Spring 2009 Programs: Home

UPDATED 4/18/2009

John Nicholas Brown Center Public Humanities Programs Spring 2009

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

Th, 3/12/09: Public humanities alumni panel with Kristen Costa, Julia Lazarus, and Alma Carrillo. (6:00-7:30 p.m.)

Th, 4/9/09: Charles E. Cobb, Jr., author of “On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail”. (12-1:30 p.m.)

F, 4/10/09: Jake Barton: Local Projects; Rosten Woo: Center for Urban Pedagogy. JNBC, Library (12–1:30 p.m.)

M, 4/27/09: Sharon Sekhon, founder and director of the Studio for Southern California History. (12-1:30 p.m.)

Th, 5/7/09: Practicum Seminar Mentor-Mentee Lunch. JNBC, Seminar Room (12–1:30 p.m.)

Brown Bag Lunches for public humanities students Seminar Room

W, 2/18/09: Shawn Parker, museum educator. (12–1:30 p.m.)

W, 2/25/09: Richard Gutman, curator and director of the Culinary Art Museum. (12–1:30 p.m.)

W, 3/4/09: Erin Wells: Exhibition Design. (12–1:30 p.m.)

W, 3/11/09: Gail Kushnir and Bobbi Wexler: Soldier Stories. (12–1:30 p.m.)

W, 3/18/09: LZ Nunn, JNBC fellow. (12–1:30 p.m.)

W, 4/1/09: Bob Billington: Blackstone Valley Tourism Council. (12–1:30 p.m.)

W, 4/8/09: LZ Nunn, director, COOL/ Cultural Affairs & Special Events and Gray Fitzsimons, park historian, Lowell National Historical Park. (12–1:30 p.m.)

W, 4/15/09: Lisa Carnevale, executive director, RI Citizens for the Arts. (12–1:30 p.m.)

W, 4/22/09: Mary-Kim Arnold: RICH. (12–1:30 p.m.)

Workshops

Th, 2/5/09: Cora Marshall: Process and Inspiration: The Runaway Series of Cora Marshall. JNBC, Library (2:30-3:30 p.m.)

Th, 2/12/09: Betty Neal Crutcher: Mentoring. Student-only workshop. JNBC, Seminar Room (10:00–11:30 a.m.)

Th, 2/19/09: Ron Foreman and Susan Andersen: Job Hunting. Student-only workshop. JNBC, Seminar Room (9–11 a.m.)

Th, 2/26/09: Deborah Obalil: Collaboration. Student-only workshop. JNBC, Seminar Room (10 a.m.–1:00 p.m.)

M, 3/9/09: Ron Potvin: Object Handling. Student-only workshop. JNBC (3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.)

Th, 3/19/09: Annie Valk: Oral History. JNBC, Library (10 a.m.–3 p.m.)

M, 4/6/09: Ron Potvin: Cataloging and Record Keeping. Student-only workshop. JNBC (3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.)

F, 4/10/09: John Malpede and Reenactment. JNBC, Library (2–4 p.m.)

F, 4/17/09: Stih and Schnock Workshop: LIFE~BOAT: Collections and Hybridity. JNBC, Library (10 a.m.–3:30 p.m.)

M, 4/20/09: Ron Potvin: Photograph Care. Student-only workshop. JNBC (3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.)

Brown Lectures, Conferences and Symposia

Th, 1/29/09: Robert Lee, associate professor of American civilization. “Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas.” JNBC, library (4:30-6:00 p.m.). Sponsored by the Rhode Island Geography Education Alliance. Please RSVP to rigea@ric.edu.

W, 2/4/09: Matthew Garcia, associate professor of American civilization. “Geographies of Latinidad: Mapping Latina/o Identity and Community Formation into the Twenty-first Century.” JNBC, library (4:30-6:00 p.m.). Sponsored by the Rhode Island Geography Education Alliance. Please RSVP to rigea@ric.edu.

Th, 2/5/09: Cora Marshall: Emancipated Memories: Slavery as Subject in Selected Works by Contemporary Black Women Artists. Salomon Center for Teaching, 001 (5:00-6:30 p.m.)

T, 2/10/09: Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, UC Santa Cruz. "Enforcing Romantic Love through Immigration Law: The Case of Foreign Marriage." JNBC, library (12:00-1:30 p.m.)

T, 2/10/09: Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, United States Marine Reserves, New York County District Attorney’s Office. "Thieves of Baghdad: The Loss of Cultural Heritage." Smith-Buonanno, 106 (8-9 p.m.) Co-sponsored by JNBC

W, 2/11/09: Constructing Community-based learning: Models of Brown and beyond. A presentation and conversation with Kerri Heffernan. Sheridan Center for Teaching (12-1 p.m.)

T, 2/24/09: Kathleen Lopez, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman College, CUNY. "Chinese Cuban Transnational Family Histories." JNBC, library (12:00-1:30 p.m.)

T, 3/3/09: Jenny So, director of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. JNBC, Library (1:30-3:30 p.m.)

W, 3/4/09: Lilia Fernandez, Assistant Professor of History, Ohio State University. "La Mujer Despierta: Providing for Women in Chicago’s Pilsen Community." JNBC, library (12:00-1:30 p.m.)

W, 3/18/09: Marlene Lopes, special collections librarian at James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College. "Cape Verdeans in Rhode Island: Foxpoint and Beyond? JNBC, library (4:30-6:00 p.m.). Sponsored by the Rhode Island Geography Education Alliance. Please RSVP to rigea@ric.edu.

