Tag: violence
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Iraq Afterwar(d)s: Epistemic Violence and Collateral Damage
The Peace and Conflict Studies Department is pleased to be a co-sponsor of this talk, featuring Iraqi Novelist and Poet Sinan Antoon, taking place at Swarthmore College. Title: Iraq Afterwar(d)s: Epistemic Violence and Collateral DamageSpeaker: Sinan Antoon, Iraqi novelist and poet.Date & Time : April 25th, Tuesday, 4:30 – 6:30 pmLocation: Kohlberg Scheuer Room*This event is open to the public. This talk…
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Peace and Conflict Studies Film Series – Spring 2023
Please join the Peace and Conflict Studies Department for its Spring 2023 Film Series. Five films will explore the evolution of militarism and the role of art and personal narratives in overcoming violence, trauma, and conflict. All film screenings will be held at Singer 033 starting at 4:30 p.m. The screenings are followed by debrief…
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4 Little Girls: A Film by Spike Lee
Fifty-eight years ago, a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, was destroyed by white supremacists in an act of terrrorism on a Sunday morning in September. Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. Sproul/Intercultural Center Dome RoomSwarthmore College (map) Join us for a screening and community-wide discussion of the academy-award nominated documentary by Spike Lee, 4…
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Webinar on the Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements
On November 15, 2018, Prof. Lee Smithey joined his co-editor and colleague, Prof. Lester Kurtz (George Mason University) to talk about their new edited book, The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements (Syracuse University Press). The webinar was recorded, and you are welcome to view it here. The Communications Office, also published a piece on…
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Writing from the Wound: Literature and Disenchantment in Postwar Central America
“Writing from the Wound: Literature and Disenchantment in Postwar Central America” Nanci Buiza, Assistant Professor of Spanish Tuesday, December 12th, 4:15 PM McCabe Library Atrium Open to the Public Professor Buiza will examine how contemporary Central American writers have made literary art out of a heritage of violence, trauma, and social disaffection. Torn by decades…
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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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Doctors of the Revolution: Medicine and Violence in Egypt’s Tahrir Square
Doctors of the Revolution: Medicine and Violence in Egypt’s Tahrir Square Dr. Soha Bayoumi (Harvard University) Dr. Sherine Hamdy (Brown University) Friday, April 14, 2017 4:30pm Science Center 199 Swarthmore College Organized by Peace and Conflict Studies and Co-Sponsored by Arabic, Biology, Health and Societies Program, Islamic Studies, Political Science, Pre-Med Office, Sociology and Anthropology, Lang…
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Fighting Gender-Based Violence: A Discussion With Urmi Basu
FIGHTING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: A DISCUSSION WITH URMI BASU Learn about and meet one of the most inspiring woman in non-profit work today with a series of events! Urmi Basu, founder of nonprofit New Light, is a fighter for social justice and the marginalized community of sex workers and women in prostitution. Based in Kolkata, India,…
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David Kennedy ’80 to speak on an applied ethics of crime control
“What if criminal justice had a Hippocratic Oath? Toward an applied ethics of crime control” David Kennedy ‘80 Director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City April 14, 2014 2:00-3:30 p.m. Science Center 199 Swarthmore College (directions) Download a flyer (follow the link,…
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Visual Anthropology and State Violence in Jamaica
Black History Month Keynote Speaker Please join us on Wednesday, February 12th from 4:30 pm -5:45 pm in the Scheuer Room of Kohlberg for the annual Black History Month Keynote lecture given by Dr. Deborah Thomas, anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania. The title of her lecture is, “The Time of the Archive: Visual Anthropology…