spring 2007 Pembroke Center for teaching and research on women

2007-08 25th Anniversary Pembroke Seminar: The Question of Identity Lecture Series - in Psychoanalysis Future of Bernard Reginster, Associate Professor of Philosophy, will lead the 2007-08 Pembroke Seminar. Critique The Pembroke celebrates its twenty-fifth The 150th anniversary of Sigmund Freud's anniversary with a series of programs on birth has occasioned many reassessments of

“The Future of Critique.” Fundamental Hank Randall psychoanalysis, some of which are quite criti- to the Center’s research, the practice of cal. Such criticisms tend to ignore two facts. critique seeks to grasp the ways differen- One is that some of Freud's most basic ideas tial systems of “gender,” along with eth- have become so deeply entrenched that their nicity, race, and other systems of differ- Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Freudian origins are overlooked. The other is Comparative Literature, University of California at ence, produce cultural, political, and Berkeley, delivered a lecture on January 29 on “Critique that, over the century since Freud's early psy- scientific meanings. The series contin- and Disciplinarity: Foucault via Kant.” The lecture was choanalytical works, the discipline he invented first in a series of programs on “The Future of Critique.” ues in April with two colloquia: witnessed a theoretical explosion of new ideas, primarily about the issues of identity and inter- April 17 April 19 subjectivity. These new ideas have produced a The Future of Social The Future of Critique in rich and sometimes confusing fabric of theoret- and Cultural Critique Science and Technology ical effects on disciplines as diverse as cultural studies, race and gender studies, literary and 1:30 pm 2:00 pm media studies, philosophy, religious studies, Crystal Room Crystal Room history, and anthropology. Alumnae Hall Alumnae Hall Wendy Chun What is the identity, the "ego" or sense of self, Srinivas Aravamudan Associate Professor of of which psychoanalysts speak? What does it Professor of English Modern Culture and Media mean to claim, as Freud did, that "the ego is primarily a bodily ego"? What are we to make Brown University Talal Asad of the fact, recently acknowledged by both Anne Fausto-Sterling Distinguished Professor child psychoanalysts and developmental Professor of Biology and of Anthropology psychologists, that some of the earliest, most Gender Studies City University of New York primitive layers of the sense of self develop Brown University Graduate Center before the capacity for verbalizable (self-) Elizabeth Wilson representation? What is the relation of identity Wendy Brown ARC Australian Research Fellow to basic human needs? Professor of Political Science University of New South Wales University of California at Berkeley The time has come to take stock. The seminar will explore psychoanalytic views on identifica- Joan Wallach Scott Cosponsors of the series are the departments tion, intersubjectivity, and their interrelation. Harold F. Linder Professor of Modern Culture and Media, English, Comparative Literature, and Anthropology; For a full seminar description, please visit: of Social Science the Science Studies program, and the www.pembrokecenter.org. Institute for Advanced Study Cogut Humanities Center. Mediated Bodies/Bodies of Mediation Lynne Joyrich, Associate Professor of theses to cloning and reproductive tech- appear in media culture? What other Modern Culture and Media and the nologies to media and interactive tech- “bodies of mediation” have existed in, for Chesler-Mallow Senior Faculty Research nologies of all sorts. instance, oral, print, or mechanical cul- Fellow at the Pembroke Center, is the tures? The seminar examines what is It is said that we live in a media-saturated director of the 2006-07 Pembroke Sem- meant by “media” and “body,” as both are world, that the media now constitute the inar. This year the seminar is exploring subject to historical change, technological very air we breathe. But what kind of bod- the relationships between the body and reframing, and philosophical debate. ies breathe this air (or airwaves), and how technology across histories and cul- are they formed by media technologies For a full seminar description, please tures; relationships ranging from pros- and texts? How do bodies appear and dis- see: www.pembrokecenter.org.

