What To Do This Week: Movies, Gaming, and More!
Monday, November 4
Event: Ashoka Mukpo: Media for Mobilizing Against Abuses at the Border (link)
Location: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Time: 12:00am – 1:30pm
Description: (From event page)
CLACS is happy to host Ashoka Mukpo at Brown, who will give the talk, "The Role of Video and Photography to Mobilize Action Against Abuses at the Border" as part of the lectureship Storytelling in the Americas: Journalism, Gender, Fiction, and Borders.
Ashoka Mukpo is a former freelancer covering politics, culture, and human life. Based in West Africa for many years, now a staff reporter at the American Civil Liberties Union in New York.
Event: Kimberlé Crenshaw: 50 Years Since '68 Keynote Lecture (link)
Location: De Ciccio Auditorium, Salomon Center for Teaching
Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Description: (From event page)
1968: Unearthing the Linked Narratives of Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Their Discontents
This talk by distinguished legal scholar and policy leader, Kimberlé Crenshaw will begin with what should be a puzzling convergence. How is it that after five years of a grassroots uprising against anti-Black police violence, and after eight years of a Black president in the White House, did a newly anointed activist against the criminal justice system and a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination both arrive at the same conclusion: the first step in the contemporary manifestations of white supremacy is to fix the family. Crenshaw will unearth events from 1968 that reach into contemporary efforts to link race inequality to socio-cultural deficits of African Americans, and connect opposition to this narrative to the emergence of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.
Event: Can You Take a Picture of the Soul? (link)
Location: Thomistic Institute, 75 Waterman St
Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Dr. James Madden is professor of philosophy at Benedictine College. He lives in Atchison with his wife (Jennifer) and their six children; William, Martha, J. Patrick, Brendan, Jack, and Cormac. He is originally from Wisconsin, where he received a B.A. from St. Norbert College, and did his graduate work at Kent State (MA, 1998) and Purdue (Ph.D., 2002). He was awarded the Benedictine College Distinguished Educator of the Year Award in 2006.
Tuesday, November 5
Event: Ghost in the Race Machine Lecture by Prof. Terence Keel (link)
Location: Pembroke Hall
Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Terence Keel from UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics and Associate Professor Department of Africana Studies will give a talk, entitled “Ghost in the Race Machine: How Religious thought Haunts the Biomedical Sciences.” The talk draws on his engaging new book Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science, 2018.
Event: Screening of 'Un Traductor' (link)
Location: Department of Hispanic Studies, 84 Prospect St
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Based on the little-known true story of how twenty thousand Chernobyl victims were eventually treated in Cuba, Un Traductor unfolds as a tale at once historical and personal, brought to life in crisply shot, beautifully realized period detail of a Havana on the brink of economic crisis.
Havana, 1989: Russian literature professor Malin (Rodrigo Santoro, of Westworld fame)
receives a mysterious note at the university with orders from the government sending him to a local hospital, where he learns he is expected to act as translator between Cuban doctors and the families of young patients from the Chernobyl disaster. Initially raging against his new role, Malin is forced to stay on. He eventually becomes deeply devoted to his patients. But while he becomes “king of the kids” at the hospital, his relationships with his pregnant wife and young son suffer.
Meanwhile, life around all of them shifts as the “Special Period”—the economic crisis in Cuba that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union—begins.
Wednesday, November 6
Event: IFF Presents: 'Queen & Slim' (link)
Location: Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Ivy Film Festival and Universal Pictures are proud to present a free advanced screening of Queen & Slim produced and written by Emmy award winner Lena Waithe!
“Slim (Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya) and Queen's first date takes an unexpected turn when a policeman pulls them over for a minor traffic violation. When the situation escalates, Slim takes the officer's gun and shoots him in self defense. Now labelled cop killers in the media, Slim and Queen feel that they have no choice but to go on the run and evade the law. When a video of the incident goes viral, the unwitting outlaws soon become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people all across the country.”
Thursday, November 7
Event: Trash Dash Launch Party (link)
Location: The Underground
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Come to the unveiling of a Brown-themed arcade game in the Underground at Faunce on November 7th from 6-8 PM. There will be prizes and free pizza!
"Trash Dash" is an 8-bit game designed by the Office of Sustainability that makes recycling fun! Play as Bruno the bear as he swats Andrews to-go bowls and Ivy room smoothie cups into their proper places. Start off slow and play it in "S/NC" mode. Feeling like a challenge? Take it for a grade and level up to "ABC." The high scores will get a mystery prize!
Event: Dry Swallow by Lucas Baisch '20 MFA (link)
Location: Leeds Theatre, 83 Waterman St
Time: 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Description: (From event page)
We sit within the confines of a shipping container, where people are rendered commodity and turf is marked for value. Chula and Pal create competition on a Boyle Heights street corner. Nasir and Porter offer medicinal intake as artistic practice. Sik and Dori turn to drastic measures in order to save their family. Dry Swallow explores surrogacy, consumption, and substance abuse, while provoking the question: who’s allowed a healthy life?
Friday, November 8
Event: CUPSI Qualifying Poetry Slam (link)
Location: The Underground
Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Description: (From event page)
At this slam, poets will compete to represent Brown University/RISD at CUPSI (College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational) at Virginia Commonwealth University from April 15-18, 2020! Come to compete, support your friends, and/or hear some incredibly poetry!
Event: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadowcast (link)
Location: Memorial Hall, 226 Benefit St
Time: 8:30pm – 11:00pm
Description: (From event page)
This annual show is your chance to let loose and be a part of the fun disaster!
Part movie, part show, part party! Come have fun!
Admission is FREE, doors open @ 8:30PM, show begins at 9PM both nights
Saturday, November 9
Event: Brown Aerial & Acrobatics: Fall Showcase (link)
Location: Alumnae Hall
Time: 7:30pm – 10:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Brown Aerial & Acrobatics presents our annual fall showcase (ONE NIGHT ONLY) featuring returning and incoming club and team members
Sunday, November 10
Event: League Worlds 2019 Watch Party (link)
Location: Salomon Hall
Time: 7:00am – 2:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Brown Esports is hosting a watch party for the finals of the 2019 League competitive season. Come hang out with others in the League community around Brown, eat food, and get free official merch while watching the biggest match of the year!