Pembroke Center Co-Sponsored Events
APRIL 24, 2010
Women in the Archives: England/New England
MARCH 18, 2010
Graduate Student Lecture, DEPT OF ENGLISH
Diana Fuss, Princeton University
"Lovers Parting at Sunrise: Roland Barthes and the Modern Aubade"
MARCH 17, 2010
"Reality Hunger: A Manifesto"
David Shields '78, will discuss his newly published and controversial book.
Part of the Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10.
MARCH 8, 2010
International Women's Day
Documentary film screening by Liz Canner
Extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women - and offers a humorous but sobering look inside the cash-fueled pharmaceutical industry.
MARCH, 2010
Women's History Month, 2010
Visit the Sarah Doyle Women's Center for the Women's History Month events
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
"Future Foucault: On the Anniversary of Bodies and Pleasures"
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
"There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism"
Jennifer Hochschild
Harvard University
4:00 pm
68 Waterman Street
Mencoff Hall
Sponsored by the Committee on Science and Technology Studies, the Population Studies and Training Center, the Department of Africana Studies, the History Department, the Department of Anthropology,, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
"Transnational Feminism and the Black Diaspora Symposium"
Examines the intersections of diaspora theory, transnationalism, identity formation, transformative politics and community highlighting black women's radical knowledge, gendered racism and resistance from a global perspective.
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Watson Institute for International Studies
111 Thayer Street
Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, the Harmon Family Fund, the Heimark Fund, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
"Making the Truth Truthful: Turning Science into Storytelling"
David Shenk ʼ88 is the author of five books, including Data Smog, The Immortal Game, and The Forgetting. He has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Gourmet, Harper's, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and National Public Radio and is currently a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. Shenk's work inspired the Emmy-award winning PBS documentary "The Forgetting" and was featured in the Oscar-nominated film "Away From Her." He has advised the President's Council on Bioethics. His next book, The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong, is forthcoming in March 2010.
Part of the Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10.
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
"A Sense of Wonder"
Written and Performed by Drama Desk Award Nominee
Kaiulani Lee
Playing at Brown University
8:00 pm, Solomon 101
A one-woman show about Rachel Carson, “the patron saint of the environmental movement,” A Sense of Wonder has been touring the United States for over ten years. The play has been the centerpiece of regional and national conferences on conservation, education, journalism, and the environment. Kaiulani Lee has performed it at over one hundred universities as well as at the Smithsonian Institute, the United Nations, the Sierra Club's Centennial in San Francisco, and the Department of the Interior's 150th anniversary celebration. In addition, she opened the 2005 World Expo in Japan and performed the play on Capitol Hill, bringing Miss Carson’s voice once again to the halls of Congress.
Admission is Free.
Brought to you by:
. Bio Med Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
, Campus Life, The Center for Environmental Studies
, Dean of the College
, Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life
, The Pembroke Center
, The Provost's Office
, Religious Studies
, Science and Technology Studies
. Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
"Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War"
A talk with author Elaine Weiss
From 1917 to 1920 the Woman's Land Army (WLA) brought thousands of city workers, society women, artists, business professionals, and college students into rural America to take over the farm work after men were called to wartime service. These women wore military-style uniforms, lived in communal camps, and did what was considered "men's work"-that is, plowing fields, driving tractors, planting, harvesting, and hauling lumber. The Land Army insisted its "farmerettes" be paid wages equal to male farm laborers and be protected by an eight-hour workday. These farmerettes were shocking at first and encountered skeptical farmers' scorn, but as they proved themselves willing and capable, farmers began to rely upon the women workers and became their
loudest champions.
While the Woman's Land Army was deeply rooted in the great political and social movements of its day-suffrage, urban and rural reform, women's education, scientific management, and labor rights-it pushed into new, uncharted territory and ventured into areas considered off- limits. More than any other women's war work group of the time, the Land Army took pleasure in breaking the rules. It challenged conventional thinking on what was "proper" work for women to do, their role in wartime, how they should be paid, and how they should dress.
The WLA's short but spirited life also foreshadowed some of the most profound and contentious social issues America would face in the twentieth century: women's changing role in society and the workplace, the problem of social class distinctions in a democracy, the mechanization and urbanization of society, the role of science and technology, and the physiological and psychological differences between men and women.
About the Author:
Elaine F. Weiss is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and on National Public Radio. She is a frequent
correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
OCTOBER 21, 2009
"Autumn Gem"
Film screening and discussion with the filmmakers
"Autumn Gem" is a film documentary on China's first feminist. It explores the extraordinary life of the Chinese revolutionary heroine and women’s rights activist Qiu Jin (1875 – 1907). During the reign of the last dynasty in China, Qiu Jin boldly challenged traditional gender roles and demanded equal rights and opportunities for women. At a time when women’s lives were often marked by repressive practices such as footbinding, arranged marriages, and denial of education, she envisioned a future where women would free themselves from the confines of tradition and emerge as strong and active citizens of a new and modern nation.
Co-sponsored by the Cogut Center, East Asian Studies, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Pembroke Center.
OCTOBER 7, 2009
"Re-inscribing the Colonial Dilemma in a Conscript of Global Modernity: CLR James and Moby-Dick"
Donald Pease, Professor of English and Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities at Dartmouth College is an authority on nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and literary theory. Prof. Pease's lecture will lift C.L.R. James's Mariners Renegades and Castaways out of the field of superseded historiographical and ideological concerns in which it has been contextualized, and to address a different set of questions to this untimely work. In writing about Moby-Dick while interned on Ellis Island, James fashioned himself as a colonial conscript rather than an agent of global modernity. Prof. Pease hopes to bring to the fore the tragic colonial dilemma that James inscribed in Melville's classic modern text so as to demonstrate the ways in which Mariners Renegades and Castaways addresses concerns of the postcolonial present.
This lecture is part of a series sponsored by the Critical Global Humanities Initiative, a collaboration of the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Africana Studies, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and International Affairs.
OCTOBER 7, 2009
"The Art of Literary Memoir and Biography"
Susan Cheever ʼ65 has written fourteen books, ranging from fiction to memoir to biography. Her nonfiction includes My Name is Bill—Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous, a biography of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson; Home Before Dark, a memoir about her father, John Cheever; Note Found in a Bottle, a memoir of her own alcoholism and recovery; and Treetops: A Memoir. Her most recent book is American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work.
Part of the Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10.