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Equinox at SciLi
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – Around noon on March 20, 2012, Brown University Library will celebrate the vernal equinox once again with an annual moment of gleaming marble in four atriums of the Sciences Library (201 Thayer Street).SciLi’s Friedman Center is enlivened by four courtyards. Areas generally in shadow are planted with evergreens, while sunny regions host shrubs and perennials. White marble slabs part the sunny and deciduous areas. Every year on the vernal equinox, the sun directly hits the marble, illuminating it from above.
If you happen to be in SciLi at noon on March 20, look to the atriums! And, enjoy the changing scenes throughout the spring as Witchhazels and Lenten Rose bloom, followed by Korean Rhododendron, Winterhazel, Viburnum, Sweetbay Magnolia, Snowdrops, Crocuses, and Daffodils.
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Check out the Friedman DVD Collection!
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Check out the latest flicks from the Friedman DVD Collection at Sci Li! We now have over 800 movies. Browse the collection online before heading over to the service desk. Browsing allows you to see what IMDb has to say about the film, and confirm whether the DVD is currently available for check-out.
Brown students can borrow two Friedman DVDs at a time and keep them for up to three days. We also encourage suggestions for recent feature-length movies to add to the collection!
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Tara McPherson “Post-archive: Scholarship in the Digital Age”
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – On Monday, March 5, 2012, Tara McPherson will give a talk entitled “Post-archive: Scholarship in the Digital Age” at 5:30pm in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This will be the fourth talk of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2012 Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and the Brown University Library.Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of Gender and Critical Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, co-director of USC’s Center for Transformative Scholarship, among the founding organizers of Race in Digital Space, a core member of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), the founding editor of the peer reviewed multii-media journal Vectors, and an editor of Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected, part of the MacArthur Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning. She served as a co-editor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke UP: 2003), and her book Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke UP: 2003) received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on American Culture. McPherson is currently working on a manuscript about the cultural and racial logics of code.
The Digital Arts & Humanities Lecture Series is free and open to the public. More information about this lecture is available at the event website.
Contact: Jennifer Braga | 401-863-6913
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