The Pembroke Center is pleased to announce the launch of a new visiting scholar initiative to bring a black feminist theorist to campus each year to contribute to the Pembroke Center's research and work with students, fellows, and faculty. Ann duCille, Emerita Professor of English at Wesleyan University, is the inaugural Distinguished Professor in Residence in the program and helped develop the project.

Envisioned as a site of intellectual collaboration across disciplines, the project includes an annual public lecture by the Distinguished Professor in Residence and a symposium on her work. The aim of the project is to enhance the visibility and accessibility of black feminist discourse on campus as a resource for faculty, students, and the surrounding community, while calling attention to ongoing activism and interventions at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and public policy.  Learn more about the project.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded a 2017 fellowship to Pembroke Center Director Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg to support her book project “Grounds for Reclamation,” an exploration of how land reclamation projects in the 1930s helped generate public support for Benito Mussolini’s regime. Applicants were elected on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise from a pool of nearly 3,000. Stewart-Steinberg was one of 173 awardees in this year's competition, and one of only five scholars selected in the field of European & Latin American History.

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Saturday, May 27, 2017 
11:00 am
Room 120, List Art Building
64 College Street, Providence

Join Brown alumnae in a conversation about the challenges and opportunities for women in entrepreneurship, and learn about their personal and professional journeys as leaders and launchers. How does gender shape entrepreneurial choices, support, access to capital, and innovation? What does entrepreneurship mean to women in today's world?

Moderator: 
Deb Mills-Scofield ’82, Founder, Mills-Scofield, LLC

Panelists:

Morra Aarons-Mele ’98, Founder, Women Online, & Author, Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert's Roadmap to Getting Out There (When You'd Rather Stay Home)

Sarah Carson ’02, Founder/CEO, Leota New York

Sadie Kurzban ’12, Founder, 305 Fitness

Vibha Pinglé, AM’90 PhD’96, President and Founder, Ubuntu at Work; Adjunct Lecturer, International and Public Affairs, Brown University

This exhibit was remounted for the Women's Leadership Council's 125 Years of Women at Brown Conference and will be on view on the first floor of Pembroke Hall through Commencement Weekend 2017. 

On display at Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street, Providence

Building hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
*With additional hours for Commencement:
Saturday, May 27, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

This Pembroke Center exhibit explores in detail the Lamphere case and its consequences for Brown. Based on extensive archival research and oral histories with key participants, the exhibit paints a vivid picture of why and how Brown changed during a key moment in its history and of the feminist activism that drove that change.

More than 700 Brown alumnae returned to campus last week for the 125 Years of Women at Brown Conference. To mark this historic milestone, Brown's Office of University Communications produced a video called "Celebrating 125 Years Of Women at Brown" using materials from the Pembroke Center archives. Excerpts from the Brown Women Speak oral history collection are featured along with historic photos from the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive. Watch the video on our YouTube playlist by clicking here.

Wednesday, May 10, 2017
6:30 – 8:30 pm
(Screening, followed by discussion & reception)
at Magno Sound & Video, 729 7th Avenue (48 & 49th), New York City

Join us for a screening of The 100 Years Show by Alison Klayman ’06, followed by a discussion with Alison and other Brown friends. Her award-winning documentary tells the story of Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera -- just one example of the many great artists whose accomplishments were overlooked because of their gender, ethnicity, or nationality. Following the screening, there will be a conversation about women and other historically underrepresented groups getting their due in the art world with:

Alison Klayman ’06, filmmaker and director, AliKlay Productions

Leslie Camhi, former Pembroke Center postdoctoral fellow; writer, Vogue, The New York Times, et al.

Karen E. Jones ’97, curator of modern and contemporary art, professor of art history, CUNY

Space is limited and registration is required. Please RSVP to Martha Hamblett at Martha_Hamblett@brown.edu or 401.863.3433 by May 8.