We invite you to take part in conversations about women's leadership and diversity in higher education, feminist mentorship and activism, and Women's History Month.

Julia Gillard, the first woman to serve as prime minister of Australia (2010-13), will deliver the 90th Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 5 p.m.
De Ciccio Family Auditorium
Salomon Center for Teaching
Brown University, The College Green
Providence, Rhode Island

The event is free and open to the public, but registration for tickets is required.

On March 5, 2015, the Pembroke Center opens an exhibit that explores in detail the Lamphere case and its consequences. Based on extensive archival research and oral histories with key participants, the exhibit paints a vivid picture of why and how Brown changed during a key moment in its history and of the feminist activism that drove that change. Read an overview of the case.
 

EXHIBIT OPENING

Thursday, March 5, 2015, 3:30 PM
Pembroke Hall, First Floor
172 Meeting Street, Providence, Rhode Island

The exhibit will remain on view through May 24th and is free and open to the public.

Building Hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. The building also will be open during Commencement Weekend, May 23-24, 2015.

Please click here to read the University's news release about the exhibit and related events.

Brown University President Christina Paxson will host a public roundtable with women who have been presidents of major universities to discuss feminism and the challenges women leaders still face in the world of higher education.

Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University

Shirley Tilghman, former President of Princeton University

Nan Keohane, former President of Wellesley College and Duke University

Thursday, March 5, 2015, 5:30 PM
DeCiccio Family Auditorium
Salomon Center for Teaching
Brown University, The College Green
Providence, Rhode Island

Free and open to the public. Please click here for more details and speaker bios.

Linking past and present feminist concerns, the symposium will open with a conversation between Louise Lamphere and Amy Goldstein ’79, reporter for The Washington Post, about the case and its aftermath. Later panels will focus on the way feminist scholarship continues to change what students study, how knowledge is made in the contemporary university, and the challenges and possibilities facing current and future generations of women at Brown.

Friday, March 6, 2015, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street, Providence, Rhode Island

Pre-registration is requested for this symposium. Please click here to view the symposium schedule and registration instructions.

Support for the exhibit, roundtable, and symposium are  provided by: Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Pembroke Center Associates, Brown University's 250th Anniversary, Office of the President, Creative Arts Council, Brown University Library, and John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.

Students, faculty, staff, alumni, thought leaders and innovators will explore how higher education engages in the work of developing and sustaining an increasingly diverse and inclusive academic community. Through plenary panel discussions, workshops, interactive seminars, and networking activities, participants will engage in critical discussions that consider the broad range of identities, perspectives and experiences (race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class, etc.) represented in higher education institutions today, and how relevant research and scholarship informs the work of advancing diversity and inclusion in the academy. Please click here for more information.

Brown University's 1st Feminist Conference for Rhode Island High School Students
The FLAME (Feminist Leadership and Mentorship for Equality) Conference will feature a variety of workshops run by Brown student groups and faculty for Rhode Island high school students. Workshop topics include gender inequality in the workplace, intersectionality, healthy relationships, and sexuality. The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for feminist education to participants as well as to unite feminist-minded student groups at Brown. Please click here for more information and the full schedule.

The symposium will discuss the activist history of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center as well as the different ways Brown alumnae have put feminist theory into action. The keynote speaker for the event will be Rinku Sen ‘88, the President and Executive Director of Race Forward and the Publisher of Colorlines.com. Click here for more information about the symposium.

Envisioning Feminist Futures: Women's History Month 2015 is a comprehensive calendar of events organized by the student coordinators at the Sarah Doyle Women's Center as well as events hosted by other departments and students groups on campus.