Spring 2018
February 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Black Solidarity Conference
"Let's Get it On: Deconstructing Sex, Sexuality, And Gender in the Black Community"
Yale University
Contact: [email protected]
February - May, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Braziliam Initiative's Spring 2018 Film Series
Thursdays at 7:00pm or 7:30pm, Joukowsky Forum
7pm February 8, 2018, Elvis e Madona, 2010, dir. Marcelo Laffitte,
7pm February 15, 2018, Madame Satã, 2002, dir. Karim Aïnouz,
7;30pm March 8, 2018, Waiting for B., 2017, dirs. Abigail Spindel and Paulo Cesar Toledo
7pm March 15, 2018, São Paulo em Hi-Fi, 2013, dir. Lufe Steffen
7:30pm April 5, 2018, Abrindo o Armário, 2016, dirs. Dario Menezes and Luis Abramo, 7pm April 19, 2018, Favela Gay, 2014, dir. Rodrigo Felha,
7:30pm May 3, 2018, O Menino e o Vento, 1967, dir. Carlos Hugo Christensen
Contact: Brazil Initiative and Brazilian Studies
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February 8, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
New Horizons Distant Shores Lecture Series
A lecture by Alexander Stille
"The Last Survivor: Facicism and the Holocaust Without Witnesses"
7:00 PM
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Contact: Italian Studies
February 13, 2018
The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere
A lecture by Yuriko Furuhata
6:30 PM
Barus and Holley, Room 190
184 Hope Street
Reception to follow
February 16, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Sexual Politics and After: Thinking with Kate Millett
4:00-6:30 PM
Pembroke Hall 305
Contact: Pembroke Center
February 19, 2018
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents: Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production directed by Briar Levit (2017).
7:00 PM
Cable Car Cinema
February 23-25, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
The Rhythym of Change Festival '18
The Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing ArtsDepartment of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies,Brown University
Contact: Theare Arts and Perfomance Studies
February 24 - March 3, 2018
Providence French Film Festival 2018
Presented by Brown University's Modern Culture and Media Department and French Studies
Cable Car Cinema
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March 2, 2018
Combahee River Collective Mixtape: Black Feminist Sonic Dissent Then & Now
A Multimedia presenation and discussion with Daphne Brooks | Kara Keeling | Jacqueline Stewart
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Pembroke Hall, Room 305
172 Meeting Street
Light lunch from 11:45 AM
This event is organzed by Modern Culture and Media, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Black Feminist Theory Project.
For more on the CRC's Statement, see Brian Norman, “'We' In Redux: The
Combahee River Collective's Black Feminist Statement" in differences 18.2 (Sept. 2007): 103–32. The link goes to: https://read.dukeupress.edu/differences/article/18/2/103/60579/We-In-Redux-The-Combahee-River-Collective-s-Black.
March 3, 2018
Emerging Perspectives In Modern Culture And Media: Mcm Graduate Student Symposium
12:00 PM
Barus and Holley, Room 190
184 Hope Street
March 5, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2017-18
A lecture by Jimmie Briggs
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Smith-Buonanno, Room 201
Contact: English Department
March 6, 2017 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Cornwel West lecture
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
De Ciccio Family Auditorium, Room 101
Salomon Center for Teaching
Contact: Cogut Institute for the Humanities
March 12, 2018 MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Brown University Psychoanalytic Society presents
Mara Wagner, PYSD, Clinical Psychoanalysis
A Psychoanalyst Goes to the Movies: Unpacking Unconscious Content in Phantom Thread
6:00 PM- 7:00 PM
Pembroke Hall, Room 202
Contact: [email protected]
March 15 - 18, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Il Cinema Ritrovato
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Contact: Italian Studies
March 16-17, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
2018 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Religious Difference: Negociating Otherness from Ancient to Contemporary Worlds
Contact: Religious Studies
March 16-17, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Equinoxes Graduate Student Conference and Journal
Contact: French Studies
March 20-21, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Screening of "Whose Streets?", followed by Q&A with Damon Davis
7:00 PM
Martios Auditorium, Granoff Center
Contact: Literary Arts
April 4, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
A lecture by Jennifer Terry
4:00 PM
Petteruti Lounge
Contact: Pembroke Center
April 9-15, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Ivy Film Festival
Contact: [email protected]'
April 11, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Lecture: Viet Thanh Nguyen, War, Fiction and the Ethnics of Memory | The Greg and Julie Flynn Cogut Institute Speaker Series
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Pembroke Hall 305
Contact: Cogut
April 11, 2018
5:00 PM
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents:
Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival
by Fabrizio Terranova | Belgium | 2016 | 82 mins | colour & sound
Also featuring "A Natural Contract" by Sebastien Clark
UK / USA | 2018 | colour & sound
Camichael Auditorium, IBES, 85 Waterman Street
Admission by Donation
April 12-14 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference
Contact: French Studies
April 17, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Gender, Labor and Cultural Representation in Chinese History presents
Documentary Screening: The Cotton
6:00-8:00 PM
Smith-Buonanno, Room 106
Contact: East Asian Studies
April 18, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Gender, Labor and Cultural Representation in Chinese History
9:00 am - 6:00 PM
Petteruti Lounge, 75 Waterman Street
Contact: East Asian Studies
April 18, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2017-18
A lecture by Rory Kennedy
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Salomon Center, Room 001
Contact: English Department
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April 19, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Transnational Gender and Media Lecture Series
"The Wolf Myth and Chinese Environmental Sentimentalism in Wolf Totem" by Chenzhou He
2:30-3:50 PM
Smith-Buonanno Hall G12
Contact: East Asian Studies
April 20, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Womxn's History Series presents:
CeCeMCDonald Public Lecture and Screening of "Free Cece!"
