What To Do This Week: Careers, Concerts, and ANOCH!
Monday, September 30
Event: Music Now with Tara Rogers (link)
Location: Orwig Music Building
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
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.
Dr. Tara Rodgers is a multi-instrumentalist composer and historian of electronic music and sound. She graduated from Brown with an AB in American Studies and earned an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College and a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University. She is the author of several essays on music, technology, and culture, and of Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Duke University Press, 2010), which received the 2011 Pauline Alderman Book Award from the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM). She composes music in a range of electronic and experimental genres. “Butterfly Effects,” a generative four-channel composition written in SuperCollider, received the 2007 IAWM New Genre Prize.
Event: Multiracial Heritage Series Welcome Back Dinner (link)
Location: Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center
Time: 5:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Join us for the Multiracial Heritages Series Welcome Back Dinner! This will be the first Multiracial Heritage Series’ event for 2019-2020 and will investigate issues of race with particular focus on the multiracial community. We will showcase and honor the vibrant multiracial culture within our Brown community through celebration, food, and vibrant performances. All students who identify with the community and/or are interested in learning more about the historical and ongoing issues facing the multiracial community are encouraged to attend. This will be an amazing opportunity for multiracial students to meet one another and to become involved with the Heritage Series and the BCSC!
Tuesday, October 1
Event: A Cross-Cultural Conversation with SHAG (link)
Location: Global Brown Center for International Students
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Description: (From event page)
A Cross-Cultural Conversation with SHAG: Hook-Up Culture & Dating Norms at Brown and Beyond
Join Sexual Health Awareness Group (SHAG) peer educators for a discussion of dating norms, hook up culture and navigating relationships here at Brown, in the US, and around the world. There will be an opportunity to ask questions, share experiences, explore values, and learn from SHAG and from each other.
Event: Stephen Kinzer ─ Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (link)
Location: Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Time: 4:30pm – 6:00pm
Description: (From event page)
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace—including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos, where they were secretly dosed with mind-altering drugs. His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture. For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by CIA officers around the world.
Event: Mezcla Presents: Samba with Jorge (link)
Location: TF Green Room 205
Time: 10:00pm – 11:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Jorge Sánchez García is serving up straight Samba sauciness this Tuesday, October 1st for the first Mezcla workshop of the semester!
Samba is a rhythm and dance style of Afro-Brazilian origin, popular especially in the time of Carnaval. Why did our beloved dancer fall in love with Samba, and what rhythms did he absorb in his time in Río de Janeiro? Come find out!
Wednesday, October 2
Event: Artist Talk: Sanford Biggers (link)
Location: List Art Building
Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Sanford Biggers’ work is an interplay of narrative, perspective and history that speaks to current social, political and economic happenings while also examining the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often overlooked cultural and political narratives from American history. As creative director and keyboardist, he fronts Moon Medicin, a multimedia concept band that straddles visual art and music with performances staged against a backdrop of curated sound effects and video.
Event: Resumes and LinkedIn Profiles followed by Coverletters (link)
Location: CareerLab
Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Come for one, two or all.
The first half hour we will discuss your resume and LinkedIn profile. They should make a great first impression when you are looking for a job or internship. Grabbing the reader’s attention immediately is essential! Join us to learn how to craft resumes and build your LinkedIn profile that will open doors to the positions you want.
The second half hour you will learn how to craft a cover letter that pitches you effectively. This program immediately precedes resumes and LinkedIn Profiles. Come for all or just cover letters.
Event: YDSA Movie Night: They Live (link)
Location: Alumnae Hall
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Come to Smitty-B 106 to watch "They Live" with the Brown/RISD young Democratic Socialists of America (yDSA). Make sure to invite your friends!
“They Live” is a critically-acclaimed film (86% on Rotten Tomatoes) about a homeless drifter who discovers a reason for the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor: a conspiracy by non-human aliens who have infiltrated American society in the guise of wealthy yuppies.
Thursday, October 3
Event: Google (NON TECH) BOLD Information Session (link)
Location: Salomon Hall
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Build for Everyone Info Session: A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Event: Puerto Rico: The Unknown U.S. Colony (link)
Location: Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Why did the US invade the Latin American nation of Puerto Rico in 1898? How and when did the Puerto Ricans become US citizens? What is the official relationship between Puerto Rico and the US? How is Puerto Rico two years after Maria Hurricane? What is the future of Puerto Rico?
