Tuesday, March 12, 2024 6:30 PM Reception | 7:00PM Panel Discussion FREE, Registration Required Lippitt House Museum, the Providence League of Women Voters, and the African Alliance of Rhode Island are partnering on two in-person community discussions about civic life for immigrants in Rhode Island. ​The 9th Annual Community Conversations Discussion Series takes place March […]

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 6:30 PM Reception | 7:00PM Panel Discussion FREE, Registration Required Lippitt House Museum, the Providence League of Women Voters, and the African Alliance of Rhode Island are partnering on two in-person community discussions about civic life for immigrants in Rhode Island. ​The 9th Annual Community Conversations Discussion Series takes place March […]

The University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, and devoting this year’s speaker series to storytelling, an endeavor at the heart of the humanities. The Center's yearlong series envisions storytelling expansively and brings a variety of practitioners — historians and novelists, cartoonists and artists, musicians and musicologists, […]

Rhode Island historians Erik Chaput and Russell DeSimone will discuss the life and career of one of the most important civil rights activists of the 19th century – George T. Downing (1819-1903). Although Downing traveled extensively, living in Providence and Boston before the Civil War and in Washington, D.C., managing the U.S. House of Representatives […]

The University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, and devoting this year’s speaker series to storytelling, an endeavor at the heart of the humanities. The Center's yearlong series envisions storytelling expansively and brings a variety of practitioners — historians and novelists, cartoonists and artists, musicians and musicologists, […]