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Your Friday night movie has arrived: check out N/A, now freely available from PBS, and directed and produced for film by Donna Zaccaro '83, P'19, member of our Friends of the Pembroke Center Advisory Council. Emmy winner Holland Taylor and Broadway's Ana Villafañe star as two U.S. Representatives, generations apart, who couldn't be more different. Inspired by real people and events, the play N/A is a battle of wills and wits between N, the first woman Speaker of the House, and A, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

Two Women. The Future of the Country. | N/A (Full Play) Off-Broadway | THIRTEEN Emmy winner Holland Taylor and Broadway's Ana Villafañe star as two...

In case you missed it: watch Research at Risk, the 2026 Pembroke Commencement Forum, on our YouTube playlist: https://buff.ly/AO9BnTY. Sponsored by the Friends of the Pembroke Center, co-sponsored by the School of Public Health and Brown Women's Network. Thanks to Katie Biello, Shufang Sun, Anne Fausto-Sterling, and Gray Babbs for a great conversation about threats to gender and sexuality scholarship within public health and the biological sciences. Thanks also to Leora Tanenbaum '91 from the Friends Advisory Council for introducing the event.
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TOMORROW! The Friends of the Pembroke Center present
Research at Risk: Threats to Gender and Sexuality Scholarship
The 2026 Pembroke Center Commencement Forum
Saturday, May 23, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. | Pembroke Hall 305

This event is co-sponsored by the Brown Women’s Network and the School of Public Health.
Brown Women's Network
Brown Alumni & Friends
Brown University School of Public Health

Learn more on Events@Brown: https://buff.ly/oOtdxHP

Congratulations to this year's student prizewinners! Slide 1: Ruth Simmons Prize to Reina Salama ’26 (top); honorable mentions to Tigerlily Hillenbrand Arlt ’26 (left) and Piper Wallace ’26 (right). Slide 2: Joan Wallach Scott Prize to Arlyn Patino ’26. Slide 3: Marie J. Langlois Dissertation Prize to Semilore Sobande Ph.D.'26 (left) and honorable mention to Sarah Christensen Ph.D.'26 (right).
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Check out the latest issue of Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies!

Celebrating the 135th anniversary of Pembroke College: Speaking 61 years after graduating, Mary Jane Mikuriya '56 shares an account of her experience as an American student and woman of Japanese and Austro-Hungarian descent during the second World War and after. Mikuriya's papers are also held in the Pembroke Center Archives. Originally "The Women's College," Pembroke College was the women's college in Brown University until 1971. https://buff.ly/DPkFaZk

Saturday! The Friends of the Pembroke Center present
Research at Risk: Threats to Gender and Sexuality Scholarship
The 2026 Pembroke Center Commencement Forum
Saturday, May 23, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. | Pembroke Hall 305

This event is co-sponsored by the Brown Women’s Network and the School of Public Health.
Brown Women's Network
Brown Alumni & Friends
Brown University School of Public Health

Learn more on Events@Brown: https://buff.ly/oOtdxHP

Celebrating the 135th anniversary of Pembroke College: Bella Skolnik, class of 1933, was a student during the stock market crash and Great Depression. She reflects on these experiences as well as her work advocating for children with disabilities and the elderly in her interview with the Pembroke Center Archives' Oral History Project. Originally "The Women's College," Pembroke College was the women's college in Brown University until 1971. Listen to the interview: https://buff.ly/6Y3rZjz

Next week! The Friends of the Pembroke Center present
Research at Risk: Threats to Gender and Sexuality Scholarship
The 2026 Pembroke Center Commencement Forum
Saturday, May 23, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. | Pembroke Hall 305

This event is co-sponsored by the Brown Women’s Network and the School of Public Health.
Brown Women's Network
Brown Alumni & Friends
Brown University School of Public Health

Learn more on Events@Brown: https://buff.ly/oOtdxHP

Celebrating the 135th anniversary of Pembroke College: In this interview, Wanni W. Anderson, class of 1962 MA, and Adjunct Professor Emerita of Anthropology, discusses her life and education in Thailand, her transition to American life, her graduate work, and the historical landscape of women’s work and roles in the academy. Listen to her interview with the Pembroke Center Archives' Oral History Project here: https://buff.ly/u8lznlL Originally "The Women's College," Pembroke College was the women's college in Brown University until 1971.