6:00pm Monday, April 27, 2015 at the Brown Faculty Club
Top 10 reasons to attend a roundtable event
- Meet new people.
- Make new friends.
- Free food.
- Begin to collaborate with faculty from different academic departments.
- Great discussions on relevant topics.
- Enjoy an evening out.
- Free drinks (with open bar).
- Learn something new.
- Hundreds of other faculty in the New England area are doing this (e.g., Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth, Yale)
- It’s fun.
What’s the format of the roundtable event?
It’s a fairly simple schedule for the evening. While the official time says 6-9pm, the event is actually more like 6:30-8:30pm. Here’s what happens.
People arrive between 600-6:30pm and enjoy casual conversation while being served various appetizers and grabbing a beverage from the open bar.
At 6:30pm, guests take their seat and their assigned table before hearing from the roundtable coordinator’s opening remarks (5 minutes), followed by the presenters for that evening (usually 2 professors who speak for about 12 minutes each).
About 7:00pm, dinner is served and the table discussions begin.
About 8:00pm, dessert and coffee is served. And then the roundtable coordinator will call everyone’s attention back to the front for a time of live question/answer between the guests and the presenters (~20 minutes).
And around 8:30pm, the roundtable coordinator will close the evening with some brief remarks. People are free to leave or stay to continue chatting with their colleagues.
Good food. Good conversation. And all of it complimentary thanks to, in large part, the Templeton Religion Trust.
Next Providence Roundtable event scheduled for Feb. 9!
More details soon. Please be looking for the official invitation in the next few days. If you’d like to make sure you and/or your colleague(s) are on the invitation list, then please email providenceroundtable@gmail.com
Our first event is scheduled!
Save the Date! The Providence Roundtable will have its first dinner event the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 28th at the Brown Faculty Club. Mark your calendars now and be looking for the official invitation in late September. If you would like to ask about joining our invitation our invitation list, please contact us: ProvidenceRoundtable@gmail.com.
“In Deo Speramus–In light of modern science, is there still a place for God and religion in the university?”
Featuring two Brown professors as co-presenters: Ken Miller and Mark Cladis. More about this event here.
Providence Roundtable is coming…
We plan to host our first Providence Roundtable in Fall 2014 at the Brown Faculty Club. More details soon!