2017-05-24

Brown University (videos of April 2017)

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1:17:42 Carlos Castillo-Chavez | Thinking Out Loud Thinking Out Loud: The Role of Contagion in the Building and Sustainability of Communities
Contagion is sneaky! All seems well until the Tipping Point, after which terrible things may happen -- fa...
1:15:49 Reevaluating US Policy Toward Iran Ambassador Chas Freeman, senior fellow at Watson, and Dr. Michael Rubin, AEI foreign policy scholar, discuss US policy toward Iran. The conversation focuses on the Joint Policy Comprehensive Plan o...
1:03:57 Leave No Trace? Materiality, Temporality, and Visual Culture at the Gateway to Europe Opening with a clip from her latest documentary film, The Burning: An Untold Story from the Other Side of the Migrant Crisis, Dr. Isabella Alexander (Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at...
1:00:54 17th Annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture with Ezra Edelman Oscar-winning director Ezra Edelman will deliver the 17th Annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture. Edelman directed the 2016 five-part documentary "O.J.: Made In America," for which he earned an Acad...
1:09:47 Axel Posluschny | Princely Sites: Landscapes and a View from Above Axel Posluschny is the Head of the Research Centre of the Keltenwelt am Glauberg (World of the Celts at the Glauberg) in Germany and a Visiting Scholar in Archaeology and the Ancient World at the J...
1:06:56 Catherine Opie, Artist Talk 04.05.17 Visiting Artist Lecture Series // Brown Visual Art Presents Catherine Opie, April 5, 2017, at the List Art Building, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Catherine Opie (b. 1961 Sandusky...
1:13:55 Larry Rand '64 | Why Every Entrepreneur Needs to Understand Board Governance Over the past several years, a great deal of attention has been paid to what entails corporate governance. To some activist shareholders, like Carl Icahn, Daniel Loeb, David Einhorn and Barry Rosen...
1:11:33 Retooling the Monograph: The Manifold Scholarship Project” with Matthew Gold and Douglas Armato Retooling the Monograph: The Manifold Scholarship Project
How can we integrate today’s sprawling landscape of scholarly communication, stretching as it does from print monographs to ebooks to onli...
1:36:31 Carvings In and Out of Time: Afterlives of Rock-Cut Monuments in the Ancient Near East (02/15) Wednesday, February 15
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
5:30pm – Felipe Rojas (Brown) Opening Remarks
5:45pm – Beate Pongratz-Leisten (NYU) Remote, Privileged, and in the Public Eye: The Multilayered ...
1:38:35 Women of the Page Roundtable at the JCB Library Thursday, February 2, 2017
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Providence, RI
In conjunction with an exhibition guest curated by Tanya Tiffany, Associate Professor of Art History at the U...
1:22:44 So well remembered...: The Life and Career of Gilbert Chinard Friday, March 17, 2017
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Providence, RI
David Bell, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University
David Bell, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of ...
1:20:56 Alumni Writers' Forum - Spring 2017 The Department of English, Nonfiction Writing Program, presented an “Alumnae Writers’ Forum” on Monday, March 20, 2017 at 4:00 pm in Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert ’62 Center, 75 Waterman St. Thi...
57:09 Henrietta Lidchi - Gifts and Trades "The Building of Native American Jewellery Collections in the United Kingdom"
This lecture is structured through four case studies (London, Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh) and looks at the circum...
3:07 Brown University students talk "Invasion!" Brown students describe their work on stage and off while discussing Sock & Buskin's "Invasion!" directed by Ashley Teague ’17 MFA.
Performances through April 16th. For more information: http://ww...
1:15:20 Mind Brain Research Day - Trevor Robbins Keynote Address "Impulsivity and Compulsivity; Neural Substrates and Neuropsychiatric Implications"
Keynote Speaker - Trevor Robbins, CBE FRS FMedSci
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental Psycholog...
48:49 Jason Garcia/Okuu Pin - Documenting the Ever Changing Cultural Landscape of KhaPo Owingeh Using traditional materials and traditional Pueblo pottery techniques, along with various printmaking techniques, including lithography, serigraphy, and intaglio etching, Garcia feels that it is im...
1:01:39 Ruth Fine, Artist Talk 11.30.16 Visiting Artist Lecture Series // Brown Visual Art Presents Ruth Fine, November 30, 2016, at the List Art Building, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Ruth Fine was a curator at the Na...
2:25 Brown Chorus's Fred Jodry Celebrates 25 years with Bach's St. Matthew Passion The annual performance of the Holy Week Passion music on Good Friday was one of the musical highlights of the Leipzig church year, for on this day, concerted music was only presented in one of the ...
1:27:22 Diversity Summit 2017 - Leading Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education 2017 Diversity Summit Session: "Leading Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education"
Keynote Speakers: Lisa Coleman
Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the President
Harva...
1:12:06 Diversity Summit 2017 - Robin DiAngelo 2017 Diversity Summit Session: "White Fragility and Its Impact on Diversity and Inclusion Efforts on Campus"
Keynote Speaker: Robin DiAngelo
Scholar, Social Justice Education Leader and Author of ...
1:21:21 Diversity Summit 2017 - Natasha Warikoo 2017 Diversity Summit Session: "The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities"
Keynote Speaker: Natasha Warikoo
Associate Professor of Educat...
42:26 Jayna Zweiman, Artist Talk 03.22.17 Visiting Artist Lecture Series // Brown Visual Art Presents Jayna Zweiman, March 22, 2017, at the List Art Building, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Jayna Zweiman is the founder of ...
1:56:54 Student Forum with John Kabat-Zinn Professor Kabat-Zinn is Professor of Medicine Emeritus and creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachus...  2:01:33 Lecture by Jon Kabat-Zinn Jon Kabat-Zinn, iconic architect of the current Mindfulness movement and author of countless books, gives the annual Mary Interlandi '05 Memorial Lecture entitled "What's all this talk about Mindfu...
1:11:49 Lecture by Tamar Hodos - Globalising the Mediterranean Iron Age Tamar Hodos is a Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Bristol. She is a specialist in the archaeology of the Mediterranean's Iron Age, a period that extends between c.1200-c.600...
1:11:31 Evening Talk with Christy Clark-Pujara Thursday, February 16, 2017
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Providence, RI
Christy Clark-Pujara
Assistant Professor of History
Afro-American Studies Department
University of Wisconsin...
1:26:25 Lecture by Professor Rhonda Magee Brown Concentration in Contemplative Studies presents a lecture by Rhonda Magee, J.D., Professor of Law at San Francisco University, entitled: "Contemplative Pedagogy and Teaching for Social Justic...

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