At 7 pm on Tuesday, January 12, 2021, join five distinguished Brown alumnae and faculty for a virtual panel exploring the idea of beauty: how and why it changes over time; the unique role of the beauty pageant; and the ways that society’s morphing definitions of “a beautiful woman” collide with race, class and gender.

Register here.

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.

In 2021-22, the Pembroke Center is awarding one-year residential postdoctoral research fellow positions to scholars from any field whose research relates to the theme of "Color." 

Fellows are required to: participate weekly in the Pembroke Seminar, teach one undergraduate course, and pursue individual research.

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

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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