ANNOUNCEMENT:
In support of our community's continued health, and in light of the University's most recent COVID-19 event guidelines, all events at Brown are cancelled, effective March 12, 2020.
Coronavirus Updates website
Spring 2020
February 7, 2020 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
The Decolonial Initiative
Gendered Approaches to Restitution: labor, Migration, Structural Amnesia and Trauma
6:30 PM
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
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February 9-10, 2020 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Gender in Israeli and Palestinian Film conference
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Session: 111 Thayer Street, McKinney ConferenceRoom 353
Film screening and panel discussion: Kassar House, Foxboro Auditorium, 151 Thayer Street
Contact: Judiac Studies
February 26, 2020
A lecture by Dread Scott
"Imagine a World Without America"
4:00 PM
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell Street
Martinos Auditorium, Room 110
poster
February 26, 2020 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
See you Yesterday Film Screening and Panel Discussion
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Stephen Rober '62 Hall, True North Classroom (Room 101)
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Contact: Department of Eduaction
February 28- March 5, 2020
2020 Providence French Film Festival
Organized by Modern Culture and Media & French Studies
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March 6-7, 2020 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Death: A Gradaute Student Conference
Crystal Room, Alumni Hall
Keynote Speaker: Joseph Winters, Duke University
"Death" seeks to explore the significance of death and dying in and for the academic study of religion -- i.e., it social organization, rituals, doctrines, practices, and experiences -- vice versa. For more information please visit the conference website.
Contac: English Department
March 10, 2020 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
"Unlearning Imperialism"
A conversation with Ariella Azoulay's Potential History / Unlearning Imperialism
5:00-7:00 PM
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
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CANCELLED—March 11-14, 2020 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Cinema Ritrovato
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Contact: Italian Studies
CANCELLED—March 14, 2020
Emerging Perspectives in Modern Culture and Media
Graduate Student Symposium
12:00 PM
Barus & Holley, Room 190
184 Hope Street
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CANCELLED—April 4, 2020 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
NAACP Image Awards, Brown University edition
6:00 PM
Location TBD
Contact: NAACP
CANCELLED—April 13, 2020 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
VIC/MOD Workshop with Associate Professor Aarthi Vadde, Duke University
Contact: Department of English
CANCELLED—April 17-18, 2020 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Graduate Student Conference, Eqiunoxes
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Contact: French Studies
CANCELLED—April 22, 2020
"Race, Plain Reading, and Frederick Doublass's Constitution"
A lecture by Lloyd Pratt
5:30 PM
Department of English, Barker Room 315
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December 4-5, 2020(MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Political Concepts Conference
Contact: Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Fall 2019
September 2019 - June 30, 2020 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Visions, Brown and RISD's Asian/American Literary Art Publication
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September 19, 2019
Magic Lantern Cinema and the Brown Arts Initiative Present: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
7:00 PM
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Martinos Auditorium, Room 110
154 Angell Street
Free Admission | Facebook event here
September 25, 2019
Photographic Archives Research Group presents:
Bound by Harvard: 169 years a slave
4:00 PM
Pembroke Hall, Room 305
172 Meeting Street
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October 4, 2019
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents: I Am Cuba
7:00 PM
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Martinos Auditorium, Room 110
154 Angell Street
This event is free and open to the public.
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October 15, 2019 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Screening of "The Tenth Man" (El rey del once)
6:00 PM
DANIEL BURMAN / ARGENTINA / 2016 / 82 MIN
Contact: Hispanic Studies
October 21 OR 22, 2019 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Screening of "7 Weeks" (7 Semanas)
6:00 PM
CONSTANZA FIGARI / CHILE / 2016 / 67 MIN
Contact: Hispanic Studies
October 29, 2019
The Decolonial Initiative and and the Photographic Archives Research Group present
The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library
"A Journey of Reclaiming Life in One of the World’s Centers of Diversity: Palestine" A lecture by Vivien Sansour
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Reception to follow
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October 29, 2019 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Screening of "Camila's Awakening" (El despertar de Camila)
6:00 PM
ROSARIO JIMÉNEZ GILI / CHILE / 2018 / 88 MIN
Contact: Hispanic Studies
October 31, 2019 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Production of "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
TBD
Contact: Chattertocks
November 1-3, 2019 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Ivy Native Council 2019 Fall Summit
11:00 AM
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November 4-5, 2019
The Art of Unforgetting: Folk Memory Project and Chinese Documentary” Screening, Presentation, and Live Performance
November 4, 7:00 PM (reception @ 6:30 PM)—Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Studio 1, S410
Knocking on Memory’s Door with the Video Camera
Lecture and Live Performance by Zhang Mengqi and Wu Wenguang
Self Portrait: Sphinx in 47 KM (ZHANG Mengqi, 2017, 93min)
Screening and Q&A with the filmmakers:
November 5, 7:00 PM—Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Martinos Auditorium, Room110
Screening and Q&A with the filmmakers.
Investigating My Father (WU Wenguang, 2016, 80min)
Dumb Men (HU Tao, 2018, 86min)
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November 5, 2019 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Screening of "A Translator" (Un Traductor)
6:00 PM
RODRIGO BARRIUSO, SEBASTIÁN BARRIUSO / CUBA, CANADA / 2018 / 107 MIN
Contact: Hispanic Studies
November 7, 2019
Roger B. Henkle Memorial Lecture
Co-Sponsored and Co-organized by the departments of Modern Culture and Media and English
"Images of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett"
A lecture by Alain Badiou
5:30 PM
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Martinos Auditorium, Room 110
154 Angell Street
RSVP HERE: https://events.brown.edu/mcm/view/event/event_id/152909
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November 13, 2019 (MCM Co-Sponsored event)
Screening of "Birds of Passage" (Pajaros de verano)
7:00 PM
CIRO GUERRA, CRISTINA GALLEGO / COLOMBIA, MEXICO, DENMARK / 2018 / 125 MIN
Contact: Hispanic Studies
November 15, 2019
Novel Symposium
9:00 AM - 4:45 PM
Petteruti Lounge
Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center
75 Waterman Street
Reception to follow, English Department Lounge, 70 Brown Street
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November 22, 2019
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents: Satantango (New 4K restoration)
11:00 AM - 7:30 PM (with intermissions)
light food provided
Martinos Auditorium
Granoff Center for the Creativ Arts
Free Admission