April 16, 2012
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Julia S. Emlen, Principal of Julia S. Emlen Associates
Registration Required by April 2, 2012, Complete the on-line registration form
People skills are critical for success in fundraising. Building interpersonal connections for the organization includes being able to communicate in writing as well as in person. This workshop examines four important means of communicating in writing with prospects and donors: newsletters, annual reports, the case for support, and correspondence. We'll examine the place of each method of communications in promoting philanthropy for your organization. Bring samples of your organization's written materials for discussion.
About the Facliitator: Julia S. Emlen is the principal of Julia S. Emlen Associates. She has more than a dozen years' experience in advancement and fundraising across the nonprofit spectrum. She has consulted on resource development with non-profit organizations in secondary and higher education, land conservation, health care and the arts. She oversaw the donor-relations program for Brown University during its successful Campaign for the Rising Generation. She was responsible for the university's development communications and donor-relations program following the campaign. She administered Brown University's advancement services units, and directed the university's parents leadership program, managing a portfolio of major-gift parent prospects. She holds degrees from Boston University and the University of Rhode Island. She is a frequent presenter at AFP and CASE conferences, and has chaired the CASE Annual Meeting for Donor Relations and Stewardship. She is the author of Intentional Stewardship: Bringing Your Donors to Their Highest Level of Philanthropy (CASE, 2006) and "Steering Through Stewardship," CASE Currents, December 2009. Julia holds the CASE Crystal Apple Award for Teaching Excellence and is a member of the Association of Philanthropic Counsel.
April 5, 2012
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Shelley Kruger Weisberg
Registration Required by March 21, 2012, Complete the on-line registration form
Museums of the 21st century are vital, stimulating, visitor oriented places of learning. Museum Movement Techniques engages visitors intellectually, physically and emotionally in the process of making meaning for museum objects. Attendees will develop understanding of supportive theories, experience techniques, learn movement management skills, realize educational linking and understand assessment methods. Most importantly, participants will leave workshop with the knowledge to initiate techniques to meet their educational and programming objectives. Gallery tour (at the RISD Museum) led by Ms. Kruger Weisberg allows individuals to experience the collections in an interdisciplinary context. Visual and movement thinking strategies enable individuals to create personal meaning for museum objects. The final layering of curatorial knowledge cements the encounter as a meaningful learning experience.
About the Facliitator: Shelley Kruger Weisberg received her M.Ed. from Lesley University, where she synthesized her training as a movement therapist, dance and museum educator, to propose a novel approach to learning in museums, Museum Movement Techniques (AltaMira Press 2006)). Based on theories supportive of movement as a catalyst to learn, MMT integrates visual and movement thinking strategies to strengthen understanding of museum objects. Project Movement (2000) a preliminary qualitative study conducted by Ms. Weisberg suggests participants look more closely at museum objects when asked to respond to visual cues through movement. Findings also suggest that participant's creativity is enhanced with the addition of a movement interpretive experience. Moving Museum Experiences an eleven year retrospective of MMT recently published in Journal of Museum Education (2011) finds educators are using techniques to design a wide breadth of experiences in professional development, gallery engagement and programming. International and national presentations include International Council of Museums in Seoul (2004) and Rome (2006) Victoria Albert Theatre Museum in London (2004-05), American Association of Museums (2004, 2005, 2007 & 2008), Association Science and Technology (2006), American Association State and Local History (2008), National Arts Education Association (2003 & 2006), National Curriculum Network Conference (2003 & 2008) and the National Gallery of Art (2009).
