1. Important Dates
2. Acrobats and Assembly Lines Fri 11/13 4pm
3. Urban Education Policy Program Open House: 11/14, 10am-2pm
4. Taubman Center: The MoveOn Effect 11/17, noon
5. Who Cares? The Purposes and Limits of a ³Just² University 11/17, 4:30pm
6. Taubman Center: President Obama and America¹s Cities 11/18, 4pm
7. Leon Krier, The Architectural Tuning of Settlement 12/3, 5:30pm
1. IMPORTANT DATES
November 12: Summer UTRA info session, 7pm Salomon 001
December 1: Deadline for declaring Semester II leave of absence
December 5: Mid-Year Completion Celebration
2. ACROBATS AND ASSEMBLY LINES:
The Local Inspiration for Cirque Mechanics¹ Birdhouse Factory, headlining
the FirstWorks Fall Festival 2009
Date: Friday, November 13
Time: 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM
Location: The MET School
Justice Building
325 Public Street
Providence, RI 02905
Join FirstWorks visiting artist Chris Lashua, artistic director of Cirque
Mechanics, to hear about the journey behind Cirque Mechanics¹ current
production, Birdhouse Factory.
Set on a 1930s factory floor, Birdhouse Factory explores the intersection of
art and industry by integrating acrobatics with machines and assembly lines
in a setting reminiscent of Providence¹s own industrial history.
Lashua will speak about the creative process of developing the show, from
combining a machine aesthetic with the possibilities of human bodies in
motion to drawing on his own experience growing up in a nearby
post-industrial New England town as inspiration for the storyline. The rich
historical context of Birdhouse Factory will be particularly engaging to
artists, residents, and students interested in making connections between
local history, cityscapes, and creative visions for the future of Greater
Providence.
Join Chris Lashua, and FirstWorks on Friday, November 13 from 4-5pm at the
MET School. Then on Saturday, November 14 at 8pm, see Cirque Mechanics¹
performance of Birdhouse Factory at the Providence Performing Arts Center.
Cirque Mechanics is the headline performer of the FirstWorks Fall Festival
2009. Visit www.first-works.org for special ticketing discounts and to
learn more.
To RSVP, or for more information about this artist workshop and other
FirstWorks educational programming, please contact:
Kerry Bergin
Community Programs Coordinator
kerry@first-works.org
270 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
tel. 401.421.4278 | fax. 401.421.4282
www,first-works.org
3. AS SEEN IN MORNING MAIL: URBAN ED. POLICY PROG OPEN HOUSE
Urban Education Policy Program Open House
Saturday, November 14th from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m
Join us for an informative, fun-filled day to learn more about the UEP
program and its mission to change the urban education landscape. Hear from
current students and professors about the UEP experience, internships, and
opportunities post-UEP.
Questions? Want to register?
Please contact Ann D'Abrosca, UEP Program Administrator, at
Ann_D'Abrosca@brown.edu.
More info: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Education/uep/
4. FROM THE TAUBMAN CENTER: THE MOVEON EFFECT
David Karpf, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Public Policy
12:00 Noon, Tuesday, November 17
Taubman Center Seminar Room (67 George Street)
All are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch.
5. WHO CARES? THE PURPOSES AND LIMITS OF A ³JUST² UNIVERSITY
Stanley Katz, Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University;
President Emeritus, American Council of Learned Societies
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
4:30-6:00 pm
Sidney Frank Hall, Marcuvitz Auditorium, 185 Meeting Street (between Thayer
& Brown Streets)
Brown University
What does ³justice² mean for a university? How does a focus on social
problems or social justice enhance or constrain the concept of the
institution? What is the place of ³moral values² in ³objective scholarship²?
Join Professor Katz for a conversation about the purposes of liberal arts
institutions like Brown.
Professor Katz is a scholar of American legal and constitutional history,
civil society, international human rights, and philanthropy and non-profit
institutions. He is the Editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History
of the Supreme Court of the United States and of the Oxford International
Encyclopedia of Legal History. Among other posts, Katz is a member of the
New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society,
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
This event is co-sponsored by the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public
Service and the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.
6:00-7:00
Reception featuring Faculty in the Swearer Center¹s Engaged Scholarship
Initiative
Sidney Frank Hall Atrium
Following the Stanley Katz lecture, attendees are invited to join a
reception featuring Brown faculty integrating their scholarship with public
concerns as part of the Engaged Scholarship Initiative of the Swearer Center
for Public Service. Refreshments will be served.
6. FROM THE TAUBMAN CENTER: PRESIDENT OBAMA AND AMERICA¹S CITIES
The Anton/Lippitt Conference on Urban Affairs
Entitled ³President Obama and America¹s Cities²
4:00PM Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Brown Hillel, 80 Brown Street
7. MARK YOUR CALENDARS: LEON KRIER
³The Architectural Tuning of Settlement: The Role of the Vernacular and the
Classical in Urbanism²
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Lecture & Book Signing 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Salomon 101
Space is limited. RSVP to http://leonkrierlecture.eventbrite.com
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Heather
Heather A. Parker
Academic Program Coordinator
Urban Studies Program
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