Past Events

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  Nov

  17

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  “Loss/Capture: The state of Black cultural archives in and beyond Chicago” Lunch talk by Steven D. Booth.

  In response to sale of the Johnson Publishing Company archives to various nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, Sixty Inches From Center released “Loss/Capture,” a digital editorial project that investigates the current state of Black collections in Chicago. Under the direction of archivists and guest editors Steven D. Booth and Stacie Williams, Sixty published a series of multimedia articles including essays, photography, illustrations, and video, from a range of contributors who hold experience and expertise in Black collections. Booth will discuss the phases of the project from conception to completion and highlight the personal and communal value of Black collections, the careful work necessary for preservation, and the importance of archives in sustaining social identity using contributions from the project.

  Steven D. Booth (he/him) is an archivist, researcher, and co-founder of the Blackivists Collective.

  WEBSITES / SOCIAL MEDIA

  • Personal Website: http://www.stevendbooth.com/
  • Personal Social Media: @misterbooth (Twitter and Instagram)
  • Project Website: https://losscaptureproject.cargo.site/
  • Project Social Media: @fromthecenter (Twitter); @losscaptureproject (Instagram)

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Nov

  12

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  “Whose maps, Our Maps! Decolonizing Cartography to Serve Movements of Resistance and Resilience” Lunch talk by Jordan Engel

  Jordan Engel is an independent mapmaker and founder of the Decolonial Atlas, currently based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY).

  The Decolonial Atlas is a counter-mapping collective centering Indigenous perspectives and challenging Western cartography’s colonial roots. This presentation will highlight many of the maps the Atlas has made over the past 6 years to radically revisualize our world, and how others can help.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Oct

  29

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  “Advocating for Architecture in Kampala” Lunch talk by Doreen Adengo

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

  Doreen 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 provides an overview of the firm’s work in Uganda today.

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  History, Cultural Studies, Languages, Humanities, Identity, Culture, Inclusion, JNBC Lectures
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  Oct

  20

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  “Telling Uncomfortable Histories through Reimagining Sites of Enslavement” Lunch talk by Kyera Singleton

  Kyera Singleton is the Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters, a PhD Candidate in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, and a Visiting Fellow in the History Department at Harvard University.

  How do sites of slavery reckon with their history today? This presentation will think through how historical sites such as the Royall House and Slave Quarters serve as a permanent marker of the history of Northern slavery, the fight amongst enslaved and free Black women and men to define freedom on their own terms, and the role of museums in the preservation of history and the fight for social justice today.

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  History, Cultural Studies, Languages, Humanities, Identity, Culture, Inclusion, JNBC Lectures
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  Oct

  15

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  “The Rural Black Lives Project and the Co-Creation of Knowledge.” Lunch talk by Gerard Laurence Aching

  Gerard Aching is Professor of Africana and Romance Studies, a Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, and Co-Principal Investigator of the Rural Humanities Initiative at Cornell University.

  In his presentation, Professor Aching will describe how his undergraduate Underground Railroad Seminar led him to contribute to Cornell University’s Rural Humanities Initiative, which the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded, and to the initiative’s current Rural Black Lives theme and seminar. Trained as a scholar of 19th-century Caribbean literatures, Aching will also speak about the impact that his public humanities and community-engaged projects has had on his research.

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  History, Cultural Studies, Languages, Humanities, Identity, Culture, Inclusion, JNBC Lectures
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  Oct

  1

  5:00pm

  in Pursuit of Venus [infected]: A Conversation with Artist Lisa Reihana

  Join Brown Arts Initiative during the REMAKING the real Fall Festival for a preview of in Pursuit of Venus [infected]with artist Lisa Reihana. The powerful 70 foot long scrolling video is Reihana’s corrective to the historical record, created in response to eighteenth-century views of the Pacific islands as presented in the historic French wallpaper Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique(Native Peoples of the South Pacific), 1804-05. Reihana will be joined by Marisa Angell Brown, Assistant Director for Programs, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, Julia Lum, Assistant Professor of Art History at Scripps College, Claremont, CA; performer and cultural historian Annawon Weedon, and Jo-Ann Conklin, Director, David Winton Bell Gallery. in Pursuit of Venus [infected]will be shown at the Bell Gallery in the fall of 2021.

