Wednesday, August 5
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Mini Lecture:  Who’s using your head? Judgment, Agency & AI in Analytics
with Professor Ismael Carreras
This session examines a specific risk in using Large Language Models for analytical work: the model makes consequential methodological decisions silently, and correct-looking output gives you no signal that it did so. Professor Carreras will show the results of a programming experiment he conducted using two independent runs of the same prompt, which produced different methodological choices but identical quality classifications. The session will also include two audience polls, with the second connecting this to research on how professionals actually collaborate with AI, and where judgment tends to get quietly surrendered.

Friday, August 21
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Master's in Data Science: Policy, Governance & Society Orientation
with DSIO Faculty & Staff
This orientation is for new students entering the DSIO program this Fall 2026 semester. Meet your faculty, staff, and learn more about your program and the many resources available to you as a Brown University student!

1:30 - 2:30 p.m. ET
(virtual) Master's in Organizational Leadership Orientation
with MOL Faculty & Staff
This orientation is for new students entering the OMOL program this Fall 2026 semester. Meet your faculty, staff, and learn more about your program and the many resources available to you as a Brown University student!

Sunday, August 23

Summer 2026 Semester Ends

Friday, August 29
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. ET
(virtual) Master's in Management Orientation
with MIM Faculty & Staff
This orientation is for new students entering the OMIM program this Fall 2026 semester. Meet your faculty, staff, and learn more about your program and the many resources available to you as a Brown University student!

3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Master's in Business Analytics Orientation
with MBAn Faculty & Staff
This orientation is for new students entering the MBAn program this Fall 2026 semester. Meet your faculty, staff, and learn more about your program and the many resources available to you as a Brown University student!

Wednesday, September 9
Fall 2026 Semester begins

Friday, September 11
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Time Management & Study Skills
with Brittney Yandle
This is the first session of the Student Success Series created and lead by our Advising Coordinator, Brittney Yandle, to guide students as they return to the (virtual) classroom. In this hour, students will learn about time management and study skills, guidance curated specifically for online master's students who are facing multiple responsibilities and deadlines. This is part of a four-part series that offers practical tools to support academic success, professional growth and personal well-being. Please fill out this registration form to attend.

Wednesday, September 23
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Online Master's in Organizational Leadership Student Panel
Intended for prospective students, this webinar will feature current students in the online Master’s in Organizational Leadership program. Panelists will share insights into their academic routines, how they balance work and academics, and what makes the Brown community unique from a distance.  

Thursday, September 24
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Mini-Lecture: Did I do that?  When bias enters the data science pipeline
with Linda Clark
Join Academic Director of Data Science, Linda Clark, for an insightful session on "When Bias Enters the Data Science Pipeline." Learn how bias slips into data workflows, ask your questions during a live Q&A and get an overview of our Online Data Science program. 

Friday, September 25
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Self-Regulated Learning
with Brittney Yandle
Designed for students returning to school alongside busy life responsibilities, this session focuses on developing active learning strategies, goal setting, and self-monitoring techniques to help you confidently direct and sustain your own academic success. This four-part Student Success Series offers practical tools to support academic success, professional growth and personal well-being. Please fill out this registration form to attend.

Monday, September 28
(virtual) Online Master's in Data Science Student Panel
Intended for prospective students, this webinar will feature current students in the online Master’s in Data Science program. Panelists will share insights into their academic routines, how they balance work and academics, and what makes the Brown community unique from a distance.  

Wednesday, September 30
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Mini-Lecture: AI Interpretability & Visual Storytelling
with Reuben Fischer-Baum
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have put considerable resources towards trying to "look inside the black box" and make their models interpretable. In explaining this interpretability to the public, these companies have invested in high-quality graphics well beyond what's typical of research papers and borrowed visual-narrative techniques spearheaded by news organizations like The New York Times. This session will explore what interpretability means, its challenges and what these companies' choices tell us about the future of data communication. Join us here.

7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Online Master's in Management Student Panel
Intended for prospective students, this webinar will feature current students in the online Master’s in Management program. Panelists will share insights into their academic routines, how they balance work and academics, and what makes the Brown community unique from a distance.  

