Category: Peace and Conflict Studies
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2026 PCS Senior Capstone Presentations and Reception
Come support our graduating seniors at 1pm on Monday, April 27, 2026 in the Intercultural Center Dome Room! Refreshments will be provided.
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The Prophet’s Daughter: Professor Susannah Heschel on the Legacy of Rabbi Abraham Heschel
PCS is delighted to welcome Dr. Susannah Heschel of Dartmouth College! Please join us in the Scheuer Room at 11:20am on Thursday, April 23 for a talk by Dr. Heschel, who will be discussing the legacy of Rabbi Abraham Heschel.
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Fall 2026 PCS Courses
Announcing the Fall 2026 PCS courses! PEAC 15: Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies with Prof. Lee Smithey (TR 1:15-2:30pm) PEAC 30: War and Violence in Lived Experience with Prof. Michael Wilson Becerril (MWF 10:30-11:20am) PEAC 38: Civil Wars and Neoliberal Peace in Central America with Prof. Nanci Buiza (TR 11:20am-12:35pm) PEAC 45: Peace and…
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Book Talk on immigration, accompaniment, and hospitality with author, Anton Flores-Maisonet
Please join us on April 9 to hear author and activist Anton Flores-Maisonet talk about his book, Welcome, Friends: Stories of Hope and Hospitality with Immigrants (2025). When: Thursday, April 9, 2026, 4:30-6:00 p.m.Where: The Intercultural Center Dome Room (Google map location) at Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081 Anton Flores-Maisonet is the Founding…
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2026 PCS Honors Examiners
We are delighted to welcome six outstanding scholars, writers, and artists as our 2026 PCS Honors Examiners. Their work brings interdisciplinary perspective to vital questions of war and peace, justice and representation, environmental change, historical memory, and the social conditions that shape human flourishing. George Abraham (they/هو) George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic,…
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Book Panel: Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq
Please join us in the Scheuer Room at 11:20am on Thursday, April 2 for a book panel. Dr. Zainab Saleh of Haverford College will be discussing her book “Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq” with Dr. Farid Azfar and Dr. Megan Brown of Swarthmore College, and Dr. Samer Abboud of Villanova University.
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A Quaker Trans Day of Visibility
PCS is proud to join Swarthmore Friends Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Friends Journal, and Pendle Hill in co-hosting a Quaker Trans Day of Visibility. This will be a hybrid event taking place from 9:30am to 5:30pm ET on Sunday, March 29. Please visit https://qtdov.com for registration details.
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Book Talk: The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge
We’re very pleased to host Dr. Rebecca Buxton of the University of Bristol and Dr. Samuel Ritholtz of the University of Oxford for a talk on their new book The Way Out: Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge, which examines the complexities of queer and trans displacement around the world. Please join us in…
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Dr. Pedro dos Santos | All Hats on at the Same Time: Research, Activism, and Resistance in Central Minnesota
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Pedro dos Santos of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University for a talk on Monday, March 16 (4:30–6:00 PM, SCI 199) about ICE operations in Minnesota and grassroots resistance. Drawing on his work with the immigrant community in the state, Dr. dos Santos explores activism at the…
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Book Talk with Dr. Abdulhamit Arvas
PCS is pleased to welcome Dr. Abdulhamit Arvas from the University of Pennsylvania for our first lecture of the semester. Dr. Arvas will be discussing his book, “Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity,” in the Scheuer Room in Kohlberg Hall at 4:30 pm on Monday, February 2, 2026.