  This event will be presented live as a zoom webinar. No registration required. 

  The REMAKING the real Fall Festival will be held remotely from Sept 28 - Oct 2 and will feature events including:

  • A keynote address by artist Kent Monkman
  • Film screenings and artist talks including Dawson City: Frozen Time by Bill Morrison and Shulie by Elisabeth Subrin
  • A conversation featuring contemporary artist Lisa Reihana
  • State of Urgency, an exhibition of posters from the Print Like You Give a Damn Collective, created during he Summer 2020 protest marches
  • Community artist performances
  • Plus artist talks, workshops, and more

  Brown Arts Initiative (BAI)

  Arts, Performance
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  Oct

  1

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  “What are exhibitions for? In a university gallery? In Abu Dhabi?” Lunch Talk by Maya Allison

  Maya Allison is founding Executive Director of The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery , the first academic gallery in the GCC. She was curator at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, and before that, at The RISD Museum as Curatorial Assistant.

  This presentation reflects on a chronicle of questions about curating, audience, and meaning in art.

   

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Sep

  25

  3:00pm - 4:30pm

  Monuments, Murals, and Movements: Reimagining the Art of Social Justice

  In the summer of 2020, challenges to race, memorialization, and icons of power predominated ongoing social, cultural, and political action and art. These scholars will examine how social movements have redefined public space, articulated social justice issues through art, and defied long-standing national icons and monuments. What’s at stake in these movements and gestures and how do art and politics work together to reimagine social space, belonging, and power?

  Presentations by Crystal Feimster, Yale University; Daniel Magaziner, Yale University; Renee Ater, Brown University; and Juliet Hooker, Brown University.

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  Presented by the Centering Race Consortium, a collaboration between the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity at Stanford University, theCenter for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, and the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration at Yale University.

  Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
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  Sep

  22

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  “When Walls Talk: Hidden and Forgotten Stories of Enslaved People”, Lunch Talk by Jobie Hill

  Jobie Hill is a licensed Preservation Architect and Slave House Expert engaged in interdisciplinary research examining the dwellings of American slavery, the influence these dwellings had on the lives of their inhabitants, and is committed to the preservation and education of the history of enslaved people.

  A slave house is like every other American home – a sacred place. It is also an irreplaceable piece of history that simultaneously embodies suffering, yet  perseverance and strong family bonds. Interpretation of slave house architecture, in combination with details from the historical record and stories from actual inhabitants, offers an authentic portrayal of slavery in our nation’s history that has the potential to further collective growth toward cultural self-actualization and allow us to build on a momentum for change to the benefit of all. It honors the undeniable and immeasurable contributions of enslaved people to our country’s success and gives disenfranchised people a voice.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Sep

  17

  6:00pm - 7:30pm

  Race, Justice and Health Disparities: Barriers to Equality and Citizenship

  A part of the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice’s ongoing series, This is Americaand in collaboration with the Philadelphia Chapter of the Inman Page Council (Brown University’s African American alumni association) the panel Race, Justice and Health Disparities: Barriers to Equality and Citizenship will explore the legacies of racial slavery, social justice and its impact on race, criminal justice and health disparities in the African American community of Philadelphia and beyond.

