Timely

• HIAA alumna, Divya Rao Heffley (PhD ’10) will present a talk on March 11 at noon entitled “Civically Engaged Public Art in Pittsburgh: People, Place, History, Memory," co-sponsored by the department and the Center for Public Humanities. Heffley is Associate Director at the Office of Public Art in Pittsburgh.
• Apply by March 15 for the 2021-22 Pembroke Seminar with professors Evelyn Lincoln and Leslie Bostrom. (See the bottom of this newsletter for more, or apply at the Pembroke Center site).
• Join HIAA Professor Lindsay Caplan, on March 17 at noon, in the next installment of the Science and Technology Studies (STS) Colloquium Series. Caplan will be in conversation, on Zoom, with English Professor, Ada Smailbegovic, about art, poetry, and STS.

• RI-based writers and artists are invited to submit poetry or word-based art for permanent display on newly repaired Providence sidewalks. Thirty artists will be  awarded $1,000 each. The curatorial prompt is “Ode to Providence,” and the application deadline is April 30. Learn more at the Department of Art, Culture and Tourism website. 
• The Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission is offering free registration to Brown students for its April 21-23 conference, Come Back to the Future. Use access code BROWN21 for free access. Please email ripresconf@gmail.com with questions. The event features two keynote speakers: George Smart (USModernist) on discovering, documenting, and preserving Modernist houses; and Kofi Boone, FASLA, (NC State University) on “Black Landscapes Matter.” 

Happenings

• Mar. 10 @ 5 pm: The Department of Italian Studies and the Pembroke Center will host a roundtable discussion on Cecilia Mangini's 1964 documentary, Essere Donne (To Be a Woman). This film, along with two others, will be available online from March 8-10, as part of the Cinema Ritrovarto on Tour 2021. 
• Mar. 12 @ 1 pm: The Department of Visual Art will hold its annual Alumni Panel. Dara Bayer ’08, Sofie Ramos ’13, Scott Snibbe ’91, and Kah Yangni ’14 will talk about how their journeys as visual and performance artists, educators, and curators have changed since graduating from Brown. 
• Mar. 13 @ noon: The Modern Culture and Media Department will hold a Graduate Student Symposium. MCM doctoral students will present their work on white femininity, Apple computers, the U.S. invasion of Panama, and more. Registration required.
• Mar. 16 @ 4 pm:  In the fall semester, students from AFRI0840: Monuments, History, and Memory completed projects that required them to intervene in a monument, rethink monumental space, or create a new monument. Four students from the course will present their work which includes, an intervention into the Sailors and Soldiers Monument in Providence, an intervention of the Caesar Augustus Statue on Brown's campus, and more. Register Here!
• Mar. 18 @ noon: Kathleen Forste, PhD candidate at Boston University, will discuss her research in an Archaeology Brown Bag talk entitled, “Cultivating the Hills and the Sands: An Archaeobotanical Investigation of Early Islamic Agriculture in the Southern Levant.”
• Mar. 18 @ 1 pm: The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) will present celebrated contemporary artists, Nina Katchadourian and Neil Goldberg, in conversation about the AFAM exhibit PHOTO \ BRUT, as well as about their own creative practices. Registration required.
• Mar. 24 @ 4 pm: The Peabody Museum at Harvard University will host, “The Intentional Museum,” a virtual lecture and discussion about the power and responsibility that museums have to genuinely engage with the communities in which they are embedded. Registration required.

Opportunities for Undergraduates  

• Looking for a Career in the Arts? The HIAA DUG hosts an alumni panel this Thursday, March 11 at noon. Panelists will discuss their careers after Brown. Panelists are: Natalia Miyar (Architect and Designer), Niki Sanders (Digital Product Strategist), and Joanna Lee (Curatorial Assistant).  Go to events.brown.edu to register.
• The Literary Arts Department is accepting submissions for its 2021 prizes in poetry, fiction, and book-length manuscripts until March 11. Open to enrolled undergraduate and graduate students. Learn more and submit applications. 
• Submit to the Spring 2021 issue of SOMOS Latinx Literary Magazine, which celebrates the work of Latinx artists and writers. Submit work in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or any other language across the Latinx diaspora, and in any creative medium, by March 25. Questions may be directed to somos.brown@gmail.com. 
• The Pembroke Center offers two grants for undergraduate honors research on issues relating to women, gender, and/or children: the Barbara Anton Community Research Grant, and the Helen Terry MacLeod Research Grant. Each award provides $1,000 in research support. Applications due April 1.
• Online summer teaching positions are available for graduating seniors at the Institute of Reading Development, which offers programs for students of all ages. No experience or certification required. More information.

Opportunities for Graduate Students 

• The University Library will host a workshop on copyright and the use of images in academic settings, including teaching, presentations, and publications, on March 11 at 3 pm. Learn more and register. 
• On April 1 at noon, Allison Levy will lead a graduate roundtable discussion entitled, “Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities: Getting Started.” Levy is a Digital Scholarship Editor at the University Library and a Professor of Italian Studies at Brown. 
• Applications are available for the Florence B. Selden Fellowship in Yale University's Department of Prints and Drawings, with a start date of July 12, 2021. The deadline is April 2. More information available in the attached document.
• Thresholds, the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture, is accepting submissions for Thresholds 50: BEFORE | AFTER, to be published Spring 2022. Thresholds invites submissions of scholarly articles, interdisciplinary investigations, and creative contributions from art, architecture, and related fields that explore the thematic concerns of BEFORE  and/or AFTER. Please see the attached PDF or the Thresholds website. Submission Deadline: MAY 1, 2021.

Broadening Intellectual Horizons at the Pembroke Seminar

The Pembroke Center has extended their application deadline for the 2021-2022 Seminar, “Color,” led by Visual Art Department Chair, Leslie Bostrom, and HIAA Department Chair, Evelyn Lincoln. This seminar will explore how global histories of race, gender, and class are connected to structures of knowledge and power that are ordered by color. The seminar is open to faculty, undergraduate and graduate students and meets weekly. Apply by March 15, 2021.

HIAA student worker (and editor of this newsletter) Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro, is participating in the 2020-2021 Pembroke Seminar, “Narrating Debt.”

Mica highly recommends this seminar, which is a non-evaluative participatory discussion over the course of an academic year. She writes, "the seminar is a rigorous, yet inviting space for exchange among undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, and professors."

"We are exploring a central theme, over the course of two semesters from several theoretical lenses and with various types of work. The emphasis on meaningful dialogue, without any type of written assignments, allows participants to grapple with and build off of one another's contributions, and in this way, forge new theoretical possibilities.”

Undergraduates can receive credit for attendance and participation. Interested graduate students who would like to participate for credit should write to Evelyn Lincoln for more information.