Events - Spring 2012
February 6 - 4-5pm (MCM Co-sponsored event)
The Precarious University Lecture Series
first lecture in a six-lecture series
The Queer Ethic and the Spirit of Normativity: Necolonialism in the History of Sexuality
a lecture by Roderick Ferguson
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center
February 10 - 3:00 p.m.
Double Fictions, Double Visions: Cross-cultural work and the Japanese Doppelganger
a lecture Baryon Tensor Posadas
Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media
Rhode Island Hall, Room 105
February 13 - 4-5pm (MCM Co-sponsored event)
The Precarious University Lecture Series
second lecture in a six-lecture series
Fabulosity and Precarity: Queery Embodied Struggles in Imigrant Quotidian Lives
a lecture by Martin F. Manalansan IV
Smith Buonanno, Room 106
February 14 - 5:30 p.m.
Hand and Eye: The Thaumatrope and the Technological Image
a lecture by Tom Gunning
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street
February 15 - 5:30 p.m.
What Difference Does Difference Make?
a lecture by Zahid Chaudhary
Maddock Alumni Center, Brian Room
38 Brown Street (corner of George)
Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media
February 17 - 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street
Colloquium schedule
poster
February 17 - 6:00 p.m.
MCM Cinémathèque Film Series
135 Thayer Street
Room 102
February 18 - 6pm-2am
Please Join R.K. Projects + Magic Lantern Cinema for a special screening of Sleep (screening begins at 7pm)
by Andy Warhol
5.5 hour long-form projected on 16mm film
40 Rice Street, Providence, RI
Suggested Donations: $3 - $5
February 22 - March 4
French Film Festival
Schedule
Film Descriptions
February 23 - 12:00 noon (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Office of International Affairs Graduate International Colloquium
Realism and Reality of Blood: City of God 10 Years Later
a lecture by Fabio Durão (Professor of Literary Theory, State University of Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil)
Pembroke Hall 202
172 Meeting Street
February 27 - 5:30 p.m. (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Office of International Affairs Graduate International Colloquium
Paranoid Formations: Rationality as Digital Infrastrusture
a lecture by Orit Halpern (History/History of Science, The New School)
Smith Buonanno 201
95 Cushing Street
February 28 - 6:00 p.m. (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Last Century at Marienbad: Animating Film History
a lecture by Professor Karen Beckman, University of Pennsylvania
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street
February 28 - 4:00 p.m.
The Right to (The) Archive
A lecture by Ariella Azoulay
Maddock Alumni Center, Brian Room
38 Brown Street (corner of George)
Recpetion to Follow
Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media
February 28 - 6:30 p.m. (Brown/RISD Curatorial Lecture Series)
Around An Object
Giovanna Boraasi
RISD Architecture Dept
231 South Main Street
February 29 - March 8 (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Art // Show
ART // SHOW suggests the complex interplay between artistic and curatorial practices.
ART // SHOW is a juried exhibition comprised of graduate and undergraduate work from Brown and RISD students. The multiple discourses that ART // SHOW spotlights coexist harmoniously, communicating their respective ideologies without speaking over their peers.
Art // Show is organized by the students of The Art of Curating.
Granoff Center, Cohen Gallery
February 29 - 5:30 p.m.
Radical Changes are Taking Place: The International Languages of Indian Cinema
a lecture by Madhumita Lahiri
Maddock Alumni Center, Brian Room
38 Brown Street (corner of George)
Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media
February 29 - 9:00 pm
Le Spectacle des Éléments (The Elemental Show)
France | 1986-2011 | 99 min
curated by Magic Lantern Cinema
Cable Car Cinema
204 South Main Street
March 5 - 4-5pm (MCM Co-sponsored event)
The Precarious University Lecture Series
third lecture in a six-lecture series
Precarity after Rights: On Queer of Color Critique
a lecture by Chandan Reddy
Granoff Center, Studio 3 (limited seating)
March 5 - 5:30 p.m. (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Samson Uncircumcised
a lecture by Jonathan Goldberg (Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at Emory Univeristy)
Brown/RISD Hillel
80 Brown Street, 2nd Floor
Reception to following, English Dept. Lounge, 70 Brown Street
March 10 - 12:00 noon
Emerging Perspectives on Modern Culture and Media
MCM Graduate Student Symposium
Smith Buonanno 201
95 Cushing Street
March 12 - 4-5pm (MCM Co-sponsored event)
The Precarious University Lecture Series
fourth lecture in a six-lecture series
Bedding the Horizonal: Entertaining Pleasure in the Permanent Present
Sue-Ellen Case
Smith Buonanno, Room 106
March 14 - 9:30 p.m.