April 2, 2012
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Christina Bevilacqua, Director of Programs and Public Engagement at the Providence Athenaeum and Amy Greer, Community Services Librarian at the Barrington Public Library
Registration Required by March 23, 2012, Complete the on-line registration form
Collaboration is an essential tool of any institution. How can members of the cultural and educational communities maximize the power of collaboration by reaching out beyond their own walls? How can community groups and organizations contribute to one another's success? How can we all better meet community needs through collaboration? Christina Bevilacqua and Amy Greer have found that building interdisciplinary collaborative relationships between organizations strengthens communities. This presentation will offer participants an understanding of why collaboration is essential in today's under-resourced and under-staffed world, and provide tools to identify and engage the organizations that have the potential to be valuable collaborators in their communities. To build on those discoveries, participants will then learn how to initiate contact with those potential collaborators and build long-lasting, reciprocal collaborative relationships.
About the Facliitators:Christina Bevilacqua is the Director of Programs and Public Engagement at the Providence Athenaeum, where she has worked since 2005. In 2006 she created the Athenaeum’s Salon Series, which brings together people from the Athenaeum membership and beyond for weekly conversations on such topics as history, visual art, politics, collecting, dance, community organizing, theater, writing, food, music, storytelling, architecture, poetry, performance, education, healthcare, and memoir – for starters. She also organized the Marcel Proust reading group at the Athenaeum, which now has over 25 members. Prior to working at the Athenaeum she was the Program Coordinator at Leadership Rhode Island for three years. She has written for the Providence Phoenix and served on the boards of the RI Council for the Humanities and Everett Dance Theatre. She has a BA in writing from Bard College and an MA in Social Policy from the University of Chicago. In addition to work in publishing, social services, and criminal justice in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Providence, she spent eight years designing hats as a custom milliner.
Amy Greer is the Community Services Librarian at the Barrington Public Library. Through this position, Amy hopes to offer programming that promotes civil discussion, cross- and inter-cultural awareness, and enjoyment for the whole family. Amy also collaborates with a number of community organizations to ensure that the whole community feels engaged with its public library. You can about the library here: http://www.barringtonlibrary.org. Before working at the library, Amy was archivist of the Feminist Theory Papers at the Pembroke Center of Brown University. She was involved with establishing, growing, and making accessible the FTP's exciting collections. Amy received her B.A. from Wheaton College, her Master's in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, and her Master's of Archives Management from Simmons College. She is currently a Library and Information Science doctoral student at Simmons College in Boston.
March 1, 2012
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Kate Laurel Burgess-Mac Intosh , Principal, Revitalizing Historic Sites
Registration Required by Feb 20, Online Registration Form Forthcoming
Contemporary art provides a gateway for historic sites to incorporate new voices, ideas, and interpretations to their site. Numerous historic sites have introduced contemporary art, from locally known artists to international art “super stars.” Each site takes a different angle, from merely being an exhibit space in an historical setting, to commissioning new pieces inspired by their surroundings. This workshop will provide an overview of contemporary art/historic site convergences, lay the groundwork for considering and implementing such projects, and discuss the possibilities and pitfalls of partnerships between artists and historic sites. Participants will be able to conceptualize their contemporary art at historic site project, consider how to identify potential partners, and understand some of the challenges and opportunities of intalling art within historic sites. Participants will be prepared to propose a project at the end of the workshop.
About the Facliitator: Kate Laurel Burgess-Mac Intosh is the Principal of Revitalizing Historic Sites, dedicated to researching, writing, and presenting on creative ways to ‘shake up’ historic sites, especially through the introduction contemporary art. MacIntosh has presented her ideas at the American Association of MuseumConference, New England Museum Association Conference, and at both the Tufts and Harvard University Extension School Museum Studies programs. She also writes a blog (revitalizinghistoricsites.blogspot.com) and Facebook page, “Revitalizing Historic Sites Through Contemporary Art.”MacIntosh has a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies from Harvard University Extension School, and an Undergraduate Degree in Art History and Fine Arts from Montserrat College of Art. She also is the Professional Affinity Group Co-Chair for the New England Museum Association’s Young and Emerging Museum Professionals Group.
February 23, 2012
John Nicholas Brown Center, Library
357 Benefit Street, Providence
3:00 p.m.
