Tag: Northern Ireland
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Northern Ireland study abroad interest lunch with David Tombs
STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSION Semester in Northern Ireland Program Please join Professor David Tombs for lunch Thursday, November 21st, Noon, Sharples #5 Professor David Tombs, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation for the Irish School of Ecumenics, will meet with interested students and answer questions. The program provides students a unique opportunity to study…
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Mural launch at Swarthmore College
Mellon Creative Residency Mural Launch Tuesday, November 12, 2013 12:00 Noon Science Center Wall closest to DuPont Parking Lot (Directions) The large mural being painted on Swarthmore’s campus by Mellon Creative Resident, David “Dee” Craig, will be launched on TUESDAY, November 12 at 12:00 NOON on the southeast corner of the Swarthmore College Science Center…
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Public Conversation with mural artist Dee Craig
We would like to thank the crowd of over 50 swarthmore faculty, staff, and students who attended the public conversation with Dee Craig on Thursday afternoon in McCabe Library. We appreciated the thoughtful dialogue and we look forward to much more of the same over the coming weeks of Dee’s residency at the Tri-Colleges. Many…
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Follow the Tri-College Creative Residency via Storify on our blog.
You can follow developments in the Tri-College Creative Residency via this blog post. More information about the residency, including upcoming events is available at http://bit.ly/swatcraig. You may also follow the residency directly at http://bit.ly/craigstory [View the story “Creative Mural Arts Residency at Swarthmore College” on Storify]
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Northern Ireland Mural Artist begins Creative Residency at the Tri-Colleges
As students, faculty, and staff return from Fall Break, they will be joined by a visiting mural artist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. David ‘Dee’ Craig will take up a Mellon Creative Residency for one month during the fall semester 2013. Mr. Craig’s visit follows a visit to Swarthmore College by the Bogside Artists in 2008 and…
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An invitation to help conceptualize a mural on campus
For Swarthmore students, staff, and faculty: As part of the Mellon-funded Tri-College Creative Residencies Program, David “Dee” Craig, a mural artist from Belfast, Northern Ireland, will come to the Tri-Colleges for a month-long residency immediately following Fall Break. Part of the residency will involve painting a mural on our campus, and we would like to…
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The passing of a poet: Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013
We join with so many others around the world today in grieving the loss of 1995 Nobel Poet Laureate and 1994 Swarthmore honorary degree recipient, Seamus Heaney. He was aged 74. In some of his work, Heaney expressed the deep grief generated by violent conflict in Northern Ireland and nurtured the possibility of hard-won peace.…
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Belfast Mural Artist to take up Tri-college Creative Residency in Fall 2013
This past spring, Prof. Lee Smithey successfully applied with a range of partners to bring Belfast-based mural artist, David ‘Dee’ Craig, to the Tri-Colleges for a month-long residency during the fall semester 2013. Mr. Craig’s visit follows a visit by the Bogside Artists in 2008. Mr. Craig hails from East Belfast, but he has painted…
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Transforming Ethnopolitical Conflict course aligns with visiting mural artist residency
Drop-add has begun, and spots are available in Professor Lee Smithey’s course, Transforming Intractable Conflict (SOCI 025B). This course is registered in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology but can also be counted toward a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. How can long-term deadly conflicts between groups with opposing ethnic identities change in ways…
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Duncan Morrow on 35 Years of Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
Lessons for Peacebuilders: Northern Ireland and 35 Years of Community Relations Work Dr. Duncan Morrow The University of Ulster Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:15 – 5:30 p.m. Science Center 183 Swarthmore College (Maps and directions) (Download a flyer) Dr. Duncan Morrow served for a decade as the Executive Director of the Northern Ireland Community Relations…