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CSSJ Weekly Newsletter
November 20, 2014

 
 
 

Coming up:


Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Christine Walker

Tuesday, December 2, 2014
12:00 PM
Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice
Seminar Room
94 Waterman Street

“To Buy, Kidnap, or Free a Slave? Redrawing the Boundaries Between Gender, Race, and Authority in Colonial Jamaica”

Lunch will be provided. Kindly RSVP here: http://goo.gl/forms/u4Y2czBfGz

 

Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Oscar de la Torre

Thursday, December 4, 2014
12:00 PM
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
Seminar Room
94 Waterman Street

"Larry and Luis: Using Environmental Knowledge to Fight for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Amazonia"

Lunch will be provided. Kindly RSVP here: http://goo.gl/forms/DfSSvhJcEi

 

Don't forget! Blacks at Brown: A Visual Narrative is still on display in the gallery.

 
 

Open Monday through Thursday, 8am-4:30pm. We hope to see you there!

 
 
 

In the news:

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Brown-Tougaloo

"Nearly 200 alumni, students, faculty, staff, and community members from both Brown and Tougaloo College gathered at Brown Nov. 7-8, 2014, for a weekend of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership."

Read more in News from Brown

Photo: Mike Cohea/Brown University
 

Photo: Mike Cohea/Brown University

 

Museum on slave trade planned for former Episcopal cathedral in Providence

"The Cathedral of St. John Episcopal Church, on North Main Street in Providence, has been shuttered for 2-1/2 years, but could reopen as a museum and reconciliation center. Church leaders are already working with the Massachusetts-based The Tracing Center and Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice."

Read more in the Providence Journal.

 

The Providence Journal / Bob Thayer

 
 

Beyond the Center:

THE NEW GROUP invites you to participate in CUT/THROAT CREATIVITY: STRUCTURING THE NEW, featuring Simone Leigh, Rashida Bumbray, Doug Jones, and Lauren Wittels. A symposium designed to stimulate multidisciplinary conversation and consideration of how cultural identity and artistic practice converge to produce innovative work. What constitutes innovative work in today’s age of immanent reproducibility? How does innovation cross or differ across disciplinary boundaries or require multi/interdisciplinary methodological approaches? What makes the pursuit of innovation or newness a worthwhile one? We hope to bring the Brown community into discussion with several contemporary artists and critics in order to get at questions such as these (and more)!

The New Group is a small creative collective of current graduate students at Brown.

 

Mitchell S. Jackson will be reading from his novel The Residue Years this Friday (Nov. 21) at the McCormack Theater  at 7pm. There will also be a screening of The Residue Years (documentary) earlier in the day at 3pm, also in the McCormack. The novel and film follow the dreams of a mother and a son as they struggle against cycles of drugs and poverty. The novel recently won a Lannan Literary Award.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/724348977648728/

http://www.brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/events

 

 

What I Am Thinking About Now: Dr. Shontay Delalue, Assistant Dean of the College/Director of International Student & Visitor Experience

"Assumed to be ‘Black’: The Racial Categorization of African & Caribbean Students"

Wednesday, December 3, 12 p.m. 
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
Conference Room, Room 303
80 Brown Street