Hortense J. SpillersThe Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive and the John Hay Library at Brown University are proud to announce that the Hortense J. Spillers papers are open for research.

The Question of Primitive AccumulationThe concept of primitive accumulation, the process by which modes of production including feudalism and chattel slavery are transformed into the capitalist mode of production, was for Marx the origin narrative of capitalism.

Jacques LezraJacques Lezra, professor of Hispanic studies at the University of California, Riverside, will give the lecture “Defective Institutions: Or, Critique.” Lezra asserts that the task of political philosophy today, at the moment of the crisis of representative democracy we are living, is not the critique of actually-existing institutions or political concepts with the aim of producing new and stronger institutions or new and stronger, more coherent political concepts.

Kimberly Juanita BrownKimberly Juanita Brown, the Elizabeth C. Small Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies and Chair of Gender Studies at Mount Holyoke College, will give the research lecture “Cartographies of the Ocular.” Brown’s research engages the visual as a way to negotiate the parameters of race, gender, and belonging.

At an intersection, in person, on time: reading effects
 

Fall Weekend EventPamela Reeves ’87, P '22, a Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute, will moderate a discussion among three Brown undergraduates working on ambitious projects aimed at improving the circumstances of women in India, Jordan, Cuba, and the US. 

Women Working for WomenThe Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, the Brown Women's Network of New York, and the Women's Leadership Council present Women Working for Women, a special event featuring Brown alumnae who are making an impact by supporting and expanding opportunities for women and girls.