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  • Visiting Lang Professor Denise Crossan Touts Social Entrepreneurship

    By Ryan Dougherty September 9th, 2015 Swarthmore College website Is social entrepreneurship an oxymoron? It has been for many philanthropists, who worry that building a business model will compromise their mission, and for businesspersons who deem the social part too “touchy feely.” But that’s changing, says Denise Crossan. “Increasingly, I have students and community members…

  • Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and why antisemitism poses a challenge for the Left

    We would like to share this announcement about an upcoming event that may be of interest: Please join us for a talk by Moishe Postone, the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of History at the University of Chicago, on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. On the basis of a reading of Marx’s social epistemology, Dr. Postone will…

  • Magda and Andre Trocme and Nonviolent Resistance

    As part of our recognition of International Peace Day this year: Two Pacifists and Their Way of Life: Magda and Andre Trocme and Nonviolent Resistance Thursday, September 20, 2012 7:30 p.m. Scheuer Room Richard Unsworth, author of A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon, the Holocaust and the Lives of Andre and Magda Trocme (Syracuse University…