Jennifer Boyle Eden Osucha Alanna Thain Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellow Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Ph.D. in English, University of Ph.D. in English, Postdoctoral Fellow California, Irvine, 2003 Duke University, 2006 Ph.D. in Literature, Duke University, 2005 Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Project: “The Subject of Privacy: Produc- Hollins University McGill University tions and Regulations of Intimate Per- Project: “The Anamorphic Imaginary: sonhood in Modern American Culture” Project: “In Mediacy: Screen/ Perspective and Embodiment in Early Dance and Virtual Corporealities” Modern Literature and Technoscience” This project explores the legal construct of “intimate personhood” at the core of This project examines the intersections This interdisciplinary project draws on privacy rights doctrine in the present- of live dance performance and literary and critical studies, art history, day U.S. and looks at its relationship to screen/dance (both live action and ani- science, and new media studies to look contemporary literary and visual cul- mated) in the works of Streb, Compagnie at the relationships between early mod- tures of public embodiment. This con- Marie Chouinard, Norman McLaren, ern perspective and questions of embod- junction of legal intimacy and media and others. In connecting two arts of iment. Boyle understands perspective as publicity reveals how the forms of gen- movement—cinema as the recorded live- a medium, a material and symbolic tech- dered and sexual citizenship both pre- liness of the moving pictures (where film nology that generates an image of three- sumed and consolidated by privacy law theory has too often seen only an illusion dimensional space associated with can be traced to histories of race-based of movement) and dance as the live everything from the high art of realist exclusions and particular modes of immediacy of performing bodies (a per- aesthetics to Cartesian rationalism and media production in the evolution of spective that fails to understand the its afterlives within video gaming envi- American citizenship. Working at the dancing body itself as a recording tech- ronments and military targeting sys- intersections of feminist and queer cul- nology)—the project seeks not to oppose tems. The crucial developments in tural theory as well as critical race-based the two but to find their shared move- optics, empirical science, and aesthetics cultural studies, this project takes as its ment. Thain displaces the real move- made possible by perspective imaging focus the question of mediated embodi- ment / false movement dichotomy of also generated questions about bodily ment too often deemed irrelevant for dance and film to elicit the virtual dimen- perception and affect. Perspective critical analysis in the fields of critical sion of movement, what she terms in- informed some of the earliest debates in legal studies, social theory, and techno- mediacy, or the generative condition of Western Europe over the power of tech- culture, fields now dominant in critical dynamicmedia irreducible to either the nologically enhanced images and scholarship on the right to privacy. concrete presence of a dancer’s body or embodiment. the idea of a represented body onscreen.

2 • pembroke center Pembroke Seminar Research Lectures

Judith Halberstam Brian Rotman Faye Ginsberg Joseph Dumit Professor of English Professor of Professor of Anthropology Director, Science and Director of the Center Comparative Studies Director, Graduate Program Technology Studies for Feminist Research Advanced Computing Center in Culture and Media University of California, Davis University of Southern for the Arts and Design Director, Center for Media, Associate Editor, California Culture and History Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry Co-Director, Center for “Transbiology: The “The Alphabet, Ghosts, and “Bodies Aggregate: Religion and Media Spectacle of the Distributed Being” Accumulating Prognoses, New York University Non-Reproductive Body” Growing Markets, November 14, 2006 “Mediating Culture: Experimental Subjects” October 17, 2006 Indigenous Identity in April 3, 2007 a Digital Age”

February 27, 2007 Faculty Fellows Lynne Joyrich Modern Culture and Media Chesler-Mallow Senior Faculty Pembroke Seminar Roundtable Research Fellow Robert Self March 15-16, 2007 History Edwin and Shirley Seave Mediation/Ethics Faculty Fellow

Jane Bennett Kim Sawchuk Lingzhen Wang Professor and Chair of Political Science Associate Professor of East Asian Studies John Hopkins University Communication Studies Edith Goldthwaite Miller Concordia University Faculty Fellow Simon Penny Graduate Fellows Professor of Arts and Engineering Sharon Willis Claire Trevor School of the Arts and the Professor of French/Visual Eugenie Brinkema Modern Culture and Media Henry Samueli School of Engineering Cultural Studies University of California, Irvine University of Rochester Kenneth Prestininzi Theatre and Leigh Raiford Joanna Zylinska Performance Studies Assistant Professor of African Senior Lecturer in New Media American Studies and Communications Nathaniel Stein History of Art and Architecture University of California, Berkeley Goldsmiths College, Undergraduate Fellow Emily Underwood Science and Society

pembroke center • 3 PEMBROKE CENTER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS, 1982-2006

