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Trans Archive Salon

Over the past decade, curators, archivists, and librarians at the Brown University Library and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women have been actively collecting, preserving, and making available special collections that shine a light on the complex experiences of transgender and gender diverse people and communities across the world.  In the spirit Trans Archive Salon

DH Salons – Spring 2025

Please join us for the Digital Humanities (DH) Salon! 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 Library (with lunch!) or on Zoom (https://brown.zoom.us/j/94514112608).  DH Salons – Spring 2025

Launch of Brown 2026 | Divided America Symposium

Join Brown University, the University Library, and the John Carter Brown Library for two events launching Brown 2026, a two-year long, campus-wide initiative observing the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. Through Brown 2026, the University aims to demonstrate the important role of research and teaching universities in fostering open and democratic Launch of Brown 2026 | Divided America Symposium

Children’s Book Drive

For the fourth year, the Library is hosting a campus-wide drive to collect children’s books for donation to Pawtucket, RI-based organization Books Are Wings. Last year we collected 758 books for Rhode Island children! Where and when to donate Please bring your donation to the lobby of the Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect St., and place them on the book truck Children’s Book Drive

Pizza Nights – Fall 2024

Let’s get saucy! Students: Enjoy free pizza while preparing for finals. Pizza nights are brought to you by the Library and Campus Life. Best of luck with finals! This is your Library. You belong here.

Black Studies Approaches to AI Bias with Christopher L. Dancy

Join Dr. Christopher L. Dancy for a workshop about developing critical approaches to AI bias, especially antiBlackness, in your research projects. Participants at every level and across disciplines are welcome. Registration Registration is preferred for this hybrid event. Christopher L. Dancy Dr. Christopher L. Dancy is an associate professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Science Black Studies Approaches to AI Bias with Christopher L. Dancy

Divided America: Religious Dissent and Freedom Exhibition 

Divided America: Religious Dissent & FreedomOn view starting October 21, 2024 in the Harriette Hemmasi Exhibition Gallery at the John Hay Library20 Prospect St., Providence, RIHours Online exhibition Through The Divided America Project, the John Hay Library is digitizing and making freely available the bulk of the Hall-Hoag Collection, the country’s largest research compilation of Divided America: Religious Dissent and Freedom Exhibition 

Brown University Library Releases Multimodal Publication Centered on Consent, Introduces New Form of Visual Literacy

[Providence, RI] Brown University Digital Publications has launched the multimodal edition of Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual, the inaugural title in the On Seeing series published by the MIT Press. Authored by Kimberly Juanita Brown, inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College, Mortevivum is a Brown University Library Releases Multimodal Publication Centered on Consent, Introduces New Form of Visual Literacy