Monday, February 15
Event: GLISP 101
Location: JWW 420
Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Interested in expanding your study abroad experience through a Global Independent Study Project (GLISP)? Looking for help on your GLISP application? No idea what a GLISP is? Come learn more about the process and perks of doing an independent study project abroad during open GLISP hours Monday,
Event: Model Minority: A Workshop on AAPI Identity and ActivismLocation: Wilson 102Time: 6:30 PM -8:00 p.m.
Come learn more about the development of Asian American/Pacific Islander identity in the United States and the hidden role of AAPI activism. The Asian American Heritage Series Coordinators present a workshop that is sure to spark serious discussion and introspection.
Event: Information Session to apply for
The Blognonian
Location: Sayles
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Yes, this is a shameless plug. Love our content? Think you can contribute and make it even better? Apply to join us! We are looking for writers, photographers, videographers, web designers and developers, business people and more from all walks of campus life. We are holding TWO sessions, this Monday in Sayles 105 and this Tuesday in Sayles 306.
Tuesday, February 16Event: Brown Badmaash Competition PieceLocation: Alumnae HallTime: 6:00 p.m.Brown Badmaash's competition team is traveling to compete at Bollywood Berkeley and South Asian Showdown this year. This amazing dance group is looking to preview their set for their first public audience, Brown students! This showing is FREE and the entire dance is approximately eight minutes long, so please come show your support and see what they have been working on for months.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA88K_LytmUEvent: Are Prisons Obsolete?: An MPC Open Conversation on the Past, Present, and Future of the Prison Industrial ComplexLocation: Faunce UndergroundTime: 6:30 PM- 8:00 p.m.
The Minority Peer Counselors will have a discussion on what the prison industrial complex is, and what an ideal form of the institution of justice may look like. There will be free pizza!
Event: Brown General Career FairTime: 12:00 PM- 4:00 p.m.Location: Sayles HallStressed about the direction your life is headed? Want to make some good networking connections? Come check out Brown's general career fair this Tuesday. To see all employers and offered opportunities download the Brown Career Fair Plus app from iTunes or Google PlayEvent: Brown Dems Present: Candidate ProfileTime: 8:00 p.m.Location: Wilson 101Join the Brown Democrats and co-sponsors, Students for Bernie and Students for Hillary, for complete candidate profiles of Senator Sanders and Secretary Clinton. Whether you are an undecided or dedicated supporter, this meeting is sure to be informative.
Wednesday, February 17Event: What I am Thinking About Now: Leticia AlvaradoLocation: CSREA Conference Room, Hillel 303Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.This talk will offer a brief synopsis of Alvarado's current book project, Abject Performance Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production. She will also share cursory thoughts on a developing projects on the figure of the Latina Femme.Event: How Structural Racism Works: A Roundtable ConversationLocation: BERT, Room 130Time: 6:30 p.m.This Brown faculty and Postdoctoral Fellow roundtable discussion will be led by Tricia Rose, Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost. The discussion will focus on the role of structural racism in contemporary American society and its relationships to neoliberalism, racial ideology, immigration, gender, poverty and more. This event, including the reception to follow, is free and open to the public.To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact the University Event and Conference Services Office at universityevents@brown.edu or 401-863-3100. Thursday, February 18Event: The Syrian Revolution and Palestinian LiberationLocation: Wilson 202Time: 4:00 p.m."What is the connection between Syria's 2011 uprising and the Palestinian liberation? What is the historical relationship between the Assad regime and Israel? And how can we understand the experience of Palestinians in Syria before and after the uprising? This Thursday, Dr. Yasser Munif, Joseph Daher, and Nidal Bitari will cover these questions and more. Dr. Munif is a professor of political economy at Emerson University. He spent time in the Syrian city of Manbij during its initial revolutionary period. Dr. Daher is a member of the Revolutionary Left Current in Syria and is writer and editor of "Syria Freedom Forever." Nidal Bitari is a Palestinian-Syrian journalist from Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Damascus, and will speak on the Palestinian experience in Syria. He is also co-founder of the Syrian Association for Rights in Syria."Event: ExHOTic Girls Wanted: An MPC Workshop on the Exotification and Fetishization of Women of ColorTime: 6:30 PM- 8:00 p.m.Location: BERT 130The Minority Peer Counselors will facilitate a workshop on viewing women of color as "exotic." Topics include historical roots of those stereotypes, modern day manifestations and case studies, dating preferences, etc. There will be free pizza! Friday, February 19Event: Feel Good Fridays (Free massages!)Location: 75 Waterman St.Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.BURP (Brown University Relaxation Project) will host its weekly FREE massage session between 12-1pm each Friday in the Faunce Memorial Room (229) until reading period. Stop by for a quick 3-5 minute back/neck rub!Event: Seizing the Means of Reproduction ConferenceTime: 9:45 AM - 6:15 p.m.Location: Pembroke Hall"Seizing the Means of Reproduction is a one-day conference that explores reproductive labor and social reproduction as contested sites of struggle. Centrally, this conference tracks the multiple historical sites, geographic locations, and activist genealogies that form and inform our collective imagination of these conceptual rubrics. At the same time, we aim to recalibrate contemporary diagnoses of post-Fordism by foregrounding and historicizing Marxist feminist theorizations of racial capitalism, the welfare state, and neoliberalism. This conference will also revisit the legacy of the 1970's Wages for Housework and Welfare Rights movements in relation to pressing issues of contemporary social inquiry and social struggle: the international division of domestic, sexual, and caring labor; the assault on welfare in an age of neoliberal austerity; the rise of the prison industrial complex; and the question of 'the commons.'" Saturday, February 20Event: Miyazaki Movie MarathonLocation: King House (154 Hope St.)Time: 10:00 a.m.Interested in rushing St. Anthony Hall? Come meet people and watch gorgeous Miyazaki films. In celebration of his 75th birthday, this year’s movie marathon will feature both the classics and lesser known films from iconic Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52raDbtNpa4 Event: Exhibition: Dead Animals, or the curious occurrence of taxidermy in contemporary artLocation: ListTime: 1:00 PM- 4:00 p.m.At a time when natural history museums are moving away from taxidermy, there has been a resurgence of interest in popular culture—in Internet blogs and image collections, in fashion, home décor, and advertising—as well as in art practice. Dead Animals, or the curious occurrence of taxidermy in contemporary art surveys current artistic use of taxidermy through the work of eighteen artists: Maurizio Cattelan, Kate Clark, Mark Dion, Nicholas Galanin, Thomas Grünfeld, Damien Hirst, Karen Knorr, Annette Messager, Polly Morgan, Deborah Sengl, Angela Singer, Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir/Mark Wilson, Richard Barnes, Jules Greenberg, Sarah Cusimano Miles, Richard Ross, and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Sunday, February 21
Event: Zumbathon Charity EventLocation: Nelson Studio 1Time: 1:00 PM- 2:15 p.m.Join Camp Kesem at Brown University and several local Zumba® instructors for a fun workout class to raise money for a great cause! Camp Kesem is a national organization that holds a free, week-long summer camp for children whose parents have or have had cancer. Tickets are available here.Images via and via
