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Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1876-1907. Old Peasant Woman, Full View. 1905. Artstor.
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HIAA Events
- Honors Thesis Info Session, Monday, March 6th, 5:30-6:30 pm in List 423. The application for honors is open to any concentrator planning to graduate in May, 2024 or December, 2024. Please see the attached form detailing the deadlines and requirements for your application. The deadline for applications is April 7th. This is a chance to get more information and ask questions of faculty and current honors students. Email lindsay_caplan@brown.edu with questions.
- "Imperfect Allies: Gender, Race, and Allyship in the 1877 Gibbs-DeWolf Window, Warren, RI," March 16th, 12:00-1:30 pm, Pembroke 305. In 2022, an 1877 Henry Sharp Studio stained glass window was removed from St. Marks Church, in Warren, RI. The window may be the first representation of Christ and Gospel Women as people of color in public space. When the window was mounted, what was the parish saying—to itself, to others, to the future—about women? service? race? reconciliation? Lunch provided, registration required. Learn more and register.
- HIAA DUG Alumni Panel, Thursday, March 16th, 7:00 pm-8:00 pm, on Zoom. Join the HIAA DUG for a virtual panel featuring HIAA alumni who will speak about their career pathways post-grad. This is a great opportunity to see what you can do with an HIAA degree. Zoom link.
- The 2023 Anita Glass Memorial Lecture, Turry M. Flucker (Terra Foundation), "Inclusive Fellowships: The American Missionary Association, Race Relations, and American Art," March 24th, 5:30 pm in List 120. The lecture will focus on the history of art collections at institutions that were founded by or associated with the American Missionary Association, as well as the importance of art and the humanities as effective tools to advance racial equality. There will be a reception to follow. Learn more.
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Happenings
- Environmental Humanities Reading Group: Beyond Nature and Culture, March 6th, 12-1:00 pm, Pembroke Hall. Join the Environmental Humanities Reading Group for a conversation around a chapter from Phillipe Descola’s Beyond Nature and Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Learn more.
- Revival Archival Revenge, Week 1, Bibliomancy: Collections, Collages, March 8th, 12-4:00 pm, Nightingale-Brown House. What happens when the past that we have preserved needs to change? REVIVAL ARCHIVAL REVENGE is a participatory project by artist-in-residence Diana Limbach Lempel. Learn more and register for the workshop.
- James P. Allen (Brown University), “Egyptology in Its Third Century,” March 9th, 5:30 pm, Rhode Island Hall. The Department of Egyptology & Assyriology is pleased to present the 2023 Parker Lecture in Egyptology. Learn more.
- John Keene, Writers on Writing, March 9th, 5:30 pm, 70 Brown Street. Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books including Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas (2015), which received an American Book Award. Learn more.
- American Occultation, March 11th, 8:30 pm, Martinos Auditorium. American Occultation is an audio-visual performance along with an accompanying installation that highlights the obscurity of iconography in “America”. Learn more.
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Ongoing
- Elisabeth Subrin: The Listening Takes, Until June 4th, Open daily 11 am–5 pm,
Thursdays 11 am–8 pm, Bell Gallery, List Art Building. Filmmaker and artist Elisabeth Subrin’s The Listening Takes (2023) presents three portraits of the subversive French actress Maria Schneider (1952–2011) within an immersive sound, video, and sculptural installation. Learn more.
- Superimposed, Until June 4th, Open daily 11 am–5 pm, Thursdays 11 am–8 pm, List Art Building, lobby. Featuring a combination of prints, collage, and painting by Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella, and Charmion Von Wiegand drawn from the Bell Gallery Collection, the objects on display echo an amalgam of the styles and visual forms entwined in the work of artist Sol LeWitt and his peers. Learn more.
- “A Verry Drunk Hunters Dream”: Modernist Expression in Africa. Until June 30th. Manning Hall. Learn more.
- Student Thesis Capstone Exhibitions, List Art Building, February 24th-March 2nd
- Cate Ghirardini, Kate Salke, Hannah Park
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Opportunities for Undergraduate Students
- Triple Canopy Publication Intensive Seminar, Applications due March 6th. The Publication Intensive is a free two-week program in the history and contemporary practice of publication. Learn more and apply.
