In the late 1960s, the Vietnam War was raging. Brown graduates had to make choices – some joined the military, some went to Vietnam, some protested, some left the country, some never came home. The lives of both men and women at Brown were profoundly affected. Come hear from our panelists and join in the … Event | The Vietnam War – Enduring Impact on the Brown Community, an Alumni Reunion Forum
LEARNING THROUGH PLAY: BRITISH AND FRENCH TABLETOP GAMES FROM THE 18th AND 19th CENTURIES Georgian & Victorian Games, Gift of Ellen Liman ‘57, P’88, and Early French Games, Loan from Doug Liman ‘88May 21 – October 11, 2019John Hay Library, Brown University The exhibition will be on display in the John Hay Library’s main gallery … Exhibit | Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries
On Friday, May 10, 2019 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Dr. Li Wang, Curator of East Asian Collection, will give a presentation, “American Sinologist Charles S. Gardner and Chinese Collection at Brown.” This talk is free and open to the public. Coffee and cookies will be available. The … Event | American Sinologist Charles S. Gardner and the Chinese Collection at Brown with Dr. Li Wang
Allison Levy, the Library’s Digital Scholarship Editor and Visiting Scholar in Italian Studies at Brown, is the author of a new book, House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo (Bloomsbury, 2019), currently being promoted through the U.S. and abroad. The book has been well received by critics and readers. Historian Ingrid Rowland … Announcement | Allison Levy & House of Secrets International Book Tour
From humble beginnings as a studio space rented by four RISD guys in the fall of 1995, rose the now mythic Fort Thunder collaborative, located in a dilapidated mill building on the west side of Providence. While there were other decrepit mills nearby, with funky names like Munch House, Box of Knives, & Pink Rabbit, … Exhibit | Fort Thunder & Lightning Bolt: Old Mill / New Music
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Dr. Lindsey Jones will give a talk about the database she is creating about the education and incarceration of black girls in Virginia during Jim Crow. This event is free and open to the public. A Q&A and … Event | Dr. Lindsey Jones: A database project on the education and incarceration of black girls in Jim Crow Virginia
Can you smell what the Rock is cooking? It’s pizza! Technically, Dominos is cooking the pizza, but you can definitely eat it at the Rock. And the SciLi. On May 8 and 9, 2019 at 9 p.m., the Library invites students to take a break from studying for finals to fuel up on some saucy, … Events | Pizza Nights
On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Laura Stokes, Performing Arts Librarian and Head of Orwig Music Library at Brown, will give a talk based on her book Fanny Hensel: A Research and Information Guide. Free and open to the public. Q&A and reception to … Event | Laura Stokes on Composer Fanny Hensel
On Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Renée Ater will give a talk entitled, “Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities.” Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the talk. Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities In this public lecture, Renée Ater discusses the processes … Event | Renée Ater: Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities
The Holy Bible: containing The Old Testament and the New. Translated into the Indian Language, and Ordered to be Printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New-England, At the Charge, and with the Consent of the Corporation in England for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England John Eliot (1604–1690) … Exhibit | Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God (“Eliot Indian Bible”)