Monday, October 5
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Mini-Lecture: The Trillion-Dollar Math Problem in Supply Chains: Why Simple Business Problems Break Computers (And How to Handle Them)
with Seamus McGovern
Join Seamus McGovern, Visiting Associate Professor, for an insightful session on "The Trillion-Dollar Math Problem in Supply Chains: Why Simple Business Problems Break Computers (And How to Handle Them)." Learn why seemingly simple supply chain decisions create massive computational bottlenecks for modern systems, ask your questions during a live Q&A and get an overview of our Online Master's in Management program.

Tuesday, October 6
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Career Resources Introduction for Online Programs
with Career Services and Professional Development
Please join the Career Services and Professional Development team for an exclusive interactive session tailored specifically for online Master’s students. Discover the specialized tools, virtual networking platforms, and personalized career coaching designed to support your professional growth from anywhere in the world. Please register here.

Wednesday, October 7
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) The Leadership Equation: Understanding the Variables at Play
with ACT Leadership Coaching
In this interactive master class, Mike Hutchins, co-founder of ACT Leadership and author of the forthcoming “The Leadership Equation”, will introduce a new framework for understanding the forces that shape leadership performance. Rather than focusing on a single trait or set of behaviors, “The Leadership Equation” invites leaders to examine the variables already at play — from the context around them and who they have learned to be, to how they show up, the impact they create and what gives them energy and purpose.

Through examples and reflection, Mike will explore how these variables interact and how greater awareness can create more choice in how leaders respond to the situations, relationships and challenges they encounter every day. Please register here.

7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Online Master's in Organizational Leadership Town Hall
with Program faculty & staff
Join our MOL program faculty and staff for a live Town Hall dedicated entirely to addressing your top questions. Having gathered inquiries from students across the program, our panel will walk through key topics, clarify program details, and share critical updates to help support your academic journey.

Thursday, October 8
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Navigating the Global Library
with Brown University Library, Center for Masters Student Excellence
This workshop is a detailed orientation to accessing and using Brown University Library entirely from off campus. Rather than a general tour, we will focus on the technical and research skills virtual master’s students need most in their first semester. By the end of the session, you’ll be able to independently authenticate into Brown’s library system, run effective searches, request materials not available online, and critically evaluate AI-assisted research results. All from where you are, no campus visit required.

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. ET
(hybrid) Dean’s Fireside Chat — A New Era in the Persian Gulf: Understanding Rapid Changes to Societies, Economies, and Geopolitics
with The Watson School of International and Public Afaairs and the Center for Middle East Studies
Join John N. Friedman, Vascellaro Family Dean of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs, for a fireside chat with Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.

The last fifteen years have witnessed extraordinary changes across the Gulf Countries, including expansions of social and freedoms for women, a drive for a post-hydrocarbon model of economic growth, a realignment of international relations in the region with the Abraham accords, among much more. Join Princeton professor and renowned expert Bernard Haykel, in conversation with Dean John Friedman, for a discussion of how we can better understand the drivers of these rapid changes, and what it all means for the future of the region and the world.

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Bernard Haykel is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Haykel is widely regarded as a leading authority on Gulf regional politics and has frequently advised policymakers and international institutions on Middle Eastern affairs. Please register here.

Friday, October  9
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Professionalism & Networking
with Brittney Yandle
Tailored for online master's students, this session equips you with essential communication etiquette for interacting with faculty, peers, and colleagues to help you build strong relationships and network with confidence. This four-part Student Success Series offers practical tools to support academic success, professional growth and personal well-being. Please fill out this registration form to attend.

Monday, October 12
9:0o a.m. EDT. Repeats weekly to December 7
(virtual) Refuge without Refuge: Displacement, Gender Violence, and the Politics of Belonging Among Refugees in Europe and Turkey: A Comparative Study of Sudanese Displacement in France and Syrian Displacement in Turkey
with New University in Exile Consortium
This semester, the New University in Exile Consortium is offering 9 Co-Led Online Seminars which are FREE and open to anyone anywhere in the world. Taught by two endangered scholars – one who is hosted by a Consortium member institution, and the other a colleague of their choice - the seminars are designed to reconnect endangered scholars with the academic community they have lost while in exile, and provide learning opportunities that would not otherwise be available.

