Category: Peace and Conflict Studies
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2025 PCS Departmental Awards
Announcing the winners of the 2025 PCS Departmental Awards: Outstanding Senior For the senior major in peace and conflict studies who exemplifies a commitment to academic excellence. Isabella (Bella) Deanhardt ’25 Nayla Punjabi ’26 Outstanding Junior For the junior major or minor in peace and conflict studies who exemplifies a commitment to academic excellence. Elise…
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2025 PCS Honors Examiners
We’re delighted to welcome four exceptional academics as our 2025 PCS Honors Examiners. Their work draws from environmental science, political theory, critical pedagogy, and transnational scholarship to address dimensions of peace studies from climate governance and social justice to human rights advocacy and educational equity. Dr. Phillip M. Ayoub Dr. Phillip Ayoub is Professor in…
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Prof. Sa’ed Atshan selected for Intercultural Center Award
We’re thrilled to share that Prof. Sa’ed Atshan has been selected as one of the awardees for this year’s Swarthmore College Intercultural Center Awards Day! The IC Awards & Banquet brings people together in celebration to honor exceptional individuals who dedicate themselves to making Swarthmore a more diverse, celebratory, justice-oriented, and culturally rich place to…
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2025 PCS Graduation Reception
We’re holding our graduation reception from 4-6pm in Parrish W237 on Saturday, May 24 this year. Help us celebrate our graduating class as they prepare for their next chapter!
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Dr. Tarek El-Ariss | Water on Fire: A Memoir of War
The PCS Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change in the Middle East speaker series concludes on Monday, 4/21 with a book talk by Dr. Tarek El-Ariss from Dartmouth College. Join us as always from 7-8:30 PM in the Scheuer Room to hear Dr. El-Ariss discuss Water on Fire: A Memoir of War.
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Documentary Screening: Indonesia’s Silent Emergency
It’s a big week for documentaries at PCS! Hot on the heels of Wednesday’s screening of Theaters of War, we’re going to be showing Indonesia’s Silent Emergency: Stunting in Rural Populations, a documentary produced by our very own Nayla Punjabi ’26! Join us at 8pm Thursday, April 10, 2025 in the Intercultural Center Dome Room…
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PCS Spring 2025 Film Series: How to Defeat an Empire: Lessons from Vietnam
Join us for the Peace and Conflict Studies Department’s Spring 2025 Film Series on Wednesday evenings between April 9th and April 30th. Our four films will explore how imperialism, militarism, and police states are normalized through Hollywood and television, who benefits and is harmed by the military industrial complex from the Cold War to the so-called “War on Terror,”…
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Dr. Fida Adely | Working Women in Jordan: Education, Migration, and Aspiration
Our Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change in the Middle East speaker series continues next Monday 4/14 with a book talk by Dr. Fida Adely from Georgetown University. Dr. Adely will be discussing her book Working Women in Jordan: Education, Migration, and Aspiration in the Scheuer Room from 7-8:30 PM. A surprising look at the meaningful…
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Dr. Lara Deeb | Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon
A warm welcome to Dr. Lara Deeb from Scripps College, who will be kicking off our Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change in the Middle East series with a discussion of her book Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon. Join us in the Scheuer Room next Monday 4/7 from 7-8.30pm. Lebanon may be the most…
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Spring Speaker Series: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change in the Middle East
This spring’s PCS speaker series explores the crossroads of gender, sexuality, and social change in the Middle East. Join us in the Scheuer Room every Monday from 7-8.30pm from April 7 to April 21 for a series of book talks from three incredible scholars. APRIL 7 Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon Dr. Lara…