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The Pembroke Center at Brown University
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An interdisciplinary research center at Brown University focused on gender & sexuality. Research/Teaching/Archives http://linktr.ee/pembrokecenter
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Due 11/24! Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
2026-27 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the Pembroke Center. Applications Now Open. Applications due Monday Nov 24 2025. Complete applications must include curriculum vitae, cover letter, writing sample.
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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From the Archives: The Miranda Summers Lowe papers are now available for research. Summers Lowe is an Army Major and Army National Guard Historian with the National Guard Bureau. She graduated with her A.M. from Brown University in 2009. Finding aid: www.riamco.org/render?eadid...
The papers of Miranda Summers Lowe AM'09. Image shows items from the collection including pieces of her uniform.
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Explore the Spring 2026 Gender and Sexuality Studies course offerings. For more information, visit Courses@Brown. Post 2/2
Gender and sexuality studies spring 2026 classes GNSS 1552 Human Nature: Theories, Narratives, Myths. T/Th 10:30-11:50 a.m. L. Forrester GNSS 1962I Gender, Violence, and the Art and Repair in the Americas. Thursday 4-6:30 M Palacio Chiriví GNSS 1962J Trans Studies of Gender and Sexuality Tuesday 4-6:30 pm M. Stekl.
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Explore the Spring 2026 Gender and Sexuality Studies course offerings. For more information, visit Courses@Brown. Post 1/2
Gender and sexuality studies spring 2026 classes GNSS 1101 A Gender Perspective on Women and Enterprise. Monday 3-5:30 pm L. Scott GNSS 1210 US AIDS and HIV Activism in History, Theory, and Art T/Th 1-2:20 pm H. Sikk GNSS 1550 Queer Asias. Wednesday 3-5:30 p.m. A Wolff
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Unfortunately we have had to reschedule Sue Mobley's talk "The New Monuments," originally scheduled for November 18. We will share the new date once it is finalized. @juliethooker.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Join us Tues., 11/18, 4:00 p.m.
Pembroke Hall 305
Sue Mobley: “The New Monuments: Case Studies in Emerging Modes of Community-Driven Commemoration and Subaltern Public History in Public Space”
More information: buff.ly/eUQxTqb @juliethooker.bsky.social
Pembroke Seminar The Civic Work of Monuments Lecture. “The New Monuments: Case Studies in Emerging Modes of Community-Driven Commemoration and Subaltern Public History in Public Space” Sue Mobley, director of research, Monument Lab Tuesday Nov. 18 2025 4:00 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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A lovely story about the Pembroke Hall renovation in the Brown Daily Herald. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025... @browndailyherald.bsky.social
Renovated Pembroke Hall provides new home for research on women, gender at Brown
Pembroke Hall reopened last month with dedicated space for archives and updated common areas.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Due this month! Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
2026-27 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the Pembroke Center. Applications Now Open. Applications due Monday Nov 24 2025. Complete applications must include curriculum vitae, cover letter, writing sample.
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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ICYMI! Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress is now available to watch on the Pembroke Center YouTube playlist. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
A full audience in Pembroke Hall 305 listens to the panel discussion. Karen Akilah Marks, PhD candidate, American Studies shows the audience her outfit as her fellow panelists applaud. madison moore, John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts, speaks into a microphone and gestures. Panelist and artist Liz Collins RISD BFA '91, MFA '99 speaks into a microphone.
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Many thanks to Mabel O. Wilson for her talk "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle" Tuesday. This lecture is part of the programming for the annual Pembroke Seminar. This year's theme is "The Civic Work of Monuments," as set by @juliethooker.bsky.social
Juliet Hooker introduces Mabel Wilson. Mabel Wilson introduces her talk. Mabel Wilson gives her talk.
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Out of the Archives: listen to this Oral History Project interview with Dr. Martha Banks '73, a retired clinical psychologist & research neuropsychologist whose work focused on issues involving women, race, trauma, disability, & religion. Listen: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral...
Pembroke Center Oral History Project. “But I got there when Brown had just installed its first IBM 360.... that computer took up the better part of a huge building. And didn't do nearly as much as this tablet that I'm talking to you on. But... when I took my statistics course, rather than using a hand calculator where you can type in the wrong number and not realize... I would go over to the computer center and punch card and do my homework. And I remember my stats professor was very impressed with that.” -- Martha Banks '73. A headshot of Dr. Banks is included on the image.
October 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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On October 17 we celebrated the reopening of Pembroke Hall, established in 1897 as the home of women's education at Brown. Many thanks to everyone who made this beautiful renovation possible, and to everyone who celebrated with us. pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
Celebrating a Revitalized Pembroke Hall
After an intensive summer of renovation and moving, Pembroke Hall was officially re-opened with a celebration on Friday, October 17, 2025. This marks the first time that the entire Pembroke Center…
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October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Tues., 11/18, 4:00 p.m.
