Past Events

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  Sep

  23

  4:00pm - 5:30pm

  Racial Slavery, Marronage, and Freedom: Artist Talk

  Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, 75 Waterman St, Providence, RI

  Join artists Edouard Duval-Carrié, Jess Hill, and Rénold Laurent featured in the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice’s 10th anniversary retrospective exhibition Racial Slavery, Marronage, and Freedom in a discussion about the exhibition, their creative processes, and their connections to the Center. The artist talk will be followed by a reception in the CSSJ gallery at 94 Waterman St., 02912.

  Edouard Duval-Carrié is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Miami, Florida. Born and raised in Haiti, Duval-Carrié fled the regime of “Papa Doc” Duvalier as a teenager and subsequently resided in locales as diverse as Puerto Rico, New York, Montreal, Paris, and Miami. His works address the complexities of the Caribbean and its diaspora. He has exhibited in major museums, art institutions, and galleries in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Some of his exhibitions are: The Art of Embedded Histories (2019); Decolonizing Refinement (2018-19); Mémoires Encastrées/Memory Windows (2018). Duval-Carrié’s work was recently shown at the fifteenth edition of documenta, a prestigious international exhibition held in Kassel (2022). In 2018, Duval-Carrié was the inaugural recipient of The Ellie’s Michael Richards Award, given to a Miami-based artist who has cultivated an original practice over a long period of time. He has collaborated with the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice on several exhibition projects.

  
  Jess Hill received her BFA in Printmaking, with a minor in Art History, at the University of West Georgia. She is a recipient of the 2017 Emerging Artist Residence from the Atlanta Printmakers Studio and was the Heimark Artist in Residence at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice in 2018. She has been a part of several group exhibitions across the United States. Jess Hill is a mother of three beautiful children. She is currently living and working in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was also born and raised. Her work focuses on how we view each other through the prisms of race and gender. She explores and celebrates the differences among the human race.
  Other themes that appear in her work include class, religion, and cultural patterns. She uses printmaking and mixed media methods in expressing her art form. Her ultimate goal is to dismantle the barriers and institutions that allow human beings to believe they are separate from each other so we can truly embrace each other’s differences.

  
  Rénold Laurent was born in Source Bretoux, a village at the foot of the Marbial Valley—a few kilometers from the city of Jacmel, Haiti. At the age of ten he began to draw and paint under the direction of his father, Maccène Laurent. Soon he abandoned the style of his father and began to create new perspectives and techniques in his paintings, eventually settling on abstraction as his mode of visual communication. He views abstract painting as the most expressive means to explore the extraordinary powers of the imagination. He has collaborated with several cultural institutions in Haiti including the Haitian Art Museum in Port-au-Prince. In 2019, he was the Heimark Artist in Residence at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. His work has been exhibited several times in Haiti and in other countries.

  Racial Slavery, Marronage, and Freedom: Artist Talk

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  Sep

  22

  6:30pm

  Conversations at the JNBC: Joseph Chazan, Erminio Pinque, and Lenny Schwartz

  Nightingale-Brown House

  This weekly series brings together local artists, architects, writers, thinkers, musicians at the Center for Public Humanities to discuss their work with the public, every Thursday at 6:30 pm. A short presentation will be followed by Q&A and a convivial gathering in a fairly intimate setting.

  Today, f amed Rhode Island arts patron & nephrologist Dr. Joseph Chazan, illustrator and founder of BIG NAZO LAB, Erminio Pinque, and writer and playwright Lenny Schwartz will discuss their involvement in creating “Chazan! Unfiltered”, an innovative locally produced graphic novel chronicling the life adventures of Dr. Chazan and his connections to the Arts and Medical communities.

  The Conversations Series is co-sponsored by the Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureships Fund.

  Conversations at the JNBC: Joseph Chazan, Erminio Pinque, and Lenny Schwartz

  JNBC Lectures
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  Sep

  21

  6:00pm

  Cristobal Gnecco - Politics of Heritage Making

  Rhode Island Hall

  Cristobal Gnecco is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad del Cauca in Colombia. His research interests include the political economy of archaeology, discourses on the other, geopolitics of knowledge, and ethnographies of heritage.

