The Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence has been helping to build a state of peace in Rhode Island – reducing gang violence, coping with conflict in prison and assisting victims of crime.
Students at URI’s Harrington School...
The Brown University office of Watson Institute Senior Fellow Sergei Khrushchev is a tiny museum dedicated to the life and work of his father, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived has been selected as one of the top Documentary Channel premieres of 2011 and will be included in the upcoming Best of DOC Awards.Each night in December, one of the selected films will air at 8pm ET/PT, and...
A Brown alum and colleagues have anonymously produced this music video honoring Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese democracy movement.
Here is her story:
"This past year it was my pleasure to work with a group of students at...
In conjunction with the Year of China 2011-2 at Brown, the China Conversation is launching a “China Through Your Eyes” Media Contest. Submissions are accepted from now till January 31, 2012, and anyone with a brown.edu or alumni.brown.edu email...
After months of preparation, Strait Talk 2011 has finally kicked off. Last Friday, 15 delegates, 5 each from Mainland China, Taiwan and the US, arrived at Brown for a week-long program aimed at bridging differences in understanding around the Taiwan...
Brown alum Joe Posner '07 has launched a new video series on the Daily Beast called Op-Vid: Campaign 2012. The series opener is It's the Stupid Economy, a playful animated treatment of today's economic crisis featuring noted historian Niall Ferguson...
Many are marking 11/11/11 today, with commemorations from the sublime (nuptials on this purportedly lucky date) to the serious (the armistice that ended the "war to end all wars" on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...
The Brown Daily Herald has an excellent story about the Brown grad who's started an NPR-like news blog in India, with the help of Watson Institute visiting fellow Christopher Lydon:
"I was not interested with hits or how many shows we could produce...
Even before Xiangjun Shi (Brown-RISD '13) came to the United States three years ago, she already knew what it was like to be studying abroad. Born in the Chinese city of Taiyuan, the Brown-RISD Dual Degree candidate in Physics and Film/Animation...
The Watson Institute-based Costs of War project has spurred student discussion of US military involvement both at Brown, where Prof. Catherine Lutz is co-director, and at Boston University, home to project co-director Prof. Neta...
On the sidelines of the Night Market in Sayles Hall as featured on the China Conversation, we talk to Flora Jin (Computer Science-Economics '14), who is involved with LiNK, an organization dedicated to helping refugees from North Korea. In the video...
Today's Brown Daily Herald includes a story on Creaturecast, a Brown-produced "video podcast chronicling some of nature's many quirks and oddities."
Inspired by the narrative power of radio programs like "StoryCorps"and "This American Life,"...
ChrossTalk is a political commentary blog featuring debates on policy issues and interviews with policy experts. The debates are held between Ross Freiman-Mendel, who will enroll at Brown in the fall of 2012, and Chip Lebovitz '14, a staff...
Before graduating last spring, Noura Choudhury '11 shared her experiences of working in Bangladesh's healthcare system the previous summer as a Richard Smoke Fellow.
Her comparisons with Western medicine may not be what you'd expect. "They...
AT&T New Media Fellow Ariel Hudes '11 is working to make the Venice Biennale accessible to students around the world.
She has just launched Biennale Insider, a site created by young artists for young artists, and in her words, "designed to...
Our Right | Our Reason: 2011 Reflections on Africana Studies — Maingreen.tv
This video from Maingreen.tv shows reflections by Brown students about their academic experience with the university's Department of African Studies, the intellectual...
Teens in a Missouri high school recently simulated the experience of poor women around the world who must fetch water daily for their homes and communities. The students' video of the experience was a winner in a competition sponsored by Brown...
First things first: For those of you who have not yet visited Maingreen.tv, it is a terrific new student-run website at Brown highlighting the arts and activism on campus. Go see it.
Last week, the website profiled David Poritz '11.5. who founded...
As the Cambodian New Year approached last month, Tararith Kho commented that Khmers traditionally replace one of their gods each year, but they can never seem to replace their national leaders. Kho writes political poetry and short fiction in the...
Radio Open Source has encapsulated a message that filmmaker Thomas Balmès would like educators to receive loud and clear: University education is at risk as it fails to involve students in making the forms of media they so readily consume in every...
From the Editors: As the Global Conversation features innovation in media by the Brown community, it has hosted an ongoing feed from InterCambioClimático.com, which Brown helped to launch in the run-up to a global meeting on climate...
