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Event | Dedication of the Wernig Graduate Student Reading Room

On Saturday, October 29, 2016 at 4 p.m., the Vincent J. Wernig Graduate Student Reading Room will be formally opened and dedicated. The Brown University Library welcomes all graduate students to attend the event, which will include remarks from President Paxson and a cocktail reception. The Sorensen Family (Joan Wernig Sorensen ’72, E. Paul Sorensen ’71, Event | Dedication of the Wernig Graduate Student Reading Room

Event | In the Mountains of Madness: A Reading with Author W. Scott Poole

On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, W. Scott Poole will give a reading from his new book, In the Mountains of Madness: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H. P. Lovecraft. A discussion will follow the reading. This event is free and open to the public. The book will be Event | In the Mountains of Madness: A Reading with Author W. Scott Poole

Film Screening | DEFYING THE NAZIS: THE SHARPS’ WAR | A New Film by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky

On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 8 p.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab in the Rockefeller Library, the Brown University Library will screen Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War, a new documentary by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky. At 6 p.m. on the same night, the corresponding exhibit, A Hymn for the Brave: Film Screening | DEFYING THE NAZIS: THE SHARPS’ WAR | A New Film by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky

Exhibit | A Hymn for the Brave: the Sharps and Humanitarian Work in World War II

An opening reception for the exhibit, A Hymn for the Brave: the Sharps and Humanitarian Work in World War II, will be held at the John Hay Library on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 6 p.m., followed by a screening of Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War at 8 p.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Exhibit | A Hymn for the Brave: the Sharps and Humanitarian Work in World War II

Construction Update | Wernig Graduate Student Reading Room

Construction on the new Vincent J. Wernig Graduate Student Reading Room is well under way on the second floor of the Rockefeller Library, with opening anticipated for October 2016. Dedicated to all graduate students at Brown, the Center will feature a large study and research room, a seminar/presentation room, lounge with kitchenette, and separate consultation rooms. The block, Construction Update | Wernig Graduate Student Reading Room

Commencement Forum | Word/Image/Text: Reading for the Philosophers’ Stone in Atalanta fugiens with Tara Nummedal

The Library welcomes visitors to a Commencement Forum on Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 11 a.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab and Sidney E. Frank Digital Studio at the Rockefeller Library. As part of Brown University’s new Digital Publishing Initiative, Professor Tara Nummedal will present on her upcoming publishing project. Project Atalanta will bring a multimedia seventeenth Commencement Forum | Word/Image/Text: Reading for the Philosophers’ Stone in Atalanta fugiens with Tara Nummedal

Exhibit | Works from Contemporary Architecture: A Course with Professor Dietrich Neumann

  The works displayed in this exhibit were created by students in Professor Dietrich Neumann’s lecture course, “Contemporary Architecture,” which surveys stylistic, technological, and theoretical developments in architecture from the 1960s to the present. Students were asked to create a model based on a building or industrial design object of this time period. Date: May 18 – September Exhibit | Works from Contemporary Architecture: A Course with Professor Dietrich Neumann