OPPORTUNITY: Led by Paja Faudree, @pembrokecenter.bsky.social will award residential Postdoctoral Research Associate positions to scholars from any field whose research relates to the theme, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." Learn more & apply:

Congratulations to the graduate student recipients of the 2025-26 Pembroke Center student research grants! Read about their projects here: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-11... @brownpublichealth.bky.social

Congratulations to the 2025-26 undergraduate recipients of Pembroke Center student research grants! Read about their projects: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-11...

Out of the Archives: Kloey Albertson '27 talks about life as a Brown undergraduate and Army veteran for our Oral History Project. Listen: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral... @brown.edu

Due 11/24! Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

From the Archives: The Miranda Summers Lowe papers are now available for research. Summers Lowe is an Army Major and Army National Guard Historian with the National Guard Bureau. She graduated with her A.M. from Brown University in 2009. Finding aid: www.riamco.org/render?eadid...

Explore the Spring 2026 Gender and Sexuality Studies course offerings. For more information, visit Courses@Brown. Post 2/2

Explore the Spring 2026 Gender and Sexuality Studies course offerings. For more information, visit Courses@Brown. Post 1/2

Unfortunately we have had to reschedule Sue Mobley's talk "The New Monuments," originally scheduled for November 18. We will share the new date once it is finalized. @juliethooker.bsky.social

Join us Tues., 11/18, 4:00 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305 Sue Mobley: “The New Monuments: Case Studies in Emerging Modes of Community-Driven Commemoration and Subaltern Public History in Public Space” More information: buff.ly/eUQxTqb @juliethooker.bsky.social

A lovely story about the Pembroke Hall renovation in the Brown Daily Herald. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025... @browndailyherald.bsky.social

Due this month! Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

ICYMI! Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress is now available to watch on the Pembroke Center YouTube playlist. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Many thanks to Mabel O. Wilson for her talk "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle" Tuesday. This lecture is part of the programming for the annual Pembroke Seminar. This year's theme is "The Civic Work of Monuments," as set by @juliethooker.bsky.social

Out of the Archives: listen to this Oral History Project interview with Dr. Martha Banks '73, a retired clinical psychologist & research neuropsychologist whose work focused on issues involving women, race, trauma, disability, & religion. Listen: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral...

On October 17 we celebrated the reopening of Pembroke Hall, established in 1897 as the home of women's education at Brown. Many thanks to everyone who made this beautiful renovation possible, and to everyone who celebrated with us. pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Tues., 11/18, 4:00 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305 Sue Mobley: “The New Monuments: Case Studies in Emerging Modes of Community-Driven Commemoration and Subaltern Public History in Public Space” More information: buff.ly/eUQxTqb @juliethooker.bsky.social

TODAY! Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle." Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @juliethooker.bsky.social

TOMORROW! Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle." Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @juliethooker.bsky.social

Big appreciation for everyone who put together the Power Pieces panel and pop-up exhibit, to our moderator and panelists, to the donors of the garments, and to all the folks who came out. Recording available soon on our YouTube playlist!

"Laughter […] lingers in the racialized, sexualized, and gendered spaces of abjection that drive the subject to the edges of meaning" — from our latest issue, read Iván A. Ramos's "Breaking Down, Breaking Together" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

Watch historian Jules Gill-Peterson (Johns Hopkins) give her online talk for our fall 2023 Trans Youth Now series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQPn.... #TBT #ThrowbackThursday

NEXT WEEK! Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle" Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @juliethooker.bsky.social

Out of the Archives: a 1989 letter from Joan W. Scott and Judith Butler to Christina Crosby (in the Scott papers). They invite Crosby to contribute to "Feminists Theorize the Political" (1992). Butler will deliver the Pembroke Center Publics Lecture on Wednesday, November 5.

TODAY! Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress: A Pop-up Exhibit and Panel Discussion. Fri. 10/17/25 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. More information: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @wozbell.bsky.social @risd1877.bsky.social @brown.edu. Co-sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Center.

TOMORROW! Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress: A Pop-up Exhibit and Panel Discussion. Fri. 10/17/25 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. More information: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @wozbell.bsky.social @risd1877.bsky.social @brown.edu. Co-sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Center.

