A new environment for scholarly research is emerging out of the steady accumulation of digitized sources over the last two decades, contemporary models for accessing those sources, and novel methods for searching, sorting, and mining them in ways that forge new connections and enhance serendipity. In his talk, “The Emerging Research Environment,” Dan Cohen—Executive Director … Dan Cohen Lecture: “The Emerging Research Environment and the Digital Public Library of America”

On November 13, Tom Banchoff (Brown Professor of Mathematics) will discuss his research on the fourth dimension, including his biography of Edwin A. Abbott, The Man Who Wrote ‘Flatland.’ Flatland is the story of “a square.” It is a memoir of an inhabitant of a two-dimensional world. In the book, this square visited such places as “Pointland” … Flatland Worldwide Event

Next week is the beginning of Digital Scholarship Week at Brown. Here is a list of upcoming events: November 7  |  Can Participatory Maps Save the World  |  a talk by Jo Guldi (Assistant Professor of History at Brown)  |  5:30 p.m.  |  Digital Scholarship Lab November 13  |  Flatland Worldwide  |  a talk by Thomas Banchoff … Coming Soon: Digital Scholarship Week (November 7–November 15)

From now until November 22, an exhibition of materials from the University’s Medieval manuscript collections will be displayed at the Annmary Brown Memorial. This exhibit is being run in conjunction with two conferences: Late Literature in the Sixth Century: East and West The annual New England Medieval Conference being held at RISD Also, Witnesses to a Remote … Witnesses to a Remote Past Exhibit

Technology often appears as the magic cure for many present-day problems, but what actually works? And what fails? Can maps actually dissolve the barriers of privilege between rich and poor? In “Can Particpatory Maps Save the World,” Jo Guldi will look at new map-making technologies as well as map-making as far back as 1968, when … Jo Guldi Presents “Can Participatory Maps Save the World?”

AFTER 130 YEARS, Flatland continues to be the best seller in mathematically inspired fiction. This exhibit features translations into 18 foreign languages (so far) and several recent versions with new introductions, both in England and the US. There are also four film adaptations and an electronic edition, with notes and commentary from Cambridge University Press. … Flatland Worldwide and Edwin A. Abbott at 75 (+100) Exhibit Opens November 1st

The Yale Indian Papers Project boasts of materials relating to over four hundred years of New England Native American history, community, culture, sovereignty, land, gender, race, identity, migration, law, and politics. On Tuesday, October 29, at 5:30 p.m., Paul Grant-Costa and Tobias Glaza will discuss the this project and how it offers students, educators, researchers, Native … Yale Indian Papers Project Event in the Digital Scholarship Lab

The exhibition ‘Love Medicine: Beads, Bark and Books from Ojibwe Country’ (Finn Room, Rockefeller Library), a collaboration of the Tomaquag Museum, the Haffenreffer Museum and the Brown University Library, will end on Thursday,  October 24th. On Friday (10/25) at the Providence Athenaeum, from 5-7 pm, Loren Spears, Director of the Tomaquag Museum, will speak on “Native Arts: Healing Communities.”  … LAST CHANCE: ‘Love Medicine’ exhibit at the Rock