Friday, October 27, 2017 / Public Humanities Center
All events on Friday, October 27 take place at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.
2:30 – 3:30pm Welcome Reception: coffee, tea and Knead donuts (with the option of taking our new tablet tour of the Nightingale Brown House for a spin).
3:30 – 5pm Career Conversations. This session will be run unconference-style. Anyone who wants to propose a question or topic related to working in the public humanities field can fill out a proposal form during the welcome reception and hand it in by 3:15pm. All proposals will be taped up in the Seminar Room and participants can vote on the session they’d like to participate in. We will run at least three different sessions in different rooms of the house. Never been to an unconference before? See our FAQ page for a primer. Current students, community and faculty fellows and staff are all welcome to submit proposals.
5 – 8pm Cocktail reception followed by welcome dinner for all returning alumni, current students and faculty and community fellows.
Saturday, October 28, 2017 / Petterutti Lounge and the Public Humanities Center
All events from 9am to 3pm take place at Petterutti Lounge, Room 201 (2nd floor) of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center at 75 Waterman Street. At 3pm, we will walk across campus and events from 3:30pm on take place at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.
9am Welcome Remarks
Jim Egan, Professor of English and Interim Director of the Public Humanities Center
Joseph Meisel, Deputy Provost, Brown University
Shayna Kessel, Associate Dean for Master’s Education, Brown University
9:15 – 10:45am Public Humanities Pecha Kucha, Extended Version. See 13 presentations of 5 minutes each given by current and former Public Humanities students, followed by 30 minutes for group discussion at small tables facilitated by the Pecha Kucha presenters.
10:45 – 11am Coffee Break: grab some coffee and bring it to the table for the 11am alumni network conversation.
11am – 12:30pm How can the Public Humanities Center create a stronger alumni network? Let’s discuss.
12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch. Boxed lunches will be provided.
1:30 – 3pm Afternoon Round Table. Steve Lubar, Founding Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, moderates a panel discussion with Public Humanities faculty and postdocs from the past and present with ample time for group discussion.
Participants include…
- Sarah Ganz Blythe, Deputy Director for Exhibitions, Education and Programs at RISD Museum;
- Gayle Gifford, President, Cause and Effect;
- Ron Potvin, Assistant Director for Professional Programs and Curator, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage;
- Ian Alden Russell, Curator, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University;
- Annie Valk, Associate Director for Public Humanities, Center for Learning in Action, Williams College;
- Ray Williams, Director of Education, Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.
3pm Walk across campus to the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.
3:30 – 5pm Building an Archive. Participate in collecting oral histories of the program and its students by interviewing each other and help to compile a comprehensive list of ALL public humanities student projects ever completed. current postdoctoral fellow Jim McGrath will be leading this session.
5pm Wine and Cheese, returning alumni as well as current students, community and faculty fellows and staff in the Carriage House Gallery. The Carriage House Gallery exhibition, Crossing Borders, will be open during wine and cheese and the curator, Judith Tolnick Champa, will give some remarks about the art works and artists featured. Afterwards, everyone is on their own for dinner; we will have sign-up sheets for groups of 8 for dinner reservations walking distance from the Center at 6:30pm.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
10am Send-off Brunch at the Public Humanities Center.
11am – 1pm Walking Tour, departing from and returning to the Public Humanities Center, including a tour of the new public art on campus given by Jo-Ann Conklin, Director of the Bell Gallery and of Brown’s Public Art Program, and an exhibition walk-through of Makers Unknown: Material Culture and the Enslaved with Shana Weinberg ’11, Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage is located at 357 Benefit Street, with building entrance at 50 Williams Street. On Friday evening and during the weekend, you will find ample street parking if you need it.