As an opening to one of this week's Freedom-to-Write Festival panels at Brown University, Professor Robert Coover, the renowned author and festival director, takes us on a global tour of trouble spots and points of light - with the United States as...
How is news being made today in the Middle East and North Africa – how is it being reported – how are the two acts really only one? Day-to-day, reading the Muftah Org conversation on the Global Conversation provides one roadmap.
Co-founded by Brown...
“Look what is happening/Miseries everywhere, Mr. President/I talk with no fear/Although I know I will get only trouble/I see injustices everywhere.” These lyrics from the song “Rais Lebled,” by young Tunisian rapper El Général, embody the...
"It is difficult to describe what the streets of Cairo looked like yesterday. A few photos and a video is all I can offer," blogs Mariya Petkova ’09, a Brown alum with a degree in international relations.
On her blog, “A Bulgarian in Egypt,” she...
“Much like the Vatican in Rome, the state of Tahrir has taken possession of a square and has established itself regardless of what the (illegitimate) government of the rest of the country thinks about that.” So begins today’s blog post from Egypt by...
Sophia Li '11.5 has returned to Brown from her semester-long internship at the newly inaugurated "Memory and Human Rights Museum" in Santiago, Chile. While in Chile, as an AT&T New Media Fellow blogging on the new Memoria Viva conversation, Li...
AT&T New Media Fellow Jonah David '13 spent winter break in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, recording the change globalization has wrought in the five years since he last visited the erstwhile fishing village. He is posting his observations in the...
AT&T New Media Fellow Elias Scheer '12 returns from India from an eye-opening walk -- a Shodh Yatra -- across a poor rural part of the country. For a "before and after" idea of how the walk has changed his perceptions of the environment and...
What brings together the music of alternative rocker Billy Bragg with UK Member of Parliament Norman Baker and AT&T New Media Fellow Henry Peck ‘11? Watch the video above and tune in to Henry’s first edition of a podcast series called “...
In this video, Hilary Rosenthal '12 describes the threatened extinction of the Tasmanian Devil and her work to document it over winter break in Australia as an AT&T New Media Fellow.
You can read her blog posts from the field in a...
Follow AT&T Winter Fellow Jeffrey Bauer '11 as he helps launch the "Follow the Things" website this spring. The site will explore the global connections formed around commodities. In the runup to its launch, Jeffrey is conducting a series of...
Alexandra Ulmer '11 has taken to the streets of Caracas to document the politics of Venezuela's graffiti wars. Check out the tags she is photographing on her blog and read the story as it is unfolding, on the new "Coloring Caracas" conversation....
A fresh cohort of AT&T New Media Fellows is in the field during winter break, using audio, video, and other media to capture experiences and research on global issues for the Global Conversation.
In a post this week in the “Running on...
Merriam-Webster yesterday declared “austerity” the US word of the year for 2010. Earlier this year, Faculty Fellow Mark Blyth was featured in an Institute-produced animated video short of the same name. In it, he describes the thinking behind...
On Sunday, November 7, AT&T New Media Fellow Sarah Gibson ’10.5 and Rosalie Elkinton '11.5, with the help of a group of friends and singers, put on a concert of early music from Europe and traditional folk songs from the Republic of Georgia and...
Is former congressional candidate Murray Hill Incorporated putting out feelers for a US presidential run in 2012? And would the first corporation ever to run for the nation’s highest office dare throw its hat into the ring on a college campus...
On Sunday, November 7, AT&T New Media Fellow Sarah Gibson ’10.5 and Rosalie Elkinton '11.5 will put on a concert of early music from Europe and traditional folk songs from the Republic of Georgia and Appalachia. The concert will include...
This week at the Global Conversation, we heard about life, liberty, immigration, exclusion, corruption, the past and the future. All in a normal week around here:
Xu Wenli on Human Rights
Andy Blackadar shares this video of an interview with Brown...
In the very first week after the official launch of the Global Conversation’s new website – a space for Brown students, student groups, faculty, visitors, and alumni to post their writings and media on global issues – the question of language...
With the launch of the new Global Conversation website, we've had an explosion of new bloggers; with over 50 active conversations, it can be overwhelming to get started on the site, or even keep up if you've been away for a couple days or weeks. "...
Suddenly this week something called a Botín Scholar keeps popping up on the Global Conversation. The reason? Forty undergraduates from across Latin America are on campus as part of a program called “Leadership, Liberal Arts and Public Service in...
With governments formulating policies of austerity as the global economic crisis recedes, a new animated video short describes the thinking behind such policies as inherently flawed. Austerity features Faculty Fellow Mark Blyth, an international...
