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Extended hours at the Rock
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Beginning this week, the Rockefeller Library will extend its hours. It will be open 24/5 for the rest of the semester and then 24/7 during reading/exam period.The Rock will open at 8:30am on Wednesday, April 8 and remain open until 10pm on Friday, April 10. Hours on Saturday, April 11 will be normal hours (10am to 10pm). The Rock will open on Sunday, April 12 at 10am and remain open until 10pm on Friday, April 17.
The extended hours are in response to student requests to make available additional and alternative 24-hour study spaces.
Hours will be further extended to 24/7 for reading/exam period. Thus, the Rock will open at 10am on Sunday, April 19 at 10am and remain open 24 hours per day thru Friday, May 15 at 5pm.The updated Library hours are available on the website. -
Event | Sinai Rusinek: Unraveling Intertextualities in “The Star of Redemption”
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On Wednesday, April 15, at noon in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Sinai Rusinek will give a talk entitled, “Unraveling Intertextualities in ‘The Star of Redemption.’”
The “annotated star” is a project aiming to create a collaborative, dynamic digital edition of Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption that will combine the tradition of the critical edition with the developing possibilities of open, web-based text annotation. We aim to create a tool which will unveil and display a plethora of sources embedded in the book, as well as the richness and diversity of sources and themes that have characterized its Nachleben since its publication in 1921.
Rusinek is a post-doctoral fellow of the Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Her main interests are the History of Concepts and Digital Humanities. Her doctoral dissertation, “Criticus, Kritikos, Critick” was written under the supervision of Prof. Yemima Ben Menachem and Dr. Amiel Vardi at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It dealt with the way these words functioned in various contexts and discourses from antiquity to Early Modernity, and with how they changed and were formed through these uses. (http://www.vanleer.org.il/en/people/sinai-rusinek, http://www.thedigin.org/en/)
This lecture is sponsored by Judaic Studies and by the Brown University Library.
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Time: 12 p.m.
Location: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence -
Exhibit | Garland of Flowers
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Garland of Flowers (a selection of medieval manuscripts from the University collections) will be on exhibit at the Annmary Brown Memorial (21 Brown Street Providence RI) from Thursday evening April 9 through Commencement weekend.The exhibit displays about two dozen manuscript books, letters, and fragments from the collections in the University Library. These artifacts date from the late 11th to the early 16th centuries, and include original letters of Sixtus IV, and two Spanish kings, as well as a small breviary made for a German nun, and illuminated leaves from a Neapolitan Antiphonal.
The exhibit opens Thursday evening April 9 in conjunction with a talk sponsored by the Rhode Island Medieval Circle. Lisa Fagin Davis (Brown class of 1988), Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America, will speak about “Medieval Manuscripts on College Hill” at 5:30 pm in the Annmary Brown Memorial.
A reception will follow the talk, and the exhibit will remain through Commencement weekend.
The Annmary Brown Memorial is normally open Monday through Friday, from 1-5 pm.
For more information click here.