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Women 2012: Taking a Worldwide Reading

Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Liberty Room, 33 Liberty Street, New York City

What is the status of women worldwide in 2012? Join the National Council for Research on Women to explore the gains and gaps in different regions with international and national experts.

Presenters:
Saadia Zahidi, Co-Author, World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report
Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media (moderator)

The Pembroke Center is a founding member of NCRW and a cosponsor of this event.

This event is free and open to the public but pre-registration is required. Click here to learn more.

Pembroke Center 30th Anniversary Conference

Click here to see the video of President Simmons and Alison Bernstein.

Family Weekend Program: The Therapeutic Fix

Click here to see the video from this event.

Friday, October 14, 2011
4:00 pm
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI

From the apologies of disgraced public figures, to the confessions made on reality television, to the visions of fulfillment in self-help literature, therapeutic culture is pervasive in the United States. Conservatives claim therapeutic culture undermines individual responsibility while liberals argue it distracts attention from larger social and economic inequalities. Is there a therapeutic fix for what ails contemporary society?

  • Lynne Joyrich AM’84 PhD’90, Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media
  • Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies
  • Debbie Weinstein’93, Assistant Director of the Pembroke Center

Free and open to the public. Handicapped accessible. For more information contact: Pembroke_Associates@brown.edu

Commencement Forum with Award Winning Playwrights,
Lynn Nottage’86 and Adam Bock AM'89

Brown alumnae/i continue to take the theater world by storm, capturing some of theater's most prestigious prizes. No issue – from race to gender roles to religion – is off-limits. How do they do it? Lynn Nottage'86, recipient of the 2007 MacArthur Genius Grant and 2009 Pulitzer Prize, whose plays include Ruined, Intimate Apparel, and Crumbs from the Table of Joy and OBIE winner Adam Bock AM’89, author of the plays The Receptionist, The Thugs, and A Small Fire among others, join us for a no holds barred conversation about how they write to inspire, provoke, and engage theater audiences around the world.

Brown alumnae/i continue to take the theater world by storm, capturing some of theater's most prestigious prizes. No issue – from race to gender roles to religion – is off-limits. How do they do it? Lynn Nottage'86, recipient of the 2007 MacArthur Genius Grant and 2009 Pulitzer Prize, whose plays include Ruined, Intimate Apparel, and Crumbs from the Table of Joy and OBIE winner Adam Bock AM’89, author of the plays The Receptionist, The Thugs, and A Small Fire among others, join us for a no holds barred conversation about how they write to inspire, provoke, and engage theater audiences around the world.

Moderated by Eng-Beng Lim, Assistant Professor of Theatre arts and Performance Studies.

For more information, please email Pembroke_Associates@brown.edu

A Mirror on International Development and Humanitarianism

A Conversation with Brown Faculty and Alumnae/i

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
4200 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC

Please join Nancy L. Buc’ 65, LLD’94, hon, Shelley N. Fidler’68, P’09, and Claudia Schechter’66 for drinks, light fare, and an engaging conversation with Brown faculty and alumnae/i about international development. Cosponsored by the Women's Leadership Council.

As natural and unnatural disasters erupt around the globe, the pressure on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to provide long and short-term international assistance grows. Why have development and relief programs failed to eradicate poverty and inequality, despite decades of targeted efforts and billions of dollars in aid? We will examine the particular challenges of international development and humanitarianism, including cases where donor pressures undercut highly successful local NGOs, transnational labor migration and human trafficking confront conventional country-focused assistance, and human rights based approaches seek to displace charity by focusing on rights and responsibilities. A century ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes noted that the Supreme Court was a “mirror on America.” This event will take a mirror to the practices of international development and relief efforts and consider the reflection.

Please join Kay B. Warren, the Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. ’32 Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Pembroke Center, David Waskow '88, Program Director for Oxfam America, and moderator Jasmine Waddell’99, Visiting Lecturer of Sustainable International Development at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, to discuss the impact of international development and humanitarian relief programs on the poor.

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