  Cristobal Gnecco - Politics of Heritage Making

  History, Cultural Studies, Languages, Humanities, Identity, Culture, Inclusion, International, Global Engagement, Research
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  Sep

  21

  5:30pm

  Marisa Bass, “The Monument’s End”

  List Art Building

  Marisa Anne Bass is a Professor in the History of Art at Yale University, where she teaches early modern art with a focus on the creative and intellectual culture of northern Europe. She thinks often in her research about how individuals have used art to find grounding in times of political, spiritual, and cultural upheaval, or to make sense of circumstances that otherwise defy explanation. Her latest book The Monument’s End: Public Art and the Modern Republic (forthcoming with Princeton University Press in 2023) asks whether the making of monuments is ever compatible with the making of a modern republic. In it, Bass explores the tension between individual commemoration and the collective aspiration toward liberty in monumental experiments from the Dutch Republic to the present. She is the author of two prior monographs with Princeton University Press: Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity (2016) and Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt (2019), winner of the 2020 Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society for the best book in art and music history. She has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. In 2021, she was named the inaugural Guggenheim Fellow in Early Modern Studies.

  Marisa Bass, “The Monument’s End”
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  Sep

  15

  6:30pm

  Conversations at the JNBC: Jazzmen Lee-Johnson

  Nightingale-Brown House

  This weekly series brings together local artists, architects, writers, thinkers, musicians at the Center for Public Humanities to discuss their work with the public, every Thursday at 6:30 pm. A short presentation will be followed by Q&A and a convivial gathering in a fairly intimate setting.

  Today, artist Jazzmen Lee-Johnson will discuss her work Not Never More: On remixing and redecorating a history. Join a conversation and walk through Jazzmen Lee-Johnson’s creative response to the problematic wallpaper Les Vues d’Amerique du Nord.

  The Conversations Series is co-sponsored by the Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureships Fund.

  Conversations at the JNBC: Jazzmen Lee-Johnson

  JNBC Lectures
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  Sep

  15

  4:30pm

  Eyal Weizman ─ Atmospheric Violence

  Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

  Eyal Weizman will speak about cities, warfare, neo-colonization, and apartheid, not by focusing on built structures but on the air that moves through cities. Airborne toxins, like the colored smoke in a wind tunnel, highlight the dynamics of power and control that we must pay more attention to. Tear gas is deployed to disperse bodies gathering in democratic protest, white phosphorus, and chlorine gas to spread terror in cities, aerial herbicides to destroy arable land and ruin livelihoods, and the smoke rising from large-scale arson to eradicate forests for industrial plantations. Toxic clouds colonize the air we breathe across different scales and durations, from urban squares to continents, unique incidents to epochal latencies.

  Eyal Weizman ─ Atmospheric Violence
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  Sep

  8

  6:30pm

  Conversations at the JNBC: Darrell Petit

  Nightingale-Brown House

  This weekly series brings together local artists, architects, writers, thinkers, musicians at the Center for Public Humanities to discuss their work with the public, every Thursday at 6:30 pm. A short presentation will be followed by Q&A and a convivial gathering in a fairly intimate setting.

  Today, artist Darrell Petit creates monumental sculptures of granite for public commissions and private collections throughout the world. He will speak about two recent site integrated sculpture projects - Eventat One Dalton, Boston and Standing Stonesin Cambridge, MA.

  The Conversations Series is co-sponsored by the Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureships Fund.

  Conversations at the JNBC: Darrell Petit

  JNBC Lectures
• 

  Apr

  30

  9:30am - 1:00pm

  Inheritance Unconference

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Following two days of presentations and breakout conversations on Zoom, the in-person Unconference offers participants to continue conversations, collaborative thinking and project planning in an open-ended format. The Unconference takes place at the Center for Public Humanities. There will be three sessions, with opportunities for participants to submit session ideas twice throughout the morning.

  An unconference is a participant-led day of conversations, collaborative thinking and collaborative doing. Session ideas all come directly from participants — you. Never been to an unconference before? Read about how it works here.

