Tag: sociology
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Holding Tension – Making a Place at the Table for Continuing Revelation
This year’s Stephen G. Cary Memorial Lecture at Pendle Hill will be delivered by Swarthmore’s own Prof. Sarah Willie-LeBreton! Stephen G. Cary Memorial Lecture 2018 “Holding Tension – Making a Place at the Table for Continuing Revelation” by Sarah Willie-LeBreton April 2, 2018 7:30pm-9:00pm in the Barn at Pendle Hill. In this talk, I assume…
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Witnessing Palestine: Reflections of a Daughter of Holocaust Survivors
Witnessing Palestine: Reflections of a Daughter of Holocaust Survivors Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:15 PM Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall, Swarthmore College (directions) Come hear Eve Spangler’s story as a daughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors ) who became a scholar in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. Eve Spangler, associate professor of Sociology at Boston College, serves…
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Racialized-Gendered Partition and Dissensus in Bahrain’s Pearl Revolution
Frances S. Hasso, Associate Professor in Women’s Studies and Sociology at Duke University, will give a talk entitled: “Racialized-Gendered Partition and Dissensus in Bahrain’s Pearl Revolution” October 20, 2014 at 4:30 p.m. Science Center Room 199 This paper examines the co-production and “interarticulation” of racializing/sectarian and gendering dynamics in Bahrain as longstanding conflict between the…
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Lee Smithey to speak during Garnet Weekend
Culture and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland Lee Smithey Associate professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Coordinator, Peace and Conflict Studies Program Saturday, October 27, 2012 3:00-4:00 p.m. Science Center 199 As part of Garnet Weekend 2012, Lee Smithey will offer a faculty talk based on his recent book, Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in…
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Islam: Reform and Revival
From our friends at Haverford: A one-day symposium on “Islam: Reform and Revival.” This will be an opportunity to share in the reflections of four distinguished participants in current debates about the nature of Islam (sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and the Distinguished Visitor’s Committee). On Thursday, 8 December, in Stokes…