This seminar opens with a core question at the heart of contemporary debates about displacement: what becomes of “protection” when its legal form fails to secure safety, dignity, or a sense of belonging in practice? Through the experiences of Sudanese refugees in France and Syrian refugees in Turkey, the seminar examines the persistent gap between the formal architecture of asylum and the lived realities it is meant to address. Despite differences between the two political contexts, both groups face a similar contradiction: legal protection is formally granted yet remains tenuous, delayed, or inaccessible in everyday life. Throughout the seminar, this tension is captured in the notion of refuge without refuge.
Join here. 

Wednesday, October 14
9:00 a.m. EDT
(hybrid) Surveying the Social: Art, Technology, and the Interdisciplinary 1960s
with University of Bologna
This lecture, which is taking place at the University of Bologna, is part of the annual Brown-Bologna Lecture Series which celebrates the enduring collaboration between our institutions in advancing innovative research, impactful teaching and learning, and immersive cultural exchange.

In the 1960s, artists from across the globe engaged with other disciplines such as physics, engineering, computer science, and sociology. This lecture will consider the social and political questions that motivated these interdisciplinary experiments through the close examination of artists ’ uses of viewer surveys and data visualization. Focusing on exemplary works from Italy and the United States, I consider how the same form of the survey encapsulated competing and contradictory aims: some artists turned to sociological methods to establish a solid political foundation for art, while others were attracted to the sciences for what they perceived as a shared crisis of foundations. For some, other disciplines provided new concepts; for others, they offered novel articulations of shared questions. As we shall see, these artistic uses of surveys have much to tell us about the relationship between our image- and information-saturated environment and the possibilities and impossibilities of new social imaginaries and collective life.
Join here.

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Mini-Lecture: From Data to Decision: Solving Business Problems with Predictive Modeling
with Deepak Mathur
In this mini-lecture, we will explore how modern organizations translate complex datasets into actionable strategy. Led by Deepak Mathur, faculty member in Brown University's online Master's in Business Analytics program and instructor of Predictive Analytics and Forecasting, this session explores how organizations use predictive modeling to discern historical patterns and drive strategic outcomes. You'll gain a clear view of how to formulate predictive models solving business problems and the strategic impact you can make as a data-driven leader. Join here.  

Thursday, October 15
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Lessons in Leadership | Managing Collective Dynamics

Join Brown University’s Lessons in Leadership series with Ed Barrows as he explores “Managing Collective Dynamics.”
Building a successful team is only the beginning. As priorities shift, new challenges emerge and team membership evolves, leaders must continually adapt to keep collaboration strong and performance on track. In this one-hour session, Barrows will share practical strategies for maintaining healthy team dynamics, strengthening collaboration and guiding teams through every stage of the team lifecycle. You can view all of Ed Barrows’ sessions in the Lessons in Leadership series on our YouTube channel.

7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Online Master's in Data Science Town Hall
with Program faculty & staff

Join our DSIO program faculty and staff for a live Town Hall dedicated entirely to addressing your top questions. Having gathered inquiries from students across the program, our panel will walk through key topics, clarify program details, and share critical updates to help support your academic journey.

Tuesday, October 20
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. ET
Virtual Master's Student Coffee Hour with Dean Smith
with the Center for Master's Student Excellence
Were you unable to attend the lunch with Dean Smith on Sept 28, either because of distance or another scheduling conflict? Have new questions or things come up that you didn’t get to discuss or ask at the lunch? All master’s students (online, hybrid, and residential) are invited to grab your coffee or tea, log onto Zoom, and join Dean Sandra Smith and your fellow master’s students for a morning hour of community and conversation. This is the perfect opportunity to discuss anything that may be on your mind as you reach the mid-semester point.

Wednesday, October 21
7:30 - 8:30 p.m. ET
(virtual) Online Master's in Management Town Hall
with Program faculty & staff
Join our MIM program faculty and staff for a live Town Hall dedicated entirely to addressing your top questions. Having gathered inquiries from students across the program, our panel will walk through key topics, clarify program details, and share critical updates to help support your academic journey.

