The Brownlee Lectureship in Women's Studies began in Fall 2005 and the Brownlee Lectureship in Sexuality Studies began in Spring 2007.

R. Jean Brownlee served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts for Women from 1960 to 1974. She was the first woman to be appointed Dean of that College and the third woman to be named an academic dean. Rebecca Jean Brownlee earned 3 Penn degrees (BS. Education, 1934, M.A. Political Science, 1936; Ph.D. Political Science, 1940), devoted more than 40 years of her career to Penn, and in 1986 received the University's Honorary Doctor of Laws in recognition of her extraordinary acchievements.

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2007-2008 Lectureships

R. Jean Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought

Thursday, October 25, 2007

CYNTHIA ENLOE
Research Professor of International Development and Women's Studies, Clark University

6:30pm
Class of '49 Auditorium, Houston Hall

 

R. Jean Brownlee Lecture in Sexuality Studies

Thursday, January 31, 2008

MICHAEL WARNER
Professor of English, Rutgers University

5:00pm
200 College Hall

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Past Lectures

 

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
R. Jean Brownlee Lecture in Sexuality Studies

JUDITH BUTLER
Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

“Sexual Politics, Limits of the Secular,
and the Question of our Time”

5:00 p.m. 17 Logan Hall

 

Thursday, March 22, 2007
R. Jean Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought

TORIL MOI
James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies
Duke University

" 'I Am Not a Woman Writer':
On Women, Writing, and Feminism"

5pm, 200 College Hall

 

October 6, 2005
R. Jean Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought

HÉLÈNE CIXOUS
Professor of English Literature and Feminist Studies University of Paris VIII

"The Unforeseeable"