Oct 16, 2018
Paul Tucker – Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Joukowsky Forum
Meet the Author, Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Upcoming Watson Events
To request special services, accommodations, or assistance for any events, please contact the Watson Institute at WatsonEvents@brown.edu or (401) 863-2809.
Oct 16, 2018
Screening of The Trial (O Processo), with Director Maria Ramos
7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 17, 2018
Stanley Gacek – The Global Labor Movement and its Support for Brazilian Democracy and Worker Rights in 2018
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 17, 2018
Oct 17, 2018
Oct 17, 2018
Election 2018 – Rhode Island's Most Watched Races
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Election Series
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Oct 18, 2018
María Elena Cepeda – Latina Feminist Moments of Recognition: A U.S. Colombiana Encounter with Bomba Estéreo's ‘Soy Yo.’
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 18, 2018
Sam Wilkin ─ History Repeating: Why Populists Rise and Governments Fall
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Meet the Author
Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Oct 18, 2018
The Music of Syria: A Concert by Contemporary Syrian Composers and Performers with Ashraf Kateb & Hamsa Al-Wadi Juris
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Oct 19, 2018
Insights on Diplomacy with Jennifer Klein '87
For students only.
1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Kim Koo Library
Oct 19, 2018
Sonalde Desai – Does Rising Education Lead Changing Gender Norms in India?
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 19, 2018
Oct 22, 2018
Pedro Mandagará - Native Brazilian Literatures and Ecocriticism
11 a.m. – 12 p.m. George Monteiro Conference Room, 159 George Street, Providence, RI
Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018
US Military Counterterrorism in Africa
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 23, 2018
Oct 23, 2018
Alia Al-Senussi – The New Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom Embraces Soft Power
4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 24, 2018
Oct 24, 2018
What I Am Thinking About Now: Professor Patsy Lewis – Crisis, Shock and Resilience: A Caribbean Story
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. CSREA, 96 Waterman Street, Providence, RI
Oct 24, 2018
Marie Berry ─ War, Women, and Power
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 25, 2018
Oct 25, 2018
Ann Swidler ─ Social Ecologies of Religion in Malawi: Local Institutions and Collective Goods
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 25, 2018
Oct 26, 2018
Conference on Migrant Illegality Across Uneven Legal Geographies: Advancing the Sociology of Immigration
12 p.m. – 6 p.m. McKinney Conference
Oct 26, 2018
Oct 26, 2018
Beyond Rum and Coca-Cola: The Radical and Creative Origins of the Steelpan
5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 26–27, 2018
Oct 27, 2018
Pan Fantasy Steelband in Concert
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. De Ciccio Auditorium, Salomon Center for Teaching
Oct 29, 2018
Careers in Public Policy: Doing Well by Doing Good
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Student Events
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Oct 29, 2018
Luke Messac ─ No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 3rd Floor
Oct 29, 2018
Screening of One Vote, with Producer Christine Woodhouse
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center
Oct 30, 2018
Natasha Eaton – Decolonial Mimesis in South Asia
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 30, 2018
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan ─ The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 1, 2018
Nov 2, 2018
Jamila Michener – Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Meet the Author
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Nov 2, 2018
Elora Shehabuddin — Women's Activism in Cold War East Pakistan: A Transnational History
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 2, 2018
Vijayendra Rao — Deliberative inequality: a text-as-data study of Tamil Nadu's village assemblies
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Harvard University
Nov 2, 2018
Michael Cepek – Whiteness, Indigeneity, and Power in Amazonia: A Cofán Perspective
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence, RI
Nov 2, 2018
Performance by Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros and the Brown University Jazz Band
8 p.m. – 10 p.m. Grant Recital Hall, 1 Young Orchard Avenue, Providence, RI
Arts and Culture
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Nov 5, 2018
CLACS Back from the Field Poster Session
5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Watson Institute Lobby
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Student Events
Nov 6, 2018
Nov 7, 2018
Hal Langfur - Pedagogies of Racial Violence in Colonial Brazil
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Location Change: McKinney Conference Room
Nov 7, 2018
Teach-In: The Impact of the Midterm Elections
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 7, 2018
Candelaria Garay ─ Local Health Care Provision as a Territorial Power-Building Strategy in Argentina
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018
James Forman, Jr. '88 ─ Locking Up Our Own
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 85 Waterman Street, Room 130
Nov 9, 2018
Warzones as Displacement in the Middle East: the Kurdish Case
8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 9, 2018
Matthew Velasco – Beyond Ethnicity: Head Shaping and the Making of Personhood in the Late Prehispanic Andes (A.D. 1100-1450)
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. Giddings 212, 128 Hope Street, Providence, RI
Nov 9, 2018
Nov 14, 2018
Jamie Hansen-Lewis ─ Does Air Pollution Lower Productivity? Evidence from Manufacturing in India
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 14, 2018
Humanitarian Student Internship Panel
5 p.m. – 6 p.m. Kim Koo Library
Nov 14, 2018
Kostis Karpozilos ─ The Macedonian Question: The Trap of History and the Recent Greece-FYROM Agreement
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 15, 2018
Mara Loveman – The End of Official Color-blindness and the Rise of Anti-anti-racism in Contemporary Latin America
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. Population Studies and Training Center, 68 Waterman Street, Providence, RI
Nov 19, 2018
Debora Diniz – Zika: Women and Children in Brazil
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. Birkelund Board Room
Nov 19, 2018
Nov 27, 2018
Hlengiwe Dlamini ─ African Contestation of Wholesale Implementation of British Political Modernity in Colonial Southern Africa
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room - 3rd Floor
Nov 28, 2018
Zachary Morgan – Neither Slave nor Citizen: State Control of Brazilian Free Blacks in the 19th Century
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 28, 2018
Poulami Roychowdhury ─ Outsourced Justice: Governing Gender Violence in India's Era of Rights Mobilizations
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 28, 2018
Ahoo Najafian – Staging the Aborted Past: Scenes from Alternative Theater in Iran
5:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 30, 2018
Hillary Parsons Dick – Racializing Discourses of Migrant Illegality: Latin American Mobility in the Time of Trump
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Dec 3, 2018
Jennifer Morgan, Seth Rockman, and Anthony Bogues – Slavery, Capitalism, and the Making of the Modern World
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Dec 5, 2018
Fábio de Sá e Silva - A New Republic of Lawyers? Legal Careers, State Power, and Political Change in Contemporary Brazil
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Dec 5, 2018
Insights on Journalism with Alex Wagner '99
For students only.
1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Kim Koo Library
Dec 5, 2018
Alex Wagner '99 ─ Futureface: A Family Mystery, An Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing Street
Meet the Author
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Dec 8, 2018
Thinking Decolonization Hemispherically: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality in the Americas
Graduate Student Sawyer Seminar
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum