Watson Hispanic Heritage Month: Fireside Chat with Dr. Laura Lopez-Sanders

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Watson Hispanic Heritage Month: Fireside Chat with Dr. Laura Lopez-Sanders

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Total Information Awareness: High Costs of Post-9/11 U.S. Mass Surveillance & Current Policy Issues

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Heroes to Hostages, America and Iran 1800-1988

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Annabel Daou | Declarations from the Fleeting Present

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,In conversation with visual and performance artist Annabel Daou, Brown University professor Nadje Al-Ali and Columbia University professor Kathryn Spellman Poots will introduce her art and the social and political significance of her work. What role do rituals and day-to-day gestures play in her art? How does her work connect individual experience to collective action, memory and trauma? This conversation is part of a joint Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University and the Middle East Institute at Columbia University series on gender, art, and body politics in the Middle East and its diasporas. The series examines intersecting inequalities and body politics expressed, represented, and transgressed in both visual and performance art. About the Artist Annabel Daou’s work takes form in paper-based constructions, sound, performance, and video. Daou suspends, carves out, or records the language of daily life: from the ordinary or mundane to the intimately personal and urgently political. In her performance work, she explores questions of trust, intimacy, cross-cultural exchange, and the operations of power. Her work frequently evokes moments of rupture and chaos but with the tenuous possibility for repair. Daou was born and raised in Beirut and lives in New York. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including recently at The National Museum of Beirut; DG Kunstraum, Munich; and Arter, Istanbul. Recent solo exhibitions include “DECLARATION” at Ulrich Museum of Art, “Global Spotlight: Annabel Daou” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, and “Only If” at signs and symbols, New York. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Flash Art, ARTnews, and Canvas Magazine. Public collections include The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul; The Ulrich Museum of Art; The Warehouse, Dallas; The Morgan Library; and The Yale University Art Gallery. Recent residencies include the Pollock-Krasner Award at ISCP in New York and Haus Des Papiers in Berlin.

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When Will We Be Free? Scenes from a Historical Memoir on Colonialism and Freedom - Simukai Chigudo

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The Rhodes Center Podcast: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation Part Two

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Mehrdad Babadi | Marriage Postponed: Idealism, Cynicism and Moral Ambivalence

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Watson Institute Climate Solution Lab: Letting Europe's Energy Crisis Go To Waste

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Watson Institute Climate Solution Lab: Letting Europe's Energy Crisis Go To Waste

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Video from 2011: Costs of War: 225,000 Lives and up to US$4 Trillion

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The Rhodes Center Podcast: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation

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Democracy's Price Tag: Analyzing Changes in Election Laws and Their Effects on Voter Turnout

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Center for Middle East Studies commencement

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Policy in Action: Getting the Relationship between Business and Government Right

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,Join Brown alumni for a panel discussion about how the private sector and government interact on critical public policy issues. Featuring Rima Alaily '94, Corporate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Competition Law Group at Microsoft, Angel Brunner '94, CEO of EB5 Capital, Malika Saada Saar '92, Global Head of Human Rights Partnerships at YouTube; and Eileen Shy '96, Partner at Bain & Company. During the event, the Watson Institute will also recognize retiring Professor Ross Cheit for his many contributions to the study of public policy at Brown. Rima Alaily is Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel in the Competition and Market Regulation Group at Microsoft. Rima and her team help Microsoft to comply with competition laws and market regulation around the world, to secure regulatory clearance and approval of mergers and acquisitions, and to respond to competition investigations and enforcement actions. They also engage with regulators, legislators, policymakers, and others to consider the role of competition law and market regulation in the face of our changing economy and the development of new technology. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2008 as a Senior Corporate Counsel, Rima was a partner at Heller Ehrman LLP, where her practice focused on antitrust litigation. She received her B.A. from Brown University in 1994, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1998. In addition to her work with Microsoft, Rima is a long-standing advocate for diversity and inclusion as well as for civil legal aid, working with local and national organizations to provide access to justice for those in need. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Equal Justice. Angelique G. Brunner, a 1994 Brown graduate, is the CEO of EB5 Capital, an $800 million commercial real estate investment firm connecting foreign investors with job-creating projects designed to fulfill the requirements of the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. Prior to founding EB5 Capital, Brunner held various senior management roles in finance, including at Fannie Mae and National Capital Revitalization Corporation. A leader in economic development and impact investing, Brunner has been nationally recognized for her work by media and industry. She currently serves on the board of Cushman & Wakefield. Brunner holds a master's of public administration from Princeton University and is a first-generation college graduate. Malika Saada Saar is a human rights lawyer who serves as YouTube’s Global Head of Human Rights Partnerships. She leads the platform’s efforts in working alongside activists, nonprofits and external partners to advance human rights issues, including in the areas of criminal justice reform, gender equality and racial justice. She was previously Google’s Senior Counsel on Civil and Human Rights. Prior to her time at Google, Malika was a leader in the nonprofit community, having founded and served as Executive Director of both Rights4Girls and The Rebecca Project for Human Rights. She also served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS during the Obama Administration. Newsweek and the Daily Beast have named Malika as one of “150 Women Who Shake the World.” She also served as Special Counsel on Human Rights at The Raben Group. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights and the Essie Justice Group. Ms. Saada Saar holds a B.A. from Brown University, M.A. in Education from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She has also been honored by Brown University’s highest alumni award, the Roger Williams award, and by Georgetown Law Center’s esteemed Robert F. Drinan Award for Public Service. Eileen Shy is a Senior Partner in the New York office of Bain & Company. Eileen has over 20 years of experience in strategy consulting and is a leader in Bain’s Global Consumer Products Practice. Eileen is an expert in the consumer goods and retail sector, leading long-term engagements with Fortune 500 corporate clients on growth strategy, performance improvement and organizational re-design. She has extensive cross-category experience, including packaged food, snacks, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, beauty, personal care, and beyond. Eileen is also an active member of Bain's Customer Strategy & Marketing and Digital practices, including leading Bain's acquisition of digital marketer FRWD in 2018. Eileen has been a leader of Bain's Social Impact efforts, including founding the New York "Bain Cares" chapter, and leading multiple pro bono caseteams along with authoring articles on education policy. She is a former member of the Board of Uncommon Schools and a current member of the Leadership Now Project, which is a membership organization of business professionals taking action to protect our democracy. Eileen holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Afghan Evacuee Experiences of Operation Allies Refuge and Operation Allies Welcome