Parachute Radio on the Global Conversation has been dropping small packages of India down for our readers over the summer. As Radio Open Source host Christopher Lydon and colleague Paul McCarthy traversed India, they filed vivid shorts, vividly...
On Tuesday, I posted this article about how our bloggers were received in theOn Tuesday, I posted this article about how our bloggers were received in the countries they visited. When I emailed all of them last month, I also asked for stories about...
A few weeks ago, I emailed our Global Conversation bloggers, asking them a series of questions related to their experiences abroad.A few weeks ago, I emailed our Global Conversation bloggers, asking them a series of questions related to their...
Hello, and welcome to another recap of the best of the Global Conversation. This is the third such recap; you can find the previous entries here (7/19-7/26) and here (7/26-8/02). Now, without any further ado, let's take a look at some of this past...
Hello, and welcome to another weekly recap of the Global Conversation. As always, the Conversationalist is only highlighting a few posts today, but you can browse through our complete archives by visiting the home page. From there, click through to...
You may have seen Matthew Garza's posts earlier this summer from Mali.You may have seen Matthew Garza's posts earlier this summer from Mali. Even if you haven't, you'll want to check out his blog, the Mali Music Project; at that site, he has his...
Those of you who were reading this blog last week probably saw my first weekly Global Conversation recap. So, what have the bloggers been talking about this week? Read on to find out. Heritage at Play The well of videos about Irish sports may be...
Hello, and welcome to what we hope will be the first of many weekly posts here on the Global Conversationalist blog. I'm Eric Johnson, and I'm working with the Watson Institute this summer on the Brown campus.Hello, and welcome to what we hope will...
"…In October 2002, [Omar] Khadr was transferred to Guantanamo Bay prison camp where he was interrogated by U.S. and Canadian officials about connections to the terrorist group al Qaeda. In 2007, he was charged with murdering a U.S. soldier 'in...
Hello, and--if you're new to these pages--welcome!Hello, and--if you're new to these pages--welcome! Even if you haven't visited before, you might have been told that the Global Conversation is powered by the blogging efforts of students and faculty...
The conversation of new media usually doesn't look much like a conversation, at least in the traditional sense.The conversation of new media usually doesn't look much like a conversation, at least in the traditional sense. There's back-and-...
I'm Meara Sharma, a '10.5 comparative literature (french) concentrator, on my way to Kigali, Rwanda. I'll be spending the summer in Rwanda, exploring the ways in which the 1994 genocide lives within the cultural fabric of this East African country,...
Christopher Lydon, host of the Open Source podcast series based here at Brown's Watson Institute, gave his own personal send-off to the AT&T New Media Fellows who are going overseas this summer to use media for social change. Lydon shared...
People’s lives shaped by violence on the US-Mexico border. Poor kids in Mali, finding an outlet in dance at a local community center. Indian mothers resorting to starting a school of their own. These are some of the people around the world whose...
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"Recommends the establishment of an International Day of Sport...to advocate and celebrate the contributions to education, human development, healthy lifestyles and a...
In between my SIT-sponsored study abroad program and a two-week sojourn in Morocco, I’m lucky enough to get to spend a full week exploring southern Spain for a vacation and...
Source: The Telegraph. Picture taken of Chinese migrant worker's returning home for the Lunar New Year
China’s economic development has had important changes in policy that...
The Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence has been helping to build a state of peace in Rhode Island – reducing gang violence, coping with conflict in prison and assisting victims of crime. Students at URI’s Harrington School...
The Brown University office of Watson Institute Senior Fellow Sergei Khrushchev is a tiny museum dedicated to the life and work of his father, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived has been selected as one of the top Documentary Channel premieres of 2011 and will be included in the upcoming Best of DOC Awards.Each night in December, one of the selected films will air at 8pm ET/PT, and...
A Brown alum and colleagues have anonymously produced this music video honoring Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese democracy movement. Here is her story: "This past year it was my pleasure to work with a group of students at...
In conjunction with the Year of China 2011-2 at Brown, the China Conversation is launching a “China Through Your Eyes” Media Contest. Submissions are accepted from now till January 31, 2012, and anyone with a brown.edu or alumni.brown.edu email...
After months of preparation, Strait Talk 2011 has finally kicked off. Last Friday, 15 delegates, 5 each from Mainland China, Taiwan and the US, arrived at Brown for a week-long program aimed at bridging differences in understanding around the Taiwan...