Mary Marshall Clark, Director of the Columbia Center for Oral History, will be at Brown to discuss themes and read from her new book, After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed.Books will be availabe at the reading.
The Columbia Center for Oral History is the world’s oldest university-based oral history archive. Founded in 1948 by Allan Nevins, the archive now holds nearly 20,000 hours of audiotaped and videotaped interviews on national and international subjects. Shortly after the events of September 11, 2001, Clark and Peter Bearman, sociologist (and director of the Columbia Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy) undertook a large, longitudinal oral history project, “The September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project,” to trace the meaning of the terrorist events and aftermath within New York City through personal life histories and cultural memories. Through that project and others that followed it, more than 950 hours have been collected with approximately 600 New Yorkers tracing both the event and the political afterlife of September 11, including the backlash against Muslims, Arab-Americans and others who “looked like” the enemy at home. Currently, Clark is directing a project on the post-9/11 use Guantánamo Bay as a detention center, and on the ramifications of policies of torture and rendition on individuals and families. Clark is co-founder and director, with Bearman, of the nation’s first masters’ program in Oral History, the Oral History Master of Arts, launched at Columbia University in 2008. Clark is past president of the Oral History Association and a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Prior to her career at Columbia, Clark conducted oral histories for the New York Times.
February 7, 2012
John Nicholas Brown Center, Library
357 Benefit Street, Providence
7:00 p.m.
What is AmeriCorps doing in Providence? What difference does it make? And how can you get involved? Come hear Brown alumni, AmeriCorps members, and those who work with them talking about the important work taking place in Providence. Panelists will talk about their opportunities and experiences as Corps members and about some of the projects underway at schools, environmental organizations, and cultural institutions.
Questions:
In addition to learning about the experiences of individuals, let's talk about this work and its impact locally. How do organizations get Americorps workers? What are they doing/providing? And what is the impact -- how does Corps membership impact the careers of the individuals? What impact does it have on the communities they serve - and how is this impact measured? In addition, what is the impact for the organizations where members serve -- how does it allow them to expand their capacity? Is there a downside to creating positions or programs that cannot be sustained? And, perhaps most difficult to assess, what does the presence of so many AmeriCorps members mean for the ongoing health of the city's nonprofit sector?
Register your attendance today!
February 2, 2012
John Hay Library, second floor Lownes Room
20 Prospect Street
5:30 p.m., reception to follow the lecture.
Schnapp is a cultural historian who works in the digital humanities and on digital approaches to cultural programming. He is a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature, a teaching faculty member at the Graduate School of Design, and the faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard. Before moving to Harvard in 2011, Schnapp occupied the Pierotti Chair of Italian Studies at Stanford, where he founded the Stanford Humanities Lab. His most recent books are Speed Limits and The Electric Information Age Book (a collaboration with the designer Adam Michaels of Project Projects (Princeton Architectural Press, January 2012). Also forthcoming in 2012 are Digital_Humanities (MIT Press) a book co-written with Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, and Todd Presner; Modernitalia (Peter Lang), a collection of essays on 20th century Italian cultural history being edited by Francesca Santovetti, and Italiamerica (Il Saggiatore), vol. 2, co-edited with Emanuela Scarpellini.
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December 8, 2011
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
11 a.m - 4 p.m.
Catherine D'Ignazio, from the Experimental Geography Research Cluster at RISD's Digital Media Department
Registration Required by December 1, 2011, Complete the registration form here. N.B.: Particpants will need to bring a laptop. Software downloads will be distributed in advance of this workshop.
In the last century, and especially in the last 30 years, artists have
made maps, subverted maps, performed itineraries, imagined
territories, contested borders, charted the invisible, and hacked
physical, virtual, and hybrid spaces in the name of cartography.
What's this about???
This one-day workshop presents a whirlwind history of creative &
open-source mapping projects along with a hands-on introduction to
using GPS devices to collect spatial data to create your own
emotional, idiosyncratic, or just plain fun cartographies. No previous
experience required.
