John Carter Brown Library

Presentation on The Constitution of American Colonialism from last spring at the John Carter Brown Library. It was a rich and generative visit with their faculty, students, and board members. Now available online, and much shorter than the original! m.youtube.com/watch?v=w741X9…

Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library Fellowship: Funding for work by academics, independent scholars and writers working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830. Deadline: Feb. 1, 2025 washcoll.edu/learn-by-doing…

Tomorrow! Join us for a book launch at the JCB! We will be celebrating Professor Andrew Laird's latest book, Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico. Details at jcblibrary.org!

$20,000 Hodson Trust–John Carter Brown Library Fellowship includes housing and university privileges, open to filmmakers, novelists, creative and performing artists, deadline 2/1 @washcoll @WCStarrCenter @JCBLibrary washcoll.edu/learn-by-doing…

Our hope was that bringing women of color into the archive would result in a kind of radical alchemy, one that celebrated agency and wisdom, creativity and resistance," Matthew explains. 4/4

In this way, the launch was an opportunity to bring women of color into a more equitable relationship with archival practices that in the past have excluded them even as it has been used to define their pasts. 3/4

We are thrilled to share a blog post containing Professor Patricia Matthew's reflections on the Race and Regency Lab launch that was held at the JCB in September of this year. Read on at jcblibrary.org/news/race-and-… 1/4

New JCB blog post: "When we examine the faded words we cannot fail to see the violent power of White enslavers in faded black ink on yellowed paper, but it is Kitty Thomson’s fierce independence and resistance that echoes loudest across the centuries." jcblibrary.org/news/resisting…

@CulturedModesty @_simmonscenter @BrownUniversity Qualifications Applicants must have completed doctoral work by the time of application and should expect to submit a letter of application explaining how the combined resources of the Simmons Center and the JCB would provide particular and distinctive support...

@CulturedModesty @_simmonscenter @BrownUniversity Excellent question! The full position description can be found here: apply.interfolio.com/156738.

@_simmonscenter at @BrownUniversity and the JCB invite applications for a postdoctoral research associate position focused on any area/theme of historical scholarship around racial slavery, and/ or Indigenous dispossession and slavery. Details at jcblibrary.org!

Join us on November 14 and 22 for Brown faculty book launches! Details at jcblibrary.org.

Our new exhibit is open! Stop by the JCB or visit our website to learn more. jcblibrary.org

The JCB is closed today, November 5. Visit us online at jcblibrary.org for information on Library programs and more. We hope to see you soon!

Join us in person or online on November 14 and 22 for faculty book launches! Details at jcblibrary.org.

HAPPENING SOON! Join us today for a talk by writer David Grann. Use promo code JCB for free tickets to the virtual version of this event! Details here: providenceathenaeum.org/.../ex-libris-…

Wishing you and yours a happy and safe Halloween!

We've released our newsletter a little early this time around so that we can promote our November 1 event with David Grann at the The Providence Athenæum. Details at conta.cc/4e7O8F2 Interested in subscribing? Be sure to click the button at the top of that page!

This week is Bat Appreciation Week! Learn more about these fantastic creatures at batweek.org and on Americana, the JCB's digital platform! Source: Martyn, William Frederic A new dictionary of natural history D785 M388n / 2-SIZE Details at americana.jcblibrary.org/search/object/….