Register here for the virtual panel discussion "Black Women and the Vote." The discussion will focus on Black women’s political engagement and activism, including efforts to secure and protect voting rights, from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Vote readyAre you ready to cast your vote? National Voter Registration Day is September 22! If you’ve recently moved, turned 18, or changed your name, you may not be #VoteReady. Take this opportunity to update your voter registration at brown.turbovote.org

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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.

All of us at the Pembroke Center were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Barbara Anton at home in Orleans, MA on June 20, 2020. Barbara earned an A.B. in sociology from Clark University and a master’s in counseling from the University of Michigan. After working at the Center for the Continuing Education of Women at the University of Michigan, Barbara moved to Brown with her husband Thomas Anton, the A.

The Pembroke Center has launched The Nineteenth at 100, a website marking the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  The Amendment, which enshrines that "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex," was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920.

During these painful and convulsive days, we at the Pembroke Center are grateful for our community, and we hold close the work and words of the many scholars, activists, and friends who are so integral to the Center and its mission.