Tag: politics
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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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Militant Buddhism, Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, and Politics in Sri Lanka
A Talk on Militant Buddhism, Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, and Politics in Sri Lanka “The Politics and the Anti-politics of the Bodu Bala Sena in Sri Lanka” A Talk by Tudor Silva Senior Professor of Sociology University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 4:30 Thursday October 30 2014 Bond Memorial Hall Swarthmore College Professor Silva’s talk will focus…
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Troubled Political Transitions: A Perspective from Egypt
Ann Mosely Lesch ’66, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, American University in Cairo, will present the 2014 Islamic Studies Annual Lecture, “Troubled Political Transitions: A Perspective from Egypt”. Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4:30 pm, Science Center Room 199 Swarthmore College Three years ago, Egyptians rose up to remove Hosni Mubarak’s corrupt authoritarian regime. Since then,…
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Egypt’s Constitutional Quagmires: Pursuing Reform in Precarious Times
From our friends in the Arabic Section and Islamic Studies: “Egypt’s Constitutional Quagmires: Pursuing Reform in Precarious Times.” Tamer Nagy Mahmoud Monday, March 31 at 4:30PM Science Center 101 Swarthmore College In this talk Tamer Nagy Mahmoud will discuss Egypt’s present crisis from the perspective of constitutional law. Tamer spent much of the last few…
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Practicing Impolite Conversations: Talking About Race, Religion, Politics, and Everything Else
The final, culminating event of the Critical Examinations of “Community” series will be a lecture and public discussion led by the remarkable anthropologist John L. Jackson, Richard Perry Professor of Communication, Africana Studies and Anthropology; University of Pennsylvania. Wednesday March 26, 2014 at 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Science Center 101 Swarthmore College (map) A cultural anthropologist…
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Wendy Chmielewski awarded honorable mention for historical research on women in politics
Dr. Wendy Chmielewski, a member of the Peace and Conflict Studies steering committee has been awarded a 2013 honorable mention award for the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics from Iowa State University for her ongoing project, Her Hat Was in the Ring: U.S. Women Elected to Political Office Before 1920. From…
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Wendy Chmielewski awarded fellowship at Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History
We are happy to announce that Dr. Wendy Chmielewski, Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection and a member of the Peace and Conflict Studies steering committee, has been awarded a fellowship from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History to conduct further research in support of the project: “Her Hat Was in the Ring: U.S. Women…
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Michael Walzer on Politics, Justice, and Jewish Thought
Monday, March 18th, 2013 Q & A session at 4:15 pm, Kohlberg Scheuer Room Lecture at 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Science Center 101 Michael Walzer, emeritus professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey is one of the most renowned living political philosophers. Walzer’s pioneering work on justice, communitarianism, just war…
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Identity Formation in Nonviolent Struggle
Professor Smithey has contributed a chapter on “Identity Formation in Nonviolent Struggle” to a new book edited by Maciej Bartkowski, Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles. (Lynne Rienner Publishers) Smithey’s chapter serves as a theoretical primer on the social movement literature on collective identities and the under-explored connections with strategic action. Other chapters cover…