2006-07 marks the Pembroke Center’s uates who have participated in Center ter’s development and benefited from twenty-fifth academic year. In two and seminars and programs; by listing the the challenging intellectual exchanges a half decades, the Center has made a numerous students who received their made possible by the Pembroke Semi- significant impact on the ways femi- Brown degrees as Women’s Studies nar. These scholars then went on, nist theory and scholarship have trans- or Gender Studies concentrators; by many of them, to achieve great distinc- formed the academy. There are many looking at the leadership of the Center’s tion and to help transform their fields. ways to trace such an impact: by con- four directors to date: Joan Wallach sidering the Center’s publications; by Scott, Karen Newman, Ellen Rooney, The following is simply a list of the listing the extraordinary number of and Elizabeth Weed. names of the fellows and current pho- major theorists and scholars who have tos where possible, with no informa- participated in Center conferences, One list that seems a particularly tion regarding publications or any seminars, and colloquia over the years; appropriate gauge of the Pembroke’s other important achievements. We by citing how frequently scholars have Center’s impact on the academy is that trust, however, that this glimpse of the warmly acknowledged the Pembroke of the postdoctoral fellows who have range of the fellows who have worked Center’s influence in their publica- spent a year in residence at the Center. at the Center will be some indication tions; by naming the many Brown fac- As junior scholars, the fellows both of the richness of the Pembroke Cen- ulty, graduate students, and undergrad- contributed immeasurably to the Cen- ter’s first twenty-five years.

1982-83 1983-84 1984-85 Gender, Representation, Values, Ethics, and the Production, Reproduction, and Politics Meanings of Gender and Constructions of Joan Wallach Scott, Joan Wallach Scott, Sexual Difference Seminar Leader Seminar Leader Joan Wallach Scott, Seminar Leader

James Ault Janice Doane Marnia Lazreg Independent filmmaker, Professor of English Professor of Sociology author, scholar Saint Mary’s College Hunter College and Northampton, MA of California Graduate Center, City University Of New York

Anne Norton Yasmine Ergas Denise Riley Professor of Adjunct Associate Professor of Literature Political Science Professor of with Philosophy University of Pennsylvania International Law University of East Anglia, Columbia University United Kingdom

Mary Lou Ratté Harriet Whitehead Diana Vélez Director Resource Coordinator Associate Professor Hill Center for Duke Cancer Patient of Spanish and World Studies Education Program Portuguese Studies Duke University University of Iowa Medical Center

Kaja Silverman Françoise Basch Jerome Wakefield Class of 1940 Professor of Professor Emerita of History University Professor and Rhetoric and Film University of Paris Professor of Social Work University of California, New York University Berkeley

4 • pembroke center 1986-87 1987-88 l988-89 Gender in Popular Gender, Ethnicity, Gender, State, and Culture and Popular Religion and Race Political Identities Barbara Babcock, Karen Newman, Karen Newman, Seminar Leader Seminar Leader Seminar Leader

Rey Chow Ana Maria Alonso Christine Ward Gailey Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of Professor of Women's Professor of Anthropology Studies and Anhtropology the Humanities University of Arizona University of California, Brown University Riverside

Shahla Haeri Katherine Platt Kristie McClure Director of Women's Stud- Associate Professor of Associate Professor of ies Program and Associate Cultural Anthropology Political Science Professor of Anthropology Babson College University of California, Boston University Los Angeles

Kari Weil Jenny Sharpe Valentine Moghadam Chair of Critical Studies Professor of English and Professor of Sociology California College Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies; of the Arts University of California, Director, Women’s Los Angeles Studies Program Purdue University

Mimi White Kathleen Zane Afsaneh Najmabadi Professor of Radio/ Lecturer in Language Arts Professor of History Television/ Film, and University of Hawaii and of Studies Associate Dean for of Women, Gender, Graduate Programs in the and Sexuality, School of Communications Northwestern University 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 Cultural Literacies and Scientific Knowledge Art in the Age of “Difference” “Difference” and “Difference” Ellen Rooney, Karen Newman, Karen Newman, Seminar Leader Seminar Leader Seminar Leader Mary M. Childers Leslie Camhi Lisa Bloom Writer, higher education Photography Critic Visiting Professor consultant and The Village Voice Department of Ombudsperson Communication Dartmouth College University of California, San Diego

