Events

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.

Eric Weitz ─ A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States

Thursday, November 21, 2019

4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Center for Middle East Studies, Israel-Palestine Lecture Series, Meet the Author

Nov 22, 2019

Thibaud Marcesse — Patronage Guaranteed? The Local Politics of the Right to Work. Public Policy Reform, Citizenship and Patronage in Rural India

2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street

Center for Contemporary South Asia

Nov 22–23, 2019

Conference ─ Partitions: A Global Perspective

McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street

Center for Middle East Studies
Israel-Palestine Lecture Series

Nov 25, 2019

Why Are Teachers Striking?

5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 164 Angell Street, Room 202

Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy

Dec 2, 2019

Maria Cabrera Arus — La moda, la revolución cubana y el hombre nuevo (Fashion, the Cuban Revolution and the New Man)

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Dec 2, 2019

Phil Haun ─ Contemporary Air Warfare: The Effectiveness of Air Power since the End of the Cold War

12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street

Security Studies Seminar

Dec 2, 2019

Mark & Carrie - LIVE Podcast!

6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St.

Dec 4, 2019

João Guilherme Casagrande Martinelli ─ Between Crisis and Reform: The Governance of Humanitarian Response and Local Integration of Refugees and Migrant Persons in Brazil

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Brazil Initiative

Dec 4, 2019

René Cordero, Lauren Derby & Ramona Hernandez — Documenting the Cold War in the Dominican Republic

5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Dec 5, 2019

Sara Branco ─ Black Immigration in Brazil: What Are the Challenges Faced in a So-called "Open Country"?

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Brazil Initiative

Dec 6, 2019

Jayita Sarkar — The Ploughshares and Swords in India’s Nuclear Explosion of 1974

2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street

Center for Contemporary South Asia

Dec 9, 2019

Daniel McDonald — Democratic Biocitizenship: Health Rights from Dictatorship to Democracy in Brazil

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Dec 12, 2019

María Cabrera Arus – La Moda, La Revolución Cubana y El Hombre Nuevo (Fashion, the Cuban Revolution and the New Man)

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Jan 29, 2020

Gema Kloppe-Santamaría ─ In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico

5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street

Development and Governance Seminar

Jan 30, 2020

Peter Andreas ─ Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs

4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Meet the Author

Feb 3, 2020

Nuno Monteiro ─ A Theory of Political Violence

12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Boardroom, 111 Thayer Street

Security Studies Seminar

Feb 10, 2020

Student Meeting with Lisa Caputo '86

For students only.

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Kim Koo Library, 111 Thayer Street

First-Year and Sophomore Speaker Series
Student Events

Feb 19, 2020

Guy Ben-Porat ─ Policing Citizens: Minority Policy in Israel

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Meet the Author

Mar 5, 2020

China Initiative talk by Jessica Chen Weiss

4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

China Initiative

Mar 9, 2020

China Initiative talk by Ryan Hass

4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

China Initiative

Mar 11, 2020

Lisa Castillo — Family Ties in the Black Atlantic: Genealogies and Social Networks between Brazil and the Bight of Benin (1835-1900)

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Brazil Initiative

Apr 1, 2020

Rashmi Sadana ─ The Delhi Metro: Technocratic Governance, Social Engine, and Urban Plan

5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street

Development and Governance Seminar

Apr 15, 2020

Martine Jean — The “Law of Necessity”: Enslaved Convict Workers and Commutations of the Death Penalty in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Brazil Initiative

Apr 22, 2020

João Vargas — Antiblackness, the Specter of the Haitian Revolution, and Brazilian Social Formation

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Brazil Initiative