The John Carter Brown Library (JCB) and John Hay Library on Brown University’s campus invite local Indigenous community members to a research night and open house at both libraries from 5 to 7 p.m. on May 1, 2025. Pre-selected primary and secondary source materials from the libraries’ collections will be available to visit, view and … Indigenous Communities Research Night and Open House
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
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
Today is Ask a Conservator Day! To celebrate, we’re announcing the reopening of the John Hay Library’s newly renovated conservation lab, a space designed to enhance the care and preservation of the Library’s special collections. Over the past two years, library conservation staff meticulously planned the renovation to create an environment that supports their vital … Ask a Conservator Day
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
The Library’s Gardner Fellowship is now accepting applications. This program is designed to promote in-depth and creative research using the Library’s rare East Asian materials, with goals to: The fellowship offers a stipend of $2,500 per fellow. Both graduate and undergraduate students at Brown University are eligible to apply. The deadline for submission is October … Brown Library Call for Applications: Gardner Fellowship
Brown University Library is excited to announce the new Brown-Beijing Normal University International Research Collaboration Program to support research on China that uses the materials in the BNU library system in Beijing. While not required, collaborations with the BNU scholars can also be covered by the fellowship. Successful applicants will receive up to three months … Brown Library Call for Applications: Brown-BNU International Research Collaboration
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