   

  Panelists include;

  Larry Krasner , District Attorney of Philadelphia

  Wilfred U. Codrington III , Assistant Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School

  Dr. Carla C. Moreira , Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Brown University

  Dr. Giridhar G. Mallya , Senior Policy Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  Professor Anthony Bogues , Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University (moderator)

  Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (CSSJ)

  Government, Public & International Affairs, History, Cultural Studies, Languages, Humanities, Identity, Culture, Inclusion, International, Global Engagement, Social Sciences
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  Sep

  15

  12:00pm

  “THE LIFE: Sex and Work in America” Lunch Talk by May Jeong

  May Jeong is a Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair. Her work has also been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper’s among others. Her reporting on the MSF hospital strike in Kunduz, Afghanistan for The Intercept won the 2017 South Asian Journalists Association’s Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Report on South Asia, as well as the Prix Bayeux Calvados Award for War Correspondents in the Young Reporter category, the highest honor in war reporting. She was also shortlisted for the Livingston Awards in 2018.

  “THE LIFE: Sex and Work in America” will explore the way sex work intersects with the criminal justice system. The book is forthcoming from Atria/Simon & Schuster sometime in 2022.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Aug

  6

  11:30am - 12:30pm

  “More than Just Volunteers: the International Docents that Connect the Museum to the World.” Virtual lunch talk by Phaedra Hui-shih Fang (National Museum of Taiwan)

  The National Taiwan Museum in Taipei, established in 1908, is the oldest museum in Taiwan, with collections and programming related to the history of Taiwan, as well as anthropology, the earth sciences, zoology and botany. The Museum has developed an innovative program that trains international undergraduate and graduate students to give guided walking tours of the Museum’s collections and its historic buildings. Fang’s presentation gives an overview of this program, the National Taiwan Museum, and the state of the field of museum education in Taiwan today.

  Phaedra Hui-shih Fang is a Curatorial Associate at the Education Department, National Taiwan Museum.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Jul

  21

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  “The Museum We Closed is Not the Museum We Reopen” Virtual lunch talk by Scott Stulen (Director and President, Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, OK).

  Museums are currently facing challenges on multiple fronts, from an ongoing global pandemic, calls to address systematic racism, long-standing labor inequity and looming financial shortfalls. For leadership, it can be a time to hold on to the past or an opportunity for radical change. Scott Stulen will share how the Philbrook Museum of Art is responding to this moment by connecting to the needs of the community, building a more sustainable organization and redefining how we measure success.

  Scott Stulen is the Director and President ofPhilbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He’s also an artist, curator, programmer and DJ. Previously he was the firstCurator of Audience Experiences and Performance at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Director of the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photographers and Project Director ofmnartists.org at theWalker Art Center.

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  History, Cultural Studies, Languages, Humanities, JNBC Lectures
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  Jun

  30

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  “Witness” Virtual lunch talk by Karyn Olivier

  Karyn Olivier creates sculptures, installations, and public art. Her work often intersects and collapses multiple histories and memories with present-day narratives. She will discuss several projects which engage existing monuments and her fabrication of contemporary monuments and memorials.

   

  Karyn Olivier (b. Trinidad and Tobago) creates sculptures, installations, and public art. She has exhibited at the Gwangju and Busan Biennials, World Festival of Black Arts and Culture (Dakar, Senegal), The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA P.S.1, MFAH Houston, CAM Houston, The Mattress Factory, SculptureCenter, Laumeier Sculpture Park, among others. Olivier has installed work for Mural Arts, Creative Time and NYC and Philadelphia’s Percent for Art program. She is a 2019 Pew Fellow and a recent American Academy in Rome fellow. Olivier is currently an associate sculpture professor at Tyler School of Art and Architecture.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Jun

  29

  4:00pm - 5:30pm

  Breaking the Thin Blue Line of Bigotry: How Outcries for Police Reform have led to Calls for Abolition

  Police departments across America are governed by an anti-Black racist code of silence and violence where police have been allowed to kill with almost absolute impunity. We examine this “thin blue line of bigotry” and discuss how public outrage, abolitionist scholars and the organizing the efforts of Black Lives Matter have made the call for police reform a demand for abolition.