Brown alum Joe Posner '07 has launched a new video series on the Daily Beast called Op-Vid: Campaign 2012. The series opener is It's the Stupid Economy, a playful animated treatment of today's economic crisis featuring noted historian Niall Ferguson...
Many are marking 11/11/11 today, with commemorations from the sublime (nuptials on this purportedly lucky date) to the serious (the armistice that ended the "war to end all wars" on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...
The Brown Daily Herald has an excellent story about the Brown grad who's started an NPR-like news blog in India, with the help of Watson Institute visiting fellow Christopher Lydon: "I was not interested with hits or how many shows we could produce...
Even before Xiangjun Shi (Brown-RISD '13) came to the United States three years ago, she already knew what it was like to be studying abroad. Born in the Chinese city of Taiyuan, the Brown-RISD Dual Degree candidate in Physics and Film/Animation...
The Watson Institute-based Costs of War project has spurred student discussion of US military involvement both at Brown, where Prof. Catherine Lutz is co-director, and at Boston University, home to project co-director Prof. Neta...
On the sidelines of the Night Market in Sayles Hall as featured on the China Conversation, we talk to Flora Jin (Computer Science-Economics '14), who is involved with LiNK, an organization dedicated to helping refugees from North Korea. In the video...
Today's Brown Daily Herald includes a story on Creaturecast, a Brown-produced "video podcast chronicling some of nature's many quirks and oddities." Inspired by the narrative power of radio programs like "StoryCorps"and "This American Life,"...
ChrossTalk is a political commentary blog featuring debates on policy issues and interviews with policy experts. The debates are held between Ross Freiman-Mendel, who will enroll at Brown in the fall of 2012, and Chip Lebovitz '14, a staff...
Before graduating last spring, Noura Choudhury '11 shared her experiences of working in Bangladesh's healthcare system the previous summer as a Richard Smoke Fellow. Her comparisons with Western medicine may not be what you'd expect. "They...
AT&T New Media Fellow Ariel Hudes '11 is working to make the Venice Biennale accessible to students around the world. She has just launched Biennale Insider, a site created by young artists for young artists, and in her words, "designed to...
Our Right | Our Reason: 2011 Reflections on Africana Studies — Maingreen.tv This video from Maingreen.tv shows reflections by Brown students about their academic experience with the university's Department of African Studies, the intellectual...
Teens in a Missouri high school recently simulated the experience of poor women around the world who must fetch water daily for their homes and communities. The students' video of the experience was a winner in a competition sponsored by Brown...
First things first: For those of you who have not yet visited Maingreen.tv, it is a terrific new student-run website at Brown highlighting the arts and activism on campus. Go see it. Last week, the website profiled David Poritz '11.5. who founded...
As the Cambodian New Year approached last month, Tararith Kho commented that Khmers traditionally replace one of their gods each year, but they can never seem to replace their national leaders. Kho writes political poetry and short fiction in the...
Radio Open Source has encapsulated a message that filmmaker Thomas Balmès would like educators to receive loud and clear: University education is at risk as it fails to involve students in making the forms of media they so readily consume in every...
From the Editors: As the Global Conversation features innovation in media by the Brown community, it has hosted an ongoing feed from InterCambioClimático.com, which Brown helped to launch in the run-up to a global meeting on climate...
As an opening to one of this week's Freedom-to-Write Festival panels at Brown University, Professor Robert Coover, the renowned author and festival director, takes us on a global tour of trouble spots and points of light - with the United States as...
How is news being made today in the Middle East and North Africa – how is it being reported – how are the two acts really only one? Day-to-day, reading the Muftah Org conversation on the Global Conversation provides one roadmap. Co-founded by Brown...
“Look what is happening/Miseries everywhere, Mr. President/I talk with no fear/Although I know I will get only trouble/I see injustices everywhere.” These lyrics from the song “Rais Lebled,” by young Tunisian rapper El Général, embody the...
"It is difficult to describe what the streets of Cairo looked like yesterday. A few photos and a video is all I can offer," blogs Mariya Petkova ’09, a Brown alum with a degree in international relations. On her blog, “A Bulgarian in Egypt,” she...
“Much like the Vatican in Rome, the state of Tahrir has taken possession of a square and has established itself regardless of what the (illegitimate) government of the rest of the country thinks about that.” So begins today’s blog post from Egypt by...
