College Center, North Atrium
"Planning the World Trade Center Redevelopment: A Conversation with Andrew Winters." Vassar College architectural history professor Nicholas Adams interviews Andrew Winters about the complex and contested planning history of the World Trade Center redevelopment after 9/11. Winters was vice president and director of planning, design, and development at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (2001-2004) and currently serves in the office of Daniel Doctoroff, New York City's deputy mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding, with special responsibility for the performing arts center at Ground Zero. This is the first of three events on the World Trade Center Redevelopment sponsored by the Urban Studies Program.
Students' Building, Second Floor
Winifred A. Asprey Lecture. Shriram Krihnamurthi, Brown University, will lecture "A Programming Language for the New Web". Winifred A. Asprey Lecture, Old Laundry Building 105, Computer Science Department.
Old Laundry Building, 105
Associate professor of Earth Science, Jeff Walker, will be speaking as part of the Library's "Featuring Faculty" lecture series. The title of his talk is "The Long Road: John Burroughs and Charles Darwin, 1861-1921." Libray, Class of 1951 Reading Room
Library, Reading
Asprey Lecture in Mathematics. Avi Wigderson, The Institute for Advanced Study, "A world view through the computational lens." Algorithms: A common language for nature, man, and computer. Reception at 5:30pm outside RH200.
Rockefeller Hall, 203
Fiction Reading: Renee Gladman '93. Renee Gladman is assistant professor in Literary Arts at Brown and one of the most interesting and distinguished small press publishers and authors in America, a writer with a global view and an African-American perspective. "The Review of Contemporary Fiction" described her novel "The Activist" as "A haunting and hilarious mix of dreams, news reports, confessions, and internal monologues, Renee Gladman's latest book is an absurdist political satire and a poetic consideration of points of contact among people, people and society, people and cities, and also, perhaps most captivatingly, between a person's sense of self in opposition to her sense of the "Other" or sense of herself as the "Other." Co-sponsored by the Dean of Faculty Office, Media Studies, American Culture, Africana Studies, Urban Studies, the Philosophy Department and the English Department.
Sanders Hall, 212
First part of a three week series on sexuality, featuring author and lecturer Barbara Carrellas, who will be teaching a gender-free orgasm workshop. All are welcome regardless of gender, orientation, relationship status, etc.
Main Building, Faculty Parlor
Bharatanatyam Dance Workshop. Malini Srinivasan, renowned Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher, will hold a dance technique workshop. Learn more about this ancient art form before seeing Malini's live performance on Friday night!
College Center, Villard Room
Open mic reading event sponsored by Helicon, for all literary magazines on campus.
College Center, 223
College Center, Matthew's Pub