  This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

  Inheritance Unconference

  JNBC Conferences
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  Apr

  28

  6:30pm - 8:30pm

  Opening Reception for “Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord: Artists Respond”

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Please join us for a celebration of Jazzmen Lee-Johnson’s Not Never More (2022), a site-specific art installation on the ground floor of the Center for Public Humanities. Read more about the exhibition here.

  This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

  Opening Reception for “Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord: Artists Respond”

  JNBC Conferences, JNBC Exhibitions, JNBC Performances
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  Apr

  28

  All Day

  Exhibition: Not Never More

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord: Artists Respond (2021-2023) is an artist residency inviting two Rhode Island-based artists, Jazzmen Lee-Johnson and Deborah Spears Moorehead, to create site-specific artworks that respond to the Center for Public Humanities’ historic wallpaper, Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord.

  Jazzmen Lee-Johnson’s residency culminates in Not Never More, a series of prints installed in the Center for Public Humanities from April 28 – September 30, 2022.

  Artist’s Statement: We inhabit our histories. We feel the pains of the past, we clang in its echoes, feel its residue caked up on our skin. History’s traumas have been perpetually erected in monuments, embedded in street names, stone walled in woodlands, hung, stacked, and plastered in architecture. Not Never More is my gut reaction and visual response to confronting such an architecture—the problematic 19th century French wallpaper Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord (The Views of North America), created in 1834 by Jean-Julien Deltil. This wallpaper adorns the foyer and staircase of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage which is situated in the historic Nightingale-Brown House. Deltil’s wallpaper obfuscates colonialism, genocide, capitalism, and slavery, in its romanticized idyllic nostalgic imagery. My response, Not Never More, is a textile print/quilt installation that remixes, conceals, reveals, and warps this historically fraught and imperialist imagery into layers of possibility, braggadocio, pessimism, blunt historical moments of shame/ contradiction, dance, and critical optimism.

  Deborah Spears Moorehead’s artwork will be installed at the Center for Public Humanities in October 2022.

  Gallery Hours:

  May and September: Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

  June – August by appointment. To schedule: call 401-863-1177 or email [email protected].

  Opening Reception: Thursday, April 28, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

  Open for Gallery Night Providence: Thursdays, May 19, June 16, and July 21 from 5-8 p.m.

  Closing Reception: Thursday, September 15, 5-8 p.m.

  Exhibition: Not Never More

  JNBC Exhibitions
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  Apr

  28

  All Day

  Inheritance Symposium

  Recordings of all sessions from the Inheritance Symposium are available on  YouTube (Inheritance Symposium Playlist)

  Inheritance brings together activists, curators, educators, tribal leaders, artists, historians, heritage workers, and policy makers to explore the range of strategies that institutions and communities are using to respond to contentious representations of race, Indigenous lifeways and history in public art and architecture. Over two days on Zoom, speakers from the US, UK and Canada will offer first-hand accounts of initiatives and actions that resulted in the removal, reinterpretation, or recontextualization of public and commemorative artworks, heritage sites and museum collections, while others will present on efforts to protect and preserve sites that have been ignored or under-resourced. We are in the midst of a reckoning, as communities seek to reshape how (and whose) history is told and commemorated in public space. This may entail radical changes to the art that hangs on our walls, the monuments in our public squares, and the stories that are told at historic sites as the public landscape that we have inherited continues to evolve.

  This symposium, organized by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, includes a mix of online and in-person events and opportunities over four days. In-person events at the Public Humanities Center include an artist’s talk and participatory performance with Haus of Glitter on Wednesday, April 27; an exhibition opening for Jazzmen Lee-Johnson’s Not Never More on Thursday, April 28; and an Unconference on Saturday, April 30. The symposium takes place on Zoom on Thursday, April 28 and Friday, April 29, with opportunities for audience conversation during breakout sessions at the end of each day. Please check the Program page for a detailed schedule of events.

  The symposium and all associated events are free and open to the public, but registration is required. Inheritance is made possible through a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

  REGISTER HERE

  Inheritance Symposium

  JNBC Conferences
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  Apr

  27

  5:30pm - 7:00pm

  QTPOC Liberation Lawn Party!