CLACS is happy to welcome Ángel Collado-Schwartz (Yale University) to give a talk on the contemporary history of Puerto Rico.
Ángel Collado Schwarz is a historian, moderator of radio programs, Puerto Rican author and publishes a monthly column in the main newspaper of Puerto Rico.
Event: SV Presents: Enjoy! Feat OGP, Té Kav, Impulse and More (link)
Location: Center for Contemporary South Asia
Time: 9:00pm – 12:30am
Description: (From event page)
There's something special happening on College Hill and we're excited to be a part of it. With 7 years experience promoting in Providence, Small Victories knows when acts have momentum and deserve to be highlighted. With OGP's recent EP "Enjoy!" and Té Kav's successful Single, "Traffik", now is that time. We have no doubt this night will be one of our best artist showcase parties to date.
Orange Guava Passion, Té Kav, and Impulse all represent different artistic mediums. However, on this night, they come together to form a lineup not to be missed.
Friday, October 4
Event: Active Minds: Stress Less Fair 2019 (link)
Location: Main Green
Time: 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Join Active Minds on the Main Green anytime from 12-3pm this Friday, October 4th for a variety of de-stressing activities! There will be paint throwing, art therapy, massages by the Brown University Relaxation Project (BURP), cookie decorating, stress balls, and more! We hope to see you there!
Event: Trowelblazers@Brown (link)
Location: Rhode Island Hall Room 109
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Description: (From event page)
In Trowelblazers@Brown you’ll find a group of early career female and queer identifying scientists and their allies coming together in solidarity to reflect on experiences in the field and academia and engage in meaningful exchanges related to gender issues and accessibility. We are striving towards a more intersectional understanding of what it means to be a woman in archaeology and the challenges one may or may not face in doing so. Come join us at our monthly meetings and mixers to support each other in our endeavors and work together to advocate for positive changes in our discipline, university, fieldwork, etc.
Event: Andrea Jain – Peace, Love, Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality (link)
Location: Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Andrea R. Jain, Ph.D. is associate professor of religious studies at the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and author of Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014). She received her doctorate degree in religious studies from Rice University in 2010. Her areas of research include religion under neoliberal capitalism; global yoga; South Asian religions; the intersections of gender, sexuality, and religion; and theories of religion. Her second monograph, Peace, Love, Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Saturday, October 5
Event: BUO Concerto Competition (link)
Location: Grant Recital Hall
Time: 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Description: (From event page)
The Brown University Orchestra sponsors its annual concerto competition to give its most highly talented members the opportunity to perform as soloists with the orchestra. This privilege is also extended to musicians at Brown whose specialties do not generally allow membership in an orchestra: pianists, vocalists, and players of guitar, saxophone, and other non-orchestral instruments.
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 October 5th, for one of our largest WaterFire celebrations of the year. The 14th annual Flames of Hope: A Celebration of Life,™ honors the men, women, and families affected by breast cancer.
Event: CCB Presents: A Night on College Hill (link)
Location: Pembroke Field
Time: 10:00pm – 2:00am
Description: (From event page)
Join Brown Class Coordinating Board for the sixth annual A Night on College Hill (ANOCH), Brown's one and only FREE campus-wide dance.
What you need to know:
★ FREE and open to ALL undergraduates (Student ID required).
★ Semiformal attire is encouraged; however, come in what you feel is most appropriate and empowering.
★ Featuring student musicians Orange Guava Passion and DJ Alex
★ Desserts will be served (vegan and gluten free options available).
★ Photo booth for the memories
Sunday, October 6
Event: L@B Professional Headshots (link)
Location: Main Green
Time: 3:00am – 5:00pm
Description: (From event page)
On October 6th from 3-5 pm, we will have two photographers available to take free professional photos of you for LinkedIn, job applications, or anything else you might need it for! If you are interested in getting your photo taken, please click on the link below to sign up for a 10 minute slot. Come dressed in your best professional attire. The photoshoots will begin in front of Sayles on the Main Green.