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On Seeing Series Launches with “Mortevivum”

Join Brown University Library as we host a cross-disciplinary panel discussion centered on Kimberly Juanita Brown’s Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual (Paperback from MIT Press, February 2024). Open access digital edition by Brown University Digital Publications; full digital release June 2024). Speakers include the author, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Associate Professor, Department of English On Seeing Series Launches with “Mortevivum”

New Directions in Digital Scholarship Lecture Series

Join the Brown University Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship as we host a three-part lecture series on new directions in digital scholarship. Free and open to the public. Archipelagos of Marronage: Black Femme Freedom– Jessica Marie Johnson Tuesday, February 4, 2024 at 4 p.m.Churchill House Living Room, 155 Angell Street This talk is sponsored by New Directions in Digital Scholarship Lecture Series

Pizza Nights

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

Bringing UTRAs into the Library

Four UTRA awardees present their Library-based research projects Four UTRA (Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards) awardees found and conducted research on materials in the Library’s special collections. They worked on their UTRA projects in addition to a full course load during the Fall 2023 semester. On Friday, December 8, 2023 at 12 p.m. in the Bringing UTRAs into the Library

Children’s Book Drive

For the third year, the Library is hosting a campus-wide drive to collect children’s books for donation to Pawtucket, RI-based organization Books Are Wings. We collected 758 books! Many thanks to everyone who contributed! Congratulations to Penina Posner, Senior Library Specialist – Gateway Services, for coming closest to guessing how many books we donated in a Library staff contest. Penina Children’s Book Drive

Food & Feedback Forums

Tell us what you think! The Brown University Library is hosting two Food & Feedback Forum sessions. Enjoy pizza and snacks and give us your feedback on the Library’s services and spaces. During recent Library surveys, students commented on different aspects of the Library’s spaces, collections, and services. We’d love to hear more — come and share Food & Feedback Forums

“Mankiller” – Film, Special Collections, Discussion

Members of the Brown community and the general public are invited to attend a series of events related to Wilma Mankiller and Native American and Indigenous Studies: Wednesday, November 8 Native American and Indigenous Special Collections 4 p.m. in the Special Collections Reading Room at the John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St. View recently acquired “Mankiller” – Film, Special Collections, Discussion