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\"Screen<\/a>PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]<\/strong> \u2014Brown University Library is pleased to announce that our new schedule of events and exhibits for Fall 2013 is now ready! You can pick up a copy at any Library location starting next week. In the meantime, PDFs are available for download (Fall 2013 Events and Exhibits<\/a>). Events and exhibits are also listed below.<\/p>\n

Check back on the Library blog for updates and more information. You can also check the\u00a0exhibitions page<\/a> for updates on past, current, and upcoming exhibits, or sign up to subscribe to our new monthly e-newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Members of the general public wishing to view exhibits at the Rockefeller Library<\/em>
\nshould first check in at the service desk.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Shadow Over College Street: H. P. Lovecraft in Providence<\/strong>
\nAugust 19 \u2013 September 22, 2013<\/strong>
\nJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library &<\/strong>
\nPhilbrick Rare Book Room, Providence Athenaeum<\/strong>
\nMounted in conjunction with NecronomiCon Providence, this collaborative exhibition explores Lovecraft\u2019s youth in Providence and its role in shaping his career as a master craftsman of weird fiction.<\/p>\n

Reading Love Medicine: Beads, Bark, and Books from Ojibwe Country<\/strong>
\nSeptember 27 \u2013 October 24, 2013<\/strong>
\nJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library<\/strong>
\nJoin us in reading Louise Erdrich\u2019s Love Medicine for the 2013\u20132014 Big Read in Rhode Island, hosted by the Tomaquag Museum with support from Brown University. This exhibit draws on the collections of Brown\u2019s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology to explore the stories that can be told about objects from Ojibwe country. The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.<\/p>\n

Performing in the Spirit:Strings, Drums, Feuges and Pans<\/strong>
\nThrough September 30, 2013<\/strong>
\nOrwig Music Library<\/strong>
\nThis exhibit explores the instruments and life of the Music Department\u2019s ethnomusicological ensembles including Ghanaian Drumming, Brazilian Choro, Old-time American string, Sacred Harp singing, and Javanese gamelan. At Brown, students learn about performance orally from faculty, guest faculty, and peers while studying cultural origins of musical traditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cMade Not Born\u201d Screening with Don Wilmeth and Professor Josiah S. Carberry<\/strong>
\nFriday, September 13, 2013 \u2022 5:30 pm<\/strong>
\nDigital Scholarship Lab,<\/strong>
\nJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library<\/strong>
\nWho is Professor Josiah S. Carberry?! Who is he not?! Find out when the Professor and Friends of the Library Board member Don Wilmeth present the biographical documentary \u201cMade Not Born: The Wife and Dimes of Professor Josiah S. Carberry,\u201d in the Rock\u2019s new Digital Scholarship Lab. Snacks from The Carberry Cookbook: From Nuts to Soup and discussion will follow. This event is free and open to the public. #josiahcarberry<\/p>\n

Student Life at Brown<\/strong>
\nThrough October 11, 2013<\/strong>
\nLobby, Maddock Alumni Center<\/strong>
\nIn a continuing effort to showcase student life at Brown University, the University Archives has created an exhibit of photographs and museum objects in the lobby of the Maddock Alumni Center. Since Brown University was founded in 1764, student life has undergone dramatic social, academic, cultural, and political changes. The exhibit provides a glimpse of student life through a variety of photographs, a fan and dance card from 1914, a mug from 1942, a freshman beanie from 1958, and a commemorative Faunce House mailbox.<\/p>\n

Visually Inspiring Biology<\/strong>
\nOctober 17, 2013 \u2022 7:00 pm<\/strong>
\nDigital Scholarship Lab,<\/strong>
\nJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library<\/strong>
\nBrown STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) is a student initiative focused on integrating artistic and scientific thought to nurture interdisciplinary and creative project-based education. For this second part of the Visually Inspiring Biology mini-series, Hay staff will present medical and botanical art-folios from the Library\u2019s Special collections. A creativity workshop will follow. This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Material Encounters in the Archive Symposium<\/strong>
\nFriday, October 25, 2013 \u2022 2:00\u20135:30 pm<\/strong>
\nroom 305, Pembroke Hall<\/strong>
\nThree interdisciplinary humanities scholars, Anjali Arondekar (Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz), Ariella Azoulay (Modern Culture and Media, Brown University), and Kate Eichhorn (Culture and Media Studies, The New School), will discuss how their engagement with archival objects has shaped their understanding of the potential, as well as the limits, of the archive as a site of knowledge production. An open discussion moderated by Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian, will follow. This symposium is hosted by the Feminist Theory Archives, a collaboration between the Brown University Library and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.<\/p>\n