   

  Register at https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qvLUxOEmRJ-gGEOPEyoz1Q

  Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (CSSJ)
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  Jun

  25

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Southern New England Native Baskets and the Narrative of “Disappearance.” Virtual Lunch talk by Denene De Quintal

  This talk discusses my research findings to date about how the location and distribution of Southern Native New England objects contribute to the production of knowledge about these tribes and Native peoples, and in particular, how museums’ treatment of these objects reinforces a narrative of their disappearance. “Native vanishing” is a widespread sense that certain Indigenous cultures have disappeared from Southern New England and other areas. Specifically, my research examines the rich and complicated history of the Denver Art Museum’s woven Native baskets from Southern New England.

  Bio: Denene De Quintal, Ph.D. is the Assistant Curator for Native American Art in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, & Indigenous Americas department at the Detroit Institute of Arts. As the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow in American Indian Art at the Denver Art Museum, she co-curated the exhibition Eyes On: Julie Buffalohead (2018).

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  History, Cultural Studies, Languages, Humanities, Identity, Culture, Inclusion, JNBC Lectures
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  Jun

  11

  4:00pm - 5:30pm

  Black Lives: Structural Violence, Protest and Change

  Embedded within the American social, political, and economic systems are various forms of structural violences. Over the next few weeks the CSSJ will be organizing a series of conversations, This is America, exploring these violences, their historical roots in racial slavery and possibilities for an alternative future.

  The first conversation in the series, Black Lives: Structural Violence, Protest and Change will take place on June 11, 2020 from 4:00-5:30 PM.

  This event is free and open to all. Please click here to register

  Panelists include Dr. Joy James (Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College), Felicia Denaud (PhD candidate in Africana Studies at Brown), Dr. Brian Meeks (Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Brown), moderated by Dr. Anthony Bogues (CSSJ Director).

  Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (CSSJ)

  Government, Public & International Affairs, History, Cultural Studies, Languages, Humanities, Identity, Culture, Inclusion, Social Sciences
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  May

  12

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Virtual lunch talk by Dan Yaeger (NEMA): “COVID and Chaos: How Museums are Navigating the Crisis”

  With 3,000 members throughout the region, the New England Museum Association has been a hub for keeping museums and museum people connected during the coronavirus crisis. Here’s your chance to speak with NEMA Executive Director Dan Yaeger about the latest from the front lines of museum leadership, how people are coping, and the short/long-term prospects for museum careers.

  Dan Yaeger has been NEMA’s executive director since April 2010 and has a 20-year history with museums, most recently as the director of the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham, Massachusetts. He has served as a marketing communications consultant to institutions including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Museum of Fine Arts/Boston, Portland Museum of Art, Currier Museum of Art, Mariner’s Museum of Virginia, Old Sturbridge Village, John F. Kennedy Library, and Plimoth Plantation. He holds a BA from Gettysburg College and a master’s degree from Harvard.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  May

  5

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Virtual Lunch Talk: “Adaptive Practices: Two Curators Redefine Gathering During a Pandemic.”

  Having been closed for 18 months of renovation, Providence Public Library was scheduled to begin its grand reopening on March 30th, with events and activities designed to bring crowds into the Library’s beautiful new public spaces throughout the weeks and months ahead. Instead, the Library didn’t open, and all public gathering for the foreseeable future has ceased. PPL’s Programs & Exhibitions Director Christina Bevilacqua and Events Coordinator Janaya Kizzie will discuss how they rethought loss, opportunity, resources, and expectations as they developed Adaptive Practices: Six Artists Redefine Isolation and Distraction as a response to the pandemic, and how a humanities lens helped them see their way forward. 
  

  Christina Bevilacqua, Director of Programs and Exhibition and Janaya Kizzie, Events Coordinator, both at Providence Public Library.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Apr

  28

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Virtual Lunch Talk by Amelia Grabowski, MA’15: “Crafting the Mini-Exhibit in Your NewsFeed: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Museum Social Media Management”

  How many times a year do you visit a museum (when there’s not a pandemic)? How many times a day do you check your phone? Museums’ social media accounts offer great ways to reach the audiences where they are and create unique experiences that you can’t offer IRL. But, it’s harder than it looks.

