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 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 Nanjing-Brown Joint Program in Gender Studies and the Humanities serves to bring outstanding scholars from Nanjing University into dialogue with Brown scholars about the global future of gender, feminist studies, and the humanities.

Arrangements with Ewha Womans University (the largest women’s university in the world) and Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, which facilitate the exchange of students and joint research ventures among faculty at Brown and those universities

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Woman looks at National History of Rape exhibition
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In April 2016, the Pembroke Center hosted the Rape and War Conference as part of the "Seeing War Differently" programming series. Here, a guest looks at an exhibition titled "The Natural History of Rape."

A Woman in Berlin exhibition
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A guest at the 2016 Rape and War Conference reads excerpts from the exhibition A Natural History of Rape, including text excerpted from the diary of an anonymous woman whose Berlin home was bombed in 1945. The diary was published in 1953 as "A Woman in Berlin - Eight Weeks in the Conquered City - A Diary." It was soon taken out of print, and reappeared in 2003.

Still from Shi Tou film
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This still from filmmaker Shi Tou's "Women 50 Minutes" was part of the 2012 film festival "Chinese Women's Documentaries in the Market Era," organized through the Nanjing-Brown Joint Program in Gender Studies and the Humanities.

2014 International Conference on Global Capitalism, Socialist Markets, and Feminist Interventions
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In 2014, scholars from Brown and Nanjing University attended the International Conference on Global Capitalism, Socialist Markets, and Feminist Interventions in Shanghai.