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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

Books from the City: Making Meeting in Isfahan (2022) at the Chester Beatty

Join the John Hay Library and the Center for Middle East Studies for a talk by Dr. Moya Carey, Curator of Islamic Collections at the Chester Beatty in Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Carey will discuss the making of the exhibit “Meeting in Isfahan: Vision and Exchange in Safavid Iran.” Tuesday, October 8, 20244 p.m. Primary Sources … Books from the City: Making Meeting in Isfahan (2022) at the Chester Beatty

Orwig the Vote

In conjunction with the Brown Votes exhibit at the Rockefeller Library, the Orwig Music Library presents items from our collections related to voting, elections, and political activism in the United States. The material on display runs the gamut from the humorous: an enchanted frog for President; to the serious: songs for the disenfranchised and politically disillusioned. Orwig the … Orwig the Vote

Art and the Freedom Struggle – Commencement Forum

Art and the Freedom Struggle: A Workshop on Mumia Abu-Jamal, Art, Incarceration, and Creating Activation Space with Melaine Ferdinand-King Workshop aims to spark engaged activity on the local level related to issues of mass incarceration, and spirited dialogue on the importance of responding creatively in times of political duress. Saturday, May 25 from 11 a.m. … Art and the Freedom Struggle – Commencement Forum