Brown University (videos of May 2017)

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2:32 The Problem Solver: Nifemi Madarikan '17 From the Brown Alumni Magazine:
During his first year at Brown, Nifemi Madarikan was a spoken-word poet who planned to become an engineer. Then he took Computer Science 15, an introductory compute...
2:08:27 The Americas and the Generative Power of Fire: Panel Discussion and Exhibition Opening Friday, April 28, 2017
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Providence, RI
Panel: The Americas and the Generative Power of Fire
Exhibition Opening: The Americas on Fire
The Americas and t...
1:11:48 Provoking Attention Conference - Adam Phillips, On Vacancies of Attention Adam Phillips, Psychoanalyst/Writer – “On 'Vacancies of Attention'”
A line is drawn from Sterne's Tristram Shandy to the uses of inattention in Freud and Marion Milner.
Brown University
April 7, ...
1:22:43 Provoking Attention Conference - Panel 7 Moderator: Benjamin Parker, Department of English, Brown University
Minnie Scott, Tate Galleries – “Regimes of Attention in the Contemporary Art Museum”
Drawing on my experience as an ‘interpret...
58:04 Provoking Attention Conference - Panel 6 Moderator: Andre Willis, Religious Studies, Brown University
Joshua Chambers-Letson, Northwestern University – “A Tension: White Deficit, Blackness and Disorder”
“Racial tension” is often used a...
1:35:49 Provoking Attention Conference - Panel 5 Moderator: Jacques Khalip, Department of English, Brown University
Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania – “The Natural History of Attention”
In this presentation, I address relays between na...
1:30:12 Provoking Attention Conference - Panel 4 Moderator: Leela Gandhi, Department of English, Brown University
Rita Felski, University of Virginia – “Getting it: Art and Attunement”
How does one "get" or fail to "get" a work of art? Can we ...
2:09:39 Provoking Attention Conference - Panel 3 Moderator: Timothy Bewes, Department of English, Brown University
Toril Moi, Duke University – “Language and Attention: Morality and Literature after Wittgenstein”
"Attention to particulars!" co...
1:24:30 Provoking Attention Conference - Panel 2 Moderator: Ourida Mostefai, French Studies, Brown University
David Russell, Corpus Christi College/Oxford University – “Ruskin's Vision”
David Russell will examine how Ruskin's writing insists o...
1:44:31 Provoking Attention Conference - Panel 1 Introductions by Amanda Anderson, Director, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, and David Russell, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.
Moderator: Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, ...
49:56 Value Proposition: Creating Solutions That Matter Need help with your startup? Or discovering how to find customers? Join the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and Deb Mills-Scofield '82, for a workshop that will show you how to find ...
1:22:17 Princess Nokia In Conversation at Brown University Princess Nokia In Conversation
Facilitated by Sofia Robledo Rower '18
Destiny Nicole Frasqueri, also known as Princess Nokia, is an Afro-Latina Boricua artist and musician based in New York City....
2:36 Celebrating 125 Years Of Women at Brown "Women at Brown have and will continue to play a significant role in the University's growth and evolution. I look forward to celebrating the innovation, intellectual curiosity, and transformative ...
1:01:10 2017 AO Williams Lecture: John Reppy "Superfluidity, Phase Transitions, and Topology” “Superfluidity, Phase Transitions, and Topology”
The critical point and the superfluid transition of bulk liquid 4He provide a unique opportunity for the study of influence of geometry on phase tr...
5:35 Getting Ready for the 2017 Doctoral Commencement Ceremony at Brown University This video will help doctoral students to prepare for Brown's Commencement day. It includes essential information on what to wear, why the lineup instructions are important, and how to receive your...
6:34 Getting Ready for the 2017 Master's Commencement Ceremony at Brown University This video will help master's and executive master's students to prepare for Brown's Commencement day. It includes essential information on what to wear, why the lineup instructions are important, ...
2:36 Celebrating 125 Years Of Women at Brown "Women at Brown have and will continue to play a significant role in the University's growth and evolution. I look forward to celebrating the innovation, intellectual curiosity, and transformative ...
1:09:20 2017 Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture with Andrés Reséndez Tuesday, April 25, 2017
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Providence, RI
Andrés Reséndez
Professor of History
University of California, Davis
Andrés Reséndez, Professor of History at t...
55:30 "The Race Beat: Straddling America's Great Divide" by John Eligon Veteran New York Times reporter John Eligon covers issues of race and class as a national correspondent based in Kansas City. In his writing, he tries to document the nuance of America's difficult ...
1:06:54 Gina Rodriguez-Drix, Writing Diversity Series Gina Rodriguez-Drix, ’08.5, writer, performer, birth worker, and arts administrator, discusses "The Subversive Tools We Carry: Writing from the intersection of cultural production and reproductive ...
1:01:35 NPR's Corey Flintoff - Resurgent Russia in the Time of Trump Thursday, April 6, 2017 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Metcalf Research Building, Room 101, Friedman Auditorium, Brown University
Corey Flintoff has spent nearly 40 years as a radio journalist, serving most r...