Videos
The Pembroke Center is pleased to present videos of some of our most popular programs. We hope you enjoy this opportunity to view Pembroke Center programs at your convenience.
An Alternative to Nature v. Nurture: Human Biology in a Social WorldA conversation with Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling
The media is awash with reports of genes for this or that complex human trait: obesity, alcoholism, homosexuality, gender differences in math and science. A great divide exists between people who accept biological explanations of human difference and those who reject biology in favor of social explanations. Debbie Weinstein, Assistant Director of the Pembroke Center, talks with Professor Fausto-Sterling about her research on human development and a new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences. Video provide by the Brown Media Production Group |
Critical Visionaries:
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| 2011 Family Weekend Program: The Therapeutic Fix  |
Lynne Joyrich AM ’84, PhD ’90, Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg |
2011 Commencement Forum
Award Winning Theater: Brown Playwrights and their Work
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Award-winning playwrights Adam Bock ’89 AM (The Receptionist, The Thugs and A Small Fire) and Lynn Nottage ’86 (Ruined, Intimate Apparel and Crumbs from the Table of Joy) talk about how they write to inspire, provoke, and engage theater audiences around the world. |
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National Council for Research on Women's
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Introduced by Pembroke Center Director Kay Warren, President Simmons discusses the importance of research on gender and difference to our society. The Pembroke Center is a founding member center of the National Council for Research on Women. Natalie Morales of NBC News introduces the segment. |
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Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning
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| Annelise Riles is the Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law in Far East Legal Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell, and she serves as Director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. Her work focuses on the transnational dimensions of laws, markets and culture. Her most recent book, Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets (Chicago Press 2011), is based on ten years of fieldwork among regulators and lawyers in the global derivatives markets. She recently co-edited a special issue of the journal, Law and Contemporary Problems, Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws, which rethinks the field of Conflict of Laws from an interdisciplinary perspective. Professor Riles has conducted legal and anthropological research in China, Japan and the Pacific and speaks Chinese, Japanese, French, and Fijian. She also writes about financial markets regulation on her blog, collateralknowledge.com. | |
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The Hip Hop WarsTricia Rose ’93 PhDProfessor of Africana StudiesThe Pembroke Center Associates co-sponsored this talk on February 25, 2010 with the Brown Club of Boston, the Asian/Asian American Alumni Association, the Brown University Latino Alumni Council, the Inman Page Black Alumni Council, and the Multicultural Alumni Council of the Brown Alumni Association. Click here to watch the video. |
| In her recent book, THE HIP HOP WARS: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop-And Why It Matters, Professor Rose voices a call for revitalization of the progressive, creative heart of hip hop, which has increasingly become defined by one thin slice of a varied, complex genre. While "conscious rappers" such as Talib Kweli and The Roots may receive enormous critical acclaim, it's the rappers who employ what Rose calls the "gansta-pimp-ho trinity"- such as T.I. and 50 Cent-who sell the most records and dominate the recording industry, TV, film, and radio. As a result, the most visible and widely-consumed hip hop sets forth a troubled vision of ghetto street life that defines young, at-risk black men and women to each other and also to a large white audience (seventy percent of hip hop consumers are white). After exploring how hip hop has become the primary means by which we talk about race and culture in the United States, Rose offers six guiding principles for progressive hip hop creativity, consumption, and community, ending the "blame hip hop vs. explain hip hop" wars and promoting critical conversations that inspire transformational music as well as social justice for all. | |
2009 Leadership Award |
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Pembroke Center - Leadership Awards 11/18/09 from Instructional Projects and Media on Vimeo. |
2009 Commencement ForumCrisis: Policies to Strengthen a Troubled EconomyMay 23, 2009 |
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In 2008 and 2009, the U.S. economy was buffeted by the housing slump, a credit crisis, rising unemployment, gyrating energy prices, and a dramatic rise in the federal deficit. The Obama Administration and economic leaders have been implementing new policies to address the crisis and stabilize consumer confidence. In the Pembroke Center’s 2009 Commencement Forum, Annette L. Nazareth’78, Partner, Davis, Polk & Wardwell and a former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Randall S. Kroszner’84, Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a former Governor of the Federal Reserve Board; and, Jill Schlesinger’87, Editor-at-Large of CBS MoneyWatch.com to discussed the current state of the U.S. economy and the prospects for recovery. |
Pembroke Hall RededicationOctober 17, 2008 |
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Dedicated on November 22, 1897, Pembroke Hall was the first building erected for the use of Brown’s fledgling Women’s College. On October 17, 2008, President Ruth J. Simmons rededicated the historic Pembroke Hall as the new home of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Cogut Center for the Humanities. CLICK HERE OR ON THE IMAGE TO THE LEFT TO WATCH THE VIDEO
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Remembering Pembroke HallProduced by the Pembroke Center in 2008 |
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The original dedication of Pembroke Hall was held on November 22, 1897. Four alumnae offer their thoughts on the historic building and reflect on their time as students of Pembroke College in Brown University. |
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