What To Do This Week: Career Fair, Coffee, and Donuts!
Monday, September 23
Event: Study Abroad Fair (link)
Location: Alumnae Hall
Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Interested in studying abroad but not sure where to start? Be sure to stop by OIP’s annual Study Abroad Fair in Alumnae Hall on Monday, September 23, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Learn more about Brown’s study abroad programs, talk with students who have studied abroad, and meet with program representatives from Brown/CASA-sponsored programs and other approved program providers.
Event: Music Now with Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (link)
Location: Orwig Music Building 109
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo offers an overview of her research about the politics of “community-studios,” a term she uses to describe recording studios that provide high-quality recording tools, professional sound engineering services, and audio training to artists from communities that often lack financial or social access, such as “at-risk” black and Latinx youth as well as women and non-binary artists from a variety of racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Event: CCB 2020 Presents: Senior Night at Flatbread (link)
Location: Flatbread Company Providence
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Come play Don’t Judge Me Bingo or make a Never Have I Ever Senior Year Bucket List with your fellow seniors at Flatbread Company Providence on Monday, September 23rd from 8 - 10 PM (front Cushing St. entrance only)!
There will be FREE flatbread which includes Providence Community, Jay’s Heart, and Pepperoni (with vegan and gluten-free options on request).
This event is only open to seniors ('19.5, '20, '20.5) and please remember to bring your Brown ID for admission and a valid state ID if you plan on purchasing drinks.
Tuesday, September 24
Event: Scars of the Slave Trade: Family, Recognition and Incest (link)
Location: Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Please join us at the CSSJ for a lunch talk from Emerging Scholar Alexis Broderick Neumann entitled "Scars of the Trade: Family, Recognition, and Incest in Slavery and Freedom".
Alexis Broderick Neumann is currently the Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow for the Penn & Slavery Project at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her work with the Penn & Slavery Project, she is in the process of revising her book manuscript titled "American Incest: Kinship, Sex, and Commerce in Slavery and Reconstruction." Broderick Neumann earned her PhD from Penn's history department in December 2018.
Event: Banned Books Live (link)
Location: The Providence Athenaeum
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Description: (From event page)
The American Civil Liberties Union of RI (ACLU) and the Athenæum invite you to celebrate the power of freedom and the written word during the 37th annual Banned Books Week. Athenæum Executive Director Matt Burriesci, RI Poet Laureate Tina Cane, poet Colin Channer, author Vikki Warner, and Rhode Island Writers Colony's John Stephenson will read from their favorite banned books.
Event: Asian American Heritage Series Welcome Back (link)
Location: Sayles Hall
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Each Heritage Series program investigates issues of race broadly with a specific focus on the politics and culture of their particular community. All students who identify with the Asian American community and/or are interested in learning more about the historical and ongoing issues facing this community are encouraged to attend this Welcome Back, where we will introduce the student coordinators of the Asian American Heritage series. There will be food, performances, and student representatives tabling for different Asian and Asian American organizations on campus.
Wednesday, September 25
Event: “He Who Doesn’t Know the Craft Can Frustrate a Judge”: Rivalry and Self-Promotion Among Diviners and Prophets in the Ancient Near East (link)
Location: 163 George Street Room 101
Time: 11:00am - 11:50am
Description: (From event page)
You’re invited to join Judaic Studies colleagues at 11:00-11:50 am on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 when Jennifer Singletary ’07MA, ’14PhD (University of Göttingen) presents a talk entitled “He Who Doesn’t Know the Craft Can Frustrate a Judge”: Rivalry and Self-Promotion Among Diviners and Prophets in the Ancient Near East in our seminar room #101 at Hirschfeld House, 163 George St. Light refreshments will be served.
Event: Brown's BIG Career Fair (link)
Location: OMAC
Time: 11:00am - 3:00pm
Description: (From event page)
The career fair is coming to the OMAC. See close to 100 employers looking to connect with Brown students.
Event: B-Lab Venture Showcase (link)
Location: Alumnae Hall
Time: 6:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Brown University’s Breakthrough Lab (B-Lab) is a unique, intensive 8-week accelerator program that supports student entrepreneurs developing high-impact ventures. The Venture Showcase presentations are a significant milestone for the students who spent their summer in Providence and in the local community exploring, experimenting, and advancing their ventures.
Thursday, September 26
Event: Underground Fall Opening! (link)
Location: The Underground Coffee Co.
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Description: (From event page)
The Underground will be opening on September 26th! Stop by to meet out new baristas, grab a cup of coffee, and reward yourself for finishing shopping period with a KNEAD Doughnut!!
Event: Don't Forget to Breathe Series: Sleep Hygiene with BWell (link)
Location: CareerLab 1st Floor
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Description: (From event page)
This workshop introduces participants to brief mindfulness techniques to manage stress and increase resiliency for better sleep. Insomnia Cookies will be served!
Event: Rehan Jamil – Social Policy & Citizenship Boundaries in Pakistan (link)
Location: Center for Contemporary South Asia
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Rehan Rafay Jamil is a PhD candidate in the Political Science department studying comparative politics. His research interests research interests include political economy of development, social policy and citizenship in South Asia. His dissertation examines the political origins and citizenship impacts of Pakistan’s largest cash transfer program targeted at low income women: The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP)
Friday, September 27
Event: Death and Afterlives in the Middle East (link)
Location: Watson Institute, McKinney Conference Room
Time: 8:30am - 5:30pm
Description: (From event page)
The theme for the conference will bring together academics from around the world to consider the social, political, symbolic and material life of death. Participants will discuss how death and its afterlives help us develop new tropes to think about belonging, migration, mobility, regimes of security, war on terror, violence, intimacy, and care.
Event: Better World Conference Weekend (link)
Location: Various Locations in Brown/RISD
Time: 11:00am (lasts all weekend)
Description: (From event page)
Better World by Design is an annual weekend conference created and organized by Brown and RISD undergrad students that celebrates interdisciplinary collaboration between designers, educators, innovators, and learners. Now in our 12th year, the 2019 theme is Noise: disrupting the dominant wavelength.
Tickets are $15 for students and $75 for professionals, and include three days of speakers, workshops, parties, and conversations you won’t experience anywhere else. Feel free to register for the conference and come to what you can.
Saturday, September 28
Event: U-FLi Center Block Party: Cultivating Movement, Creating Space (link)
Location: Faculty Club
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Join the U-FLi Center for our kick-off event of the school year!
This year’s welcome aims to amplify the voices and work of three undocumented womxn DJ’s: Sizzle Fantastic, Funky Caramelo, and UndocuBougie.
The DJs will spin their favorite hits as the U-FLi community connects and claims space at the Faculty Club. New and returning U-FLi students are especially invited to join us for an evening of food, music and resistance!
Event: WaterFire Full Lighting (link)
Location: WaterFire Providence
Time: 6:30pm - 12:30am
Description: (From event page)
WaterFire Providence is celebrating 25 years of transforming place and building community with our #Art4Impact series.
Join us on Saturday, September 28th to celebrate educational excellence in Rhode Island and the 2nd annual Brown University Big Bang Science Fair.
Sunday, September 29
Event: Downtown Donut Fest (link)
Location: Graduate Hotel Providence
Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Join some of the best doughnut shops, eateries, bakeries and coffee icons in Providence on Sunday, September 29th at Graduate Providence for our inaugural Downtown Donut Festival!
Satisfy every sweet tooth craving, decorate your own doughnuts and sample treats from some of the top shops in Providence!
Tickets to this event are $10 and must be pre-purchased in advance. This event will sell out and reach capacity. There will be no ticket sales at the door.
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