About Catherine D'Ignazio: kanarinka, a.k.a. Catherine D'Ignazio, is an artist, educator and director of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things. She teaches in RISD's Digital+Media Graduate Program where she runs the Experimental Geography Research Cluster. Her work has been shown at the ICA Boston, Eyebeam, the MFA Boston, and the ISEA festival and received awards from the Tanne Foundation, the LEF Foundation and Turbulence.org.
December 1, 2011
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Ju-Pong Lin, Faculty, MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College
Registration Required by November 23, 2011, Complete the registration form.
Community storytelling has been practiced throughout time, long before it had a name and long before public awareness of questions about what "community" means. Ju-Pong Lin cut her teeth as a community storytelling facilitator in feminist consciousness raising sessions, support groups, community performance, and social activist trainings. Since then she has applied story circle and fish bowl process to facilitate personal transformation and social change through storytelling. This workshop will explore story sharing methods and how they can help foster neighborliness, make community and deepen public dialogue.
About the Facilitator: A harvester and maker of stories, Ju-Pong Lin works in video, performance, installation, and community storytelling. She has exhibited her work nationally, including Women in the Director's Chair, the Walker Museum of Art, New Mix festival, and the Tacoma Art Museum. As a member of Round the Corner Movers, she uses digital and live storytelling in their current project, a participatory performance and story circle asking, "What did we learn in school about power, friendship, knowledge, ourselves?" She also works with local organizations like DARE and The Hive Feminist Art Collective to make community through story sharing.
Ju-Pong received her MFA at The University of Iowa in Intermedia concentrating in video, performance and drawing. She taught at The Evergreen State College for many years, and now teaches in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College.
December 1, 2011
John Hay Library, second floor Lownes Room
20 Prospect Street
5:30 p.m., reception to follow the lecture.
Richard White is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University, and is a leading scholar in the history of the American West, Native American history, and environmental history. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his M.A. and PhD from the University of Washington. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Governor's Award (1999), a MacArthur Fellowship (1997), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1983-84); and has served on the board for several scholarly associations, acting as the President of both the Organization of American History and the Western Historical Association. He has written five books including Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America recently published by Norton, and is currently the principal investigator for the Shaping the West project, which explores the construction of space by transcontinental railroads in North America during the late nineteenth-century.
November 10, 2011
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Julia S. Emlen, Principal of Julia S. Emlen Associates
Registration Required by October 27, 2011, download the registration form
Whether a nonprofit organization is small or complex, stewardship and donor relations activities
are important for engaging, building and sustaining relationships with donors. How can we
construct an organizational culture of stewardship in order to achieve effective and efficient
donor relations? In this workshop, we will examine how to develop an institutional approach to
stewardship that brings all resources to the challenge of bringing donors to their highest level of
philanthropy. Bring your questions and concerns for a lively discussion and take away tools to
apply to your stewardship and donor-relations efforts.
About the Facliitator: Julia S. Emlen is the principal of Julia S. Emlen Associates. She has more than a dozen years' experience in advancement and fundraising across the nonprofit spectrum. She has consulted on resource development with non-profit organizations in secondary and higher education, land conservation, health care and the arts. She oversaw the donor-relations program for Brown University during its successful Campaign for the Rising Generation. She was responsible for the university's development communications and donor-relations program following the campaign. She administered Brown University's advancement services units, and directed the university's parents leadership program, managing a portfolio of major-gift parent prospects. She holds degrees from Boston University and the University of Rhode Island. She is a frequent presenter at AFP and CASE conferences, and has chaired the CASE Annual Meeting for Donor Relations and Stewardship. She is the author of Intentional Stewardship: Bringing Your Donors to Their Highest Level of Philanthropy (CASE, 2006) and "Steering Through Stewardship," CASE Currents, December 2009. Julia holds the CASE Crystal Apple Award for Teaching Excellence and is a member of the Association of Philanthropic Counsel.
