A $245,000 award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow Itohan Osayimwese, an architectural and urban historian at Brown, to pursue additional studies in historical archaeology.

Three graduate students in archaeology worked with the Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission in Newport, Rhode Island, to create an interactive map of God’s Little Acre, one of the oldest African and African American burial grounds in the country.

“The Supermarket of Images,” an exhibition on view at the Jeu de Paume through June 2020, explores how images shape and change people’s lives.

With the papers of Hortense J. Spillers arriving at Brown last fall, the Pembroke Center Archives has deepened its archive of black feminist theory.

Bashir, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown, will discuss the cultural pervasiveness of poetry in Iran, Central Asia and South Asia.

This spring, events presented by the Brown Arts Initiative and other campus arts entities give students and curious community members the chance to see how creators in every field execute their ideas.

The two 19th-century buildings are now unified by two modern glass bridges and a light-filled “loggia,” uniting faculty, staff and students from Brown’s Department of History.

Thalia Field, the Brown Arts Initiative’s new faculty director and a professor of creative writing at the University, discussed her vision for the future of the arts at Brown.

The film series, led by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and by family, friends and classmates of the late Brown alumnus, aims to underscore the importance of documentaries in understanding and confronting challenging social issues.

A four-year Mellon Foundation grant will enable the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and academic centers at three fellow institutions to expand research and teaching opportunities on race and ethnicity.

Postdoctoral researcher Rui Gomes Coelho plans to excavate a trail once trod by WW-II refugees — now a migration route for thousands who are fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.

In “Boatbuilding: Design, Making and Culture,” at once a humanities seminar and a hands-on engineering lesson, students from concentrations across the University built and launched a wooden boat.

On the 400th anniversary of the start of slave trade in the British American colonies, students and faculty at Brown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice are engaging in research for a PBS miniseries directed by renowned documentarian Stanley Nelson, hosting a two-day symposium on the lasting effects of slavery and more.

“Luscious: Paintings and Drawings by Wendy Edwards,” an exhibition of selected works by the Brown professor of visual art, offers an artistic chronicle of 40 years of travel, life changes and perspective shifts.

Recent discoveries by Brown faculty and students at the ancient Koutroulou Magoula settlement have prompted scholars to reconsider their assumptions about the Middle Neolithic period.

The Foundation’s award will enable the University to bring new life to research topics in the humanities, expanding Brown’s portfolio of original scholarship presented in enhanced forms.

Concerts, talks, exhibitions and symposia will demonstrate and celebrate the diversity at Brown and in Providence.

A new collection acquired from recording artist Janis Ian, a devoted science-fiction fan, considerably expands the John Hay Library’s holdings of science fiction and fantasy written by women.

Works by three artists explore topics such as land ownership, immigration and tourism as they relate to women of color.

With her website Fields of Hay, Shira Buchsbaum hopes to convince undergraduate students at Brown that the phrase “special collections” doesn’t mean “off limits.”

The University is advancing its reputation for excellence in the arts by forming new partnerships with artists and scholars and making major new investments in programming and facilities.

Brown’s theatre arts and performance studies department will mount student-written, student-directed and student-choreographed productions this season, among other events.

For students in the spring 2019 course Antigones, an ancient Greek play served as the basis of a semester-long examination of journalistic ethics, citizenship and other timely topics.

“Toby Sisson: Nacirema” delves into generations of African American history, from W.E.B. DuBois to mid-century black social clubs, to reveal the complicated roots of patriotism.

Class of 2010 MFA graduate Jackie Sibblies Drury earned the drama award for “Fairview,” and Professor Emeritus Forrest Gander won the poetry prize for “Be With.”

Opening on Saturday, April 6, “Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson: The Only Show in Town” depicts the process of researching a near-extinct East Coast bird species in an era of rising tides.

New access via the Brown University Library provides an easy connection to the Pembroke Center Archives, a treasure trove of documents, interviews and photos by and about women.

The grant will enable the digitization of the program’s peer-reviewed monograph series, providing increased access to unique, high-quality Judaic studies scholarship.

RaMell Ross, an assistant professor of visual art at Brown, is one of four Brunonians who stands to win a statuette – other nominees are first-year undergraduate Charlotte Silverman and two alumni.

Composed by Assistant Professor of Music Eric Nathan, “Some Favored Nook” was inspired by the correspondence of poet Emily Dickinson and Civil War Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

New York-based architecture firm REX designed an academic and cultural building that is technologically sophisticated, highly flexible and adaptable to multiple art forms, yet intimate in scale and feel.

The exhibition, opening on Saturday, Jan. 19, focuses on abstract photography from the gallery’s collection.

Launched after Brown’s landmark Slavery and Justice report, the center is a powerhouse for research that is changing the way the world learns about legacies of slavery and the global slave trade.

Humanities scholars at Brown are energizing comparative work that informs a deeper understanding of the most challenging questions of global common concern.

With artist-in-residence and visiting professor Jelili Atiku, Brown students explore an enduring Yoruba festival that celebrates water and feminine energy.

The Diana Nelson and John Atwater Lobby will serve as a convening space in the University’s envisioned performing arts center, and additional funds from the couple will support the Brown Promise and Brown Annual Fund.

As part of a broader Brown Arts Initiative series on protest, art and activism, the exhibition includes photos and films documenting the Civil Rights Movement, the Texas prison system and undocumented workers from Mexico.

Mark Seto — a musicologist, violinist and Chelsea Symphony leader — will conduct the Brown University Orchestra for the first time on Saturday, Oct. 20.

With unique opportunities to engage directly with artists and curators, the Brown Arts Initiative and its eight member programs and departments offer a full calendar of fall events.

On display will be paintings, prints, drawings and books created over a span of 68 years by the late Brown professor and artist of wide-ranging interests.

Parker VanValkenburgh’s digital platform will study how the mass resettlement of indigenous Andean peoples by the Spanish Empire impacted Peru’s social and political landscape.

The findings, made possible by a new method of radiocarbon dating, overturn the long-held assumption that the Vikings introduced spinning and weaving to the ancestors of today’s Inuit.

After hearing live music as part of their treatment during downtime, patients reported feeling less pain, nausea, anxiety and other symptoms and requested fewer opioid medications.

Brown professor Stephen Houston will excavate a massive series of citadels in present-day Guatemala, which can shed light on how the leaders of the ancient Maya city of Tikal responded to a foreign threat.

A new Brown-UMass collaboration leverages cultural and language expertise to help biomedical researchers work productively with the Deaf community and address low levels of health literacy.

Spanning four centuries, five continents and many languages, the Dr. Steven Ungerleider Collection of Haggadot will enable new insights into the experiences and customs of Jewish communities across the globe.

With ancient documents threatened by modern-day conflict in Syria, Matthew Rutz’s project will make the text of more than 1,800 cuneiform tablets available digitally.

Javier Juarez and Pinar Durgun will address their peers in separate master’s and doctoral ceremonies, respectively.

With an all-star lineup and a range of free public events, the three-day International Fiction Now festival at Brown will celebrate Coover’s teaching, literary inventions and activism.

On Wednesday, April 18, the Emmy Award-winning director and producer will visit Brown to speak about her work making films about some of the world’s most pressing issues.