Nanjing-Brown Joint Program

in Gender Studies and the Humanities

In June 2008, a group of six Brown faculty members, Elizabeth Weed, Michael Steinburg, Kerry Smith, Mary Ann Doane, Lynn Joyrich and Lingzhen Wang, and a Cogut Center postdoctoral fellow,Yukiko Koga, visited Nanjing to formally inaugurate the Joint Program in Gender Studies and the Humanities with Nanjing University.

The Joint Program, part of Brown University’s initiative to strengthen its international programs, is established between the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, the East Asian Studies Department, and the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Science at Nanjing University.

Nanjing University has long been one of the top universities in China, especially strong in its humanities and social science. Nanjing is a particularly fitting partner as it was also the first university in China to admit women (1920). The purpose of the Brown-Nanjing Joint Program in Gender Studies and the Humanities is to bring outstanding scholars in China into dialogue with scholars here at Brown about the global future of gender, feminist studies, and international humanities.

Directed by Brown’s Lingzhen Wang, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, the joint program focuses on the exchange of short- and long-term visiting scholars, faculty, and graduate students. It also provides regular opportunities for scholarly exchange and promotes the translation and publication of feminist research and theory.

To learn more about the Project, please visit: http://brown.edu/Programs/Nanjing/index.html