T, 3/31/09: Roberto Chao Romero, Assistant Professor of Chicano Studies, UCLA. "El destierro de los Chinos”: Popular Perspectives on Chinese-Mexican Intermarriage in the Early Twentieth Century." Petteruti Lounge, Faunce House (12:00-1:30 p.m.)

W, 4/1/09: Panel discussion: Urban Studies After Brown: Brian Bixby Esq ’74, attorney; Darrell Petit ’82, sculptor and public artist; Matt Soursourian ’08, policy associate for Mayor Cicilline. Salomon 001 (7:30 p.m.)

Th, 4/16/09: Stih and Schnock Lecture: Art Goes Public: Memorials and Interventions. JNBC, Library (4–6 p.m.)

F, 4/24/09: Eating Chinese: Local and Global Perspectives on Memory and Identity.

Seasoning Modernity, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love MSG. Robert Jisong Ku, visiting associate professor and associate director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Program at SUNY-Binghamton. JNBC, Library (10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.)

Cross-Cultural Pigs: Myths, Meals, and Tastings. John Eng-Wong, Brown University. JNBC, Library (11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)

Tofu: An Ethnographical Portrayal. Chee-Beng Tan, professor of anthopology at Chinese University of Hong Kong. JNBC, Library (1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.)

The Social Life of American Crayfish in Asia. Sidney Cheung, professor of anthopology at Chinese University of Hong Kong; Wei Ying Wong, Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Connecticut College. JNBC, Library (3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.)

Summary Q&A. Evelyn Hu-deHart, professor of history at Brown University. JNBC, Library (4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.)

T, 4/28/09: Emil Her Many Horses and Colleen Cutschall: Identity by Design at the NMAI. Manning Hall (12:00–1:30 p.m.)

W, 5/6/09: Daniel Libeskind, architect. "A Conversation with Daniel Libeskind." Salomon Center for Teaching, 101. (4:00-5:30 p.m.)

Exhibits

W, 1/21/09 - 2/1/09: On The Grid. The Stairwell Gallery, 504 Broadway, Providence RI (Thurs - Sun, 11:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.)

Th, 2/5/09: Opening Reception for Emancipated Memories: Uncovering the Hidden Faces of Slavery. An Exhibition of Artwork by Cora Marshall. JNBC, Carriage House Gallery (7–9 p.m.)

W, 2/25/09: Faces of Fox Point Exhibit Opening / Open House. Vartan Gregorian Elementary School, 455 Wickenden Street (5:00-6:15 p.m.)

T, 3/31/09: Opening Reception for Art+History. John Nicholas Brown Center (5:30–7:30 p.m.)

F, 5/8/09: Opening Reception for "Remember the Old Times: Cape Verdean Community in Fox Point". JNBC, Carriage House Gallery (7-9 p.m.)

Fieldtrips

Su, 4/26/09: Fieldtrip to Lowell for AMCV 2500: Museum Interpretation of the American Experience. Meet at the JNBC at 8:45 a.m. for 9 a.m. departure.

Graduate Student Meetings

W, 1/28/09: General meeting. JNBC, Library (12-1:30 p.m.)

Other Events

Th, 1/22/09: AmCiv Spring Semester Party. JNBC (4–7 p.m.)

Th, 1/22/09: Donovan Rypkema, principal of PlaceEconomics. Providence Public Library (5:30 p.m.)

Th, 1/29/09: The Best Place To Live. Documentary on Hmong immigration to the US over the last 20 years. RISD CIT, Rm. 169 (6:30 p.m.)

Th, 2/19/09: Screening of "Buddy: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Mayor." JNBC, Library (7:30-9:30 p.m.)

Th, 4/2/09: Jill Lepore: Public Plenary for NCPH Conference. First Unitarian Church in Providence (7:00–8:30 p.m.)

Th, 4/2/09: NCPH Graduate Student Reception. Tickets required. JNBC (8:30–9:30 p.m.)

M-W, 5/11-5/13/09: Performances for Site- Specific Writing in Brown's Historical Spaces. Reservations required. JNBC and John Brown House (5-7 p.m.)

Sa, 5/3/09: Commencement Weekend Open House. JNBC (10 a.m.-1 p.m.)

Sa, 5/3/09: Public Humanities Commencement Reception. JNBC (4–6 p.m.)

Su, 5/24/09: Commencement. College Green.

Conferences of Interest

3/6-3/7/09: The Immigrant Paradox in Education and Behavior. Brown University. http://brown.edu/Departments/Education/paradox/

3/10/09: National Humanities Alliance Conference. Washington, DC. http://www.nhalliance.org/conference/2009/

4/2-4/5/09: National Council for Public History Annual Meeting: Toward Broader Horizons. http://www.ncph.org/Conferences/2009/tabid/304/Default.aspx

4/3-4/5/09: CONVERGENCE: A Conference on The Intersection of Arts and Activism. http://www.convergence-art.com/

4/4/09: Locating Public(s) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

4/16-18/09: Curating Difficult Knowledge. Concordia University, Montreal. http://cerev.concordia.ca/programme/Lect_events/lect_events.html

4/24-4/26/09: African-Americans in Boston: From Slavery to Today. Boston University, Boston, MA. http://www.bu.edu/afam/EventsNews/Conference.htm

4/30-5/4/09: American Association of Museums Annual Meeting: Where Ideas Live!. Philadelphia, PA. http://www.aam-us.org/am09/

5/28-5/31/09: Society for Industrial Archaeology annual conference. Pittsburgh, PA. http://www.siahq.org/conference/pittsburgh/pittsburgh.html

6/10-6/13/09: Vernacular Architecture Forum. Mining Metropolis: An Island in a Stockman's Paradise Under Montana's Big Sky. Butte, Montana. http://www.vafmontana.org/