The Pembroke Center is increasing capacity for Judith Butler's lecture. Registration will reopen on Wednesday, October 15th at 9am. If you are currently on the waitlist for the lecture, you will automatically receive a ticket. Register here: butleratpembroke.eventbrite.com

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle." Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @juliethooker.bsky.social

Applications due TOMORROW for our student research grants for current Brown undergrads and grad students. Mon., 10/13. More about the grants: pembroke.brown.edu/academics/st.... @brown.edu

NEXT WEEK: Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress: A Pop-up Exhibit and Panel Discussion. Fri. 10/17/25 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. More information: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @wozbell.bsky.social @risd1877.bsky.social @brown.edu. Co-sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Center.

Out of the Archives: a 1992 letter from Judith Butler in the papers of Hortense J. Spillers. Butler is giving the Pembroke Center Publics Lecture Wednesday, November 5. Tickets have sold out, but the lecture will be recorded and available on our YouTube playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis....

Applications due next week: grants for students research on women, gender, and/or sexuality for current Brown undergrads and grad students. Deadline Mon., 10/13. More about the grants: pembroke.brown.edu/academics/st.... @brown.edu

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle." Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @juliethooker.bsky.social

TODAY! Mon. 10/6 12:00–1:30 p.m. in Pembroke 202. Info session for undergrad & grad students to learn about this year’s Pembroke Center student research grants. Pizza and soft drinks provided. For more information, contact Helis Sikk ([email protected]) or Wendy Lee ([email protected]).

THIS MONDAY! Mon. 10/6 12:00–1:30 p.m. in Pembroke 202. Info session for undergrad & grad students to learn about this year’s Pembroke Center student research grants. Pizza and soft drinks provided. For more information, contact Helis Sikk ([email protected]) or Wendy Lee ([email protected]).

Tickets available now! The Pembroke Center Publics Lecture and the Shauna M. Stark ’76, P’10 Out of the Archive event Variations of Legal Violence: A talk by Judith Butler Wednesday, November 5, 2025 4:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. Registration is required: butleratpembroke.eventbrite.com

Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress: A Pop-up Exhibit and Panel Discussion. Fri. 10/17/25 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. More information: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @wozbell.bsky.social @risd1877.bsky.social @brown.edu Co-sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Center.

Out of the Archives: Naomi Schor was a pioneering feminist theorist. In this 1992 letter from her correspondence, Judith Butler expresses concern for Schor’s health. Schor's papers are part of our Feminist Theory Archive & available for research. Finding aid: www.riamco.org/render?eadid...

Tuesday, Oct. 28. 4:00 p.m. Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia): "Hints on Public Whiteness: Building the Smithsonian Castle" Pembroke Hall 305. A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture. Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @juliethooker.bsky.social

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

Mon. 10/6 12:00–1:30 p.m. in Pembroke 202. Info session for undergrad & grad students to learn about this year’s Pembroke Center student research grants. Pizza and soft drinks provided. For more information, contact Helis Sikk ([email protected]) or Wendy Lee ([email protected]).

Mon. 10/6 12:00–1:30 p.m. in Pembroke 202. Info session for undergrad & grad students to learn about this year’s Pembroke Center student research grants. Pizza and soft drinks provided. For more information, contact Helis Sikk ([email protected]) or Wendy Lee ([email protected]).

Watch Kevin Quashie give the 2024 Sherman lecture, “Thinking Lucille Clifton Thinking,” on our YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCso.... #TBT #ThrowbackThursday

Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress: A Pop-up Exhibit and Panel Discussion. Fri. 10/17/25 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. More information: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @wozbell.bsky.social @risd1877.bsky.social @brown.edu

"For most of my life, I did not think very much about housework." Read more from Emily Callaci's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Wages for Housework” here. The Federici papers, held in our archives, are available for research. lithub.com/how-feminist...

Applications open for our student research grants for current Brown undergrads and grad students. Applications for the 2025-26 year will be due on Mon., 10/13. More about the grants: pembroke.brown.edu/academics/st.... @brown.edu

From the Pembroke Center Archives Oral History Project: Kathy Le '97 speaks about fleeing Vietnam after the war, her mother's tenacity as a refugee, meeting Robert McNamara while a student at Brown, and much more in this interview. Listen: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral...

All are welcome to this mixer focused on RISD/Brown LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff as we celebrate the new academic year. We’ll gather at the Faculty Club for appetizers and socializing. RSVPs are encouraged for planning purposes. RSVP rainbowmixer2025.eventbrite.com