Friday 25 January to Friday 2 May

The MCM Cinémathèque Film Series

The Department of Modern Culture and Media presents The MCM Cinémathèque Film Series this spring. All films – from the silent era to present – are from the MCM archives. Screenings begin at 6 p.m. at Production One, 135 Thayer St. Free admission. See link for full schedule.

Tuesday 1 April

Film: “The Battle of Algiers”

Part of the Watson Institute’s Occupation/Liberation/Collaboration Film Series, “The Battle of Algiers” (1967) reenacts the urban insurgency against French rule in 1950s Algeria. In a time of leftist political activism, student audiences shared director Gillo Pontecorvo’s sympathies with the Algerian guerrillas. The film’s innovative neo-documentary style earned three Oscar nominations. Faculty on hand to discuss include Barrymore Bogues (Africana Studies), Konstantinos Kornetis (History), Reda Bensmaia, (French Studies) and James Der Derian (International Relations). The event begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute.

 

Tuesday 1 April

Felipe Luciano

Kick off Latino History Month with activist/reporter/poet/politician Luciano. As founder and chairman of the Young Lords Party, Luciano has been at the cutting edge of community empowerment and ethnic pride. He has also won two Emmys, an ACE award and Silurian Award for his television work; contributes articles to The New York Times and Essence; and performs on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. The 7 p.m. event is free and open to the public in Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101.

Tuesday 1 April

Robert Byron: Thesis Performance

Brown music graduate student Robert Byron presents his master thesis performance, “SCULPT: An interactive sound/image work for sensor gloves.” Using interactive electronics and interactive projected images, the work explores the relationship between synthetic sound and synthetic image through the tactile nuance of human gesture. Free and open to the public, 8 p.m. at Grant Recital Hall.

Wednesday 2 April

Belcea String Quartet

The Belcea String Quartet will perform Quartet in D Major, Op. 20 No. 4 by Franz Josef Haydn, Quartet No. 3 by Belá Bartók, and Quartet in G Major, D. 887 by Franz Schubert. Tickets are $32, $25, $22, $5 (students only). Tickets can be purchased at Books on the Square, 471 Angell St., by sending an email to vdesignri@yahoo.com or at the door at Alumnae Hall the night of the event after 7:15 p.m. The event will start at 8 p.m.

Thursday 3 April

Innovation and Transatlantic Cooperation on Energy, Climate and Security

R. Andreas Kraemer, director of Ecologic, will speak at 11:30 a.m. in MacMillan Hall, room 115. Ecologic Institute for International and European Environmental Policy is a private, not-for-profit think tank for applied environmental research, policy analysis and consultancy with offices in Berlin and Brussels. The event, free and open to the public, is part of the Environmental Change Initiative’s spring speaker series.

Friday 4 April to Saturday 5 April

Eating Chinese: Global and Local Perspectives on Memory and Identity

This two-day series of discussions and exhibitions explores the topics of Chinese food, food memories, ethnic identities – and dumplings. Events will be held April 4, noon to 7 p.m. and April 5, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public. The cooking demo by Martin Yan (“Yan Can Cook”), 4 p.m. on April 5 with dumpling reception afterwards, requires advance reservations. The event is sponsored by Brown’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, the John Carter Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization and Johnson & Wales University.

Friday 4 April

Satchmo and der Bingle

Noted jazz scholar Gary Giddins will discuss “Armstrong, Crosby and the Birth of American Popular Singing” at 4 p.m. in the Orwig Music Building, room 315. Part of the Brown Music Department’s series “Rethinking the American Songbook: Black/White/Blue? Cool/Hot/Square?”, the lecture is sponsored by the C.V. Starr Foundation Lectureship Fund and is free and open to the public.

Friday 4 April

What Can I Do With a Degree in English?

A five-member panel of English concentration alumni will talk about the impact of their English degrees on their careers since graduating from Brown, moderated by English Department Chair Kevin McLaughlin. The discussion will be at 5 p.m. in the Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting St., with a reception to follow. Read English alumni stories at http://www.brown.edu/english/news/alumni.php.

Friday 4 April to Sunday 6 April

Highways and Byways in the Pre-modern World

The Joukowsky Institute presents a free three-day conference to explore issues of human movement and of local and regional connnectivity in the pre-modern world, with papers from six areas of the globe: Africa, the Americas, China, Egypt and Western Asia, Japan and the Mediterranean. See the URL below for a full schedule of events, all to be held in MacMillan Hall, Room 115.

Friday 4 April

Looking at Bird

Jazz author Gary Giddins will introduce and discuss the film “Celebrating Bird: the Triumph of Charlie Parker” as part of the “Looking at Jazz: America’s Art Form” series. The event, free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in Grant Recital Hall.

