Mar 3, 2021
Sanyu A. Mojola ─ A Nowadays Disease: HIV/AIDS and Social Change in Rural South Africa
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
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.
The Watson Institute will continue to provide a wide variety of virtual programming in Spring 2021. Please see below for information on upcoming panels, lectures, film screenings and conferences.
For up-to-date, campus-wide information, please visit the University’s COVID-19 Updates website.
Mar 3, 2021
Marcus King ─ Water Stress and Climate Security
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Mar 3, 2021
Writing Public Anthropology
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar, or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
Mar 3, 2021
James Reston, Jr.: The Nineteenth Hijacker: A Novel of 9/11
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Meet the Author
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Mar 4, 2021
What's Happening in the World? Charting a Way Forward
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar, or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center for Middle East Studies
COVID-Today
Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Mar 5, 2021
Audrey Truschke — Hindutva History and Other Modern Problems with the Indian Past
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 5, 2021
Sherine Hafez Book Talk — Women of the Midan
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar, or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
Mar 5, 2021
Albena Azmanova — Capitalism on Edge
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar, or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
Meet the Author
Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Mar 5, 2021
Mar 8, 2021
Security Seminar with Michael Woldemariam
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Mar 10, 2021
Making Climate Policy Work
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Mar 10, 2021
CITY HALL: A Discussion with Director Frederick Wiseman
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
The John F. Kennedy Jr. Initiative for Documentary Film and Social Progress
Mar 11, 2021
Drivers of Violence Against Health Care in War, and What We Need to Do About It
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Mar 11, 2021
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Meet the Author
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Mar 12, 2021
Junaid Kamal Ahmad — Indian Federalism and Service Delivery: Navigating the Challenge of Covid 19
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 15, 2021
Mar 18, 2021
Queer Studies | Activism in the Middle East
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 18, 2021
Queer Studies | Activism in the Middle East
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar, or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
Mar 18, 2021
Senator Carl Levin: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Register here to join the webinar
Mar 19, 2021
Ghulam Hussain — Anthropology of Activism: Engaging with the Narrative of Forced Conversion in Pakistan
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar
Mar 20–21, 2021
Mar 24, 2021
The Burden of Speaking Truth: How Journalists Navigated the Trump Presidency
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Election 2020
Meet the Author
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Mar 26, 2021
Susan Ostermann — Capacity Beyond Coercion: Regulatory Pragmatism and Compliance Along the India-Nepal Border
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar
Mar 26, 2021
Rhode Island Politics and Policy Series: Blake Filippi, Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and the House Minority Leader.
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants on March 25, 2021.
Mar 26, 2021
Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav - Book Talk
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Meet the Author
Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Mar 26, 2021
Hassan Kochore — Do the Locals Count? State documentation and (il) legible temporalities in Northern Kenya
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 29, 2021
Thomas Oatley ─ The Carbon Peace
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Climate Solutions Lab
Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Security Studies Seminar
Mar 30, 2021
Mar 31, 2021
Reflections on the Root Causes of Humanitarian Crises
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 31, 2021
Josh Shapiro: The Will of the People and Our Electoral System
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Apr 2, 2021
Priyamvada Gopal Book Adda — Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar
Apr 7, 2021
Chilean Constitutional Reform and Democratic Renewal in Latin America
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Development and Governance Seminar
Apr 15, 2021
Development and Governance Seminar with Coleen Vogel
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the webinar.