Month: November 2009
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Theatre of Witness presents ‘We Carried Your Secrets’
Students participating in the college’s off-campus study program in Northern Ireland have had a unique opportunity to work with Swarthmore Visiting Instructor Teya Sepinuck on Theatre of Witness productions at the Playhouse in Derry/Londonderry. An enthusiastic review has been written about the play in the Derry Journal, and you can read more and listen to…
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Mark Hanis ’05 refuses to be a bystander to genocide
The Swarthmore College Bulletin published a feature article last month on The Genocide Intervention Network and alum Mark Hanis ’05. You can read the full story here.
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What is happening in Honduras?
The Honduran Golpe and Obama’s Latin America: Cuba, the School of the americas, and the Hugo Chavez Socialist Revolution Dr. Larry Birns Director, Council on Hemispheric Affairs SCIENCE CENTER 104 SWARTHMORE COLLEGE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH AT 4:30 SPONSORED BY STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, THE FORUM FOR FREE SPEECH, AND THE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
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Tweeting in Tehran: Lessons on How to Win (or Lose) a Revolution in the 21st Century
Guest Lecture: “Tweeting in Tehran: Lessons on How to Win (or Lose) a Revolution in the 21st Century” Tuesday, December 1, 2009 4:30 PM Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall by Kouross Esmaili Recent events in Tehran have revolutionized our use of technology. The city has become an unlikely site to maximize the instantaneous connection that the…
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Borderline Belonging: Religious Settlement, Neo-Nationalism and the Politics of Exclusion on the Israeli Frontier
Borderline Belonging: Religious Settlement, Neo-Nationalism and the Politics of Exclusion on the Israeli ‘Frontier’ a talk by Tamara Neuman Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Peace and Conflict Studies Bryn Mawr College: Thursday, November 19 4:30 PM Science Center 101 The talk is sponsored by the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Program in Peace and Conflict Studies and Islamic…
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Cultural Contestation, Visual Culture and Ethnic Conflict in the Contemporary World
The Solomon Asch Center for study of Ethnopolitical Conflict Presents a lecture by Marc Howard Ross William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Department of Political Science Bryn Mawr College Cultural Contestation, Visual Culture and Ethnic Conflict in the Contemporary World To examine the dynamics of culture and conflict, we need to consider the narratives, metaphors and…
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Speaker: Linda Panetta, Representative of the Philadelphia SOA Watch
“THE U.S. MILITARY HAS NOT RECENTLY INTERVENED IN LATIN AMERICA”: FALSE SCI 199 Tuesday 3rd November 7:00-8:30 pm Speaker: Linda Panetta, Representative of the Philadelphia SOA Watch The School of the Americas (SOA) in 2001 renamed the “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC),” is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers located in…