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Brown students: Enjoy free pizza while preparing for finals!

> Monday, December 9 at ORWIG Music Library @ 8 p.m.
> Tuesday, December 10 at the ROCK @ 9 p.m.
> Wednesday, December 11 at the SCILI (Friedman Study Center) @ 9 p.m.

Pizza nights are brought to you by the Library and .

Best of luck with finals!

This is your Library. You belong here.

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Brown University Digital Publications has launched the multimodal edition of "Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual" (https://on-seeing-mortevivum.org/), the inaugural title in the "On Seeing" series published by the MIT Press. Authored by Kimberly Juanita Brown, inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College, "Mortevivum" is a powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness.

With subject matter that may be triggering, particularly images of violence and harm done to Black bodies, the open access multimodal edition employs a Consentful Tech framework, or the intentional development and use of technology to create safety, to prioritize care, and to foreground consent in order to mitigate trauma.

The multimodal edition also offers readers a Community Engagement Toolkit, a guide to having open conversations about antiblackness, visual culture, and death. Other uniquely digital content includes video recordings of author Kimberly Juanita Brown in dialogue with Brown University professors Kim Gallon, Juliet Ho**er, Kevin Quashie, and Avery Willis Hoffman; and with Vievee Elaure Francis of Dartmouth College.

Publications in the On Seeing series foreground the political agency, critical insight, and social impact inscribed in visuality and representation. The MIT Press will publish each On Seeing volume as a print book, ebook, and open access multimodal edition created by Brown University Digital Publications. The next title in the series is Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning.

More information at library.brown.edu/create/libnews/multimodal-mortevivum/

The John Hay Library acquires the papers of Joy Harjo, former U.S. Poet Laureate and 2024 Brown honorary degree recipient.

Brown University’s John Hay Library acquires former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s papers Harjo’s writing drafts, correspondence, scripts and teaching materials will significantly enhance the University’s scholarly resources from Native and Indigenous writers and performers.