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Digital Literacy Contest – October 8
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Think you’re smart? Register for the Brown University Library´s Digital Literacy Contest. It’s a high speed battle of minds to find information online on Wed. Oct. 8 from 4:30-6 PM: Rockefeller Library 2nd floor cluster. You get 30 min. to answer 30 questions using the Internet. Highest scores win! Free pizza and drinks. More than $300 in cash prizes! Free and open to all Brown University students. Test your Internet skills and cognitive agility. Prove your prowess. Register here. -
An Evening with Laura Linney
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An Evening with Laura Linney
Fifth Annual Don Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship in American Theatre
De Ciccio Family Auditorium, Salomon Hall 101
Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 7:00 PMThe year of 2008 is a year to remember for Laura Linney ’86 DFA ’03 Hon. She received an Academy Award nomination in the lead actress category for her role in the box office hit, “The Savages,” opposite Phillip Seymour Hoffman and also starred in the critically acclaimed HBO miniseries “John Adams,” for which she received an Emmy Award. Additionally, Laura wrapped filming on the James Ivory film, “City of Your Final Destination,” opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins. She can next be seen in the Richard Eyre directed, “The Other Man” with Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas.
Laura will speak about her career in theatre, movies and television followed by audience questions. For more information email Jane_Cabral@brown.edu or call (401) 863-2163. -
Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons
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September 5 – October 19, 2008
John Hay Library
20 Prospect Street
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David Winton Bell Gallery
64 College St.Views and Re-Views includes posters, cartoons, photomontages, and postcards spanning more than six decades, from the time of the Russian Civil War (1918 – 21) into the late Soviet period. The exhibition includes well-known Soviet graphic works, by such artists as Viktor Deni, Dmitri Moor, El Lissitsky, and Gustav Klutsis, as well as lesser-known, but equally compelling works by the Kukryniksy (a three-artist collaborative), Alexander Zhitomirsky, and others. Drawn from an extensive private collection of Soviet propaganda, the exhibition includes more than 160 images and was co-curated by Abbott (Tom) Gleason, Keeney Professor of History Emeritus, and Jo-Ann Conklin, director of the David Winton Bell Gallery.
Online version of the exhibit available at: https://library.brown.edu/cds/Views_and_Reviews/index2.html
An opening reception will be held at both venues on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Both exhibitions and the opening events are free and open to the public.
See Press Release. For further information contact hay@brown.edu