On Tuesday, April 16, 2019, master magician Joshua Jay will offer two separate engagements. Both events are free and open to the public with general seating provided on a first come, first served basis. No tickets are required. Office Hours with a Magician At 3 p.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the … Events | Smith Magic Collection Performances with Joshua Jay
Sustaining DH On April 4 – 5, 2019, the Library hosted a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) workshop entitled, Sustaining DH: An NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Brown is one of five sites in the US to host the two-day workshop. Taught by University of Pittsburgh Professor Alison Langmead (Clinical … Workshop | Sustaining DH
Join the Brown University Library on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library for a presentation on the book House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo (Bloomsbury, 2019) by author Allison Levy (Digital Scholarship Editor, Brown University Library and Visiting Scholar in Italian Studies) in conversation … Event | House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo with Allison Levy
On March 14, 2018, the Library hosted a portion of the joint Humanities PhD Recruitment event organized by the Dean of the Faculty. In the past, each department had their own separate event for undecided, admitted students. In an new approach, eight humanities departments joined together to offer prospective students the opportunity to meet each … Event | PhD Student Recruitment
UK-based nonprofit organization The Watercolour World has added 93 items from the Brown University Library’s Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection to its online exhibition website, a free database of documentary watercolors painted before 1900. The Watercolour World aims to “not simply preserve the watercolour record but revive it, sparking new conversations and revelations. By … Exhibit | Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Loan to The Watercolour World
Response to #LibraryLove 2019 Thank you to all the students, staff, and faculty who took the time to write 103 sticky notes expressing your affection for all things Brown University Library this past Valentine’s Day. We loved reading them! Here are a few of our favorite messages: I love that the library is always there … Event | #LibraryLove on Valentine’s Day
On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 5 p.m. in the John Hay Library, Assistant Professor of Music Eric Nathan will give a talk about his most recent set of original songs, “Some Favored Nook.” Nathan will discuss the creation of the songs, which are based on correspondence between poet Emily Dickinson and minister and Civil … Event | “Some Favored Nook” Talk with Eric Nathan
This exhibit by ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate Byrd McDaniel displays some of the memorabilia central to air guitar playing in the United States and the U.S. Air Guitar Championships in particular. Advertised as the “greatest thing you’ve never seen,” the contemporary U.S. Air Guitar Championships stem from a long line of related practices throughout the twentieth … Exhibit | Spectacular Listening: U.S. Air Guitar
On Sunday and Monday, January 27 and 28, 2019, Eva Mol and Carl Walsh, Postdoctoral Research Associates in Archaeology and the Ancient World at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, hosted a conference and workshop at the Rockefeller Library entitled, “Playing the Past – Archaeology and Video Games Play Well Together. “ Conference On … Event | Playing the Past – Archaeology and Video Games Play Well Together
Folklore Music Map of the United States from the Primer of American Music Dorothea Dix Lawrence (1899–1979) New York, New York: Hagstrom Company, Inc., 1946 Brown University Library, Special Collections This colorful Folklore Music Map of the United States contains period illustrations, musical classifications and a bibliography. With its visual overlay of music and geography, the map … Exhibit | Folklore Music Map of the United States