November 4, 2011
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Jill Strauss, Educator and Independent Facilitator
Registration Required by October 19, 2011, download the registration form
The concept of oral history as human rights based is well established. Likewise, it is well documented that telling one's story can be cathartic and even transformative for the narrator. However, the benefits of deep listening for the listener are less discussed in oral history literature. From peace and conflict theory and practice we know that active listening engenders empathy, trust and humanizes 'the other' at the same time as being heard makes the speaker feel validated and therefore more willing to listen to other perspectives. This workshop will consider the intersections of oral history interviewing and conflict resolution skills building in a case study of my doctoral fieldwork integrating oral history, conflict resolution and visual art in post-violent-conflict Northern Ireland. Following this, workshop participants will then try out the listening and paraphrasing skills activities through storytelling exercises that have been adapted from conflict resolution trainings. What best practices of each methodology support the other and how can we extend this learning from our professional to our personal lives and vice versa?
About the Facilitator: Jill Strauss completed her PhD from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland in December 2010. Prior to this, she earned a Master of Education in Peace Education and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University Teachers College. She has worked as an educator and facilitator on interreligious / interethnic relations, human rights and non-violence for many years and this past summer she trained youth interns to do oral history interviewing at the Museum for African Art in New York City. Currently, Jill is teaching 'Sociology of Conflict' (in which students do oral histories) and 'Making Peace: Putting Theory into Practice' at the City University of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
November 2, 2011
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Jan Cohen-Cruz, director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Registration Required by October 17, 2011, download the registration form
Jan Cohen-Cruz will discuss ideas and facilitate a workshop embodying some of the seminal techniques for engaging multiple publics in artistic projects, and for situating artistic projects in public life. Featuring the work of Augusto Boal and the US tradition of the story circle.
Jan Cohen-Cruz is director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the cultural disciplines. Cohen-Cruz most recently wrote Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response (Routledge 2010); she is also the author of Local Acts: Community Based Performance in the U S, editor of Radical Street Performance, and, with Mady Schutzman, co editor of Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism and A Boal Companion. As a professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Cohen-Cruz produced community based arts projects: one on community gardens, directed by Cornerstone Theater's Sabrina Peck, another on gentrification, co directed by Urban Bush Woman's Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and NYU Experimental Theatre Wing's Rosemary Quinn. In 2006-7, Jan co initiated "HOME New Orleans," with local universities, artists, and residents exploring art's role in New Orleans' recovery. Cohen-Cruz is a longtime practitioner of Augusto Boal's "theatre of the oppressed." She is a University Professor at Syracuse University and is working with the State Department to assess community-based visual arts cultural diplomacy projects to take place in fifteen countries around the world.
October 27, 2011
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
4-6 p.m.
Do you want to learn about Brown's master's program in public humanities? Come to our open house! Enjoy refreshments, learn more about the program, and meet current and former students. A brief presentation on the master'sprogram will take place at 5 p.m. Immediately following the open house, a special lecture with guest Pam Green (see above). Please RSVP for the open house to publichumanities@brown.edu or 401 863-1177.
October 27, 2011
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
6 p.m.
Pamela E. Green, Executive Director of the Weeksville Heritage Center
As Executive Director of the Weeksville Heritage Center, Pamela Green is responsible for the management and expansion of this unique historic African American preservation and education organization. Ms. Green's current focus is on the construction a new multimillion dollar education and cultural arts building. Prior to the Weeksville Heritage Center, Ms. Green was Vice President of Outreach and Strategic Partnerships for Sesame Workshop where she created and managed corporate public service initiatives that extended the reach and impact of all Sesame Workshop properties, nationally and internationally. Ms. Green created the Office of Food Programs and Policy Coordination for the City of New York. She also served as the Commissioner of the Agency for Child Development. She was the first Executive Director of the Food For Survival Food Bank. Ms. Green's corporate experience includes developing financing packages and marketing to minority businesses, commercial real estate developers and firms engaged in exporting and importing for First National Bank of Chicago and computer programming and systems analysis for IBM. Ms. Green has an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Mathematics from Fisk University. She serves on the Boards of Community Resource Exchange and the Museum Association of New York.
