Updates
As the fall semester is underway, Brown 2026 moves forward by engaging students, the campus, and the larger Brown community. September events included an open house and the Fictions of Revolutions conference at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study (JNBC).
The JNBC also hosted two Brown 2026 Reads discussions in September: Mark Blyth spoke with students about Inflation, and Kwame Dawes spoke with students about Sturge Town. Rebecca Brenner Graham’s Dear Miss Perkins and Bathsheba Demuth’s Floating Coast are on the Brown 2026 Reads schedule in October. The Brown 2026 October calendar is full of a wide range of events, including Ken Burns visiting Brown for a series of programs during family weekend. A partnership among Brown 2026, the Hay Library, the John Carter Brown Library, Rhode Island Historical Society, and Ocean State Media is leading a program for secondary school educators from across Rhode Island during the Ken Burns team’s visit. Finally, the newest Brown 2026 endeavor is the Brown Class of 1976 oral history project, which will conduct twenty interviews of members of the Class of 1976 for donation to the University Archives. As always, check our website for updates and contact brown2026democracy@brown.edu to participate in the oral history project or for any questions and ideas relating to Brown 2026.