Tag: human rights
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Peace and Conflict Studies Student Paris Shan ’23 Shares Internship Experience With Advocates For Human Rights
Paris Shan ’23 is a Peace and Conflict Studies minor student at Swarthmore College. This summer, she was actively engaged with the Advocates for Human Rights in an internship. She describes her internship experience with ties to interviews, research, data analysis, and importantly the education she received at Swarthmore and in Peace & Conflict Studies.…
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“Abolishing the Death Penalty with Sister Helen Prejean: Justice, Dignity and Faith”
All are welcome this Wednesday, 2/24, 7-8:30 pm EST for“Abolishing the Death Penalty with Sister Helen Prejean: Justice, Dignity and Faith” a talk and Q&A with one of the country’s leading advocates against capital punishment. Immediately afterwards you can join a conversation with Swarthmore students who provide academic tutoring to incarcerated youth through the Petey Greene…
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Conversation with Max Elbaum, longtime left organizer and author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.
Conversation with Max Elbaum, longtime left organizer and author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. Tuesday April 16th, 7pm Kohlberg Hall, Scheuer Room Swarthmore College (free and open to the public). The third edition of Revolution in the Air was published in 2018 with a new forward by Alicia Garza, one of…
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Humanitarian Predicaments: Protracted Displacement and Palestinian Refugee Politics
Please join us on Wednesday, February 6th for a lecture by Ilana Feldman (Anthropology, George Washington University), who will be visiting campus as part of the “Contending Visions of the Middle East” series. Ilana’s lecture draws from her recently published book “Life Lived In Relief” (University of California Press, 2018). February 6 4:30 – 6:00 PM | SCI…
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Border Walls and the Politics of Becoming Non-Human
“Border Walls and the Politics of Becoming Non-Human” Miriam Ticktin, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility at the New School. Friday, April 21st 2:30 – 4:00 pm Science Center Room 199 Swarthmore College (directions) Abstract: “In this talk I am concerned by the ways in which border walls and zones…
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Jill Stauffer’s Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard
From our friends at Haverford and including our own Prof. Krista Thomason Upcoming GPPC / Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium event: Author Meets Critics: Jill Stauffer’s Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard Saturday, February 25, 2017,1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Philipps Wing, Magill Library, Haverford College Speakers: Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr) Robert Bernasconi (Penn…
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Enforced Disappearance and Ayotzinapa Testimonials
From our friends at Haverford College: Talk: “Enforced Disappearance and Ayotzinapa Testimonials” By Paula Mónaco Felipe and John Gibler Tuesday, October 4 Multicultural Center (Stokes Hall 106) 4:15-6:00PM From dozens of books already published about Ayotzinapa’s disappeared students, John Gibler’s An Oral History of Infamy. The attacks against Ayotzinapa student’s (Spanish) and Paula Mónaco’s Ayotzinapa: Eternal Hours (Spanish) are by…
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Ethical Loneliness – New Book by Jill Stauffer
Congratulations to our colleague, Dr. Jill Stauffer, Director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at Haverford College on the publication of her new book! Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being heard. It is the…
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Science and Compassion: John W. Thompson’s Trajectory From Swarthmore to the Nuremberg Trials
Science and Compassion: John W. Thompson’s Trajectory From Swarthmore to the Nuremberg Trials A lecture by Paul Weindling Wednesday, November 12, 2014 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Kohlberg Hall, Scheuer Room Swarthmore College (directions) Paul Weindling’s lecture will focus on his research contained in his new book, John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of…
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Peace in the Balance: The Struggle for Truth and Justice in El Salvador
A presentation by SHARE El Salvador, Tutela Legal María Julia Hernandez, and the Pro-Historical Memory Commission Wednesday, March 26, 2014 4:30 p.m. Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall Swarthmore College (map) Twenty-two years after the Peace Accords and U.N. Truth Commission Report, Salvadorans struggle to build true peace in a society steeped in violence and impunity. While…