  Nightingale-Brown House

  The Haus of Glitter Dance Company has spent the last 2 years living + healing + creating in the former home of Esek Hopkins, commander of the slavery ship “Sally”, hired by the Brown brothers of Brown University. Join The Haus of Glitter for a Artist Talk + Lawn Party + Protest Demonstration that celebrates Queer Feminist BIPOC led historic intervention and our beloved intersectional cultures of dance, music and creative community. Come strut the runway with us! Music by DJ Sita (Haus of Glitter) + Food and Beverages provided!

  This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

  QTPOC Liberation Lawn Party!

  JNBC Performances
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  Apr

  21

  6:00pm - 7:00pm

  Conversations at the JNBC: Barnaby Evans

  Nightingale-Brown House

  This weekly series brings together local artists, architects, writers, thinkers, musicians at the Center for Public Humanities to discuss their work with the public, every Thursday at 6 pm. A short presentation will be followed by Q&A and a convivial gathering in a fairly intimate setting. 

  Today: Barnaby Evans, artist, urban consultant, and creator of WaterFire, will talk about his work creating artworks involving large scale, urban interventions and site-specific installations that serve to catalyze broad citizen involvement in transformational change for their communities.

  The Conversations Series is funded by the Marshall Woods Lectureship Foundation of the Fine Arts.

  *All individuals – regardless of vaccination status – must wear masks indoors, unless in a private, non-shared space or when actively eating. In addition, social distancing of at least six feet must be maintained when unmasked. Unvaccinated individuals must continue to wear a mask outdoors when social distancing of at least six feet is not possible. Event attendees, including visitors and guests, must comply with all COVID-19 University policies and protocols in place at the time of the event.

  Conversations at the JNBC: Barnaby Evans

  JNBC Lectures
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  Apr

  21

  1:00pm - 2:30pm

  J. Carter Brown Lecture: Doreen Adengo

  List Art Building

  Doreen Adengo, AIA, is Principal of Adengo Architecture, LLC in Kampala.

  Adengo is an architect and the founder of Adengo Architecture in Kampala, Uganda. She has taught studio courses at The New School for Social Research and Pratt Institute, and worked previously for Adjaye Associates. Her firm’s recent work in Uganda includes the design of affordable housing, schools, and a mobile medical clinic that incorporate ecologically sensitive elements such as solar panels and water harvesting capabilities. Adengo is the Conservation Architect on the Uganda Museum, a 1940s modernist building selected for a Getty conservation grant in 2020, and is an expert on modernist architecture in Africa. Adengo’s presentation will discuss architecture in post-colonial Kampala.

  Adengo will present on Zoom. Link will be posted soon. Limited seating will be available in List 120.

  This event is sponsored by The Pritzker Foundation’s J. Carter Brown Memorial Lecture Fund at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage.

  J. Carter Brown Lecture: Doreen Adengo

  JNBC Lectures
• Apr

  21

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  CANCELED: Re-envisioning Special Collections Through Collaborations with Communities

  Speaker: Rebecca Hernandez, PhD, Community Archivist, and Teresa Mora, Head of Special Collections & Archives, University of California at Santa Cruz Libraries

  Talk description: coming soon.

  CANCELED: Re-envisioning Special Collections Through Collaborations with Communities

  JNBC Lectures
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  Apr

  18

  5:00pm

  Panel Discussion: Archiving in the Age of [Im]Permanence

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Digital media have afforded artists and archivists the ability to document and record at previously unimaginable levels. Yet despite its purportedly infinite storage capacity, the virtual world is also a precarious site for storage and documentation, one where users face the paradox of permanence and impermanence simultaneously. Domains are sold. Links rot. Servers crash. Sharks eat undersea cables. In many ways, the constraints and affordances of physical forms of documentation have been reproduced through the advent of digital record keeping.
  