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents:
The Slapstick Show
Early Experiments in International Slapstick
Curated by Maggie Hennefeld
Cable Car Cinema, 204 south Main Street
Admission $5
March 15 - 6:30 p.m. (Brown/RISD Curatorial Lecture Series)
On Social Scores
Pablo Helguera
RISD Museum, Metcalf Auditorium
March 17- 18 (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Chinese Women's Documentaries in the Market Era
For more information and detailed schedules, visit: http://brown.edu/Programs/Nanjing/content/news.html
Film Festival | March 17-18 | Cable Car Cinema | 204 South Main street
Symposium | March 21 9am-5pm | Watson Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer
March 20 - 5:30pm (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Office of International Affairs Graduate International Colloquium
A roundtable on The Global 1968: Historical Perspectives
Featuring Timothy S. Brown (History, Northeastern University) with Samantha Christiansen, Zachary Scarlett, Burleigh Hendrickson (Graduate students, Northeastern University)
MacMillan Hall 117
167 Thayer Street
CANCELLED - March 22 - noon-1pm (MCM Co-sponsored event)
The Precarious University Lecture Series
fifth lecture in a six-lecture series
'Always True to You Darling' in My Fashion:' Fidelity, Disciplinarity, Musicality
a lecture by Karen Tongson
Lyman Hall, Room 005
April 2 - 7:30 p.m. (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Afraid of Everything
a film by David Barker
Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium
154 Angell Street
April 5 - 6:30 p.m. (Brown/RISD Curatorial Lecture Series)
In Good Company
Spencer Finch
RISD Museum, Metcalf Auditorium
April 8 - 15 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Ivy Film Festival
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April 9 - 4-5pm (MCM Co-sponsored event)
The Precarious University Lecture Series
sixth lecture in a six-lecture series
Reparations and the Human
a lecture by David Eng
Smith Buonanno, 106
April 9 - 5:00 pm
Roger B. Henkle Memorial Lecture
"Recorded Future?: Temporal Analytics and 21st Century Media"
a lecture by Mark Hansen
Brown/RISD Hillel
Sponsored by the Departments of English and Modern Culture and Media
April 9-15 (MCM co-sponsored event)
Ivy Film Festival
Schedule
April 10 - 5:30 p.m.
“Software_Arts && Software_Aesthetics”
a lecture by Warren Sack
Granoff Center, Englander Stuido (N420)
154 Angell Street
Reception to Follow
April 12 - 6:30 p.m. (Brown/RISD Curatorial Lecture Series)
In This Place
Robert Blackson
RISD Museum, Metcalf Auditorium
April 12 & April 13- 7: 30 p.m.
Curious Magic : A Multi-Media Event Curated by Magic Lantern Cinema
admission $3 - limited seating - first come, first served (tickets at 7pm)
Cormack Planetarium, Museum of Natural History
Roger Williams Park, Providence, RI
April 17 - 4:30 p.m.
"Knotty Problems in the Fables of Computing"
a lecture by Matthew Fuller
Smith Buonanno 106
95 Cushing Street
Reception to follow
April 18 - 20 (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Africana Film Festival
Nollywood and Beyond
All events are free and open to the public
For more information contact Africana_Studies@brown.edu
April 20 - 6:00 p.m. (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Office of International Affairs Graduate International Colloquium
"'Boredom Is Counterrevolutionary': Guy Debord and the Sociology of Boredom"
Tom McDonough (Art History, SUNY Binghamton)
Smith Buonanno 201
95 Cushing Street
April 24 - 5:30 p.m.
“Animation and the Contemporary Art of War"
a lecture by Karen Beckman
Granoff Center, Englander Studio (N420)
154 Angell Street
Reception to Follow
May 1 - 6:00 p.m. (MCM Co-sponsored event)
Office of International Affairs Graduate International ColloquiumIn and out of Networks: or, After the Age of the World Picture
Richard Dienst (English, Rutgers)
Wilson Hall, Room 101
75-91 Waterman Street
May 5 - 12:00 noon
Emerging Perspectives on Modern Culture and Media
MCM Graduate Student Symposium
Smith Buonanno 201
95 Cushing Street
March 14 - 9:30 p.m.
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents:
THE HUMAN DISEASE SHOW
Curated by Richard Manning
Cable Car Cinema, 204 south Main Street
Admission $5