Pembroke Center

The Pembroke Center at Brown University is an interdisciplinary research center that fosters critical scholarship on questions of gender and difference, broadly defined, in national and transnational contexts.

Lecture - Transnational Gender and Media Series

Jane M. Gaines
Columbia University

Thursday, February 16, 2017, 4:00 pm
Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting Street

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(Distributed February 11, 2017)

Lecture - City Time: Nella Larsen's Rooms

Tamar Katz
Associate Professor of English and Urban Studies

Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 5:30 pm
Pembroke Hall 305

The Elizabeth Munves Sherman'77, P'06, P'09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies

(Distributed January 9, 2017)

Joan Wallach Scott Awarded the Talcott Parsons Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and founding director of the Pembroke Center, has been awarded the 2016 Talcott Parsons Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for her distinguished contributions to the social sciences. Scott was cited as “the most influential theorist and practitioner of feminist and gender theory working in the historical sciences,” and noted for bringing “to feminist and gender theory a critical view that has continuously pushed the boundaries, not just of conventional history, but also of the professional criticism of historiography.” Read more.

(Distributed December 19, 2016)

A Talk and Film Screening by Mieke Bal

Thursday, December 1, 2016
Pembroke Hall 305

Thinking in Film: Doubt as Reason
4:00 pm lecture

Screening of Reasonable Doubt
5:00 pm, followed by Q&A with writer/director Mieke Bal

Mieke Bal is a theorist, art writer, critic, filmmaker, video artist, and curator. She is Professor Emeritus in Literary Theory at the University of Amsterdam.

(Distributed November 16, 2016)

Lecture - Blackness, Quiet, and the Terrible Terribleness of Violence

Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 5:30 pm
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street

Kevin Quashie
Professor of Africana Studies
Smith College

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Kevin Quashie teaches cultural studies and theory and is especially interested in black culture and feminism since 1970. He is a member of the Program for the Study of Women & Gender.

(Distributed November 10, 2016)

Symposium - Unmade Bed: In the Midst of Intimacy

What does it mean to think of "unmaking" as a figure for addressing matters of gender, sexuality, race, health, and embodiment? How does the aesthetic participate in modes of vanishing that paradoxically endure in their ephemerality?

This symposium reflects on the political force of being in the midst of intimacies that make and unmake our relationships with other persons and things.

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Friday, November 11, 2016
1:00-5:00 pm
Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting Street

(Distributed November 4, 2016)