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.

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 Public Health Collective works at the intersection of gender and sexuality studies and public health.

Past projects include the four-year series Seeing War Differently, focused on multidisciplinary analyses of war, and 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.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs Play
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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."

Lynne Joyrich, Matthew Lawrence and Jason Tranchida at Headmaster event Play
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Lynne Joyrich, Brown professor of modern culture and media and director of the LGBTQIA+ Thinking Initiative, speaks with the co-creators of Headmaster magazine about queer publishing at the initiative's inaugural event.

Hortense J. Spillers, Tiffany Lethabo King, Nicole Gervasio
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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, with Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University Tiffany Lethabo King and 2018-19 Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow Nicole Gervasio for the May 2019 research roundtable “Unlearning Imperial Rights / Decolonizing Institutions.”

Ann duCille
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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.