Pembroke Hall 305
Sue Mobley: “The New Monuments: Case Studies in Emerging Modes of Community-Driven Commemoration and Subaltern Public History in Public Space”
More information: buff.ly/eUQxTqb @juliethooker.bsky.social
Pembroke Seminar The Civic Work of Monuments Lecture. “The New Monuments: Case Studies in Emerging Modes of Community-Driven Commemoration and Subaltern Public History in Public Space” Sue Mobley, director of research, Monument Lab Tuesday Nov. 18 2025 4:00 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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TODAY! Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle." Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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TOMORROW! Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle." Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Big appreciation for everyone who put together the Power Pieces panel and pop-up exhibit, to our moderator and panelists, to the donors of the garments, and to all the folks who came out. Recording available soon on our YouTube playlist!
Photograph shows a lecture style room with a speaker at the lectern and a panel of speakers beside them. Slides projected above state the name and information about the event. To the left, five dress forms hold garments from the pop-up exhibit. Five dress forms with garments are displayed underneath a projected slide explaining the exhibit. Advisory Council member Leora Tanenbaum '91 speaks at the lectern. Image shows four people seated in a line. From left: moderator Davis, and panelists Marks, moore, and Collins. moore is speaking into a microphone.
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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"Laughter […] lingers in the racialized, sexualized, and gendered spaces of abjection that drive the subject to the edges of meaning" — from our latest issue, read Iván A. Ramos's "Breaking Down, Breaking Together" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
An excerpt from the linked article, which reads: "My argument is not for a body emptied of its social markers, as these come to the fore in and thorugh Ibarra’s performance. As she tends toward the edge of meaning, Ibarra’s racialized and gendered body becomes resignified in multiple and sometimes surprising ways. Indeed, Ibarra herself has described the origin of the piece as an attempt to grapple with the ongoing burden of white womanhood that women of color must bear. Yet, as I will show, the ways in which laughter taxes and exhausts the body move beyond this intention to produce another set of meanings that have become apparent as Ibarra has continued to perform the piece. In other words, Nude Laughing also reveals how the fraught social relations of race and gender are reproduced and perhaps inevitably made abject. So even if the ways in which a laughing body exceeds the limits of subjectivity are at the heart of this essay, the social world we inhabit reveals that attempting to think beyond the violence of sociality is itself fraught and impossible."
August 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Watch historian Jules Gill-Peterson (Johns Hopkins) give her online talk for our fall 2023 Trans Youth Now series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQPn.... #TBT #ThrowbackThursday
A screenshot of Jules Gill-Peterson in her office as she gives her talk.
October 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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NEXT WEEK! Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle" Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Out of the Archives: a 1989 letter from Joan W. Scott and Judith Butler to Christina Crosby (in the Scott papers). They invite Crosby to contribute to "Feminists Theorize the Political" (1992). Butler will deliver the Pembroke Center Publics Lecture on Wednesday, November 5.
This image shows a typewritten letter to Christina Crosy and a typewritten "Tentative List of Contributors."
October 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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TODAY! Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress: A Pop-up Exhibit and Panel Discussion. Fri. 10/17/25 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. More information: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @wozbell.bsky.social @risd1877.bsky.social @brown.edu. Co-sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Center.
Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress: A Pop-up Exhibit and Panel Discussion Family Weekend 2025 October 17, 2025 Pop-up Exhibit 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Panel Discussion 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305. Image shows a jean vest from the archives collection of Mimi Nguyen. The vest has a large patch that says We Will Outlive Them.
October 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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TOMORROW! Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress: A Pop-up Exhibit and Panel Discussion. Fri. 10/17/25 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. More information: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @wozbell.bsky.social @risd1877.bsky.social @brown.edu. Co-sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Center.
Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress: A Pop-up Exhibit and Panel Discussion Family Weekend 2025 October 17, 2025 Pop-up Exhibit 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Panel Discussion 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305. Image shows a jean vest from the archives collection of Mimi Nguyen. The vest has a large patch that says We Will Outlive Them.
October 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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The Pembroke Center is increasing capacity for Judith Butler's lecture. Registration will reopen on Wednesday, October 15th at 9am. If you are currently on the waitlist for the lecture, you will automatically receive a ticket. Register here: butleratpembroke.eventbrite.com
A poster that features an image of Judith Butler, blocks of color in black, white, and red, and the following text in black and white: "Pembroke Center Publics Lecture Series. Variations of Legal Violence. Judith Butler. Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School. University of CA, Berkeley. Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Free admission. Registration required."
October 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
2026-27 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the Pembroke Center. Applications Now Open. Applications due Monday Nov 24 2025. Complete applications must include curriculum vitae, cover letter, writing sample.
October 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle." Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM