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
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
Friday, October 11, 2024 is National Coming Out Day! Celebrate and explore the joys and pleasures of queerness with a day of crafting, food, community, and history at the Brown University Library! This year’s theme, Playing with Queer Futures, invites you on a pride-filled and playful journey across four Brown Library stations plus the Main … Hot to Go (to the Library): Coming Out Day 2024
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
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: 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
Join the Brown University Library on Monday, April 29 from 1 – 2 p.m. in the Hecker Room at the Rockefeller Library or on Zoom for a presentation by the two inaugural Gardner Fellows. This special event showcases the culmination of their intensive research into the rare East Asian materials housed within the University’s distinguished … Student Presentations: Gardner Fellows’ Research Projects on Chinese Library Materials
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
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
On November 8 and 9, 2023, the John Hay Library, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative present programming related to Native American and Indigenous activism and political engagement. The events are free and open to the public. Native American and Indigenous Special Collections Wednesday, … MANKILLER: Film, Special Collections, Panel