Thursday, October 22
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Building Your Digital Research Workshop
with Brown University Library, Center for Master's Student Excellence
Built in direct response to master’s students who said they wished they’d known about citation managers earlier in their program, this session covers how citation managers, cloud-based documents, and library databases talk to each other to automate parts of your research workflow and generate citations. We’ll also cover tools and principles to help you organize your research library.

We’ll look at tools to enable you to:

Sync a research library across your devices
Clip, save, and annotate sources as you find them
Auto-generate and format bibliographies in seconds
Integrate directly with Google Workspace and your browser, so citing sources fits into how you already write

We’ll also dig into metadata extraction — how these tools pull accurate author, title, and publication data from PDFs and webpages (and how to fix it when they don’t).

Note: This workshop is software-agnostic and will cover general concepts and examples of how to set up a connected digital research workflow. If you would like specific instruction on the use of citation management software, consider attending a library workshop about Zotero, offered regularly throughout the semester.

6:00 - 7:30 p.m. ET
(virtual) Career Talk: Hot Jobs - Product Management
with Career Services & Professional Development
Interested in a career in Product Management? Join Master's Career Services' upcoming virtual Alumni Panel on Thursday, October 22nd from 6:00 - 7:30PM ET. Hear directly from alumni now working at IBM TikTok, CoinFlow, Glean, FutureFit AI and they broke into the field, what a day in the life looks like, and their best advice for landing PM roles. There will be time to directly speak and network with panelists. Register on Handshake.

Friday, October 23
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
(virtual) Wellness & Burnout Prevention
with Brittney Yandle
Our students are balancing rigorous academics with work, family, and personal commitments. This session showcases Brown University's virtual support resources and offers practical strategies to prevent burnout and sustain your overall well-being. This four-part Student Success Series offers practical tools to support academic success, professional growth and personal well-being. Please fill out this registration form to attend. 

12:00 - 1:30 p.m. ET
(virtual and in person) Natural Language Processing with Python
with Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of computer science that allows computers to read and process human language. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to use the coding language Python to implement an NLP project. This can be the basis for further text analysis including sentiment analysis, text mining, or other digital scholarship projects. Please note that this workshop will not formally address or use artificial intelligence. Registration is open to learners of all skill levels.

This workshop is part of a series hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), “The Bread of Butter of Digital Humanities: Common Tools and Methods in the Field.” Please join us for one workshop or all eight!

Monday, October 26
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET

(virtual) JCB Reads: Erika Valdivieso, author of Empire’s Companion Virgilian Epics from Colonial Iberoamerica

with the John Carter Brown Library
Launched during the 2024-5 academic year, JCB Reads offers former JCB fellows the opportunity to share their recent book publications. These online events are open to anyone who is interested. The link to the Zoom meeting will be published a few days before the event takes place on the individual event page.
Join us on Monday, October 26, 2026 at 12 p.m. EDT for a discussion of Erika Valdivieso’s new book Empire’s Companion: Virgilian Epics from Colonial Iberoamerica.

Tuesday, October 27
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Intro to HTML
with Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library
This workshop will introduce those without a programming background to what HTML is and some basic fundamentals, with hands-on exercises and a cheatsheet for reference afterwards. You will be able to apply what you learn to use HTML in platforms like Scalar and Canva. This workshop will be offered ONLINE ONLY.

Wednesday, October 28
7:30 - 8:30 p.m. ET
(virtual) Online Master's in Business Analytics Town Hall
with Program faculty & staff
Join our MBAn program faculty and staff for a live Town Hall dedicated entirely to addressing your top questions. Having gathered inquiries from students across the program, our panel will walk through key topics, clarify program details, and share critical updates to help support your academic journey.

Monday, November 2
12:00 - 1:15 p.m. ET
(virtual) "Human Life is Sacred, Art is not": a Conversation with Samar Haddad King
with Center for Middle East Studies
Artist Samar Haddad King in conversation with Nadje Al-Ali, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Professor of Anthropology and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brown University, and Kathryn Spellman Poots, Acting Director, Middle East Institute, Columbia University.
How does war live in the body, and what can dance register that testimony cannot? The Gender, Art and Body Politics series continues with Samar Haddad King, choreographer, composer and founding artistic director of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, which has worked between New York and Palestine since 2011. Her recent pieces include Losing It, co-created with Samaa Wakim, Last Ward and Gathering. In conversation with Nadje Al-Ali and Kathryn Spellman Poots, King will discuss the gendered body as an archive of political violence, working across borders and checkpoints, and making Palestinian art in a time of genocide.

