Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women

Join us NEXT Friday, April 4 for “Prelude to the End: Addressing a Dying Earth.” | A Pembroke Seminar "Unwriting the Anthropocene" Event. 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. | Pembroke Hall 305 The 2024-2025 Pembroke Center Research Roundtable will address forms of writing at the edge of life. It will consider modes of writing and artistic form that can respond to our current moment of racial capital, colonial enclosure and ecological devastation--inclusive of daily calamities and resurfacing joys. Dissolution, disturbance, and deformation are keywords for this coming together. Featuring: Susana Draper (Princeton) Avery Gordon (UC Santa Barbara) Tyrone S. Palmer (Wesleyan) Kali Rubaii (Purdue) More information: https://buff.ly/RrtNc7O

Join us Monday, April 14 for Gillian Branstetter on "The Panic Defense: How Trans Misogyny Fueled The Rise of Trump" 4:00 p.m. in Pembroke Hall 305 This Pembroke Publics talk by Gillian Branstetter, a writer and media strategist based in Washington, D.C., will detail how the campaign targeting transgender people escalated over the course of Donald Trump’s rise and return to the U.S. presidency. It will address what all women have at stake in discussions about transgender people’s freedom to determine what’s right for their own bodies and lives. And it will discuss how the principles and lessons of trans feminism can free all of us from the roles we’ve been assigned. More info: https://buff.ly/g3Baom8 This event is co-sponsored by the LGBTQIA+ Thinking Initiative. Event accessibility information: To bypass stairs, visitors may enter via the automatic doors at the rear of the building, where there is a wheelchair-accessible elevator.

Join us Friday, April 4 for “Prelude to the End: Addressing a Dying Earth.” | A Pembroke Seminar "Unwriting the Anthropocene" Event. 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. | Pembroke Hall 305 The 2024-2025 Pembroke Center Research Roundtable will address forms of writing at the edge of life. It will consider modes of writing and artistic form that can respond to our current moment of racial capital, colonial enclosure and ecological devastation--inclusive of daily calamities and resurfacing joys. Dissolution, disturbance, and deformation are keywords for this coming together. Featuring: Susana Draper (Princeton) Avery Gordon (UC Santa Barbara) Tyrone S. Palmer (Wesleyan) Kali Rubaii (Purdue) More information: https://buff.ly/SMfleTy

Patriarchy Redux: Now What? A webinar. Monday, March 31, 2025. 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Registration required This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Center. Co-sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, and the Brown Women’s Network. Free and open to the public. Registration required. https://buff.ly/k8zyYZh

Join us Friday, April 4 for “Prelude to the End: Addressing a Dying Earth.” | A Pembroke Seminar "Unwriting the Anthropocene" Event. 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. | Pembroke Hall 305 The 2024-2025 Pembroke Center Research Roundtable will address forms of writing at the edge of life. It will consider modes of writing and artistic form that can respond to our current moment of racial capital, colonial enclosure and ecological devastation--inclusive of daily calamities and resurfacing joys. Dissolution, disturbance, and deformation are keywords for this coming together. Featuring: Susana Draper (Princeton) Avery Gordon (UC Santa Barbara) Tyrone S. Palmer (Wesleyan) Kali Rubaii (Purdue) This roundtable is organized by Postdoctoral Fellows Patricia Ekpo, Sarah Richter, María Gloria Robalino, and Eda Tarak. The event represents the culmination of the year-long Pembroke Center research seminar, “Unwriting the Anthropocene,” convened by Macarena Gómez-Barris, Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Chair of Modern Culture and Media. Free and open to the public. Event accessibility information: To bypass stairs, visitors may enter via the automatic doors at the rear of the building, where there is a wheelchair-accessible elevator. More information: https://buff.ly/RedzWFM

ICYMI: Watch Heather Love give this year's Shauna M. Stark '76, P'10 Out of the Archive Lecture. "Repeat What We Don’t Understand: In the Barbara Johnson Papers." Now available on the Pembroke Center YouTube playlist: https://buff.ly/YpN41Kv

In 1924, the women of what would become Pembroke College were busy fundraising for a “social hall” (precursor to today’s student center) in which they could put on plays, hold dances, and “oh, blessed relief, a place where the various musical organizations may practice, and thus eliminate the musical accompaniment to studying in the library.” Pembroke was the women’s college in Brown until 1971. From the 1924 Brun Mael, the Pembroke yearbook.

Join us Monday, April 14 for Gillian Branstetter on "The Panic Defense: How Trans Misogyny Fueled The Rise of Trump" 4:00 p.m. in Pembroke Hall 305 Over the course of the last decade, few issues have been more galvanizing and unifying for the far-right in the U.S. and abroad than animus and fear toward transgender people. Because trans people threaten a fundamental pillar of nationalist ideologies and reactionary thought–a naturalized gender hierarchy they claim is innate yet in need of a police state to enforce–leaders of the far-right are driven to animate public anxieties against transgender people, enacting policies that police their bodies, their families, and their lives as a means of normalizing their anti-gender panic. This Pembroke Publics talk by Gillian Branstetter, a writer and media strategist based in Washington, D.C., will detail how this campaign targeting transgender people escalated over the course of Donald Trump’s rise and return to the U.S. presidency. It will address what all women have at stake in discussions about transgender people’s freedom to determine what’s right for their own bodies and lives. And it will discuss how the principles and lessons of trans feminism can free all of us from the roles we’ve been assigned. More info: https://buff.ly/96LIydI This event is co-sponsored by the LGBTQIA+ Thinking Initiative. Event accessibility information: To bypass stairs, visitors may enter via the automatic doors at the rear of the building, where there is a wheelchair-accessible elevator.

Thanks to the panelists and moderator for the second differences colloquium: The Climate of Critique. Video coming soon!

Thank you to Heather Love for this year's Shauna M. Stark '76, P'10 Out of the Archive lecture! Recording coming soon. In the meantime, researchers can check out Love's papers in our archives here: https://buff.ly/6l7HMEp the papers of Barbara Johnson, also in our archives, here: https://buff.ly/kR2g8cj.