Paul Grant-Costa and Tobias Glaza,<\/strong>
\nYale Indian Papers Project<\/strong>
\nTuesday, October 29, 2013 \u2022 5:30 pm<\/strong>
\nDigital Scholarship Lab,<\/strong>
\nJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library<\/strong>
\nPaul Grant-Costa and Tobias Glaza will discuss the Yale Indian Papers Project, which collates materials from partner institutions into a scholarly critical edition of New England Native American primary source materials. By providing annotated transcriptions, the project offers students, educators, researchers, Native American tribal members, and the general public, visual and intellectual access to significant historical knowledge for the purposes of teaching, scholarly analysis, and research. This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Witnesses to a Remote Past<\/strong>
\nOctober 31 \u2013 November 22, 2013<\/strong>
\nAnnmary Brown Memorial<\/strong>
\nIn celebration of two conferences, Late Literature in the Sixth Century: East and West and the annual New England Medieval Conference, and in memory David A. Warner, a beloved colleague and professor of history at RISD, the Library will present an exhibition of materials from the University\u2019s Medieval manuscript collections. The Memorial is open to the public Monday through Friday from 1:00\u20135:00 pm during the academic year.<\/p>\n

Flatland and Abbott<\/strong>
\nNovember 1 \u2013 November 29, 2013<\/strong>
\nJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library*<\/strong>
\nProfessor Tom Bancroft will curate this exhibit in celebration of the 175th anniversary of the birth of Edwin Abbott, the author of Flatland, the classic introduction to Exploring the Fourth Dimension. Pre-publication first and second editions signed by the author, as well as translations into seventeen languages, will be on display from the John Hay Library\u2019s Special Collections.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Return of Rush Hawkins\u2019 Sword!<\/strong>
\nNovember 7, 2013 \u2022 3:00 pm<\/strong>
\nAnnmary Brown Memorial<\/strong>
\nJoin the University Library as we celebrate the return of Rush Hawkins\u2019 Civil War-era silver Tiffany presentation sword to the Annmary Brown Memorial, the resting place of Rush Hawkins and his wife, Annmary Brown. Curators, attorneys, and historians will talk about Rush Hawkins, the social history of his sword, and its remarkable journey back to campus. The Higher Keys, Brown\u2019s oldest co-ed a cappella group, will perform. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n

Flatland and Abbott<\/strong>
\nWednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 \u2022 5:30 pm<\/strong>
\nDigital Scholarship Lab,<\/strong>
\nJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library<\/strong>
\nTom Banchoff, Brown Professor of Mathematics, will discuss his research on the fourth dimension, including his biography of Edwin Abbott Abbott, The Man Who Wrote \u2018Flatland.\u2019 Banchoff\u2019s research includes the geometry and topology of smooth and polyhedral surfaces as well as development and dissemination of internet-based courseware for communication and visualization in undergraduate mathematics. This event
\nis free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Digital Public Library of America Talk<\/strong>
\nWednesday, November 13, 2013 \u2022 6:00 pm<\/strong>
\nJohn Nicholas Brown Center for Public<\/strong>
\nHumanities and Cultural Heritage<\/strong>
\nLecture Room, Nightingale Brown House,<\/strong>
\n357 Benefit Street, rear entrance<\/strong>
\nFor this program, co-sponsored by the Center for Public Humanities, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Brown University Library, Dan Cohen, Director, DPLA, will speak about the Digital Public Library of America.<\/p>\n

The Art of Illusion: Selections from the H. Adrian Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana<\/strong>
\nDecember 5, 2013 \u2013 March 26, 2014<\/strong>
\nJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library*<\/strong>
\nH. Adrian Smith, Brown class of 1930, assembled during his lifetime one of the finest private collections of magic books, manuscripts, and ephemera. The exhibit will feature Smith\u2019s rich collections on conjuring, bequeathed to the University upon his death in 1992.<\/p>\n

Dresden and Nymphenburg<\/strong>
\nPorcelains from the<\/strong>
\nAnne S. K. Brown Military Collection<\/strong>
\nDecember 5, 2013 \u2013 March 26, 2014<\/strong>
\nJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library*<\/strong>
\nWhile John Nicholas Brown was working with the allied forces in Germany in 1945 reporting on stolen art works, he visited the factory at Nymphenburg in Bavaria and ordered 21 porcelain figures for his wife, Anne S. K. Brown. Subsequent additions to this set came from the Dresden porcelain factory. Today these porcelains form a unique segment of the foremost American collection devoted to the history and iconography of
\nsoldiers and soldiering.<\/p>\n

An Evening with 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Ayad Akhtar \u201991<\/strong>
\nMonday, December 9, 2013 \u2022 7:00 pm<\/strong>
\nMartinos Auditorium, Granoff Center<\/strong>
\nJoin Brown University Library and Friends of the Library for the 10th Annual Don Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship in American Theatre featuring renowned American writer and actor, Ayad Akhtar. Akhtar, Brown class of 1991, majored in theater and earned his masters in directing from Columbia University. Akhtar published his first novel, American Dervish, in 2012, and is currently working on his second novel. In 2013, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Disgraced<\/em>. This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.<\/p>\n

Josiah Carberry Cooking Demonstration & Cookbook Signing<\/strong>
\nFriday, December 13, 2013 \u2022 3:00 pm<\/strong>
\nJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library<\/strong>
\nPerhaps there will be chocolate chicken! Perhaps fried dandelions or Oysters Rockefeller Library! Come see a cooking demonstration and try free snacks from the Carberry Cookbook. Cookbooks will be for sale and Carberry may or may not be around to sign them! This event is free and open to the public. #josiahcarberry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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