September 24, 2009
event posterThe Roger B. Henkle Memorial Lecture
Sharon Marcus, '86, Columbia University
"Salome and the Drama of Celebrity"
5:00 p.m.
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St, 2nd floor
November 4, 2009
event posterJeffrey Tucker, Associate Professor of English, University of Rochester
"The Necessity of Models, of Alternatives: Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand."
5:30 p.m.
135 Thayer Street, Room 102
November 10, 2009
event posterNatalie Bookchin, Artist with a background in photography and film
8:00 p.m.
RISD Museum/Metcalf Auditorium
RISD Campus
November 11, 2009
Jonah Brucker-Cohen, researcher, artist and writer
5:30 p.m.
Smith-Buonanno 201
Meeting Street, Pembroke Campus
November 19, 2009
event posterPriscilla Wald, Professor of English and Woman Studies, Duke University
"Human Being After Genocide: Cells, Genes, and Stories"
12:00 p.m.
Wilson Hall 101, Main Green
December 3-5, 2009
event poster"Animating Archives: Making New Media Matter"
Conference
Pembroke 305
This three-day conference will critically interrogate the ways in which new media has affected traditional archives, as well as generated new vernacular archives, in order to foster ground-breaking scholarship that deploys new media in its own critique. Thirty scholars from Brown and around the world will convene to discuss modern media.
Co-sponsored by the Cogut Center and the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research in Culture and Media Studies.
February 25 - March 7, 2010
event poster2010 French Film Festival
Cable Car Cinema, 204 S. Main Street
March 6 & May 3, 2010
The MCM Graduate Student Symposium
March 8, 2010
event poster"Orgasm Inc."a film by Liz Canner, award-winning filmmaker who has created many innovative documentaries on human rights issues.
5:30 p.m.
Smith-Buonanno 106
Metting Street, Pembroke Campus
March 25, 2009
April 15-18, 2010
event posterZoe Beloff presents her 3D film "Charming Augustine"
2:00-4:00 p.m.
MCM
135 Thayer Street, Room 101
Africana Film Festival
event posterClick here for information on the festival.
March 21 - May 11, 2010
Curating Contemporary Art: Perspectives on Practice
A Brown/RISD Lecture Series
Curating Contemporary Art: Perspectives on Practice is a collaboration between the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities at Brown University and the Division of Graduate Studies and the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design.