CSSJ Weekly Newsletter
May 20, 2015

Please join us for these upcoming Commencement events:

Racial slavery remains one of the most vexed issues in American and New World history. Its legacies haunt and shape our contemporary lives. Utilizing historic artwork from the Brown University Library Instructional Image Collection, the exhibition A Peculiar Aesthetic examines how these images coalesce to represent a world in which plantations, slave markets and dwellings, maroon ambushes, cosmetic boxes, figurines and decorative tables, and printers’ typefaces of runaway slaves – evoke again and again the realization of how central slavery was to ways of life within New World and American societies.

Please join us for an opening reception on Thursday, May 21st, 2015 from 5-6:30 PM at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Gallery, 94 Waterman Street.
 

This exhibition is on view May 21, 2015 through October 31, 2015 at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 8:45am-3:45pm.

If you are interested in bringing a group or visiting outside of our normal hours, please email slaveryjustice@brown.edu.

String Theory

Drawn from real-life accounts, an explosive new drama gives living voice to the first civil rights case in America,
the epic saga of L'Amistad.  

May 20-22, 2015 | 7 PM
May 23, 2015 | 11 AM & 4 PM

Department of Africana Studies' Rites and Reason Theatre
Churchill House, 155 Angell Street
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space

Changing America examines the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington, two events separated by one hundred years, yet profoundly linked together in a larger story of liberty and the American experience.

The exhibition will be on display at the Hillel Gallery from May 7- June 10.
Free and Open to the Public.

Brown RISD Hillel
The Glenn and Darcy Weiner Center
80 Brown Street | Providence, RI 02906
Monday-Friday: 9am-10pm Saturdays: 10am-8pm Sundays: 12pm-6pm

Learn more about the Changing America exhibition.

“Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963” is presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and is part of NEH’s Bridging Cultures initiative, “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle,” which brings four outstanding films on the civil rights movement to communities across the United States (see http://createdequal.neh.gov). “Created Equal” encourages communities across the country to revisit and reflect on the long history of the struggle for civil rights in America.