Keya Ganguly Lisa Cartwright Karin Cope Associate Professor, Professor of Instructor Cultural Studies Communications Nova Scotia College of and Comparative Literature University of California, Art and Design San Diego

Katherine Williams Brian Cooper May Joseph Professor and Chair of Visiting Assistant Associate Professor Department of English Professor of Economics of Social Science New York Institute Gettysburg College and Cultural Studies of Technology Pratt Institute

Jennifer Terry Director and Associate Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Irvine

pembroke center • 5 1993-94 1994-95 1996-97 Law, Letters and “Difference” The Question of Violence The Future of Gender Ellen Rooney, Ellen Rooney, Elizabeth Weed, Seminar Leader Seminar Leader Seminar Leader

Laura Korobkin Kate Baldwin Teresa Barnes Associate Professor Associate Professor of Associate Professor of English American Studies of History Boston University Northwestern University University of the Western Cape, Cape Town

Janaki Nair Sarah Currie Katherine Professor of History Classicist and Independent Rudolph-Larrea Centre for Studies Scholar Associate Professor in Social Sciences, of Philosophy and Media Kolkata, India Studies Coordinator Rhode Island College Sylvia Schafer Pamela Haag Charles Shepherdson Associate Professor Author and Speechwriter Professor of English of History State University of University of Connecticut New York at Albany; Visiting Professor Tsinghua University, Shinju, Taiwan

1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 Disciplinary Difference Aesthetics, Politics, The Culture of the Market Ellen Rooney, and Difference Ellen Rooney, Seminar Leader Ellen Rooney, Seminar Leader Seminar Leader

Geraldine Heng Alexander Des Forges Lara Kriegel Associate Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor of English and Director of of Chinese of History (8/07) Medieval Studies University of Florida International University of Texas, Austin Massachusetts, Boston University

Jody Lester Monique Roelofs Mary Ann O’Donnell Independent Scholar Associate Professor Vice Principal of Philosophy Green Oasis School, Hampshire College Shenzhen, China

Alys Eve Weinbaum Ann Seaton Andrea Volpe Associate Professor Assistant Professor Preceptor in of English of English Writing Program in University of Washington, City University of New York Expository Writing Seattle Harvard College

2000-01 The Question of Emotion – Elizabeth Weed, Seminar Leader

Rogaia Abusharaf Margherita Long Marianne Janack Senior Research Associate, Assistant Professor of Associate Professor 2005-2007 Comparative Literature of Philosophy Pembroke Center, and Foreign Languages Hamilton College Brown University University of California, Riverside

6 • pembroke center 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 Technology and Representation Theories of Embodiment Shame Mary Ann Doane, Anne Fausto-Sterling, David Konstan, Seminar Leader Seminar Leader Seminar Leader

Athena Athanasiou Greg Downey Timothy Bewes Assistant Professor Lecturer, Department Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology of Anthropology of English and Gender Macquarie University, Brown University Panteio University of Social Sydney and Political Sciences, Athens

Richard Benjamin Gayle Salamon Dicle Kogacioglu Senior Fellow Costen LGBT Assistant Professor Demos: A Network Postdoctoral Fellow of Sociology for Ideas and Action Sabanci University, Istanbul

Aden Evens Deborah Weinstein Judith Surkis Assistant Professor Mellon Fellow in the Associate Professor of English History of Medicine of History, and Dartmouth College Brandeis University History and Literature Harvard University

Ursula Frohne Professor of Art History University of Cologne

2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 The Orders of Time The Language of Victimization Mediated Bodies/Bodies of Mediation Rey Chow, Carolyn Dean, Lynne Joyrich, Seminar Leader Seminar Leader Seminar Leader

Janelle Blankenship Lori Allen Jennifer Boyle Assistant Professor/ Academy Scholar Carol G. Lederer Faculty Fellow Academy for International Postdoctoral Fellow Department of German, and Area Studies, Pembroke Center New York University Harvard University Assistant Professor of English Hollins University

Jane Elliott Sharika Thiranagama Eden Osucha Assistant Professor ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Nancy L. Buc of English in Social Anthropology Postdoctoral Fellow University of York University of Edinburgh Pembroke Center

