Tag: pacifism
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Stanley Hauerwas to speak on “light”
“How to think about light theologically” A lecture by Dr. Stanley Hauerwas Where: Bond Memorial Hall at Swarthmore College (directions) When: Monday, February 23rd at 7:00 pm Dr. Stanley Hauerwas is perhaps the most famous American ethicist-theologian alive today. Dr. Hauerwas is currently the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of theological ethics at Duke Divinity School…
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Conscientious Objectors Serving the Mentally Ill During World War II
Behind the Gates: Conscientious Objectors Serving the Mentally Ill During World War II Friday, October 4, 2:30 pm McCabe’s Popular Reading Room, Main Floor Swarthmore College Open to the Public. Directions to campus. Wendy Chmielewski, Curator of the Peace Collection, [and a member of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program steering committee] will talk about…
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Quaker Public Policy Institute and Lobby Day
Any Peace and Conflict Studies folks interested in an opportunity to “lobby your member of Congress for a more moral federal budget”? The Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Quaker Public Policy Institute and Lobby Day is coming up November 15-16, 2012. Find more information at http://fcnl.org/events/annual_meeting/Lobby2012 UPDATE 10/31/12: Young Adult Friends who are members of a Philadelphia Yearly…
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Michael Doyle to speak on Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler
“Radical Chapters: How Pacifist Roy Kepler Changed the World” Popular Reading Room, McCabe Library, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Thursday, October 25, 2012 Maps and directions to campus Kepler’s Bookstore in Menlo Park, CA was long the hub of literary bohemians, counterculture musicians, and those in search of a good read. It was one of…
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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…