  This event offers a set of questions about the role of documentation in the digital age, from practices of accountability to community building and the intersections thereof. The capacities and constraints of virtual and physical documentation will be interrogated, from audio-visual archiving to 3D printing to publishing and printing as an archival process. Join us for a panel featuring the work and insights of artists and archivists Regina Longo, Paul Soulellis, and Rosalie Yu, who have actively engaged these challenging questions.

  Panel Discussion: Archiving in the Age of [Im]Permanence

  JNBC Lectures
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  Apr

  14

  6:00pm - 7:00pm

  Conversations at the JNBC: Gina Borromeo and Jan Howard

  Nightingale-Brown House

  This weekly series brings together local artists, architects, writers, thinkers, musicians at the Center for Public Humanities to discuss their work with the public, every Thursday at 6 pm. A short presentation will be followed by Q&A and a convivial gathering in a fairly intimate setting. 

  Today: RISD Museum curators, Jan Howard and Gina Borromeo, will share the RISD Museum’s process for deaccessioning a bronze head of an oba from Benin in preparation for its return to Nigeria.

  The Conversations Series is funded by the Marshall Woods Lectureship Foundation of the Fine Arts.

  *All individuals – regardless of vaccination status – must wear masks indoors, unless in a private, non-shared space or when actively eating. In addition, social distancing of at least six feet must be maintained when unmasked. Unvaccinated individuals must continue to wear a mask outdoors when social distancing of at least six feet is not possible. Event attendees, including visitors and guests, must comply with all COVID-19 University policies and protocols in place at the time of the event.

  Conversations at the JNBC: Gina Borromeo and Jan Howard

  JNBC Lectures
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  Apr

  14

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Just Futures: Situating the Humanities in Community-Based Reparations in Newark

  Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and headquartered at the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions, the Crafting Democratic Futures project brings together nine university partners, each tasked with leading a local effort to devise a racial reparations plan for their area. This talk will lay out the project in Newark, New Jersey, where Rutgers faculty, staff, and students have engaged multiple community organizations in an effort to imagine a reparations plan that both aligns with national and state-level efforts and is uniquely meaningful to the specific place from which it grows.

  Mark Krasovic is an associate professor of history and American studies at Rutgers University-Newark, where he is currently the lead PI on a Mellon-funded project devising a racial reparations plan for Newark. He also works on two local archives projects and is writing a book on community arts and cultural programs funded by Great Society-era initiatives like the War on Poverty and Model Cities.

  Just Futures: Situating the Humanities in Community-Based Reparations in Newark

  JNBC Lectures
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  Apr

  7

  6:00pm - 7:00pm

  Conversations at the JNBC: Camilo Viveiros

  Nightingale-Brown House

  This weekly series brings together local artists, architects, writers, thinkers, musicians at the Center for Public Humanities to discuss their work with the public, every Thursday at 6 pm. A short presentation will be followed by Q&A and a convivial gathering in a fairly intimate setting. 

  Today: Camilo Viveiros, Executive Director at The George Wiley Center, the longest running community organizing group in Rhode Island, will talk about the organization’s work and its focus on challenging systems of oppression and making policy changes around many of today’s social issues.

  The Conversations Series is funded by the Marshall Woods Lectureship Foundation of the Fine Arts.

  *All individuals – regardless of vaccination status – must wear masks indoors, unless in a private, non-shared space or when actively eating. In addition, social distancing of at least six feet must be maintained when unmasked. Unvaccinated individuals must continue to wear a mask outdoors when social distancing of at least six feet is not possible. Event attendees, including visitors and guests, must comply with all COVID-19 University policies and protocols in place at the time of the event.

  Conversations at the JNBC: Camilo Viveiros

  JNBC Lectures
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  Apr

  7

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Embodied Archiving: Oral History as a Social Practice

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Amy Starecheski, Director, Oral History MA Program, Columbia University.

  Oral histories are social. They must be used, discussed, and remembered in order to stay alive; they can easily die in institutional archives. How can we curate oral histories in ways that connect them to places and people, creating embodied archives and social networks of oral history caretakers?