Adam Gutteridge Donna Trembinski Alanna Thain Adjunct Assistant Professor Adjunct Professor of Artemis A.W. and of Arts & Humanities Medieval History Martha Joukowsky American University at Rome Queen’s University, Postdoctoral Fellow Research Assistant Ontario, Canada Pembroke Center British School at Rome Assistant Professor of English Rama Matena McGill University Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History University of Illinois The Pembroke Center would like to at Chicago thank Kate Horning ’07 for her excellent research in preparing this overview.

pembroke center • 7 Two Postdoctoral Profiles Rey Chow ature from . After In addition, Chow is the author of her time at Pembroke, she went on to numerous articles and essays, the edi- faculty appointments at the University tor of several special volumes, and the of Minnesota and at the University of member of more than twenty-five advi- California, Irvine, returning to Brown sory and editorial boards of scholarly as a distinguished member of the fac- journals. She is the recipient of many ulty in 2000. academic awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fel- Chow is the author of Woman and Chi- lowship and the Modern Language nese Modernity: The Politics of Reading Association’s James Russell Lowell between West and East, University of Prize for Primitive Passions. Minnesota Press, 1991; Writing Dias- pora: Tactics of Intervention in Contempo- Rey Chow is a member of the Pem- rary Cultural Studies, Indiana Univer- broke Center’s Faculty Advisory Board sity Press, 1993; Primitive Passions: and of the editorial board of differences: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Contemporary Chinese Cinema, Colum- In 2004-05, she was the Chesler Mal- A postdoctoral fellow at the Pembroke bia University Press, 1995; Ethics after low Senior Faculty Research Fellow at Center in 1986-87, Rey Chow is cur- Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Read- the Center and director of the Pem- rently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor ing, Indiana University Press, 1998; broke Seminar on “The Orders of of the Humanities, and Professor of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Time.” During the spring semester of Comparative Literature and of Modern Capitalism, Columbia University Press, that year, she also served as Acting Culture and Media at Brown. When 2002; and The Age of the New World Director of the Center. Rey Chow came to the Center in the Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, fall of 1986, she had recently received and Comparative Work, Duke University her PhD in Modern Thought and Liter- Press, 2006.

Timothy Bewes Timothy Bewes, currently the William The author of Cynicism and Postmoder- A. Dyer, Jr. Assistant Professor of the nity, Verso, 1997, and Reification, or Humanities and Assistant Professor of The Anxiety of Late Capitalism, Verso, English at Brown, was the Carol G. 2002, he is co-editor of Cultural Capi- Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pem- talism: Politics after New Labour, broke Center in 2003-04. After receiv- Lawrence and Wishart, 2000, and the ing his D.Phil degree in English Litera- editor of two special journal issues, ture from the University of Sussex, one for New Formations (2002) and the Bewes was a visiting faculty member at other for Novel: A Forum on Fiction several institutions, including Brown (2006). He is author of a number of and Brandeis. He was appointed to the scholarly articles and essays; he serves Brown faculty in 2004 and will be pro- on three editorial boards, and is on the moted to Associate Professor with advisory board of the Blackwell Encyclo- tenure in July. pedia of the Novel. During spring semester of 2007, he is the recipient of a Cogut Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship.

8 • pembroke center “Gender Justice and the Woman Question in the Middle East”

The Center’s research initiative on gen- will serve as editor of the conference der and Muslim practices will go on the proceedings, which will be published by road next fall. The Museum of Anthro- the University of Pennsylvania’s pology and Archeology at the University Museum Press. of Pennsylvania has invited Rogaia On November 16-17, the Pembroke Cen- Abusharaf, Senior Research Associate at ter will host a conference at Brown on the Pembroke Center, to convene a con- “Gender and the Politics of ‘Traditional’ ference at the Museum on ”Gender Jus- Muslim Practices.” The event will bring tice and the Woman Question in the together an interdisciplinary group of Middle East.” The conference, to be held international scholars to examine the on October 22-26, will bring leaders and politics embedded in representations of scholars from Palestine, Tunis, Egypt, “tradition” and to locate the analytic gaps Saudi Arabia, Qattar, Iraq, , in much of the research on the topic. Bangladesh, Sudan, and Morocco. The Rogaia Abusharaf, Senior Research Associate at conference is one of the new interna- the Pembroke Center, speaking in February at a tional initiatives sponsored by the lecture sponsored by the Friends of the Haffenref- fer Museum of Anthopology on “Female Circumci- Museum to promote interdisciplinary sion: Multiple Perspectives/Difficult Questions.” thinking on human society. Abusharaf Abusharaf is the editor of Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (University of Pennsyl- vania Press, 2006).

