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Hay Undergraduate Fellows Showcase

The summer 2025 cohort of John Hay Library Undergraduate Fellows will present their projects during a showcase on Friday, October 3 at 11 a.m. in the John Hay Library Primary Source Lab (321) and on Zoom at https://brown.zoom.us/j/91641639340. Light refreshments will be served. This year’s cohort consisted of eight incredible students who explored a wide variety of Hay Undergraduate Fellows Showcase

National Coming Out Day Celebration: Brown University Library x Stonewall House 

Join the Library on the College Green for a celebration of National Coming Out Day! We’ll be partnering with Stonewall House / the LGBTQ Center to showcase LGBTQ+ and queer materials from the Rockefeller Library’s collections. Thursday, October 9, 2025 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Score some official Coming Out Day stickers, enjoy snacks and National Coming Out Day Celebration: Brown University Library x Stonewall House 

Virgil Ortiz: Pueblo Revolt 1680/2180

Join the Brown University Library, the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, and the RISD Ceramics Department for an artist’s talk with Virgil Ortiz, the award-winning Pueblo artist whose work combines innovative pottery, art, décor, fashion, video, and film, on Thursday, October 16 at 6 p.m. at the John Hay Library (321). Free and open to the public. Virgil Ortiz: Pueblo Revolt 1680/2180

DH Salons – Fall 2025

Please join the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship this fall for the Digital Humanities (DH) Salons! The DH Salon series, hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship, is a regular, informal presentation series bringing together digital humanities work across the Brown campus. Join us either in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 137) on the first floor of the Rockefeller DH Salons – Fall 2025

Gathering and Preparing Your Data with Minimal Computing Workshops

Minimal Computing is a digital humanities practice of creating digital scholarship with the fewest resources possible that will still meet the goals of the project. The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) is proud to offer a workshop series for fall 2025 around this topic in order to help researchers understand minimal computing, how to gather Gathering and Preparing Your Data with Minimal Computing Workshops

Fashioning Insurrection Exhibit and Opening

Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms Exhibit Part of the Islamic-American Exchanges Initiative between the Brown University Library and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the exhibit, “Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms,” will be on view in the Harriette Hemmasi Exhibition Gallery at the John Hay Library during the 2025-26 Fashioning Insurrection Exhibit and Opening

Summer With Your PVD Libraries

Summer With Your PVD Libraries is a partnership between the Brown University Library, Providence Public Library, and the Community Libraries of Providence. Look for Bruno, the bear, to find our events Download a bruno POSTER TO COLOR Thank you for joining our 2025 events! We hope to see you again next summer. 2025 Summer Program Summer With Your PVD Libraries

Library as a Third Space | Commencement Forum 2025

Library as a Third Space: A Collaboration with Providence High School Librarians and Brown University Date: Saturday, May 24, 2025Time: 2:30 p.m.Location: Willis Reading Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St., ProvidenceZoom link to attend online: https://bit.ly/library-forum Video of the Forum The Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence Following Brown’s 2006 Slavery Library as a Third Space | Commencement Forum 2025