  Introduction and moderator: Caroline Cunfer

  Embodied Archiving: Oral History as a Social Practice

  JNBC Lectures
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  Apr

  6

  5:30pm - 6:30pm

  Q&A with Amy Starecheski (Oral History MA Program, Columbia University)

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Students: Come learn about the Columbia University’s Oral History MA program with the program’s director Amy Starecheski. Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts Program is the first program of its kind in the United States: a one-year interdisciplinary MA degree training students in oral history method and theory. Through the creation, archiving and analysis of individual, community and institutional histories, they amplify the critical first-person narratives that constitute memory for generations to come. Light refreshments will be provided.

  Q&A with Amy Starecheski (Oral History MA Program, Columbia University)

  JNBC Workshops
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  Apr

  5

  6:30pm - 8:30pm

  CANCELED: J. Carter Brown Memorial Lecture by Philip Jodidio

  List Art Building

  Philip Jodidio, born in New Jersey, graduated from Harvard in 1976 and moved the same year to Paris, where in 1980 he became the Editor-in-Chief of the art monthly Connaissance des Arts, at the time the largest circulation monthly art magazine in France. He began to write books about contemporary architecture in 1993 and left the magazine to pursue writing and editing as a full-time occupation in 2002. He is the author and/or editor of over 150 books for publishers such as Taschen, Rizzoli, Thames & Hudson and others, mostly about contemporary architecture. He has also been the editor of several scholarly books on historic Muslim cities published by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. He is currently a resident of Lausanne, Switzerland.

  In his talk, Philip Jodidio will discuss the new architecture of Qatar.

  This lecture is sponsored by the Pritzker Foundation’s J. Carter Brown Memorial Lecture Fund.

  Free and open to the public.

  CANCELED: J. Carter Brown Memorial Lecture by Philip Jodidio

  JNBC Lectures
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  Mar

  24

  6:00pm - 7:00pm

  Conversations at the JNBC: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

  Nightingale-Brown House

  This weekly series brings together local artists, architects, writers, thinkers, musicians at the Center for Public Humanities to discuss their work with the public, every Thursday at 6 pm. A short presentation will be followed by Q&A and a convivial gathering in a fairly intimate setting. 

  Today: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, visual artist and Professor of Photography at the University of Rhode Island, will present her visual work on the politically complicated role of the 2.5 million South Asians who “volunteered” for their British colonial power during World War II.

  The Conversations Series is funded by the Marshall Woods Lectureship Foundation of the Fine Arts.

  *All individuals – regardless of vaccination status – must wear masks indoors, unless in a private, non-shared space or when actively eating. In addition, social distancing of at least six feet must be maintained when unmasked. Unvaccinated individuals must continue to wear a mask outdoors when social distancing of at least six feet is not possible. Event attendees, including visitors and guests, must comply with all COVID-19 University policies and protocols in place at the time of the event.

  Conversations at the JNBC: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

  JNBC Lectures
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  Mar

  24

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Archives, Justice, and Community

  Primary sources—the materials of which archives and special collections are made—are the building blocks of evidence and storytelling. In this talk, I’ll describe how the Public Knowledge program at the Mellon Foundation is supporting co-creator approaches to archives, helping to cultivate multivocal narratives, and rethinking aspects of technology and infrastructure development.

  Patricia Hswe is the Program Officer for Public Knowledge at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which she joined in 2016. As the Foundation’s program area that supports libraries, archives, and university presses, Public Knowledge makes grants that strive to increase equitable access to—and activation of—recorded knowledge that helps to build an informed, heterogeneous, and civically engaged society. Before joining The Mellon Foundation, Patricia worked at the Penn State University Libraries and at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois.

  Archives, Justice, and Community

  JNBC Lectures
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  Mar

  22

  7:00pm - 8:30pm

  Public Humanities Lab / Sonic-Scapes, Session 4

  Nightingale-Brown House

  A weekly series of listening sessions where participants will come to the session with one sonic recording that relates to that week’s theme. As a group, we will listen to the selected sounds and discuss. Registration is required and curator will communicate with registrants regarding the weekly theme. Curator: Ariel Lynch

  Register for Session 4: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/263131863487

  This series is a part of the Public Humanities Lab at the Center for Public Humanities, where Public Humanities graduate students curate exhibitions and public programs that probe questions about art, memory, heritage, culture and sensation.  

