February 24-28: Eating disorder awareness, meditation, and teach-ins

Wednesday, February 24Event: Columbia Publishing Course at Brown UniversityLocation: CareerLABTime: 12:00 AM-1:00 p.m.Join the CareerLAB for an on-campus information session about the multitude of career options in book, magazine, and digital publishing. Hear firsthand from a recent Brown grad about her experience at the Columbia Publishing Course and what it's like to work for a major literary agency in New York City.Event: Baked Goods with BOMBSLocation: Blue RoomTime: 1:00 PM- 5:00 p.m.Join Brown's Organization for Multiracial and Biracial Students (B.O.M.B.S) for some treats in the Blue Room! There will be M&M rice crispy treats, Oreo-stuffed chocolate chip cookies, and chocolate covered cookie dough. YUM!Event: Soylent PhotoshootLocation: SciLiTime: 3:00 PM- 5:00 p.m.Want to learn more about Soylent? Want to be the face of a cool new product? Not sure what this even means? Come to the SciLi and pose with a free bottle of Soylent to have the above questions answered and more.Event: Eating Disorder Recovery: What is Progress?Location: Petteruti LoungeTime: 5:00 p.m.Do you struggle with the idea of "recovery"? Do you want to make positive changes, but don't know how? Are you unsure of what constitutes progress? This panel will feature students with lived experience of recovery from eating disorders/disordered eating. Students will share their experiences with the recovery process, discuss what "recovery" means for them, and how they've maintained (or not maintained) it, and what slip-ups and lapses have meant in terms of "recovery." This session is part of LETS at Brown's National Eating Disorder Awareness (NEDA) Week, which includes more programming through Friday.Event: Margo Jefferson: Inside NEGROLANDLocation: Granoff CenterTime: 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.The Black Student Union and Black Heritage series present a talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margo Jefferson about her memoir, Negroland. The talk is hosted by Brown alum Kibwe Chase-Marshall (MCM, '10) and will cover topics such as class within the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the hybridization of pro-Black and pro-Feminist ideologies.Event: Meditation with Professor RothLocation: Pembroke FieldTime: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.Join Professor Roth and members of the Contemplative Studies DUG in a night of mindfulness and meditation, including a talk by Professor Roth on meditation at Brown. For those out of the loop, Harold D. Roth is a professor of Religious Studies and the Director of the Contemplative Studies Initiative. Roth is a specialist in Classical Chinese Religious Thought, Classical Daoism, the comparative study of contemplative practices and experiences. He is also the person who coined the term "Contemplative Studies" and he designed the first university concentration program in this subject.Event: BUFF and MES Presents: OmarLocation: Joukowsky ForumTime: 7 p.m.BUFF and MES are co-hosting a showing of the Oscar-nominated Palestinian film Omar, which follows a Palestinian baker arrested for the death of an Israeli soldier.Thursday, February 25Event: Brown/RISD Teach-In UNIVERSITY AND DISSENT: Universities Under SiegeLocation: The Watson InstituteTime: 12:00 PM- 2:00 p.m. How is the university positioned as a space for critical thought and political action? What are the boundaries between freedom of expression, dissent and hate speech? In the charged context of the politics of hate, how does nationalism come to be defined from positions of dominance and marginality? When is the intervention of the state through direct and indirect forms of violence justified? How does this political moment resonate with struggles in South Africa, Turkey, Chile and right here in the United States, particularly with #BlackLivesMatter? This event is co-sponsored by the South Asian Studies, Brown-India Initiative & RISD.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sty0BuHqsJMEvent: Susan Lusi–Reflections of an Urban Superintendent: Working at the Nexus of Practice, Policy and PoliticsLocation: Watson InstitituteSusan Lusi will reflect on her ten years as a superintendent, including four years as the superintendent of Providence public schools, in this talk hosted by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy. For more information, check here.Event: Smart Woman Securities General Body MeetingLocation: Wilson 305Time: 7:00 p.m.Come join Smart Woman Securities for free pizza and the first general body meeting this spring. There will be discussions on the importance of financial knowledge and SWS's mission, which is to provide investment education for undergraduate women. Also up for discussion: upcoming events, workshops, and trips to visit various firms and people (i.e. Morgan Stanley, Warren Buffett).Event: China: America's Foreign Policy PuzzleTime: 7:00 p.m.Location: Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (85 Waterman)This debate about the future of U.S.-China relations features Ambassador Chas Freeman, the Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown's Watson Institute, and Michael Mazza of the American Enterprise Institute.Friday, February 26Event: Freedom is ______: ACLU Photo CampaignLocation: Blue RoomTime: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.What does freedom mean to you? Stop by the Blue Room at noon on Friday for a cookie and a photoshoot with the American Civil Liberties Union at Brown.Event: AUDITION for "King Lear": SotG's New ShowLocation: Sayles 012Time: Friday 2/26 from 6:30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. and Saturday 2/27 from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Audition for "King Lear," Shakespeare on the Green's Spring show. Largely regarded by audiences and critics as Shakespeare's finest tragedy, this play wrestles with power, betrayal, madness, and humanity's constant struggle against the relentless march of time. Even after 400 years, the play, the characters, and their struggles remain both relevant and poignant. To learn more about audition times, call back information, and how to get involved, click here.Event: Culture, Identity, and Eating DisordersLocation: Petteruti LoungeTime: 7:30 p.m.- 9:30 p.m.Join LETS at Brown for a student-led panel discussing culture, identity, and eating. Students featured in this panel do not represent a finite experience of living with an eating disorder/disordered eating, they represent themselves, and their own lived experience. Peer Mental Health Advocates will also be available at this event. E-mail any questions you’d like to contribute to our discussion panel to: letsatbrown@gmail.comEvent: PW presents TWITS 2016: A Silly Sort of ThingLocation: The Upspace at PW (7 Orchard Ave)Time: Friday 2/26 at 8:00 p.m.Saturday 2/26 at 8:00 p.m.Sunday 2/27 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Monday 2/28 at 8:00 p.m.Production Workshop presents a TWITS production: A Silly Sort of Thing written and directed by Kathy Ng '17. Buy tickets online or at the door an hour before the show begins.Saturday, February 27Event: Mindfulness-Based Eating Discussion with Dr. Jean KristellarLocation: Petteruti LoungeTime: 4:00 p.m.Dr. Jean Kristeller is a clinical and research psychologist who has been a leader in the field of mindful eating. Her nationally recognized program, Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT), has been shown to be effective for individuals struggling with weight management and binge eating disorder, supported by research funded by the National Institutes of Health.This Saturday, she will be sharing her expertise relating to mindful eating in relation to eating disorders and disordered eating. You can learn more here, here and here.Sunday, February 28Event: Ivy Film Festival Presents: The 2016 Oscars Ballot CompetitionLocation: Brown UniversityTime: 5:30 PMThe 2016 Oscars are this Sunday night! Can you predict the winners? Fill out your predictions on this form to enter the Ivy Film Festival's 2016 Oscars Ballot Competition. You could win TWO free redeemable Avon Cinema tickets!Images via and via