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Civilian-Military Interactions During Public Health Emergencies

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Contemporary Challenges in Civilian-Military Interactions

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How Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impacts of the Post-9/11 Wars on Human Health

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2023 Watson Undergraduate Thesis Conference - Day 1

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2023 Watson Undergraduate Thesis Conference - Day 2

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The Rhodes Center Podcast: Does economics do more harm than good?

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Mark & Carrie: Rogue AI, predicting the Supremes, and debt-ceiling dumbskullery

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Architectures of Devotion: The Secular In Contestation

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,Two leading art historians, Kavita Singh and Tamara Sears, draw on their contributions to How Secular is Art? On the Politics of Art, History and Religion in South Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2023) to speak to practices of temple building and conservation in the making of Indian national imaginaries and on-going contestations over the built inheritance. This event forms a part of the Art History from the South series at CSSA. Kavita Singh was the Professor of Art History at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and her research focuses on the history of Indian painting and the history and politics of museums. Her books include the edited and co-edited volumes New Insights into Sikh Art (Marg, 2003), Influx: Contemporary Art in Asia (Sage, 2013), No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia (Routledge, 2014), Nauras: The Many Arts of the Deccan (National Museum, 2015), Museum Storage and Meaning: Tales from the Crypt (Routledge, 2017), and Scent Upon a Southern Breeze: Synaesthesia and the Arts of the Deccan (Marg, 2018). Her monographs include Museums, Heritage, Culture: Into the Conflict Zone (Amsterdam University of the Arts, 2015) and Real Birds in Imagined Gardens: Mughal Painting between Persia and Europe (Getty Foundation, 2016). She has also curated exhibitions at the San Diego Museum of Art, the Devi Art Foundation, and the National Museum of India. Tamara Sears is the Associate Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, with a focus on art and architecture in South Asia. She is the author of Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings: Architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India (Yale University Press, 2014) and editor of Paper Trails: Modern Indian Works on Paper from the Gaur Collection (Mapin, 2022), and her essays have appeared in many volumes and journals, including The Art Bulletin, Ars Orientalis, and Archives of Asian Art. She is currently working on two book projects: One examines the relationship between architecture, environmental history, and travel, while the other interrogates architectural revivalism and secularism in twentieth century temple architecture. Tapati Guha-Thakurta is Honorary Professor of History and the former Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) from 2012 to 2017. She has written extensively on the art and cultural history of modern India, and her three major books include The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Columbia University Press/Permanent Black, 2004), and In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata (Primus Books, 2015). She was a Visiting Professor of Humanities at the Cogut Institute at Brown in the Fall of 2018, where she co-organized an international symposium with Vazira Zamindar, and the co-edited volume How Secular is Art? On the Politics of Art, History and Religion in South Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2023) emerges from this symposium. Saloni Mathur is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her areas of interest include the visual cultures of modern South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, colonial studies and postcolonial criticism, and museum studies in a global frame. She is author of India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display (UC Press, 2007), editor of The Migrant’s Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora (Yale University Press/Clark Art Institute, 2011), and co-editor with Kavita Singh of No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia (Routledge India, 2015). Her most recent book, A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art (Duke Press, 2019), is available online as part of an Open-Access initiative: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22291. Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar is Associate Professor of History at Brown University, with an interest in the histories of decolonization, displacement, war, non-violence, the visual archive and contemporary art. She is the author of The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories (Columbia University Press, 2007), and co-editor of Love, War and Other Longings: Essays on Cinema in Pakistan (Oxford University Press, 2020) and How Secular is Art? On the Politics of Art, History and Religion in South Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2023). She is presently working on a graphic novel with Sarnath Bannerjee on Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Gandhi.

