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What: Beyond the Birds and the Bees: Sexual Education in the 20th Century (an exhibit)
Where: John Nicholas Brown Center (JNBC) Carriage House Gallery, 357 Benefit Street Opening Reception: April 8, 6:30-8:30 pm Exhibit Dates: April 9-May 23
Days/Times: Monday-Friday, 2:00 – 5:00 pm, free and open to the public More Info: http://brown.edu/Research/JNBC/BirdsBees.html
Opening reception for JNBC exhibit opening reception next TUESDAY APRIL 8, 6:30-8:30, with FREE FOOD! Would make a GREAT program!
***Related public programs include a panel discussion and lectures to accompany the exhibit. View above website for details.***
Sexual Assault Peer Education Training
Learn how to facilitate discussions among other students about the role of the community in preventing sexual violence. Trainers from UNH will teach the nationally recognized bystander intervention model.
This Saturday, April 5th, 10-4:00
Metcalf Chem 305 (on Thayer, across from the SciLi)
Lunch and morning snack included
RSVP to Heather_Bennett@brown.edu
Sponsored by the Sexual Assault Task Force and Health Education
"Mothers in Men's and Women's Prisons:
New Alliances for Reproductive Freedom and
Gender Justice for Communities of Color"
Lecture & Discussion with Miss Major and Vanessa Huang
12:00 Noon, Arnold Lounge, Keeney Quad
Brown University
Join Miss Major of the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex
Justice Project and Vanessa Huang of Justice Now in a conversation
exploring how the prison industrial complex reinforces gender
oppression and population control of communities of color and current
strategies that trans and non-trans mothers are using to collectively
challenge this and foster communities where all of us can thrive.
Sponsored by Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, Swearer Center for Public Service, and the LGBTQ Resource Center
March 14 to April 9
Pembroke Center Exhibition Celebrates Women’s History Month
The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women is celebrating Women’s History Month 2008 with an exhibit highlighting the historical achievements of Brown and Rhode Island women. Disturbances: An Exhibit of Select Materials from the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives is on view at the John Hay Library from Friday, March 14 through Wednesday, April 9, 2008. It is free and open to the public.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women presents an exhibition highlighting the historical achievements of Brown and Rhode Island women, as well as feminist theorists across the country. Disturbances: An Exhibit of Select Materials from the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives will be on view at the John Hay Library from Friday, March 14 through Wednesday, April 9, 2008. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. Both the reception and the exhibition are free and open to the public.
“Sharing the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives with the community is a fitting way to observe and celebrate Women’s History Month,” said Bernicestine E. McLeod ’68, chair of the Archives Committee of the Pembroke Associates Council. “Spanning several generations of activists and scholars, the collection recognizes the courage and intrepidity of women who dared to challenge and thereby disturb the status quo --through interrogation, agitation, and persistence.”
Featured in the exhibit are the stories of such figures as Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, a Native-American/African American sculptor who battled with poverty, as well as her own inner demons, to create lasting works of art, and Annie Peck, who was refused admission to Brown in the 1880s but went on to become a celebrated mountaineer. The exhibit highlights the successful efforts of Sarah Doyle, the moving spirit behind the Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women, and the highly controversial work of such feminist scholars as historians Joan Wallach Scott and Louise Tilly and literary scholars Naomi Schor and Elaine Marks. Each of these theorists questioned conventional approaches to knowledge and contributed to making gender and sexual difference crucial categories of analysis. Also on display will be artifacts bearing witness to the bold Pembroke College and Brown University women athletes who insisted on playing “men’s” sports, such as hockey, and activists who staged walkouts to protest racial injustice on campus.
The exhibit and opening reception are co-sponsored by the Pembroke Center Associates, the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, and the Friends of the Library.
The John Hay Library is located at 20 Prospect St. The exhibition is open to the public during normal library opening hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday (except March 24–28, Brown’s spring break, when the library closes at 5 p.m.). The Library is also open on Sunday from 1-5 p.m. (except for March 23 and 30).
The Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives
Housed in the John Hay Library, the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century Brown and Rhode Island women and their organizations. In addition to correspondence, diaries, photographs, newspapers, yearbooks, and memorabilia, it also includes a collection of oral history tapes and videos. The materials on women are located throughout the University Archives and Special Collections. There is a 500-page Research Guide to the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives, which includes more than 1,000 entries describing the collection.
Included within the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives is the Feminist Theory Papers collection, inaugurated in 2002, which preserves the legacies of prominent feminist thinkers. This collection continues Farnham's commitment to women's achievements by documenting the contributions of feminist scholars to cutting-edge research.
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