Hong Kong-Providence Summer Institute Launched
Developed jointly by faculty of CUHK and Brown University, this course provides an opportunity for students to compare cultural heritage preservation strategies in two very different areas. In Hong Kong, students will explore historical development of Hong Kong as exemplified by, for example, cultural heritage, the conflict and negotiation of economic and political interests in […]
West Offaly Heritage New Media featured on Offaly’s first TV station
Videos produced by Brown University students as part of the West Offaly Heritage New Media project have been featured on Offaly’s first online TV station – Grove Street TV – http://www.grovestreet.tv/Local_Interest.html. The “TV station” collates a collection of online videos relating to music, folklore, history and sport and is a charming collection of insights into the […]
Windshield (2011) installed at Brown University
Windshield (2011) – a new piece of public sculpture by artist Dennis McNulty at the Nightingale-Brown House in Providence, Rhode Island – was installed successfully this past week. Dennis has been in residence at the John Nicholas Brown Center at Brown University since February 2011. During this time he has completed this sculpture as well […]
Exquisite Things in Contexts, Haffenreffer Museum Annual Newsletter
Exquisite Things: An exhibition of connections within collections from the May 2011 issue of Contexts – The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology’s Annual Newsletter –by Ian Russell This past December, the students of Things: The Material Worlds of Humanity opened a new off-site exhibition project for the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Located in the newly reopened Stephen […]
Pendleton Speaks: Talk Back @ the RISD Museum
Public interpretation event by the students of Museum Interpretation Practices launches at the RISD Museum tonight as part of Providence’s Gallery Night. All welcome.
Dennis McNulty Opening Talk for ‘Space replaced by volume’
Space replaced by volume A contemporary art exhibition by Dennis McNulty in the Fribourg Family Atrium at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University 27th April 2011 to 11th May 2011. Curated by Ian Alden Russell 27 April, 6pm, Room N420, Englander Studio, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Bodies in space are the central concern of Space replaced […]
EU Transformations Curatorial Report: Ireland Project Scenario
2011 Curatorial Report for Transformations, an European Union funded land-art initiative. Read the article here.
Sara Marcus speaks at Brown University
This evening Sara Marcus, author of Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot GRRRL Revolution, spoke at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University. Oganized by Betsey Biggs and myself, the event drew students from across both Brown and RISD as well as throughout Providence. Sara will be giving […]
John Schofield Lecture at John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University
I hosted John Schofield from University of York at Brown University recently, and he gave a wonderfully engaging and inspiring talk about new directions for socially engaged heritage and archaeological work. Embrace the Margins: Adventures in the Archaeology of Contemporary Homelessness John Schofield, University of York, Department of Archaeology 2pm, April 5, 2011 John Nicholas […]
Images of the Past
2012 Entry for ‘Cultural Heritage Management’ section in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer, New York.