  Public Humanities Lab / Sonic-Scapes, Session 4

  JNBC Exhibitions
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  Mar

  17

  6:00pm - 7:00pm

  Conversations at the JNBC: Avery Willis Hoffman

  Nightingale-Brown House

  This weekly series brings together local artists, architects, writers, thinkers, musicians at the Center for Public Humanities to discuss their work with the public, every Thursday at 6 pm. A short presentation will be followed by Q&A and a convivial gathering in a fairly intimate setting. 

  Today: Avery Willis Hoffman, Artistic Director of the Brown Arts Institute, will explore the challenges (and opportunities) of launching a new institute for the arts during a turbulent pandemic era.

  The Conversations Series is funded by the Marshall Woods Lectureship Foundation of the Fine Arts.

  *All individuals – regardless of vaccination status – must wear masks indoors, unless in a private, non-shared space or when actively eating. In addition, social distancing of at least six feet must be maintained when unmasked. Unvaccinated individuals must continue to wear a mask outdoors when social distancing of at least six feet is not possible. Event attendees, including visitors and guests, must comply with all COVID-19 University policies and protocols in place at the time of the event.

  Conversations at the JNBC: Avery Willis Hoffman

  JNBC Lectures
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  Mar

  16

  6:30pm

  Public Humanities Lab / Oral History Crash Course

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Come learn the basics of how to run an oral history interview! Participants will have the opportunity to take their own oral histories after training and exchange ideas on incorporating oral history into future projects. Curators: Alyssa Trejo and Elizabeth Mathews, with Dr. Lauren Yapp. Register here if you plan to attend.

  This series is a part of the Public Humanities Lab at the Center for Public Humanities, where Public Humanities graduate students curate exhibitions and public programs that probe questions about art, memory, heritage, culture and sensation.  

  Public Humanities Lab / Oral History Crash Course

  JNBC Exhibitions, JNBC Workshops
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  Mar

  15

  7:00pm - 8:30pm

  Public Humanities Lab / Sonic-Scapes, Session 3

  Nightingale-Brown House

  A weekly series of listening sessions where participants will come to the session with one sonic recording that relates to that week’s theme. As a group, we will listen to the selected sounds and discuss. Registration is required and curator will communicate with registrants regarding the weekly theme. Curator: Ariel Lynch

  Register for Session 3: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/263131261687

  This series is a part of the Public Humanities Lab at the Center for Public Humanities, where Public Humanities graduate students curate exhibitions and public programs that probe questions about art, memory, heritage, culture and sensation.  

  Public Humanities Lab / Sonic-Scapes, Session 3

  JNBC Exhibitions
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  Mar

  15

  12:30pm

  Public Humanities Lab / Oral History Crash Course

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Come learn the basics of how to run an oral history interview! Participants will have the opportunity to take their own oral histories after training and exchange ideas on incorporating oral history into future projects. Curators: Alyssa Trejo and Elizabeth Mathews, with Dr. Lauren Yapp. Register here if you plan to attend.

  This series is a part of the Public Humanities Lab at the Center for Public Humanities, where Public Humanities graduate students curate exhibitions and public programs that probe questions about art, memory, heritage, culture and sensation.  

  Public Humanities Lab / Oral History Crash Course

  JNBC Exhibitions, JNBC Workshops
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  Mar

  14

  8:00pm - 9:00pm

  “I Just Came Here to Find a Husband… and Start a Got Damn Revolution” Protest Projections and Performances

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Brown University alumna (Class of ’98) and BAI Professor of the Practice Ayana Evans will present a series of protest projections on Nightingale-Brown House at 357 Benefit St, Providence, RI. The projections address mass incarceration, education inequalities, and love. This event will feature a live performance by the campus acapella group Harmonic Motion and poet Adjua Greaves, who is currently earning an MFA in Poetry from the Literary Arts Program at Brown.

  “I Just Came Here to Find a Husband… and Start a Got Damn Revolution” Protest Projections and Performances

  JNBC Performances