Griselda Pollock, Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art, and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds, will give a Pembroke Center virtual presentation “Revisiting ‘Is Feminism a Bad Memory?’: On Being Afraid and Being Disturbed,” on Tuesday, December 1^st.

The Pembroke Center's Gender and Sexuality Studies program has a slate of exciting courses on offer for the spring and summer semesters at Brown.  

In his Pembroke Center lecture “Value of Life: Insurance, Slavery, Incarceration,” Michael Ralph, Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, discusses how his research on insurance reveals that people who were enslaved could inhabit social standing approximating that of dehumanized free workers, while free people could be trapped in a predicament  approximating slavery.

If you were unable to attend this panel, you can watch a recording of the discussion and Q and A here.

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The Pembroke Center offers five research grants and fellowships to Brown undergraduate and graduate students. Open to students working in any field or concentration, each of the named awards has its own set of guidelines; applications must be submitted through UFunds. Important note for 2020-21 grants: The use of grant monies must comply with the most recent university travel restrictions due to COVID-19.

Anne Berger, professor of French literature and gender studies at Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis University and professor of French literature at Cornell University, will discuss how contemporary thought and epistemology is shrinking the field, meaning and scope of the term “sexuality,” and how that contraction is impacting feminist and queer theory.