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Dr. Guila Clara Kessous “Theater and Human Rights”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 3, 2012PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – At 5:30pm on Monday, May 7, 2012, Dr. Guila Clara Kessous will give a lecture entitled “Theater and Human Rights” in the second floor Lownes Room of the John Hay Library followed by a reception. This lecture is sponsored by Friends of the Library and is part of the Mel and Cindy Yoken Cultural Series. It is free and open to the public.
Dr. Kessous will consider representations of humanitarian cause on stage and examine the responsibilities and challenges artists and audiences face in exploring material of this nature. The presentation will focus on scenes from plays directed by Dr. Kessous in English and in French.
Guila Clara Kessous leads the Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center’s Initiative in Theater and Human Rights. She is the recipient of the State Diploma of Performing Arts among other awards, Kessous acted, directed and produced in major theatres in the US and Europe. She received a PhD in ethics and aesthetics under the mentorship of E. Wiesel, an MBA in cultural business, and a cross-disciplinary MA in comparative dramaturgy, cinema, and pedagogy. She has taught at Harvard, Boston University, the Sorbonne, and the Wiesel Institute. Her sponsors include UNESCO (director, “Hilda”), the UN (director, “Tribute to Human Rights”), and the CNRS among others. She has collaborated with artists including John Malkovich, James Taylor, Marissa Berenson, Daniel Mesguich, and Theodore Bikel. In 2010, she partnered with the United Nations on the theme “Theater and Human Rights” and was awarded the “Chevalier Arts et Lettres” from the French Minister of Culture. In 2011, UNESCO named her an “Artist for Peace” giving her the opportunity to collaborate directly with francophone countries spanning three different continents on the Mediterranean project.
Friends of the Library is an association interested in fostering the growth and usefulness of the Brown University Library and in encouraging gifts of books, desirable collections, other scholarly materials and funds.
The Brown University Library is home to more than 6.8 million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding digital archives serving the teaching, research, and learning needs of Brown students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the country and the world.
Contact: Jennifer Braga | 401-863-6913
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Brown University Library Discovers Buried Treasure
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March 27, 2012
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – The Preservation Department of Brown University Library has discovered an exceptionally rare engraved print by Paul Revere.As long as two hundred years ago, Solomon Drowne, Brown University Class of 1773 and a professor in the early Brown University Medical School, tucked a little something into one of his books, The Modern Practice of Physic, by Robert Thomas, published in 1811. The John Hay Library received the book in 1940, with the rest of Drowne’s Library. During a recent inspection of the Drowne books, Marie Malchodi, of the Library’s Preservation Department, discovered this little something: an engraved depiction of Christ and John the Baptist, both of them chest deep in the Jordan River, titled “Buried with Him by Baptism” and signed “P. Revere sculp.”
The print is characterized by Clarence S. Brigham in Paul Revere’s Engravings, the standard reference, as “one of the scarcest of the plates signed by Revere.” The Brown University Library’s copy is the fifth known to exist. Other copies are housed at the American Antiquarian Society, the Worcester Art Museum, and a private museum collection in Massachusetts; another, which Brigham mistakenly thought had been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), was offered at auction by Sotheby’s in 2007.
As Richard Noble, Rare Materials Cataloger explains “The print is of considerable interest simply because Revere made it, but it is also an intriguing and very serious theopolitical cartoon, depicting the baptism in a manner that was the subject of lively debate in eighteenth-century New England religious circles. Brigham was unable to identify a model for it in any English book or periodical, or connect it with any of the tracts on baptism published on this side of the Atlantic from 1760 to 1780. It appears to be an American original, by an American original, the son of French Huguenot refugees who eventually became, by all accounts, a Unitarian. The print thus marks a stage in the evolution of that aspect of Revere’s life.”
The Brown University Library is home to more than 6.8 million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding digital archives serving the teaching, research, and learning needs of Brown students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the country and the world.
Contact: Ann Dodge| Ann_Dodge@Brown.edu | (401) 863-1502
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Chinese Exhibition in the Year of Dragon-extended to April 19th and new books added
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Culture and Art from the Divine Land: An Exhibition of Chinese Collections in the Year of Dragon来自神州大地的文化艺术–布朗大学龙年中文馆藏特展
John Hay Library, Brown University, Feb. 6 – April 19, 2012Culture and Art from the Divine Land, an exhibit which is part of Brown’s Year of China, has been extended to April 19th. New exhibition items include the BFSU Scholars Selections, received recently from China. Curator Li Wang was honored to attend the ceremony for publishing on the 70th anniversary of Beijing Foreign Studies University in September 2011. The Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, BFSU’s publishing house, donated a set of this valuable Scholars series including works by late Professors Wang Zuoliang, Xu Guozhang, Zhou Jueliang and other distinguished scholars to Brown University Library. The gift books also include a set of bi-lingual renowned scholars’ works in humanities and social sciences.
For more information about the exhibition, see: http://library.brown.edu/exhibits/ChineseCollections.pdf
The exhibit locations include the Gammell Gallery, the North Gallery, Lobby Case and Reading Room Glass Cases in the John Hay Library.