by discussion with producer/director Pamela Roberts and co-producer/co-writer Edwin Dobb.
For more on the film: http://butteamericafilm.org/
November 5
"Climate Change"
Lectures and panel discussion
Pembroke Hall 305
4:00 - 6:00pm
Speakers:
Elijah Huge ( Wesleyan)
"Architecture after the Well-Tempered Environment"
For an abstract and lecturer bio, click here.
Timmons Roberts ( Brown)
"International Climate Justice: Unequal Risks, Unequal Coping Resources, and the Need for Adequate and Predictable Funding for Developing Countries to Adapt"
For an abstract, click here.
Hugh Ducklow, (Brown/Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole)
"Climate Change: Science, (Un)Certainty and Denial"
For an abstract, click here.
A panel discussion and Q&A will follow individual presentations.
March 18
"Toxicity"
Lectures and panel discussion
Pembroke 305
Time: TBD
Speakers: Brown faculty Kim Boekelheide and Phil Brown, and filmmaker Judy Helfand ("Blue Vinyl").