- Laidlaw Scholar Applications due March 10th. The Laidlaw Scholars Leadership and Research Program is an innovative scholarship that aims to develop a new generation of leaders who are skilled researchers, embrace data-based decision-making, and believe it is a moral imperative to lead with integrity. Apply.
- Social Innovation Fellowship, Applications due March 13th. This is a two-year developmental program delivered in partnership with Social Enterprise Greenhouse (SEG). Learn more.
- Call for Submissions: VISIONS Magazine, due March 11th. VISIONS is a Brown and RISD literary and art publication that centers the Asian/Asian American/Pacific Islander American experience. Submit.
- Call for Papers: Brown Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI) Symposium Submissions due March 17th. Students (in any discipline or department) engaged with NAISI are invited to share their research, community-based projects, internship experiences, or other creative works related to Indigenous peoples and/or communities in this Symposium. Send questions and proposals to chase_bryer@brown.edu.
- Engaged Research Mini-Grants (Summer 2023) Applications due April 3rd. The Swearer Center invites current Brown students in any concentration or field to apply for grants, up to $500, to support collaborative research expenses; apply on UFunds. Apply.
- Thomas Cole National Historic site 2023-24 Fellowship Applications Open. A one-year, full-time residential research fellowship. Selected Fellows get to live and work at the historic artist's site and museum from June 6, 2023-May 28, 2024. Learn more and apply.
- IED Summer School: Interspecies Co-Design & Ecosystemic Home-Making, Royal College of Art, June 5-14th, 2023. The course is designed flexibly so that you can join remotely from anywhere, and with asynchronous tasks set up to enable you to collaborate from different time zones. The course will include lectures, a series of practical exercises and remote workshops, practitioner talks and discussions, group work & experiments, and a concluding event and panel discussion. Learn more.
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Opportunities for Graduate Students
- Grad Workshop on Grant Writing led by Jeff Moser, March 9th, 12:00-1:30, List 423 or Zoom. Optional workshop, pizza will be served.
- Gibbs/DeWolf Roundtable and Optional Site Visit, March 16th, 12-1:30 pm, Pembroke 305. Fill out this form if you would like to attend the site visit at 10 am. Please register for the event if you want lunch.
- Triple Canopy Publication Intensive Seminar, Applications due March 6th. The Publication Intensive is a free two-week program in the history and contemporary practice of publication. Learn more and apply.
- Call for Papers: Brown Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI) Symposium Submissions due March 17th. Students (in any discipline or department) engaged with NAISI are invited to share their research, community-based projects, internship experiences, or other creative works related to Indigenous peoples and/or communities in this Symposium. Send questions and proposals to chase_bryer@brown.edu.
- Call for Papers, "Premodern Unfreedoms: Global Approaches to Exploitation, Enslavement, and Trafficking" (University of Illinios), Submissions due May 1st to premodernunfreedoms@gmail.com. This interdisciplinary conference aims to interrogate the state of the field for slavery, and broader practices of unfreedom and trafficking, in the global premodern world. For questions contact chloe3@illinois.edu.
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Call for Submissions: PLASTIC, Submissions due May 21st. tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture, is pleased to announce that we are accepting submissions for our upcoming issue, PLASTIC. tba is an annual peer-reviewed journal organized by graduate students of the Visual Arts Department at Western University in London, Ontario (CA).
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What are we celebrating this week?
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This week we are celebrating Brown Library’s second born-digital publication winning the PROSE Award. Presented by the Association of American Publishers, PROSE awards recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing.
The Association of American Publishers has named Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World by Professor of Italian Studies Massimo Riva the category winner in eProduct for the 47th Annual PROSE Awards. PROSE awards recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by celebrating the authors, editors, and publishers whose landmark works have made significant advancements in their respective fields of study each year.
Shadow Plays was published in June 2022 by Stanford University Press. The open-access book explores popular forms of entertainment used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to transport viewers to a new world, foreshadowing present-day virtual, augmented, and extended reality experiences (VR, AR, and XR).
Through six case histories and eight interactive simulations, Professor Riva explores themes of virtual travel, social surveillance, and utopian imagination, shedding light on illustrious or, in some instances, forgotten figures and inventions from Italy’s past.
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