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You are sitting down in the reading room of the JCB, an open text resting on book cradles in front of you. The book is the 1504 edition of Margarita Philosophica, Gregor Reisch’s textbook on the trivium and the ...
The Southwest Seminar on Colonial Latin America invites proposals for 2025 meeting hosted at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island on November 13 and 14, 2025. For more than a decade, the Southwest Seminar has brought together scholars of all ranks...
Please note that the deadline for this opportunity has passed.
The John Carter Brown Library aims to redefine its digital presence with a website that embodies its mission, leverages new and emerging technologies and web tools, and supports its diverse audiences.
We invite qualified...
On Friday, January 24, 2025, the John Carter Brown Library hosted an illustrated lecture by Professor Eric Slauter (University of Chicago) followed by a conversation with Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore. We introduced 2026 and Beyond at the JCB, a multi-year...
The JCB and the Lab have a shared goal of bringing new readers to the archive, especially those it has historically excluded, and to reimagine the archive as a community trust with a binding relationship of shared responsibility. In this...
The inner lives, the personalities, histories, and culture of African and African-descended people were obscured and deemed illegitimate and irrelevant in the surviving records. And yet there is an inherent tension inscribed in these dusty old White-created documents, for they all refer to her resistance. ...