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a statue of a woman with a bouquet of flowers

Wang Hui, Chinese, 1632-1717; Wang Shimin, Chinese, 1592-1680, (leaves k, l). Landscapes after Ancient Masters; Fanggu shanshui, leaf G. dated 1674 and 1677.

HIAA Honors Presentations

5/5, 4:00-6:00 pm, List 110


Please join us as the Honors students in the History of Art & Architecture present their final theses and capstone projects. There will be a reception to follow.

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Anthony Bogues, The Imagined New (or what happens when History is a Catastrophe?)

5/8, 12:00-1:30 pm, Granoff Center, N420


Join us for the launch of The Imagined New (or what happens when History is a Catastrophe?), the new book by Professor Anthony Bogues, Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Professor of History of Art and Architecture.

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Marianna Hovhannisyan: “Double Assimilations and Empty Fields: Armenian Archival Silences”

4/25, 4:00-5:30 pm, Pembroke Hall 305


Dr. Marianna Hovhannisyan (Ph.D. in Art History, UCSD, 2022) works at the intersection of postcolonial and decolonial archival and museum studies, visual culture, critical race theories, with the focus on folk studies, theories of art, artifacts, and metadata, and Armenian/West Asian studies.


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How It Feels to be Free: Celebrating the Voices of Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln

4/25, 7:00 pm, Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium


“How It Feels to be Free: Celebrating the Voices of Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln” is an event produced and performed by Marcus Grant, Brown University PhD candidate in Musicology & Ethnomusicology.



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Jasmine Thomas-Girvan: Window on Memory

4/27, 6:00-8:00 pm, Granoff Center, Cohen Gallery


Jasmine Thomas-Girvan is a renowned Jamaican-born, Trinidad-based sculptor and jeweler who creates exquisite renditions of the painful experiences of slavery, forced migration, and colonialism in the Caribbean and the Americas. Her solo exhibition Window on Memory, curated by Dr. Patsy Lewis (Director of CLACS), presents mixed-media sculptures that reflect the resilience, survival, and creativity of individuals and communities in the postcolonial.


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Revolution, Race, and Violence in the Age of Emancipation

4/28, 9:30 am-12:00 pm, Petterutti Lounge


This panel will explore the historical experiences of the Caribbean between the Age of Revolution and the aftermath of emancipation. Professor Aline Helg offers a lecture about the legacies of slavery and colonialism in Cuba and the Massacre of Afro-Cuban activists in 1912, while Professor and HIAA Affiliate Anthony Bogues analyzes Black freedom and Black sovereignty in the context of the Dual Haitian Revolutions.


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Afrofantasia: The Journey of Iyanu

4/29, 2:00 pm, and 4/26-29, 7:00 pm, Fischman Studio


Written by Jason Tristan Brown ’23, Co-Directed by Elmo Terry-Morgan ’74 and Connie Crawford. Iyanu embarks on a dangerous journey to find the gourd of wisdom to save the planet Afrofantasia from the marauding Oyinbo.


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Call for Submissions: Reimagining New England Histories (RNEH)

Sponsored by the Brown University Ruth J. Simmons Center, Williams College, and Mystic Seaport Museum


This community-based project will bring together the voices and lived experiences of Indigenous, African American, and Afro-Indigenous people in New England. Submissions to the publication can include poems, non-fiction, fiction, recipes, visual artwork, creative writing, photography, interviews, songs, etc.


Submissions due April 30th. Learn more and submit.

Apply for HIAA Student Awards


Apply for the Rebecca Moholt Vanel Fund and the Flexible Flyer Fellowship Award. Applications due May 1st to lindsay_caplan@brown.edu and nancy_safian@brown.edu.


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Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History

5/1, 9:00-12:30 pm, John Carter Brown Library and 1:30-5:00 pm, John Hay Library


The next Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History will be held in Providence, RI, on May 1, 2023. The conference theme is Textual Relations, and the schedule is available here.


Register.

Robert Rauschenberg , (Artist), American, born 1925. Earth Day/ 22 April'. 1970.

On April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated by an estimated 20 million people nationwide. Crowds attended the inaugural events at tens of thousands of sites including elementary and secondary schools, universities, and community sites across the United States. Above is a poster for this first Earth Day created by American painter Robert Rauschenberg.


Rauschenberg designed the first Earth Day poster to benefit the American Environment Foundation in Washington, D.C., and it was published in an edition of 10,300 by Castelli Graphics, New York.  Using the bald eagle as the dominant image, the artist symbolically placed the United States at the center of a global problem. Muted and muddy tones depicting environmental decay surround the national bird: polluted cities, contaminated waters, junkyards littered with debris, landscapes scarred by highways and deforestation, and the gorilla, another endangered animal. The safekeeping of the environment and the notion of individual responsibility for the welfare of life on earth was a longstanding concern of Rauschenberg, and this notion would inform his art and activism throughout his life” (Robert Rauschenberg Foundation).


Visit the MoMA website to learn more about Rauschenberg and to see more of his work.