Wednesday, November 4
5:30 - 7:00 p.m. EST
(virtual) Stephen Kinzer - Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine
with The Watson School of International and Public Affairs
In his groundbreaking new book, Stephen Kinzer tells this long-hidden story. Beginning in the refugee camps of postwar Europe, where CIA officers recruited their first Ukrainian agents, it follows generations of rebels, exiles, traitors, and covert operatives through decades of clandestine missions. Although nearly all of the guerrilla warriors that the CIA sent into Ukraine were captured or killed, it never gave up. From the late 1940s through the end of the Cold War, American leaders saw Ukrainians as their most effective weapon against Moscow. They continued to press that strategy after Ukraine’s independence and the eastward expansion of the US-dominated NATO alliance.
Join here.

Thursday, November 5
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. EST
(virtual) Deep Dive: Applied Business, Industry, and Competitor Intelligence
with the Library, Center for Master's Student Excellence
This workshop is an introduction to business, industry, and competitor intelligence research using the tools and databases available through Brown University Library. We’ll cover how to find company information, benchmark industry trends and market size, and track competitor strategy through news, analyst reports, and trade publications. Rather than a database-by-database tour, we’ll organize the session around real research questions and build a repeatable process you can apply to any company or industry.

By the end, you’ll know which sources to reach for depending on your question, how to cross-check and triangulate information from multiple databases, and how to move efficiently from a vague business question to a well-supported answer.

Friday, Nobember 6
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. EST
(virtual) Crisis Cinema in Iran: Shohini Chaudhuri
with Center for Middle East Studies
Michelle Quay is an assistant teaching professor of Persian at Brown University and holds a doctorate in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her teaching and research work focuses on Iranian literature, cinema and culture. She is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation (2022), and her translation of Reza Ghassemi’s 1996 novel Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime was awarded the Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature.

Wednesday, November 11
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. EST
(virtual) Will AI Take My Job? What Leaders Should Do Before AI Redesigns the Org Chart
with Baba Prasad
AI is already changing how work gets done, which tasks organizations value, and what employees need to know to stay relevant. Research highlights the scale of the anxiety: 64% of U.S. adults think AI will lead to fewer jobs over the next 20 years, and 53% worry AI could put them or someone in their household out of work.

For leaders, managers, and team influencers, the urgent question is not only whether AI will eliminate jobs. It is how to redesign work so humans and AI can succeed together.

In this live information session featuring a recorded master class with Dr. Baba Prasad, participants will explore how AI is reshaping work — and what leaders can do before fear, resistance, or confusion take hold. Participants will explore:

Which kinds of tasks AI is most likely to automate, augment, or reshape
Why fear and resistance are predictable parts of AI adoption
How leaders can talk about AI without creating panic or false reassurance
Which human skills become more valuable as AI becomes more capable
How Brown’s Human-Centered AI course prepares professionals to lead AI adoption responsibly

Join here. 

Tuesday, November 16
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
(virtual) Data cleaning workflows for the professional data analytics: From spreadsheets to dashboards
with the Library, Center for Master's Student Excellence
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” — Leo Tolstoy

“Like families, tidy datasets are all alike but every messy dataset is messy in its own way.” — Hadley Wickham

Whatever your discipline, project, tool of choice, clean data and messy data are an inescapable dichotomy of all data work. This workshop introduces you to a clear, practical paradigm for working with the notoriously un-clear realm of raw data. For this session, we will focus in particular on strategies relevant to applied data analytics, and use a mixture of Google Sheets, OpenRefine, and Tableau to demonstrate and explore cleaning principles. By the end, you will walk away with specific actionable skills for future encounters with messy data in professional data analytics contexts. This workshop is open to participants with or without programming experience. We use examples from the social sciences and humanities like government agency data and scanned monographs.

Wednesday, November 25 - Sunday, November 29
Thanksgiving Recess

Wednesday, December 2
Spring 2027 Registration Opens

Tuesday, December 15
Fall 2026 Semester ends