The Pembroke Center invites Brown University faculty to nominate students for our thesis prize, the Ruth Simmons Prize in Gender and Women's Studies, and our dissertation prize, the 

Join the Pembroke Center on Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at noon for the 2021 Elizabeth Munves Sherman '77, P'06 P'09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies with Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brown.

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The Simulacrum of "Sovereign" Debt: Giving, Giving in, and a Credit to our Name

Rosalind C. Morris
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
11:30 am - 1 pm

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Watch a recording of the Pembroke Center virtual panel “Complicating Beauty: A Look at How Women Look.” The panel featured five distinguished Brown alumnae and faculty who together explored the idea of beauty, including: how and why it changes over time; the unique role of the beauty pageant; and the ways that society’s morphing definitions of

The New York Times on January 26, 2021 featured a beautiful piece on Christina Crosby '82 PhD, a writer and professor of English who died on January 5, 2021. At Brown, Crosby was part of a socialist feminist caucus that helped found Providence's Sojourner House, and the dissertation she wrote here later became her first book. She went on to teach (and was called "a rockstar") at Wesleyan.

Join the Pembroke Center at 4 p.m. on Friday, February 5, 2021 for a virtual panel discussing the book “Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930,” by Judith Surkis ’92, Professor of History at Rutgers University. 

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