Pembroke Center

Pembroke Center Projects

In tandem with its teaching, research, and public humanities programming, the Pembroke Center is committed to special projects and initiatives that are critical to our mission and intersect with multiple Pembroke Center program arms.

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Pembroke Center Projects

In tandem with its teaching, research, and public humanities programming, the Pembroke Center is committed to special projects and initiatives that are critical to our mission and intersect with multiple Pembroke Center program arms.

What sort of projects and initiatives does the Pembroke Center undertake?

The Publics Lecture Series features speakers whose work exemplifies breakthrough creativity in attending to real world-questions of gender and sexual orientation in national and transnational contexts.

The Black Feminist Theory Project aims to enhance the visibility and accessibility of Black feminist discourse on campus, in the archives, and beyond.

The LGBTQIA+ Thinking initiative is devoted to the active production of knowledge generated from and about sexual and gender minorities.

The Transnational Feminisms Initiative seeks to revisit and rework the analytical and political frameworks of transnational feminism.

Pembroke Faculty Seed Grant projects are collaborative research initiatives that involve Brown faculty from the humanities, social sciences, creative arts, and health sciences.

Past projects include the four-year series Seeing War Differently, focused on multidisciplinary analyses of war,  The 19th at 100, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment and the progress made by generations of activists who worked for universal suffrage, and the Pembroke Public Health Collaborative, which created new opportunities for interdisciplinary dialogue between gender and sexuality studies and public health.

Far From Heaven panel discussion
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Lynne Joyrich, Brown professor of modern culture and media and director of the LGBTQIA+ Thinking Initiative, speaks with Patricia White (Swarthmore College), Leon Hilton (Theatre Arts and Performance Studies), and Timothy Bewes (English) after a screening of the 2002 Todd Haynes' film Far From Heaven.

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The inaugural Publics Lecture was held on April 27, 2022. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, who describes herself as a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist, gave the talk "Nutmeg and the Scale of Revolution: for Audre Lorde."

Hortense J. Spillers and Margo Natalie Crawford
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Hortense J. Spillers, who gave her papers to the Pembroke Center Archives in the name of the Black Feminist Theory Project, speaks with Margo Natalie Crawford (Penn) at The Nicknames of Distortion: A Hortense Spillers Symposium in fall 2022. The symposium was organized by Brown graduate students with the support of the Pembroke Center.

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In fall 2023, the Pembroke Public Health Collaborative sponsored Trans Youth Now, a series of four online talks featuring leading thinkers in trans studies reflecting on the political and social moment for trans and non-binary young people. The first speaker was Jules Gill-Peterson (Johns Hopkins). Hear her talk and the others on the Pembroke Center YouTube playlist.

Ann duCille stands at a lectern
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Ann duCille, professor of English, Emerita at Wesleyan University and a visiting scholar of gender studies at the Pembroke Center, was the Inaugural Distinguished Professor in Residence for the Black Feminist Theory Project. She is a key advisor for the project and is deeply involved in curatorial efforts that are building a community of collections centering Black feminist theorists within the Feminist Theory Archive.

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