Ford Foundation Funds Postdoctoral Fellowship for Embodiment Research Initiative

by Anne Fausto-Sterling, Professor of ter for the Study of Human Development Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and videotaped the infants nearly every week Biochemistry, this initiative moves over the course of a year, interacting with beyond the traditional “nature vs. their mothers, but also by themselves. nurture” debate and undertakes a more Schooler is developing the framework for complex investigation of how the body, data analysis of the tapes, coding the brain, and social interactions work tapes for patterns of behavior, such as together to produce human sexual iden- vocalization, as well as interactions tities, particularly in early childhood. between parent and child. When the data The Ford Foundation awarded a grant to analysis is complete, researchers hope to the Department of Biology and the Pem- be able to test hypotheses and identify broke Center to support a postdoctoral how stable patterns emerge that point to fellowship for the research initiative. differences between the genders. Deborah Schooler, a 1999 graduate of “My research at the University of Michi- Brown University who earned her Ph.D. gan looked at gender and adolescence, in in Developmental Psychology from the particular body image and sexuality,” Deborah Schooler University of Michigan, is the recipient said Schooler. “This postdoctoral fellow- of the fellowship. By applying a dynamic systems approach ship at Brown allows me to apply new to questions about human development, Schooler is overseeing an observational methodologies and a dynamic systems the Embodiment Research Initiative study, which involves coding a set of approach to questions about gender and looks at how bodies and environments research videotapes of infants aged two to sex differentiation. It is a great opportu- jointly produce sex differences. Directed fourteen months. Researchers at the Cen- nity to be a part of this exciting work.”

pembroke center • 9 differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies

Fall 2006 Fall 2007 The editors are pleased to announce the In the works: God and Country, a special appearance of a special issue of differences issue guest edited by Elizabeth Castelli, dedicated to Barbara Johnson, whose Professor of Religion at . thinking opened a vital path for the jour- This issue (18.3) will bring together the nal’s work. Contributors to Difference: work of scholars interested in the intel- Reading with Barbara Johnson (17.3) lectual underpinnings of conservative include Bill Johnson González, Lauren Christian activisms in contemporary Berlant, Rachel Bowlby, Mary Wilson Car- U.S. culture. penter, Lili Porten, Bill Brown, Deborah The differences book series has Jenson, Avital Ronell, Jane Gallop, Mary added another title to its list. Women’s Helen Washington, Pamela L. Caughie, Studies on the Edge, edited by Joan Wallach and Lee Edelman. Scott, aims to take stock of women’s stud- Spring 2007 ies, evaluating critically its institutional- differences, affiliated with the Pembroke Currently in production is Indexicality: ization and daring to ask what its future Center, is published three times a year by Trace and Sign (18.1) guest edited by Mary might hold. This collection of articles by Duke University Press. Ann Doane, professor of Modern Culture Wendy Brown, Robyn Wiegman, Ellen and Media at Brown. This special issue Rooney, Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Evelyn brings together scholars from a range of Hammonds, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Gayle different disciplines—art history, science Salamon, Saba Mahmood, Biddy Martin, studies, film studies, and analysts of digi- and Joan Wallach Scott refuses to be tal media—who address in various ways polite about the problems faced by anxieties surrounding the status of repre- women’s studies; instead, it turns femi- sentation in what has been described as nism’s critical edge upon itself. The vol- our “post-medium condition.” ume will appear with Duke University Press in 2008.

