Flatland and AbbottWednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 • 5:30 pm

Digital Scholarship Lab, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. LibraryTom Banchoff, Brown Professor of Mathematics, will discuss his research on the fourth dimension, includ-ing his biography of Edwin Abbott Abbott, The Man Who Wrote ‘Flatland.’ Banchoff ’s research includes the geometry and topology of smooth and polyhedral surfaces as well as development and dissemination of internet-based courseware for communication and vi-sualization in undergraduate mathematics. This event is free and open to the public.

Digital Public Library of America Talk

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 • 6:00 pmJohn Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural HeritageLecture Room, Nightingale Brown House, 357 Benefit Street, rear entranceFor this program, co-sponsored by the Center for Pub-lic Humanities, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Brown University Library, Dan Cohen, Director, DPLA, will speak about the Digital Public Library of America.

The Art of Illusion: Selections from the H. Adrian Smith

Collection of Conjuring and MagicanaDecember 5, 2013 – March 26, 2014John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library*H. Adrian Smith, Brown class of 1930, assembled dur-ing his lifetime one of the finest private collections of magic books, manuscripts, and ephemera. The exhibit will feature Smith’s rich collections on conjuring, be-queathed to the University upon his death in 1992.

Dresden and Nymphenburg Porcelains from the

Anne S. K. Brown Military CollectionDecember 5, 2013 – March 26, 2014John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library*While John Nicholas Brown was working with the al-lied forces in Germany in 1945 reporting on stolen art works, he visited the factory at Nymphenburg in Bavar-ia and ordered 21 porcelain figures for his wife, Anne S.  K. Brown. Subsequent additions to this set came from the Dresden porcelain factory. Today these porce-lains form a unique segment of the foremost American collection devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering.

An Evening with 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Ayad Akhtar ’91

Monday, December 9, 2013 • 7:00 pmMartinos Auditorium, Granoff CenterJoin Brown University Library and Friends of the Li-brary for the 10th Annual Don Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship in American Theatre featuring renowned American writer and actor, Ayad Akhtar. Akhtar, Brown class of 1991, majored in theater and earned his masters in directing from Columbia University. Akhtar published his first novel, American Dervish, in 2012, and is currently working on his second novel. In 2013, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Disgraced. This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

Josiah Carberry Cooking Demonstration & Cookbook Signing

Friday, December 13, 2013 • 3:00 pmJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. LibraryPerhaps there will be chocolate chicken! Perhaps fried dandelions or Oysters Rockefeller Library! Come see a cooking demonstration and try free snacks from the Carberry Cookbook. Cookbooks will be for sale and Carberry may or may not be around to sign them! This event is free and open to the public. #josiahcarberry

The Shadow Over College Street

H. P. Lovecraft in Providence

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The Shadow Over College Street: H. P. Lovecraft in Providence

August 19 – September 22, 2013John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library & Philbrick Rare Book Room, Providence Athenaeum Mounted in conjunction with NecronomiCon Provi-dence, this collaborative exhibition explores Lovecraft’s youth in Providence and its role in shaping his career as a master craftsman of weird fiction.

Reading Love Medicine: Beads, Bark, and Books from Ojibwe Country

September 27 – October 24, 2013John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library*Join us in reading Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine for the 2013–2014 Big Read in Rhode Island, hosted by the Tomaquag Museum with support from Brown University. This exhibit draws on the collections of Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology to explore the stories that can be told about objects from Ojibwe country. The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

Performing in the Spirit: Strings, Drums, Fugues and Pans

Through September 30, 2013Orwig Music Library This exhibit explores the instruments and life of the Music Department’s ethnomusicological ensembles including Ghanaian drumming, Brazilian choro, old-time American string, Sacred Harp singing, and Ja-vanese gamelan. At Brown, students learn about per-formance orally from faculty, guest faculty, and peers while studying cultural origins of musical traditions.