Sophia Li '11.5 has returned to Brown from her semester-long internship at the newly inaugurated "Memory and Human Rights Museum" in Santiago, Chile. While in Chile, as an AT&T New Media Fellow blogging on the new Memoria Viva conversation, Li...
AT&T New Media Fellow Jonah David '13 spent winter break in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, recording the change globalization has wrought in the five years since he last visited the erstwhile fishing village. He is posting his observations in the...
AT&T New Media Fellow Elias Scheer '12 returns from India from an eye-opening walk -- a Shodh Yatra -- across a poor rural part of the country. For a "before and after" idea of how the walk has changed his perceptions of the environment and...
What brings together the music of alternative rocker Billy Bragg with UK Member of Parliament Norman Baker and AT&T New Media Fellow Henry Peck ‘11? Watch the video above and tune in to Henry’s first edition of a podcast series called “...
In this video, Hilary Rosenthal '12 describes the threatened extinction of the Tasmanian Devil and her work to document it over winter break in Australia as an AT&T New Media Fellow. You can read her blog posts from the field in a...
Follow AT&T Winter Fellow Jeffrey Bauer '11 as he helps launch the "Follow the Things" website this spring. The site will explore the global connections formed around commodities. In the runup to its launch, Jeffrey is conducting a series of...
Alexandra Ulmer '11 has taken to the streets of Caracas to document the politics of Venezuela's graffiti wars. Check out the tags she is photographing on her blog and read the story as it is unfolding, on the new "Coloring Caracas" conversation....
A fresh cohort of AT&T New Media Fellows is in the field during winter break, using audio, video, and other media to capture experiences and research on global issues for the Global Conversation. In a post this week in the “Running on...
Merriam-Webster yesterday declared “austerity” the US word of the year for 2010. Earlier this year, Faculty Fellow Mark Blyth was featured in an Institute-produced animated video short of the same name. In it, he describes the thinking behind...
On Sunday, November 7, AT&T New Media Fellow Sarah Gibson ’10.5 and Rosalie Elkinton '11.5, with the help of a group of friends and singers, put on a concert of early music from Europe and traditional folk songs from the Republic of Georgia and...
Is former congressional candidate Murray Hill Incorporated putting out feelers for a US presidential run in 2012? And would the first corporation ever to run for the nation’s highest office dare throw its hat into the ring on a college campus...
On Sunday, November 7, AT&T New Media Fellow Sarah Gibson ’10.5 and Rosalie Elkinton '11.5 will put on a concert of early music from Europe and traditional folk songs from the Republic of Georgia and Appalachia. The concert will include...
This week at the Global Conversation, we heard about life, liberty, immigration, exclusion, corruption, the past and the future. All in a normal week around here: Xu Wenli on Human Rights Andy Blackadar shares this video of an interview with Brown...
In the very first week after the official launch of the Global Conversation’s new website – a space for Brown students, student groups, faculty, visitors, and alumni to post their writings and media on global issues – the question of language...
With the launch of the new Global Conversation website, we've had an explosion of new bloggers; with over 50 active conversations, it can be overwhelming to get started on the site, or even keep up if you've been away for a couple days or weeks. "...
Suddenly this week something called a Botín Scholar keeps popping up on the Global Conversation. The reason? Forty undergraduates from across Latin America are on campus as part of a program called “Leadership, Liberal Arts and Public Service in...
With governments formulating policies of austerity as the global economic crisis recedes, a new animated video short describes the thinking behind such policies as inherently flawed. Austerity features Faculty Fellow Mark Blyth, an international...
Parachute Radio on the Global Conversation has been dropping small packages of India down for our readers over the summer. As Radio Open Source host Christopher Lydon and colleague Paul McCarthy traversed India, they filed vivid shorts, vividly...
"…In October 2002, [Omar] Khadr was transferred to Guantanamo Bay prison camp where he was interrogated by U.S. and Canadian officials about connections to the terrorist group al Qaeda. In 2007, he was charged with murdering a U.S. soldier 'in...
The conversation of new media usually doesn't look much like a conversation, at least in the traditional sense.The conversation of new media usually doesn't look much like a conversation, at least in the traditional sense. There's back-and-...
Christopher Lydon, host of the Open Source podcast series based here at Brown's Watson Institute, gave his own personal send-off to the AT&T New Media Fellows who are going overseas this summer to use media for social change. Lydon shared...
People’s lives shaped by violence on the US-Mexico border. Poor kids in Mali, finding an outlet in dance at a local community center. Indian mothers resorting to starting a school of their own. These are some of the people around the world whose...
