"Contemplating Spectacular Black Death Across Generations: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body"

Shatema Threadcraft
Associate Professor of Government
Dartmouth College

Thursday, February 1, 2018
4:00 pm, Pembroke Hall 305

"Race and the Modern Marriage Plot"

Aneeka A. Henderson

Pembroke Center Affiliated Scholar-in-Residence
Assistant Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College

Tuesday, December 12, 2017
5:30 pm, Pembroke Hall 305

November 16 @ 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Hillel, 2nd Floor Chapel, 80 Brown Street

A panel and discussion featuring women of color who are shifting, innovating, and positively disrupting the dynamics of entrepreneurship, leadership, and politics in Providence, RI.     

Register Here

The Pembroke Center has awarded a total of 10 Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Grants for 2017-18.  Congratulations to all of this year's recipients. 

Nicosia Shakes'16 A.M., '17 Ph.D., winner of the Brown University Joukowsky Award for Outstanding Dissertation and the Pembroke Center Marie J. Langlois Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in the area of Feminist Studies, has just been awarded the National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize.

Anna Aizer  
Professor of Economics & Public Policy

Friday, October 13, 2017, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Pembroke Hall 305

Vulnerable Families in the (Un)Changing Economy

Join the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women for a conversation with Professor Anna Aizer and Pembroke Center Associate Director and Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Drew Walker, about Professor Aizer's research on how gender and other issues of difference may influence labor, health and the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

This Family Weekend event is sponsored by the Pembroke Center Associates.
Free and open to the public. Handicapped accessible.

Seth Koven
G.E. Lessing Distinguished Professor of History and Poetics, Rutgers University

Tuesday, October 10, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
Pembroke Hall 305

Queer Conscience, Straight State in WWI Britain

Koven's talk focuses on one famously public-spirited gentry family, the Hobhouses, and the conscience of one man, Stephen Hobhouse, during WWI. Koven analyzes how, why and with what consequences Stephen Hobhouse’s mother, Margaret Potter Hobhouse, single-handedly orchestrated the war’s most successful campaign waged to save her oldest son Stephen, from a martyr’s death as an absolutist pacifist prisoner of conscience in 1917. Stephen's story reveals when and why the wartime state "queered" conscience and recasts the post-war disenfranchisement of conscientious objectors as an attempt to keep the state straight.

Koven's lecture supports our yearlong research seminar on "The Cultures of Pacifism."