  Amelia Grabowski (MA ’15) is a digital strategist, with over five years of experience connecting museums and public history projects to digital audiences in engaging ways. Currently, she is the acting Social Media Manager at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and volunteers with the blog Nursing Clio.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Apr

  16

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Virtual Lunch Talk by Margaret Middleton - “Considering Visitor Experience from a Design Perspective”

  How can we create exhibit experiences that prioritize visitors’ comfort, enjoyment, and safety? We will look at case studies, identify challenges to serving visitors of various ages and abilities, and discuss strategies for meeting their unique needs.

  Margaret Middleton (they/them) is a Providence-based independent exhibit designer and museum consultant working at the intersection of design and social justice. Middleton holds a degree in industrial design from the RISD and is the creator of the Family Inclusive Language Guide. Their writing has appeared in the Journal of Museum Education, the Association of Science and Technology Centers’ magazine Dimensions, and the National Association for Museum Exhibition’s journal Exhibition.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Apr

  6

  5:30pm - 7:00pm

  CANCELED: Panel Discussion with Fernando Brito and Didier Aubert

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Panel discussion featuring Fernando Brito and the exhibition curator Didier Aubert, Director of American Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris in conversation with Barbara Mundy, Professor of Art history at Fordham University and Denise Mathews-Reidpath, Co-Executive Director of Girls Roc! RI, who is from Sinaloa.

  Defiant Spirits: Fernando Brito’s Sinaloa is is an exhibition of the Mexican documentary photographer Fernando Brito’s moving images of life in Sinaloa, a province that has been wrecked by the struggle between one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world and the Mexican government.

  The exhibition is on view at the Center for Public Humanities Gallery February 6 - April 16.

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  Mar

  31

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  CANCELED: CANCELLED: Lunch Talk: “Art, Public Space and Closing Societies”

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Yukiko Yamagata, Curatorial and Deputy Director, Open Society Foundations (New York, NY).

  Talk description coming soon.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Mar

  7

  9:30am - 3:30pm

  Fifth Annual Hacking Heritage Unconference

  Silver Lake Community Center, 529 Plainfield Street, Providence, RI

  Hacking Heritage is a participant-led unconference that is open to anyone with an interest in exploring questions about community history, heritage and preservation together.

  This year, Hacking Heritage is moving off of Brown’s campus into Silver Lake. We encourage session discussions related to Silver Lake’s past, present and future — but propose a discussion about a topic that interests you whether it’s related to Silver Lake or not. And think outside of the box: sessions don’t need to follow any format. They can be discussions, but they can also be a space for collaboration on a new project with new partners, a community art-making workshop, or a group walk. It’s a great format for all kinds of participation, and you don’t have to propose anything to come.

  Learn more, register and propose a session on the event website: 

  https://blogs.brown.edu/hackingheritageunconference/

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  JNBC Conferences
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  Mar

  3

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Lunch Talk: “Empowerment through Discomfort: Transformative Inclusion in Exhibition Planning”

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Michelle Grohe, Esther Stiles Eastman Curator of Education, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA).

  To effectively and authentically engage with new audiences and communities for the exhibition, Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, which opens on February 13, 2020, exhibition and program planning required very different ways of thinking and working by the staff at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Instead of just one curatorial voice, we purposefully created opportunities to engage with members of local academia and communities to ensure we first understood different lived experiences, and how those may frame responses to this exhibition. Grohe will share the process and lessons learned to date. More information about the exhibition and this interpretation and programming approach may be found on the Gardner’s website, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/bostons-apollo .