Contact: Sarah Doyle Women's Center
April 21, 2018
Emerging Perspectives in Modern Culture and Media
12:00 PM
190 Barus and Holley
April 21, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
17th Annual Spring Thaw Powwow
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Pizzitola Sports Center, Hope Street & Llyod Ave.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1460138420771600/
Contact: [email protected]
April 25, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Screening of "3000 Nights" + Q&A with Mai Masri
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Smith-Buonanno, Room 106
Contact: Middle East Studies
April 27-28, 2018 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Brown Legal Studies Initiative
Third Annual Legal Studies Graduate Student Conference
schedule: http://www.brownlegalstudies.org/graduate-student-conference/
Contact: History
April 30, 2018
Struck With Wonder - Todd Haynes
Screening of Wonderstruck
7:00 PM
Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell Street
Martinos Auditorium, Room 110
Reception to follow
Eventbrite tickets
May 1, 2018
Struck With Wonder - Todd Haynes
I'm Not There: A Conversation with Todd Haynes
4:00-6:00 PM
John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street
Lownes Room (2nd Floor)
Reception to follow
Eventbrite tickets
Fall 2017
September 15, 29; October 13, 27; November 10, 17 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Italian Studies Colloquium—New Horizons, Distant Shores Lecture Series
Noon-1:30 PM
190 Hope Street, Room 102
Contact: Italian Studies
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September 29-30, 2017 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Brown HGSA presents: Atlantic Trajectories: Trends and Movements in Atlantic World Studies
KEYNOTE: David Wheat (Friday, September 29 @ 5:30 PM—John Carter Brown Libary
PANELS: SAturday, September 30 @ 9am-4:45pm—Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Contact: The Department of History
October 2, 2017 (Sponsored by the Office of the President)
Presidential Faculty Award Lecture presented by Prof. Bonnie Honig
"What Literature Can Teach Politics: Moby-Dick as a Critique of Hobbes Leviathan"
4:30 pm
John Carter Brown Library, Main Green
The Presidential Faculty Award Lecture was established by President Christina H. Paxson in the spring of 2013 to recognize members of Brown's distinguished faculty who are conducting especially important and innovative scholarship.
October 2, 2017 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Banned: Racialization of the Middle East and its Diasporas in U.S. Culture
Speakers: Prof. Evelyn Alsutany and Prof. Melani McAlister
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert'62 Center
Contact: Ameriacn Studies
October 2, 2017
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents: OCTOBER AT 100 pt. 1- Aelita, Queen of Mars
7:30 PM
Cable Car Cinema
$10 Suggested Donation
Programmed by Tyler Theus
October 6, 2017
B-Roll MCM Screening Series
7:00 - 9:00 PM
135 Thayer Street
Room 101
Facebook event
Organized by Isabella Deleo, Graduate Student, Department of Modern Culture and Media
B-ROLL is a new and *FREE* MCM screening series where we show hard to find gems each week, every Friday @ 7pm in 135 Thayer, Room 101 (Production 1). Each month has a theme and October's is ~~spooky stop motion~~. Come join our first screening this Friday, October 6th, as we show Jan Balej's eerie and surrealist ONE NIGHT IN ONE CITY (2007). Don't miss it!
