"What I Am Thinking About Now" is an on-going informal workshop/seminar series to which faculty and graduate students are invited to present and discuss recently published work and work in progress. All are invited to attend and participate.
12pm – 1pm CSREA, Lippitt House, 96 Waterman Street
The event will be a panel and discussion format. Attendees will be able to ask questions to panelists (consisting of professors and students) and the audience. Students and community members are also welcome to submit questions they would like to be addressed here prior to the event. This event was made by the collaboration efforts of the Latino Heritage Series, Black Heritage Series, Dominican Students at Brown, and the Students of Caribbean Ancestry. FOOD will be provided. You can access the FB link here.
7pm – 8:30pm Petteruti Lounge, 75 Waterman Street
Proceeds from ticket sales will go to the humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief and to the Hurricane Relief Fund of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency.
7pm – 10pm Southside Cultural Center of Rhode Island, 393 Broad St.
8pm – 10:30pm Brooklyn Coffee and Tea House. 209 Douglas St., Providence, RI
A conversation with Elyse Singer, Professor of Population Studies & Training Center at Brown University.
12pm – 1:15pm Giddings House 212, Department of Anthropology, 128 Hope Street
12 noon. Birkelund Boardroom, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
The Cape Verdean American Film Festival (CVAFF) showcases Independent Films from Cape Verde, Brazil and West Africa as well as American Films from all ethnicities.
A conversation with Sean Brotherton from the University of Chicago.
12pm – 1:15pm Giddings House 212, Department of Anthropology, 128 Hope Street
9am – 10:30am Kapstein Room in the Brown Faculty Club
This teach in will examine what DACA is, how it impacted undocumented immigrant communities, and why it was repealed. Panelists will also consider how activists and others are managing the uncertainty and attempting to impact the laws and public opinion on the issue of DACA.
5pm – 6:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St.
For this year’s art exhibition, the theme should be feminicidios or “Femicides.” The art pieces that will be displayed should represent in one way or another the injustices that women face in US, Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean.
7pm – 9pm Leung Family Gallery (Second Floor)75 Waterman St., Providence, RI 02912
5pm – 7pm AS220 Resident Gallery (131 Washington St.)
Jorge Olivera Castillo is Brown University’s International Writers Project Fellow for 2017-18. This event will provide the Literary Arts and Brown community with an opportunity to meet Jorge, hear him read from his work, and speak with him about his experiences as a dissident writer and journalist in Cuba.
4pm – 5pm Chelovich Family Lounge, Dept. of Literary Arts, 68.5 Brown St.
These advertising cards for the firm Chocolate E. Juncosa, in Barcelona, depict scenes from Cuba’s War of Independence, 1895–1898. Founded in 1835, the company offered cocoa and sugar of the finest quality. This set contains 36 numbered chromolithography cards with color illustrations and caption titles. The reverse of each card contains text advertisement for the company.
Second Floor Landing, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence
John Carter Brown Library
Inspired by Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s classic "Life is a Dream," the theater production of "Dreamlandia" by Octavio Solis tells a story that illuminates the various perspectives of people living on the edge of the United States and Mexican border.
Leeds Theatre, 83 Waterman St.
Come and meet members of the Hispanic Studies faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, teaching assistants, and staff at this casual event. OIP staff will also be present to answer questions about study abroad, and best of all there will be tapas and bocadillos.
4:30pm – 5:30pm Rochambeau Music Room, 84 Prospect Street
Every Wednesday, enjoy the sounds of Caribbean Soul on the Rooftop at the Providence G with Jhony Keys and Becky Bass.
6pm – 9pm Rooftop at the Providence G
5pm – 6:30pm Smith-Buonanno, Room 106
Tribute to the 43 students who disappeared in Ayotzinapa, Mexico in 2014.
Faunce House Lower Art Gallery, Brown University
6pm – 7pm Rochambeau Music Room, 84 Prospect Street
6pm – 9pm Rochambeau House (Music Room), 84 Prospect St., Providence
12pm – 1pm Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Featuring Naomi Schiller (CUNY) and Verónica Zubillaga (Universidad Simón Bolívar- via Skype)
12pm – 1:30pm Joukowsky Forum