Geo�rey Hill and His Books North Gallery, John Hay
LibrarySeptember 1 – October 1, 2012 Kenneth Haynes, Professor of
Comparative
Literature and Classics at Brown University, curated this
exhibit in honor of poet and former colleague Geo�rey Hill on the
occasion of Hill’s 80th birthday. �e exhibit is organized
around the ��een published books of poetry, from For the Unfallen
(1959) to Odi Barbare (2012), and includes materials from Brown
University Library’s general and special collections as well as
books from the private collections of Haynes and Hill.
Stamps of Maps, Birds, and FlowersAnne S. K. Brown Military
exhibit room, 3rd Floor, John Hay Library September 1 – December 1,
2012
Drawing from the country’s largest stamp collection held in an
academic library, this exhibit features three examples of topical
stamp collecting: maps, birds, and �owers. Among the map stamps
featured is a reproduction of the 1507 Martin Waldseemüller world
map, the �rst to identify “America.” �e stamp was issued in Germany
in 2007 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the map’s printing.
Other stamps in the exhibition include First Day covers and stamps
displaying each of the ��y state birds and �owers.
Rhode Island Slavery and the University Gammell Gallery, John
Hay Library September 3 – October 5, 2012 Curated in support of the
First Readings
2012 program for the Class of 2016, this exhibit focuses on
Charles Rappleye’s Sons of Providence. Using materials from the
Brown University Archives and the Hay’s extensive holdings of
primary sources
on Rhode Island history, the exhibit provides an overview of how
slavery, the slave trade, and emancipation functioned in the
politics and social life of early Rhode Island, and the manner in
which attitudes toward slavery shaped the founding and growth of
Brown University in its �rst century.
Ladd, Bryant, Orwig: �e Making of the Music BuildingLobby, Orwig
Music Library September 4 – December 21, 2012
�is new exhibit traces the history of the Orwig Music building.
�e large brick mansion has served as a private hospital, and as
classrooms and administrative o�ces for Bryant College. It began as
a residence for a member of the Sprague family and later, a Brown
alumnus, Isaac Gi�ord Ladd. �e display features photographs
courtesy of the HELIN Digital Commons website and Bryant
University, as well as photos and memorabilia from Brown University
Archives. Since 1988 the Library has shared the building with the
Music Department.
Digital Scholarship Lab Opening Early OctoberEarly October
heralds the opening of the new Digital Scholarship Lab in the
Rock,
featuring a large-scale visualization wall comprised of twelve
55" high-resolution LED displays with a total of 24 megapixels.
Uses of the wall are limitless — from displays of detailed
geo-spatial maps to interactions with complex visualizations; from
community hack sessions to crowd-sourcing manuscript
transcriptions, and more. �e Lab will provide a wide range of
so�ware for scholars across the disciplines and will be available
for classes, group sessions, and individual use. Check the Library
website for opening and special presentation dates.
Jude Ciccolella ’69: 9th Annual Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship in
American �eatreMonday, October 15, 2012 • 7:oo pm
Come to Leeds �eater in Lyman Hall for an evening with renowned
actor Jude Ciccolella ’69. A reception will follow in the foyer. �e
Don Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship was established in honor of
Professor Don Wilmeth and his monumental contribution to the study
of theatre at Brown. Jude Ciccolella, a stage, �lm, and television
actor, as well as an active musician, graduated from Brown
University in 1969 with a BA in Philosophy. �is event and reception
are free and open to the public.
Announcing �e Brasiliana Collection at Brown UniversityOctober
24, 2012 • 6:00 pmIn the Reading Room of the John
Hay Library, Brown will launch the Brasiliana Collection and
feature the newly indexed �omas E. Skidmore Papers, an anchor of
the collection. A display including highlights of the Brasiliana
Collection and items from the Skidmore Papers, and the new
companion website to Skidmore’s textbook Brazil: Five Centuries of
Change (Oxford University Press), developed with Brown students
over the last two years, will be on view. �is event and reception
are free and open to the public.
Roger Stoddard on Early American PoetryOctober 25, 2012 • 7:00
pmRoger Stoddard, former Curator
of the Harris Collection at the John Hay Library, and former
Curator of Rare Books at Harvard, will speak in the Lownes Room of
the Hay.
�e talk will examine Stoddard’s research that contributed to his
descriptive bibliography of early American poetry. �is talk and
reception are free and open to the public and will be accompanied
by an exhibit, �e Work of a Lifetime: Roger Stoddard on Early
American Poetry and theCollections of Brown University, on view in
the Gammell Gallery and North Gallery, John Hay Library, October 12
– December 14, 2012.
�omas Horrocks on Lincoln’s Campaign Biographies November 1,
2012 • 5:30 pm�omas Horrocks, the Library’s Director of
Special Collections, will give a talk in the Lownes Room of the
John Hay Library on Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 campaign biographies and
the role they played in shaping the Lincoln image. Campaign
biographies from the Hay’s Lincoln collection will be available for
viewing before and a�er the talk. A reception will follow. �is
event and reception are free and open to the public.
�riller Panel — Steve Berry, David Baldacci, R. L. Stine, Lisa
Gardner, and Nelson DeMille November 15, 2012 • 6:30 pm
Brown University Library and Friends will host a thriller
writers’ panel discussion at Salomon Hall, followed by a reception
and book signing in Sayles Hall, to introduce a �riller Writer
Archive at Brown. Jon Land ’79, celebrated author, will moderate
the panel discussion by well-known thriller writers Steve Berry,
David Baldacci, R. L. Stine, Lisa Gardner, and Nelson DeMille. �is
program, book signing, and reception are free and open to the
public.
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