Environmental Humanities Lecture • Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, «Theory of Water»

Andrews House

Join us for a talk by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, followed by a reception marking the launch of the Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown (https://events.brown.edu/cehab/event/302945-cehab-launch).Free, open to the public. For questions or to request special services, accommodations, or assistance, please contact humanities-institute@brown.eduor (401) 863-6070.About the SpeakerLeanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi [...]

Andrew Yang ’96: A New Way Forward for American Politics

Salomon Center

Join the Brown Political Union for a discussion with Andrew Yang '96 on the state of American politics and democracy, bridging divides in polarized times, the Forward Party and third-party political reform, and reflections on his career. After becoming a successful entrepreneur, Yang gained mainstream attention when he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in [...]

How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America

164 Angell Street

Laura Chávez-Moreno is an award-winning scholar, qualitative social scientist, and assistant professor in the Departments of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education. Dr. Chávez-Moreno's research has been published in top-tier academic [...]

Fireside Chat on Building AI for Humanity: Research, Policy, and Practice

Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street

Join Watson Senior Fellow Malika Saada Saar '92, former Global Head of Human Rights at YouTube, for a fireside chat on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights with Vinay Rao, Head of Trust and Safety, Anthropic.Vinay Rao (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinayrao/) heads the AI Safeguards team at Anthropic. Vinay leads Engineering, Product Management, Policy Design, Enforcement, and Data Science [...]

An Evening with Claudia Rankine & Bernardine Evaristo

The Lindemann Performing Arts Center 144 Angell St., Providence

Bringing together award winning writers Claudia Rankine and Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Kwame Dawes, this event will feature a reading from Rankine and Evaristo and a conversation guided by Dawes that will explore each of their works as well as their engagements with the nuances and emergences of contemporary African and African diasporic literatures.

Unearthly Literature: Re-reading Nathalie Sarraute. A Talk by Thangam Ravindranathan

Pembroke Hall 172 Meeting St

Professor of French and Francophone StudiesThangam Ravindranathan will deliver the annual Elizabeth Munves Sherman '77, P'06 '09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies on Thursday, February 13. Ravindranathan's current book project, titledUnearthly Literature, inquires into literature's ways of registering environmental degradation.

Flynn Speaker Series • Ed Yong, «The Amazing Nature of Animal Senses»

Cogut Institute, Andrews House

Ed Yong takes audiences through the hidden realms of animal senses in this lecture based on his book An Immense World. With wit and humor, learn the amazing ways in which animals perceive aspects of the world to which we are oblivious.Free and open to the public, but registration is required (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ed-yong-the-amazing-nature-of-animal-senses-tickets-1102467934269?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm-source=cp&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing). If registration is [...]

From TikTok to Pornography: Former ACLU President Nadine Strossen on Free Speech and Social Media

Watson Institute 111 Thayer St, Providence, RI, United States

Nadine Strossen, JD is former President of the ACLU and a nationally recognized expert on free speech and the US Constitution. Professor Strossen is coming to Brown to speak about current events that challenge free speech, including the rights of student protestors and pending SCOTUS decisions on both the TikTok ban and mandated age verification [...]

Hear from an NMDP Recipient and Donor

Friedman 108

We will be hearing from Jennifer Leal, a NMDP stem cell recipient, and Rachel Miller, a NMDP bone marrow donor. Pizza and refreshments will be served. This is a great opportunity to hear from two wonderful people who have been on both sides of what NMDP does. If you would like to submit any questions [...]