“Made Not Born” Screening with Don Wilmeth

and Professor Josiah S. Carberry Friday, September 13, 2013 • 5:30 pmDigital Scholarship Lab, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. LibraryWho is Professor Josiah S. Carberry?! Who is he not?! Find out when the Professor and Friends of the Library Board member Don Wilmeth present the biographical documentary “Made Not Born: The Wife and Dimes of Professor Josiah S. Carberry,” in the Rock’s new Digital Scholarship Lab. Snacks from The Carberry Cookbook: From Nuts to Soup and discussion will follow. This event is free and open to the public. #josiahcarberry

Student Life at BrownThrough October 11, 2013

Lobby, Maddock Alumni CenterIn a continuing effort to showcase student life at Brown University, the University Archives has created an ex-hibit of photographs and museum objects in the lobby of the Maddock Alumni Center. Since Brown Universi-ty was founded in 1764, student life has undergone dra-matic social, academic, cultural, and political changes. The exhibit provides a glimpse of student life through a variety of photographs, a fan and dance card from 1914, a mug from 1942, a freshman beanie from 1958, and a commemorative Faunce House mailbox.

Visually Inspiring BiologyOctober 17, 2013 • 7:00 pm

Digital Scholarship Lab, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. LibraryBrown STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) is a student initiative focused on integrating artistic and scientific thought to nurture interdisciplinary and creative project-based education. For this second part of the Visually Inspiring Biology mini-series, Hay staff will present medical and botani-cal art-folios from the Library’s Special collections. A creativity workshop will follow. This event is free and open to the public.

Material Encounters in the Archive Symposium

Friday, October 25, 2013 • 2:00–5:30 pmroom 305, Pembroke Hall Three interdisciplinary humanities scholars, Anjali Arondekar (Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz), Ariella Azoulay (Modern Culture and Media, Brown University), and Kate Eichhorn (Culture and Media Studies, The New School), will discuss how their engagement with archival objects has shaped their understanding of the potential, as well as the limits, of the archive as a site of knowledge production. An open discussion moderated by Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian, will follow. This symposium is hosted by the Feminist The-ory Archives, a collaboration between the Brown Uni-versity Library and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.

Paul Grant-Costa and Tobias Glaza, Yale Indian Papers Project

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 • 5:30 pmDigital Scholarship Lab, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. LibraryPaul Grant-Costa and Tobias Glaza will discuss the Yale Indian Papers Project, which collates materials from partner institutions into a scholarly critical edition of New England Native American primary source materi-als. By providing annotated transcriptions, the project offers students, educators, researchers, Native Ameri-can tribal members, and the general public, visual and intellectual access to significant historical knowledge for the purposes of teaching, scholarly analysis, and re-search. This event is free and open to the public.

Witnesses to a Remote PastOctober 31 – November 22, 2013

Annmary Brown MemorialIn celebration of two conferences, Late Literature in the Sixth Century: East and West and the annual New England Medieval Conference, and in memory of Da-vid A. Warner, a beloved colleague and professor of history at RISD, the Library will present an exhibition of materials from the University’s Medieval manu-script collections. The Memorial is open to the public Monday through Friday from 1:00–5:00 pm during the academic year.

Flatland and AbbottNovember 1 – November 29, 2013

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library*Professor Tom Banchoff will curate this exhibit in cel-ebration of the 175th anniversary of the birth of Edwin Abbott, the author of Flatland, the classic introduction to exploring the fourth dimension. Pre-publication first and second editions signed by the author, as well as translations into seventeen languages, will be on dis-play from the John Hay Library’s Special Collections.

The Return of Rush Hawkins’ Sword!November 7, 2013 • 3:00 pm

Annmary Brown MemorialJoin the University Library as we celebrate the return of Rush Hawkins’ Civil War-era silver Tiffany presen-tation sword to the Annmary Brown Memorial, the resting place of Rush Hawkins and his wife, Annmary Brown. Curators, attorneys, and historians will talk about Rush Hawkins, the social history of his sword, and its remarkable journey back to campus. The Higher Keys, Brown’s oldest co-ed a cappella group, will per-form. This event is free and open to the public. Refresh-ments will be served.

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The Library will host special presentations throughout the year in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab 

in the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, featuring research by Brown faculty and visiting scholars. 

Visit http://library.brown.edu/dsl/events for more information.