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Maya Omori ’19: Hidden Portraits of Brown

Header of Hidden Portraits, Omori's award-winning senior capstone

“Working at the Hay has been life-changing for me,” Maya Omori said. “It’s changed the direction of my studies.” Omori recently received one of the two annual Undergraduate Library Research prizes for her work with the John Hay Library’s archives, Pembroke Center archives, and various university archivists and curators for her senior capstone “Hidden Portraits Maya Omori ’19: Hidden Portraits of Brown

Material of the Week: Cato’s Moral Distichs

Cato's Moral Distichs title page

Published: 1735, Philadelphia. Cato’s Moral Distichs is a Puritanical text by James Logan. This edition is probably the first English translation published in the colonies, and it was printed by Ben Franklin at his Philadelphia press.

University Archives

About The University Archives documents the intellectual, social, cultural, and visual history of Brown University from its beginnings in 1764 to the present through the university’s official records, the papers of Brown’s presidents, administrators, faculty and alumni, the records of related student, alumni and faculty organizations, and university publications. From the University Archives’ mission statement: University Archives

Charlie Steinman ’20: Nuremberg Chronicle and the Myth of Pope Joan

Charlie Steinman took a roundabout route to write his prize-winning paper, “Martin Luther’s whore more than a pope: Annotation, Disgust, and Materiality in the Reformation Reception of the Pope Joan Myth,” about a folio in the Nuremberg Chronicle. For his final project for Professor Tara Nummendal’s course “Age of Imposters: Fraud, Identity, and the Self Charlie Steinman ’20: Nuremberg Chronicle and the Myth of Pope Joan

Haggadot at the Hay – March 15, 2018

Around 20 students, faculty, and guests visited the Hay on March 15 for Haggadot at the Hay, a short tour of the ongoing Ungerleider Collection of Haggadot and a show-and-tell with curated Judaica housed at the Hay. Below are some of the items featured during the event. Sephardic Siddurim: Early Jewish Presence in North America After Haggadot at the Hay – March 15, 2018

Iberia & Latin America / Romance Language

About Including material in and about the languages of the Romance regions, the Iberian and Latin American/Romance Language collection boasts thousands of items that create a rich picture of life and history in Latin America and Europe. A cornerstone of the collection is the George Church Collection, materials accumulated by Col. George Earl Church, who Iberia & Latin America / Romance Language

Chronicles of Brunonia

About A digital collection of historical narratives of the life of Brown – many of which were produced by student researchers for English Non-Fiction Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Taylor’s “Narrative History” course – Chronicles of Brunonia are archival-based non-fiction pieces about Brown’s buried history, quirky traditions, and unsavory moments. Notable Entries Include: Access Read more from Chronicles Chronicles of Brunonia