The findings, made possible by a new method of radiocarbon dating, overturn the long-held assumption that the Vikings introduced spinning and weaving to the ancestors of today’s Inuit.
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Music in palliative care improves patient well-being, study finds
After hearing live music as part of their treatment during downtime, patients reported feeling less pain, nausea, anxiety and other symptoms and requested fewer opioid medications.
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Brown professor Stephen Houston will excavate a massive series of citadels in present-day Guatemala, which can shed light on how the leaders of the ancient Maya city of Tikal responded to a foreign threat.
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Linguistic expertise key to improving Deaf health research
A new Brown-UMass collaboration leverages cultural and language expertise to help biomedical researchers work productively with the Deaf community and address low levels of health literacy.
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Rare collection of Jewish texts finds home at Brown’s library
Spanning four centuries, five continents and many languages, the Dr. Steven Ungerleider Collection of Haggadot will enable new insights into the experiences and customs of Jewish communities across the globe.
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NEH grant will enable Brown researcher to digitally preserve Syrian tablets
With ancient documents threatened by modern-day conflict in Syria, Matthew Rutz’s project will make the text of more than 1,800 cuneiform tablets available digitally.
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Graduate School speakers to draw on personal stories at Commencement
Javier Juarez and Pinar Durgun will address their peers in separate master’s and doctoral ceremonies, respectively.
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With an all-star lineup and a range of free public events, the three-day International Fiction Now festival at Brown will celebrate Coover’s teaching, literary inventions and activism.
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Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy to deliver Casey Shearer Lecture
On Wednesday, April 18, the Emmy Award-winning director and producer will visit Brown to speak about her work making films about some of the world’s most pressing issues.
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City approval enables Brown to proceed with revised performing arts center plan
The Providence City Plan Commission approved an amendment to Brown’s Institutional Master Plan, allowing the University to take the next step toward creating a new academic center for the performing arts.
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Restored films and fresh gelato — Brown’s Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour
The fifth edition of the annual film festival features cinematic gems, live music and gelato custom-created by a master ice cream maker to pair with what’s showing on screen.
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Brown statement on cancellation of Rosa Parks exhibit
Out of respect for the memory of the civil rights icon, Brown will not display a Detroit house that is involved in a dispute among external parties.
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In a visit to Brown University, the professor, author and activist spoke about the need to attend to the suffering of others and hold oneself to a high moral standard.
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Brown to cover full tuition for acting and directing MFA students
The move will expand access to the University’s MFA programs with Trinity Rep, diversify the stories told on stage and encourage innovation and experimentation in art-making.
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Brown to submit revised plan for performing arts center
A revised plan that preserves historic structures and reduces the above-ground building footprint remains true to the University's academic requirements while addressing community concerns.
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Cornel West to speak at Brown on March 6
The public intellectual, author and political activist will give a talk as part of Brown’s Politics in the Humanities lecture series.
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On Feb. 7, renowned artist Spencer Finch will speak about ‘The Garden in the Brain,’ a series of works commissioned for Brown’s state-of-the-art building, which opened last October.
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Prints and photographs from the Bell Gallery collection reveal diverse visions of Mexican identity amid the political, social, and economic upheaval of the 20th century.
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As part of violinist Tracy Silverman’s residency at the University, students develop original compositions in consultation with musical pioneer.
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Bell Gallery to host Melvin Edwards, Carrie Mae Weems exhibitions
Edwards’ ‘Festivals, Funerals and New Life’ and Weems’ ‘Kitchen Table Series’ open on Nov. 11 in the Bell Gallery and List Art Center lobby, respectively.
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Brown, WaterFire partner on exploring U.S. homecoming for Rosa Parks house
Currently located in Berlin at the home of American artist Ryan Mendoza, the historic home could begin a three-month stay in Providence in spring 2018 if initial plans materialize as envisioned by the University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and WaterFire Arts Providence.
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A new $225,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund a yearlong seminar series examining how we have arrived at current understandings of race and indigeneity in North and South America.
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Bonnie Honig to deliver Presidential Faculty Award lecture
Honig, known for her wide-ranging work on the conditions necessary for collective democratic action, will discuss how the novel ‘Moby Dick’ responds to Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan.’
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Brown public humanities programs, photo exhibition focus on Guantánamo
An art exhibition and associated events explore the prospects that former prisoners face after release.