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The Rhodes Center Podcast: Nazi Billionaires, Capitalist Ethics, and Other Notable Contradictions

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Jason Jackson — The Return of Industrial and Technology Policy in China and the US

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Mala Htun — Enacting Equality for Women

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Sino-Indian Relations in the 21st Century

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Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People Book Launch and Panel

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,Erica Durante — Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People Book Launch and Panel Now that air travel has finally resumed at its usual pace after the pandemic disruption and that we embrace our condition of passengers and "Cloud People" again, the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies is pleased to present the launch of Professor Erica Durante’s book, Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Join us for a discussion with Stuart Burrows, Professor of English at Brown University; Aníbal González, Professor of Spanish at Yale University; Felipe Martínez Pinzón, Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University, and Christopher Schaberg, Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English, Loyola University, New Orleans. Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of contemporary air travel. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of a wide range of international cultural productions and elucidates the paradigms and narratives that constitute our current imagination of air mobility. The book advances the hypothesis that fiction and film have converted the Airworld—the world of airplanes and airport infrastructures—into a pivotal anthropological place that is endowed with social significance and identity, suggesting that the assimilation of the sky into our cultural imaginary and lifestyle has metamorphosed human society into “Cloud People.” In examining the representations of air travel as an epicenter of today’s world, the book not only illustrates a novel perspective on contemporary fiction but fills an essential gap in the study of globalization within literary and film studies. Co-sponsored by American Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies & Modern Culture and Media Panelists Stuart Burrows, Professor of English, Brown University Aníbal González, Professor of Spanish, Yale University Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Brown University Christopher Schaberg, Dorothy Harrel Brown Distinguished Professor of English, Loyola University New Orleans

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Reading 'Annihilation of Caste' by Ambedkar Jayanti

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What We Get Wrong About Incarceration in America

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CLACS 2023 Graduate Student Research Symposium

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Access to Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa

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Crisis Comics: Drawing and Writing Non-Fiction in South Asia

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Twenty Years of War in Iraq: The Costs and Consequences

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Haiti's Overlapping Crises: Is There a Way Through?

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Palestine and American Law

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Would banning Tik Tok spare us watching both Trump & Paltrow trials? If so...

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Terrorcraft: Why Racial Control Regimes Persist

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,Deepa Kumar ─ Terrorcraft: Why Racial Control Regimes Persist Even though the War on Terror is officially over, policies and practices put into place to keep Americans "safe" from the racialized terrorist threat persist. What began as a means to control the "Islamic terrorist" has been widened to incorporate a range of threats to the status quo from the “eco-terrorist” and Occupy Wall Street activists to Black Lives Matter and Native American activists. In this talk, Professor Kumar places the terrorist threat within the larger history of racialized securitization in the US to unpack how threats to empire are managed and contained. This is part of a new book project she is working on titled Terrorcraft: Race, Security and Empire, which examines how "terrorcraft," a taken-for-granted regime of racial control focused on the Muslim threat, has been useful for strengthening the policing powers of the national security state in the US. Terrorcraft, she argues, is a malleable regime of social control that has endured past its moment of inception and even deracialized to incorporate other threats. It thus bears similarity to previous racial regimes in US history such as slave patrols, which were precursors to the modern police, and which survived well past the institution of slavery. Terrorcraft as a set of practices and ideologies served to normalize modes of social control that go well beyond the brown terrorist. Presented by the Costs of War Project. Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, the Department of American Studies and the Department of Modern Culture and Media. Dr. Deepa Kumar is an award-winning scholar and activist. She is Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of more than 80 publications including books, journal articles, book chapters, and articles in independent and mainstream media. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/ https://www.brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/home https://americanstudies.brown.edu/ https://www.brown.edu/academics/modern-culture-and-media/ Her first book, Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike (University of Illinois Press, 2007), is about the power of the U.S. working class in effectively challenging the priorities of neoliberalism. In her second book, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire (Haymarket Books, 2012) she turns her attention to race and the politics of empire during the War on Terror era. The book was translated into five languages and has been widely read around the world. The second and fully revised edition of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: 20 Years Since 9/11 (Verso, 2021) updates the book to the end of the Trump presidency. She is currently working on a third book, tentatively titled Terrorcraft: Empire, Race, and Security, about the political and cultural production of the terrorist threat in the era of neoliberalism. She is recognized as a leading scholar on Islamophobia both nationally and internationally. She has been sought out by the media for her expertise in numerous media outlets such as the BBC, The New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Telesur (Venezuela), Hurriyat Daily News (Turkey), Al Jazeera and other national and international news media outlets.

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After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory, Imagination, Hope

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After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory, Imagination, Hope (Part 1)

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