October 15, 2011
Multiple Locations
Providence, RI, Jewelry District
Multiple events! 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Designed as a flexible organizational framework, Artists in Context (AIC) assembles artists and other creative thinkers across disciplines to conceptualize new ways of representing and acting upon the critical issues of our time. Local coordinators Jori Ketten, Montana Blanco and Micah Salkind, with input and guidance from core advisors, have facilitated several events in Rhode Island in 2011. AIC is currently planning a day-long convening for October 15 called Connected and Consequential: Rhode Island to bring together artists, activists, academics and others wanting or working to bring about social change. It is AIC's intention to devise a framework for the conference that creates space for conversation and connection without being overly prescriptive. [Read More about AIC and the Day-long festivities]
For the Fall 2011 course Art/Place (AMCV 1904I), Betsey Biggs and her students have been working intensively in Providence's Jewelry District, creating public artworks in response to the narrative and aesthetic prompts of this contested space. Included in this presentation is a tour of the artworks and a discussion of the artmaking process and the complexities of the places in our lives. Their work will be featured on October 15, during this day-long conference. Check of the class/event facebook page!
October 13, 2011
John Nicholas Brown Center
357 Benefit Street
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Ken Roberts, Former Chairman and CEO of Lippincott & Margulies
Registration Required by October 5, 2011, download the registration form
Are you looking for ways to make the work of your organization instantly recognizable? This workshop will explore the development of brand strategies for not-for-profit-institutions. We will begin by developing a working definition of 'brand' and 'brand equity' and then identify the primary factors that need to be managed in the process of creating a viable brand strategy. A basic framework for working through these factors will be examined and its application to not-for-profits reviewed. The workshop will be led by Ken Roberts, the former Chairman and CEO of Lippincott & Margulies.
About the Facilitator: With over 40 years of experience as an identity consultant, Ken is a specialist in integrated communications and branding systems and their relationship to marketing and business strategies. He has extensive experience in the areas of positioning, corporate identification, brand portfolio optimization, brand equity evaluation, marketing communications and implementation.
Ken has managed identity programs for U.S. and international organizations in a wide variety of industry categories. Clients have included Air Products, AT&T, The Bank of New York, BD, Carnegie Hall, Chase, Citibank, Cornell University, Deloitte & Touche, Doosan Group, Dow Chemical, Dun & Bradstreet, Electronic Data Systems, Hoechst Celanese, IBM, Kenyon College, Lincoln Center, Mayo Clinic, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Pfizer, Samsung Group, Southern Company, Sprint, Travelers Group,
University of Virginia, Walmart and Verizon.
Ken is a frequent speaker on the subject of branding and has published extensively. He
is a member of the board of directors of the Oliver Wyman Group and is a Trustee of
The Kenyon Review.
Ken holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from the Wharton
Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania.
October 3, 2011
John Hay Library, second floor Lownes Room
20 Prospect Street
5:30 p.m., reception to follow the lecture.
Alan Liu is Chair and Professor of the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an affiliated faculty member of UCSB's Media Arts & Technology graduate program, and the author of The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information, and Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database. He founded the NEH funded Teaching with Technology project at UC Santa Barbara, Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information, and the University of California multi-campus, collaborative research group, Transliteracies: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading.
The Brown University Library and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage are excited to announce a Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series for the 2011-2012 academic year. The purpose of this new series is to engage Brown faculty and students in the digital arts and humanities by revealing the power of new digital approaches to transform traditional scholarship. By bringing some of the most prominent advocates of digital humanities to campus, we hope to inspire Brown scholars and encourage expanded programs focused on digital scholarship at Brown. Visit the Library Website for schedule updates regarding the series, or contact Amy Atticks for more information.