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Bell Gallery presents new sculptures by Richard Fishman
The exhibition, titled “What Remains,” includes pieces completed in the last two years and encompassing three unique series by the longtime Brown University artist and scholar.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Antonia Shann
By merging learned experience with lived experience, Antonia Shann co-created a French studies course on refugees that will be offered this fall.
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With virtual reality, bringing the Gaspee Affair to life
A team of Brown students led by the University’s virtual reality artist-in-residence have created an immersive experience to expose new generations of students to a dramatic, historically important Revolutionary War event.
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Using arts to understand autism, from the inside out
A summer performance camp organized by the Brown-based Miracle Project New England uses the arts to help young people with autism engage, socialize and communicate.
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Bell Gallery presents new exhibitions by two New England artists
Exhibits by Kim Faler and Kai Franz will include sculpture, installation, performance, photography, drawing and video.
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REX to design new performing arts center at Brown
With an approved location on College Hill, the planned state-of-the-art performance facility will be a hub for the arts on campus.
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Personalized music may help nursing home residents with dementia
People with dementia living in nursing homes that implemented the MUSIC & MEMORY program were more likely to cease using antipsychotic and antianxiety drugs and engaged in fewer problematic behaviors, according to the first evaluation of the program.
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University celebrates the life and legacy of Michael S. Harper
Friends, family, former students and colleagues from near and far gathered for events celebrating the life and writing of the distinguished poet, who died in 2016.
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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded a 2017 fellowship to Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg for a book project that explores how land reclamation projects in the 1930s helped generate public support for Benito Mussolini’s regime.
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The 16th installment of the student-run film festival will run from April 10 to April 16 and feature a women composers panel, a focus on virtual reality in film and a slate of undergraduate and graduate films.
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Director, producer Ezra Edelman to deliver 17th annual Shearer Lecture
On Thursday, April 13, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker will visit Brown to speak about his career, including his 2016 documentary “O.J.: Made in America.”
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Bringing China’s greatest novel to modern readers
Brown professor Dore J. Levy has spent more than three decades researching, teaching and writing about a complex classic of Chinese literature.
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Mellon grant to fund collaborative work in the humanities
A new $1.3-million Collaborative Humanities Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will advance research practice and graduate education in the humanities.
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Beginning this month, Pierre Huyghe’s “Untitled (Human Mask)” and Gabriel Martinez’s “Mountain War Time” will run concurrently in the Bell Gallery and the List Art Center lobby.
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“Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues” opens with a symposium and concert on Tuesday, March 14.
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University celebrates Brown Arts Initiative’s launch
With aspirations to be the primary destination for students who want to integrate the arts into a complete liberal arts education, Brown formally launched an effort to create new opportunities and collaborations for students, scholars, artists and community members.
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Spotlight on diversity, at center stage
In curating this year’s theater season, Brown students and faculty sought to bring issues of diversity and inclusion into the limelight.
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Photo exhibition confronts consumer culture’s impact on wildlife
The photographs in ‘Chris Jordan: Message from the Gyre’ depict albatrosses who have died from consuming floating plastic trash.
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Brown’s Bell Gallery presents the work of 40 student artists
The 37th annual student exhibition, open to students from all disciplines, was juried by Leonie Bradbury, director of art and creative initiatives for Boston’s HUBweek, and Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez, an independent curator, artist and organizer.
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Roxane Gay on politics, identity and the need for precise language
During her visit to Brown on Feb. 14, Gay read short stories and an essay that reveals how political slogans can impact political action.
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Brown plans new, cutting-edge performing arts center
Brown Corporation authorizes architect selection process, a critical step in the University’s vision to create a hub for arts performance, practice and scholarship.
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Syrian damask roses bloom at Brown’s Bell Gallery
An installation springs to life as artist Fatma Bucak’s exhibition comes to a close.
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Brown musician, composer finds inspiration in unexpected spaces
For Assistant Professor of Music Eric Nathan, November brought the premiere of a new composition by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a Copland House residency award announcement.
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Bell Gallery presents an exhibition by Fatma Bucak
New exhibit of photographs and video performances addresses conflict in Turkey and the Turkish-Syrian border.
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One Big Self: Celebrating the life and poetry of C.D. Wright
In a two-day event titled “Come Shining: In Tribute to C.D. Wright,” the University celebrated the work and influence of the late professor and poet, who died earlier this year.
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In wake of gift, University renames Judaic studies building
With support from a Class of 1971 graduate and his wife, the department will pursue improvements in support of its scholarship on Jewish history, literature, language, politics and religions.
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