On Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 11 a.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, join Allison Levy of the Brown University Library’s Digital Publications Initiative for an engaging look at the changing face of 21st-century scholarship. Free and open to the public. A Q&A period will conclude the program. Furnace & Fugue … Family Weekend Forum | Furnace & Fugue
Muriel Miguel: A Retrospective Join the Library and the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies on Monday, September 23, 2019 at 7 p.m. in Martinos Auditorium at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts for Muriel Miguel: A Retrospective, the 15th Annual Don Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship in American Theatre. Founder and Artistic Director of … Event | Muriel Miguel: A Retrospective
Examine works created by students in Professor Dietrich Neumann’s lecture course, “Nineteenth-Century Architecture,” which surveys stylistic developments, new building types, and the changing conditions of architectural production through the 19th century. Models on display reflect a building or industrial design object of this time period. Dates: September 16 – December 8, 2019Time: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. … Exhibit | Nineteenth-Century Architecture Course Models
Explore a sampling of this collection consisting of administrative files and zines that focus on social justice and marginalized identities dating from 1974 to 2018. Areas of strength include zines by and about people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other queer peoples, the disabled, interpersonal violence, sex and relationships, sex work, the prison … Exhibit | The Malana Krongelb Zine Collection, 1974-2018
Dinner at the Brown Faculty Club On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. at the Brown Faculty Club, celebrate the venerable professor of psychoceramics, Josiah S. Carberry, and enjoy a buffet dinner with recipes from The Carberry Cookbook. Dinner will be followed by a rollicking talk from Richard J. Ring, Deputy Executive Director for Collections & … Event | Josiah Carberry Dinner
Examine two prints published in 1819 following The Peterloo Massacre and gain insight into an early 19th-century protest for political reform. On August 16, 1819, a peaceful crowd of between 60,000 and 80,000 workers gathered in St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, England, to voice their demands for political reform. Poor economic conditions and the lack of … Exhibit | The Peterloo Massacre: A Bicentennial Remembrance
American Revolutionary War PrintsLondon: Hogg, 1790Brown University Library, Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection Explore Independence Day from a British point of view. “Engraved for Barnard’s New Complete & Authentic History of England,”this collection of 4 copper-engraved plates after William Hamilton, 1751-1801 (artist) feature significant milestones from the American Revolutionary War (Apr 19, 1775 – Sep … Exhibit | American Revolutionary War Prints
Since January 2016, the Sciences Library has participated in the city-wide Goodnight Lights initiative, symbolically saying good night to patients at Hasbro Children’s Hospital by flashing lights on and off from 8 – 8:05 p.m. each night. To add a personal touch to the effort, the Library has added equipment to the display so that … Announcement | A Smile for Goodnight Lights
On Friday, May 3, 2019, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum hosted a one-day symposium in conjunction with its exhibit Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850-1970, at which Holly Snyder, Curator Curator of American Historical Collections and the History of Science at the Brown Library, presented. Holly spoke about the history of the Gorham … Announcement | Holly Snyder Presents at RISD Museum Event on Gorham Company
On Friday, May 24, 2019 from 4 – 6 p.m. at the John Hay Library, the exhibit, Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries,” will officially launch with an opening reception. This exhibit was created through a gift of Georgian and Victorian games, along with jigsaw puzzles and … Event | Exhibit Opening Reception for “Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries”