Annual Gender Gender and Sexuality Studies Studies Lecture In fall 2006, the Gender Studies pro- The newly defined program will allow James N. Green gram joined with the Sexuality and Soci- students to develop concentrations that Associate Professor of History and ety concentration to form a new concen- focus on constructions of gender and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies tration, Gender and Sexuality Studies. sexuality in social, cultural, political, eco- Brown University The new program reflects the way nomic, or scientific contexts. For exam- research and teaching in the fields of ple, a student might chose to focus on “Who is the Macho Who gender studies and sexuality studies the acculturation of gender, sexuality, Wants to Kill Me?” have become increasingly interrelated, a and race in American politics or Revolutionary Masculinity, development visible in the work of activism, or on the construction of sex- Homosexuality, and the Armed Brown’s faculty as well as in Brown’s ual and gendered identities in educa- Struggle in Brazil in the 1960s peer institutions, notably Harvard and tional institutions, or in various forms of and 1970s. Yale, which have degree programs com- visual media. Students will also have the October 4, 2006 bining the two fields. option to focus their concentrations on one or the other category of analysis.

10 • pembroke center Italian Studies and Gender Studies Awarded International Postdoctoral Fellowship

In conjunction with Brown’s new inter- Gender Studies program jointly applied Studies and conduct research on ques- national initiatives, the Cogut Center and were awarded one of the fellow- tions of gender in early modern sci- for the Humanities recently invited aca- ships. An international search is under- ence. The fellow will also participate in demic units at Brown to apply for inter- way to fill the two-year position. Once a bi-weekly seminar at the Cogut Cen- national postdoctoral fellowships. The here, the postdoctoral fellow will teach ter on the theme of the humanities and Italian Studies Department and the courses in Italian Studies and Gender the transnational university.

Associates Celebrate the History of Women Barbara Anton Intern: at Pembroke College and Brown University Sarah Adler-Milstein Much of this is done through the The Pembroke Center Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives, Associates, the Cen- housed at the John Hay Library, which ter’s alumnae/i sup- focuses on Brown and Rhode Island port organization, women and their organizations. The award an annual Archives contains correspondence, internship to an diaries, photographs, newspapers, year- undergraduate stu- books, memorabilia, oral history tapes, dent whose honors and videos. project involves an As part of its efforts to document the internship or volun- history of women at Brown, the Associ- teer work in a community agency. This year, ates recently published “A Brief History the Associates awarded the internship grant of Women’s Sports at Pembroke College of $1000 to Sarah Adler-Milstein, who is con- and Brown University.” The four-page ducting field research with Sindicato de Tra- timeline features photographs from the bajadores de BJ&B (Union of Workers of Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives BJ&B) in the Dominican Republic. and important milestones dating from The Pembroke Center Associates are a 1897 to the present day. Arlene Gorton The union is an independent organization dedicated group of alumnae/i and ’52, Professor Emerita of Physical Edu- of garment workers devoted to improving friends whose activities support the cation and former Assistant Director of working conditions, quality of life, and academic work of the Pembroke Cen- Athletics for Brown University, directed equality for women workers. The union’s ter. An important part of the Associ- the research for the piece. success is threatened by the competitive ates’ work includes preserving the his- forces of the global market. Adler-Milstein’s tory of women at Brown University. thesis involves a case study of the union aimed at illuminating the complex interrela- tions between the global labor market, unions, and women.

pembroke center • 11 Pembroke Center Presort First Class teaching and research on women for US Postage PAID Permit No. 202 Brown University Providence, RI Box 1958 Providence, RI 02912

Pembroke Center Pembroke Center Associates Advisory Board Council Officers Rey Chow Diane Lake Northrop ’54, P’81 Comparative Literature Chair and Modern Culture and Media Phyllis Santry ’66 Carolyn J. Dean Vice-Chair History and Modern Culture and Media Pembroke Center Staff Mary Ann Doane Elizabeth Weed, Ph.D. ’73 Modern Culture and Media Director and English Christy Law Blanchard Anne Fausto-Sterling Director of Alumnae/i Affairs Biology and Medicine Denise Davis, A.M. ’97 David Konstan Managing Editor of differences contact Classics and Comparative Literature Donna Goodnow Ex Officio Center Manager information Nancy Armstrong English, Comparative Literature, Rogaia Abusharaf Pembroke Center and Modern Culture and Media Senior Research Associate Brown University Box 1958 Karen Newman Tamar Katz Comparative Literature Director of Gender Studies Providence, RI 02912 and English Jane Lancaster, Ph.D. ’98 phone: 401 863-2643 Consultant to the Christine Dunlap Ellen Rooney fax: 401 863-1298 Farnham Archives Modern Culture and Media e-mail: [email protected] and English web: www.pembrokecenter.org