Featured Events on Campus

Opening Reception: 43rd Annual Student Juried Exhibition

Brown Arts Institute

Please join us for the opening reception for the 43rd Annual Student Juried Exhibition! Refreshments will be provided.

The 43rd Annual Student Juried Exhibition will be on view at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts from March 18 through April 16, 2023. This year’s exhibition is juried by Lani Asunción and Xander Marro. Learn more about the exhibition and jurorsRead More

kihana miraya ross, “Black Space in Education: On antiblackness in schools, educational fugitivity, and how we get free”

The Department of Education and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform
, Room 102

In this talk, I explore what it means for Black students to navigate, refuse, and resist antiblackness in schools. I take seriously the ways slavery and its afterlives continue to mark Black learners, and yet I am committed to understanding how we carve out space – how

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The Young Lords: A Radical History

Co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
, Room 102

This is the first event in the Department of History’s Latinx History Speaker Series on March 16th. Learn more about the 5pm event here.

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The Black Frontline - Project Launch

Dept. of Africana Studies
, 305

THE LAUNCH

The Department of Africana Studies at Brown University welcomes you into the world of THE BLACK FRONTLINE. The Black Frontline is the largest oral history project of global Black doctors and nurses. On the 3 year anniversary of Covid, the global pandemic which created unprecedented upheaval in our lives and transformed us all, The Black Frontline brings you the stories ofRead More

Fly in Power

, Rm 117

Please join Red Canary Song and CSSJ’s Human Trafficking Research Cluster in celebrating the premiere of Fly in Power, a documentary film centering the issues of Asian migrant massage and sex workers.Read More

Workshop on Indigenous Mindfulness

Native American and Indigneous Studies Initiative, Contemplative Studies Initiative, the Mindfulness Center
, Goldfarb Family Social Hall

Please join Brown’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, the Contemplative Studies Initiative and the Mindfulness Center for a Workshop on Indigenous Mindfulness lead by Prof. Michael Yellow Bird, Ph.D. on March 14th from 9 am - noon at the Brown/RISD Hillel, the Goldfarb Family Social Hall.  Please RSVP to anne_heyrman-Read More

Lecture by Prof. Michael Yellow Bird, Ph.D.

The Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, The Contemplative Studies Initiative, The Mindfulness Center
, 106

Please join Brown’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, the Contemplative Studies Initiative and the Mindfulness Center for a lecture by Professor Michael Yellow Bird, Ph.D. on The Power of Ceremony:  Indigenous Contemplative Practices, Neurodecolonization, and Indigenous Mindfulness in Smith-Buonanno, Rm. 106 from 5:30 - 7 pm.  For an abstract of the lecture, pleaseRead More

The Alexander Meiklejohn Lecture: Schooling Free Speech

Taubman Center for American Politics & Policy
, True North Classroom

Join the Taubman Center as Justin Driver ’97, Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School, delivers the 2023 Alexander Meiklejohn Lecture on March 9th at 5PM. In his lecture, Driver will discuss the recent battle over free speech in the American
classroom.

Justin Driver is a graduate of Brown (Public Policy), Oxford (Marshall ScholarRead More

Histories and Lessons from Korean-Black Relations

East Asian Studies
, Petteruti Lounge

Join the EAS Diversity Committee for a Lunch & Learn on “Histories and Lessons from Korean-Black Relations” with Dr. Shelley Lee. 

 

Lunch will be provided, and all are welcome to attend!Read More

I am not yet turned Indian: The Narragansett, Roger Williams, and the Discord that Created Rhode Island.

Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (CSSJ)

A few years after his official banishment from Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, Roger Williams wrote to John Winthrop, assuring the governor that he had “not yet turned Indian.” At first, it may appear that the statement constituted banter between friends and was written in jest. But Williams was making no joke because his “turning” Indian was not just aRead More

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