October 13, 2017
B-Roll Presents: O Apostolo screening
7:00 - 9:00 PM
135 Thayer Street, Room 101
Facebook event
October 16, 2017
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents: OCTOBER AT 100 pt. 2- Come and See
7:00 PM
Cable Car Cinema
$10 Suggested Donation
Programmed by Matthew Ellis
October 20, 2017
B-Roll Presents: Stop Motion Shorts Spectacular
7:00 - 9:00 PM
135 Thayer Street, Room 101
Facebook event
October 23, 2017 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2017-18
A lecture by Jerald Walker
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Smith-Buonanno, Room 106
Contact: English Department
October 24, 2017 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Vietcetera x Brown University/RISD Summer Internship Intro
8:00 - 9:00 PM
The Undergraound (Faunce)
Facebook event
Contact: Brown/RISD VSA ([email protected])
October 27, 2017
B-Roll Presents: We Are The Strange
7:00 - 9:00 PM
135 Thayer Street, Room 101
Facebook event
November 1, 2017 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
"The Concepts of the Yang Soul And the Yin Soul in the Han Dynasty's Theory of Human Nature"
A lecture by Xingwu Xu, Nanjing University
Contact: East Asian Studies
November 2, 2017 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
The Co-Lab Box, Exhibit reception and discussion with Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Ariella Azoulay, and Laura Wexler
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Pembroke Hall, Lower Level
Contact: Cogut Institute for the Humanities
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November 3, 2017
Novel: A Forum on Fiction Presents
The Novel & The Concrete: A Symposium
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (coffee and light breaking starting at 9:30am)
Petteruit Lounge, Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center
75 Waterman Street
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schedule
speakers
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View Lectures here:
Audrey Wasser
David Alworth
Emilio Sauri
Roundtable Discussion
November 3, 2017
A Magic Lantern Cinema Program presents: The Afterlives of Witnessing: Political & Experimental Videos and Short Films From the Levant
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
List Art Center, Room 120
Curated by Kareem Estefan and Hanan Toukan
November 3, 2017
B-Roll Presents: 101 Reykjavik
7:00 - 9:00 PM
135 Thayer Street, Room 101
Facebook event
November 4, 2017 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Symposium—Afterlives of Witnessing: Moving Images from the Levant and the Political Imagination
9:15 am - 4:30 pmJoukowsky Forum
Registration is required. Please register here.
Contact: Middle East Studies
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November 6-10, 2017
Samuel Delany Residency
Acclaimed sci-fi author/cultural critic Samuel Delany coming to Brown for week residency!
We are thrilled to announce that acclaimed sci-fi author/cultural critic Samuel Delany is coming to Brown for a week residency! He will be giving a number of presentations and doing a number of events while here.Please join us for these events, and please share this information widely.
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November 7, 2017
Roger B. Henkle Memorial Lecture (Co-Sponsored by the Department of English)
"The Mirror & The Maze"
A lecture by Samuel Delany
5:30 pm
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell Street
Martinos Auditorium, Room 110
Reception to follow
website
Watch the lecture here.
November 8, 2017
"Stars in His Pocket...: A Conversation with Samuel Delany and Kara Keeling," with an exhibit of Delany's works and manuscripts from the library collection
5:30 pm
John Hay Library, Lownes Room, 2nd Floor, 20 Prospect Street
Reception to follow
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November 9, 2017
12:00 PM
"Out for Lunch with Samuel Delany"
LGBTQ Center, 321 Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center
75 Waterman Street, 3rd Floor
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November 9, 2017
Join us for a screening of
"The Polymath or The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman"
A film by Fred Barney Taylor plus a film by Samuel Delany
Immediately following screening there will be a Q+A with Samuel Delany.
7:00 PM
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Martinos Auditorium, Room 110
164 Angell Street
November 10, 2017
B-Roll Presents: RAMS by Grímur Hákonarson
7:00 - 9:00 PM
135 Thayer Street, Room 101
Facebook event
November 13, 2017 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2017-18
Fraught Crossroads
A lecture by Lawrence Weschler
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Brown/RISD Hillel, Meeting Room
80 Brown Street
Contact: English Department
November 13, 2017
A Magic Lantern Cinema Program presents: "Anti-Fascist Cinemas: A Global Perspective" by Magic Lantern Cinema
7:30 PM
Cable Car Cinema
Programmed by Lakshmi Padmanabhan
Suggested Donation: $10
November 15, 2017 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
The Graduate Students of the English Department Present:
"Formalism, Photography, and Social Space"
A lecture by Anna Kornbluh
5:30 pm
Brown/RISD Hillel, Meeting Room, 80 Brown Street
Reception to follow, Department of English, 2nd floor lounge, 70 Brown Street
Contact: English Department
November 17, 2017
B-Roll Presents: Baltasar Kormákur's The Deep
7:00 - 9:00 PM
135 Thayer Street, Room 101
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November 27, 2017
A Magic Lantern Cinema Program presents: "News From Ideological Antiquity Marx—Eisenstein—Capital"
A film by Alexander Kluge
Also featuring "Handcraft" by Maricruz Alarcón
7:00 PM
Cable Car Cinema
Presentation by Professor Gertrud Koch (Brown University) and Professor Nora Alter (Temple University)
Suggested Donation: $10
Summer 2017
August 4, 2017
ALW1: First Workshop on Abusive Language Online
To be held at the annual meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2017 (Vancouver, Canada)
https://sites.google.com/site/abusivelanguageworkshop2017/
Workshop on Abusive Language - Live Stream (starting Friday, Aug 4, 8am pst.)