Tag: violence
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Press Release for Tombs lecture on the Cross and Sexualized Violence
The Scandal of the Cross: Sexualised Violence, Silence and Crucifixion SWARTHMORE – 20 November, 2013 – How contemporary reports of torture and sexualised violence can offer new understanding of the crucifixion will be explored at a public talk at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 at 4:15 p.m. in the Scheuer Room of…
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Tweeting on gun violence prevention
Students in the course PEAC 077 “Peace Studies and Action” partnered with the local gun violence reporting organization, guncrisis.org over the spring semester 2013. In the spirit of “process journalism” that guncrisis journalists employ, our class made announcements, shared resources, and offered comments on gun violence prevention over the course of the semester using a…
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GunCrisis.org: Seeking Solutions to Gun Violence in Philadelphia with Digital Journalism
A public lecture sponsored by our friends at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility “GunCrisis.org: Seeking Solutions to Gun Violence in Philadelphia with Digital Journalism” Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 4:30-5:30 p.m. Scheuer Room Swarthmore College Maps and Directions Download a flyer Jim MacMillan Former Journalist-in-Residence for War News Radio and Manager of Media…
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Trauma and Violence in Postwar Central American Literature
The Spanish Program Department of Modern Languages and Literatures presents SHE-DEVIL IN THE MIRROR: TRAUMA AND VIOLENCE IN POSTWAR CENTRAL AMERICAN LITERATURE A Lecture by Nanci Buiza Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish, Emory University Monday, January 28, 2013 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Kohlberg 116 All lectures will be given in English, by a candidate for the…
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Amelia Hoover Green ’03 on Preventing Wartime Violence Against Civilians
How Swarthmore Built My Dataset by Amelia Hoover Green ’03 It’s almost time for my ten-year Swarthmore reunion! When people ask me about having kids — a seemingly inevitable, if highly uncool, side effect of being a decade out of college — I will probably point them toward my only child (so far), the Armed…
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Prof Jim MacMillan launches guncrisis.org
Many of you will know or will have taken “Peace and Conflict Journalism” with Visiting Assistant Professor, Jim MacMillan, who teaches Peace and Conflict Journalism and serves as the Journalist in Residence for War News Radio, Lodge6.org, and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility. Jim is turning his decades of experience as a…
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David Kennedy ’80 to speak on violence prison and race
David Kennedy ’80, author of Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America, will give a public lecture, free and open to the public: “From Swarthmore to the Streets: Learning to Understand and Undo America’s Worst Problems of Violence, Prison, and Race” Wednesday, April 18th, 7 p.m., Science…