Friday 4 April to Sunday 6 April

The Mikado

Brown University Gilbert and Sullivan presents this famous light opera with a twist, setting it in a 1945 Japanese internment camp. Fully staged and fully orchestrated, the show is free and open to the public. Reservations can be made online; reserved seats are available at the door 15 minutes prior to curtain. Showtimes are April 4, 8 p.m.; April 5, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. The April 6, 2 p.m. performance is a PG-13 gag show unsuitable for children. All performances are in Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting St.

Friday 4 April

Tato Torres & Yerbabuena

Celebrate Latino History Month with the Boricuan sounds of Tato Torres & Yerbabuena, featuring some of New York’s best Boricuan musicians, vocalists and dancers. Yerbabuena’s purpose: to rescue such musical styles as bomba, plena and música jibara from the folklore pigeonhole and to bring their hypnotic rhythms and enchanting harmonies into action. Free and open to the public, 9:30 p.m. on Faunce Steps/ Main Green. (Rain Site: List Art Center room 120, 64 College St.)

Monday 7 April

Reform in Saudi Arabia: Movement or Mirage?

How real is the reform image King Abdullah has sought to cultivate since assuming Saudi Arabia’s throne in 2005? Learn more from Karen Elliott House, former senior vice president of Dow Jones & Company, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and Watson Institute Overseer. Free and open to the public, the event is at 4 p.m., Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St.

Monday 7 April

It’s a Good Night to be Indigenous!

The Brown University Native American Heritage Series presents a night of Native artists, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Hourglass Cafe in the Faunce House basement, 75 Waterman St. The performers will be spoken word poet Sara Ortiz, a young writer from Acoma Pueblo; live painter Rose Simpson, who combines sculpture, printmaking, drawing, creative writing, music, and dance; and DJ Abel Rock, a mashup deejay who has opened for Jay-Z, Ludacris and Xzibit. A $2 suggested donation will support the non-profit NVision. Refreshments provided; this is an alcohol-free event, open to the public.

Tuesday 8 April

“Dialogue of Skin and Skull in Holbein and Hamlet”

Author Gail Kern Paster, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, will discuss Hans Holbein’s “The Ambassadors” and the graveyard scene in Hamlet. The lecture, sponsored by the Brown University Department of English, will be at 5 p.m. in Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, 2nd floor: free and open to the public.

Wednesday 9 April

Chet Raymo: “Writing About Science and Nature”

Raymo is the author of 12 books on science and nature, most recently “Walking Zero: Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the Prime Meridian.” His weekly column, “Science Musings,” appeared in The Boston Globe for 20 years. Sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program, Brown University Department of English, Raymo’s lecture will take place at 6 p.m. at Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, 2nd floor: free and open to the public.

Thursday 10 April to Sunday 20 April

Brown Theatre Presents …And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi

Brown Theatre presents Marcus Gradley’s .And Jesus moonwalks the Mississippi — the story of love and longing set at the bitter end of the Civil War in the American South. Directed by Patricia Ybarra, performances run Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Leeds Theatre. See link for ticket information or call the Box Office at (401) 863-2838.

Opening 12 April

Mission Moon: past, present, future

Through lunar photographs, 3D imagery and moon rock samples, this exhibition examines how the moon was formed, how it evolved and why it remains a place of wonder 40 years after Apollo. The Brown/NASA Northeast Regional Planetary Data Center helped create this exhibit at the Museum of Natural History in Roger Williams Park, open daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Through 9 April

Pembroke Center Exhibition Celebrates Women’s History Month

The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women celebrates Women’s History Month 2008 with an exhibit showing the historical achievements of Brown and Rhode Island women. “Disturbances: An Exhibit of Select Materials from the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives” is on view at the John Hay Library, free and open to the public during normal library hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday (except March 24 to March 28, when the library closes at 5 p.m. during spring break).

Ongoing

From A.A. to Zouave: Collections at Brown

Come see what Brown’s libraries, museums, and galleries have to offer. This exhibition honors the treasures of Brown University’s collections — from the coffee pot that launched a thousand Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to a hand-knit cap from a Civil War Zouave regiment. Curated by students in American Civilization’s Methods in Public Humanities course and sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center Public Humanities Program and the Brown University Library, the exhibition runs through May 30, 2008, at the Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street. Open Monday through Friday from 1-5 p.m.

Ongoing

Believing Africa and other Haffenreffer Exhibits

Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology presents Believing Africa in its satellite gallery at Manning Hall. The exhibition focuses on the diversity of African spiritual beliefs. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Ongoing exhibitions at the Haffenreffer Museum’s main base in Bristol include Kayak, Umiak, Canoe; Packrats for Posterity? Relevance in the Anthropological Museum; and the newest exhibit, Facing Mesoamerica.

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