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The Pembroke Center hosts research lectures, talks and panels, symposia and exhibitions, and co-sponsors events with our partners across the University as well as outside of Brown.
News and Events
The Pembroke Center hosts research lectures, talks and panels, symposia and exhibitions, and co-sponsors events with our partners across the University as well as outside of Brown.
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Pembroke Center News
Reproductive Justice Course Provides Doula Training for Students
Students build knowledge, hands-on skills as birthworkers in Reproductive Justice course
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Brown Daily Herald
What Pembroke College can teach today's students
A current Brown student reflects on what the history of Pembroke College, the women's college in Brown University from 1891 until 1971, has to offer today's students. Weaving in material from the Pembroke Center Archives' Oral History Project, the student comments that the histories provide "an account of what it meant to attend a women's college during a century that saw radical changes in social and political ideas about gender."
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Brown Daily Herald
Emily Owens speaks to a crowded house in annual Sherman lecture
Emily A. Owens, David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History at Brown, gave the annual Elizabeth Munves Sherman ā77, Pā06ā09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies to a crowded audience of students, staff, and faculty. Owens discussed the mechanisms by which sexual violence became engrained into American society in its first centuries.
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