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Feminism & Biology, Gut & Mood: The Case of Stomach Migraine

Elizabeth A. Wilson
Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Emory University

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 5:30 pm
Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting Street, Providence

Chinese Women’s
Documentaries in the Market Era
Film Festival
March 17-18, 2012
Cable Car Cinema
204 South Main Street, Providence

Symposium
March 21, 2012, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer Street, Providence

Antigone versus Oedipus? Feminist Theory and the Turn to Antigone

Bonnie Honig
Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science Northwestern University
Monday, February 13, 2012, 5:30 pm
Brown RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, Providence



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Women's Leadership Conference:
Celebrating 120 Years of Women at Brown

May 3 - 5, 2012
Alcoff

Rape After Foucault:
Rethinking Experience
and Resistance

Linda Martín Alcoff
Professor of Philosophy
Hunter College and
CUNY Graduate Center

Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 5:30 pm
Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room

Why Literature Departments Should Speak in Ordinary Language

Leela Gandhi
Professor of English
University of Chicago

Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 5:30 pm
Pembroke Hall, Room 305
Critical Visionaries:
Women Leaders and Institution Building


November 4, 2011, A conversation with
President Ruth Simmons and Alison Bernstein
Moderated by Kay Warren
Click here to watch the video.

Surpassing its $1 million goal, the Pembroke Center announced the completion of the Pembroke Challenge on November 4th, having raised $1,504,265 to endow new research initiatives at the Pembroke Center. Learn more

Theory on the Move:
Three Decades of Critical Feminist Thinking

A Scholarly Conference in Celebration of the Pembroke Center’s 30th Anniversary
November 5, 2011

Please click here for the video of this discussion with Brown faculty about the rise of therapeutic culture in modern America.

Annual Gender and Sexuality Studies Lecture

How Victims Come to Be:
Human Trafficking
and the Law

Kay B. Warren
Pembroke Center Director
Professor of Anthropology

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Pembroke Center Research Seminar
2011-12, "The Question of Consent"
2012-13, "Economies of Perception"

2011-12 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellows
Congratulations to 2010-11 Pembroke Center postdoctoral fellow Laura Heffernan and co-author Rachel Buurma for winning the Ralph Cohen Prize at New Literary History for "The Common Reader and the Archival Classroom: Disciplinary History for the Twenty-First Century."


2011 Gender and Sexuality Studies Graduates

Featuring papers from the International Conference on Gender and Chinese Cinema Gender Studies (June 26-29, 2008), one of the inaugural events of the Nanjing-Brown Joint Program in Gender Studies and the Humanities. Forthcoming from Columbia University Press in September, 2011. Edited by Lingzhen Wang. Read an interview with Prof. Wang here.
See other recent and forthcoming books by Brown faculty affiliated with the Pembroke Center.