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Feb

  25

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Lunch Talk: “HIV/AIDS, Queer Activism, and the Public History of Everyday Life”

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Stephen Vider, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Public History Initiative, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY).

  Histories of HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ communities have often focused on public and commercial spaces as the principal sites of queer activism. In this talk, Vider will discuss how he works to trace and reconsider more private histories of everyday queer life in his research and curatorial work. He will also discuss how he has applied these approaches in developing the new Public History Initiative at Cornell.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Feb

  20

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Lunch Talk: “Estates of Sanctuary: The Struggle Against Information Asymmetry”

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Libertad O. Guerra, Executive Director, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (New York, NY).

  Memory is for us all a sanctuary; but at the scale of the individual person memory remains utterly insufficient as a place to anchor the histories and traditions of whole communities. These communal histories - key components in current struggles against gentrification, for example - are inscribed in the public and private places occupied, utilized, appropriated and inhabited by these communities. These spaces are repositories of data that can help groups stay visible in information-heavy environments (like NYC), a place that is over-narrated at times (Fashion, Abstract Expressionism, Skyscrapers, Finance, Mad Men, etc.) and under-narrated to the point of invisibility at others. This is why we need to look at estates (property, real and public) as a sanctuary that can help us tell other types of histories about ourselves, in that perennial struggle against noise and invisibility.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Feb

  11

  12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Lunch Talk: “Institution-Building with Art and Artists at the Core”

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Join Nico Wheadon—writer, professor of art, and Executive Director of NXTHVN—as she discusses the role of art and artists in building and sustaining culturally-specific institutions. With a focus on creative and cultural entrepreneurship as a vehicle for delivering social impact, Wheadon will articulate the entrepreneurial skill set unique to artists; unpack how these skills both drive and at times endanger community development; and center creativity as a language accessible to all yet uniquely operationalized by artists in making our social institutions more equitable and inclusive.

  Nico Wheadon ’06 is the Executive Director at NXTHVN (New Haven, CT). Wheadon is an adjunct assistant professor of Art History and Africana Studies at Barnard College and is the former director of public programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Read this article in the NYT to find out NXTHVN and you can find Wheadon’s personal website here. NXTHVN is a multi-disciplinary arts incubator.

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  JNBC Lectures
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  Feb

  10

  5:15pm - 6:30pm

  CANCELED: “Curating African Art in the 21st Century” Lecture with Carol Thompson

  Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)

  For 17 1/2 years, until June 18, 2019, Carol Thompson, now living in Harlem, served as the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Thompson moved from New York to Georgia to take that newly created endowed position in 2001. From 1987 to1996, Thompson was with The Center for African Art, located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, as it became The Museum for African Art in Soho (now The Africa Center, in Harlem). She has taught at Spelman, NYU, Vassar, City College in Harlem, FIT, Drew, and Pace. Originally from rural Minnesota, Thompson’s academic work was done at Hamline University, University of Iowa, and NYU’s Department of Performance Studies. 

  Acutely aware of the unique challenges that accompany the task of diversifying museum collections within Eurocentric institutions, Thompson will share her strategies, successes, and failures through the lens of her lifelong work.

  Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (CSSJ)

  Arts, Performance, History, Cultural Studies, Languages, Humanities, Identity, Culture, Inclusion, International, Global Engagement
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  Feb

  6

  5:30pm - 7:00pm

  Opening Reception: “Defiant Spirits: Fernando Brito’s Sinaloa”

  Nightingale-Brown House

  Opening Reception with Professor Patricia Ybarra, Associate Professor of Theater Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University.

  Defiant Spirits: Fernando Brito’s Sinaloa is an exhibition of Fernando Brito’s moving images of life in Sinaloa, a province that has been wrecked by the struggle between one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world and the Mexican government.  The award-winning photographer’s work reveals both the raw violence and the resilience of life in Sinaloa under the Cartel de Sinaloa.  

  The exhibition is on view at the Center for Public Humanities Gallery February 6 - April 16.

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