John Nicholas Brown Center Public Humanities Programs Spring 2008

Lunches for public humanities students (lunch provided) Dining Room or Library

Th, 4/10/08: Barnaby Evans ’75, creator of WaterFire (12-1:30 p.m.)

Th, 4/17/08: Mark Brodeur, director of operations for Rhode Island Tourism Division. JNBC, Seminar Room (12-1:30 p.m.)

Brown Bag Lunches for public humanities students Seminar Room

W, 1/30/08: Risa Gilpin and SueEllen Kroll: RICH (Long Road to Freedom project) (12-1:30 p.m.)

W, 2/6/08: C. D. Wright, poet and professor of English (12-1:30 p.m.)

W, 2/13/08: Doug Nickel, professor of history of art and architecture (12-1:30 p.m.)

W, 2/20/08: Steve Lubar and the Hong Kong Humanists (12-1:30 p.m.)

W, 2/27/08: Karen Allen Baxter, managing director of the Rites and Reason Theater (12-1:30 p.m.)

W, 3/5/08: Margie Butler, JNBC fellow: Inside Out - Outside In: Bridging audiences in the context of cultural cities (12-1:30 p.m.)

W, 3/12/08: Open discussion of the public humanities program. Lunch provided. (12-1:30 p.m.)

W, 3/19/08: Roger Nozaki, director of the Swearer Center (12-1:30 p.m.)

W, 4/2/08: Keith Brown, associate professor of international studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies (12-1:30 p.m.)

W, 4/9/08: Geralyn Hoffman, curator of programs and education at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology (12-1:30 p.m.)

F, 4/11/08: Nicole Restaino, public humanities alumna and library communications manager at Temple University (12-1:30 p.m.) NOTE SPECIAL DAY

W, 4/16/08: Daniel Kertzner, community philanthropy officer at the Rhode Island Foundation (12-1:30 p.m.)

W, 4/23/08: Maya Allison, JNBC Fellow (12-1:30 p.m.)

W, 4/30/08: Lucie Searle, development director with AS220 (12-1:30 p.m.)

Cultural? Heritage? Tourism? Lectures

W, 2/13/08: Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar: Picnicking with the Buddahas in Colonial India (Part of the Cultural? Heritage? Tourism? Lecture series). JNBC, Library (5:30 p.m.)

T, 2/26/08: Amy Webb: National Trends in Cultural Heritage Tourism (Part of the Cultural? Heritage? Tourism? Lecture series). JNBC, Library (5:30 p.m.)

M, 5/5/08: Oscar Ho: Artistic Actions and Heritage Preservation in Hong Kong (Part of the Cultural? Heritage? Tourism? series). JNBC, Library (5:30 p.m.)

Workshops

T, 2/12/08: Joanne Riley and Heather Cole: Community-Building Through Public History: The Mass. Memories Road Show Model . JNBC, Library (10 a.m. – 3 p.m.)

Th, 2/14/08: Jobs Workshop: Bev Ehrich, Susan Anderson, Ron Forman. JNBC, Seminar Room (9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.)

T, 2/26/08: Amy Webb: Telling Your Story: Interpreting Cultural Heritage in Your Community. JNBC, Library (10 a.m. – 3 p.m.)

F, 3/7/07: Gayle Gifford: Creative Leadership in the Nonprofit World. JNBC, Library (10 a.m. – 3 p.m.)

T, 5/6/08: Oscar Ho: Critical Curatorship. JNBC, Library (10 a.m. – 3 p.m.)

Brown Lectures, Conferences and Symposia

4/4/08: Eating Chinese: Local and Global Perspectives on Memory and Identity.

What’s “Chinese”? Food & Identity. Film screenings ("Cuba” from “On the Islands” and “Canada” from “Three Continents”) followed by a conversation with filmmaker Cheuk Kwan, Ernesto Martinez, and John Eng-Wong. Moderated by Evelyn Hu-Dehart. JNBC, Library (1:00–3:30 p.m.)

Restaurants, Food, and Memory. A five-sided discussion with an historian, a restaurateur, a cookbook author, and cultural critics, all of them eaters. Panel discussion includes Mark Swislocki, John Chan, Ellen Leong Blonder, discussants Robert Lee and Lingzhen Wang. JNBC, Library (4:00–5:30 p.m.)

The Chow Mein Sandwich: Chinese in Local Perspective. Southeastern New England’s unique contribution to Chinese American food commemorated and served at this opening reception. John Nicholas Brown Center (6:00–7:30 p.m.)

4/10/08: Barnaby Evans ’75, creator of WaterFire. John Nicholas Brown Center, Library (7:00–8:30 p.m.)

4/15/08: The Politics of Sex Education in Rhode Island: A Panel Discussion. John Nicholas Brown Center, Library (7 p.m.)

4/23/08: Confessions of a Sex Educator. John Nicholas Brown Center, Library (5:30–7:00 p.m.)

4/30/08: Kenneth W. Rendell, dealer in historical letters and documents. John Hay Library, Lownes Room (Time TBD)

5/1/08: Norma Swenson, original co-author of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" and faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health. John Nicholas Brown Center, Library (7 p.m.)

Exhibits

W, 1/30/08: "Eleven Proposals for Burnside Park" exhibition closing reception

F, 2/8/08: "Native Americans at Brown" exhibit opening reception

T, 4/8/08: “The Birds and the Bees” exhibit opening reception. John Nicholas Brown Center, Library (6:30-8:30 p.m.)

Fieldtrips

S, 2/2/08: Fieldtrip to MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. Bus will depart from the JNBC at 9 a.m. MEET AT THE JNBC AT 8:45 A.M.!

M.A. Student Meetings

Th, 2/7/08: General meeting. JNBC, Library (12-1:30 p.m.)

Other Events

Th, 4/24/08: Practicum student-mentor lunch. JNBC, Library. (12-1:30 p.m.)

S, 5/24/08: Commencement forum: From A.A. to Zouave. AMBM (Time TBD)

S, 5/24/08: Commencement reception 2008. JNBC, Library. (4–6 p.m.)

Conferences of Interest

3/10/08: New England Regional Meeting of the Imagining America Consortium http://www.imaginingamerica.org/index.html

3/30-4/2/08: National Main Streets Conference: Enriching Main Street Through Entrepreneurship and Diversity http://conference.mainstreet.org/content.aspx?page=11247&site=13

4/12/08: Preservation Past, Present, and Future: Rhode Island Statewide Historic Preservation Conference http://www.preservation.ri.gov/conference

6/16-21/08: Historic New England's Program in New England Studies http://www.historicnewengland.org/Pines/pines.html

6/20-22/08: American Evolution: Arts in the New Civic Life http://www.americansforthearts.org/events/2008/convention/default.asp

9/29-10/3/08: 2008 CECA Annual Conference: Cultural Tourism: Trends and Strategies http://ceca.icom.museum/01_cms/details.asp?ID=26

10/15-10/18/08: Civic Tourism II - Defining and Animating Whole Places http://www.civictourismconference2008.com/