Our hearts are heavy as we follow the ongoing conflict in Palestine/Israel. In the spirit of understanding and dialogue, Peace and Conflict Studies will host a series of lectures on topics ranging from activism and history to arts and culture from leading scholars and practitioners on the region.
We’re excited to host a screening of short videos produced by students from the Peace Praxis Lab!
Curious about Peace and Conflict Studies? Take a study break with us next Monday Oct 9 and snack on sushi and ice cream mochi as you learn about the department!
The PCS Department has partnered with Swarthmore Public Safety and the Stop the Bleed movement on a September 28 on-campus training session preparing bystanders to offer lifesaving care in response to injuries with rapid blood loss.
Thinking about graduate school? Weighing the pros and cons? Not sure what your options are?
Join PCS Department Chair Prof. Sa’ed Atshan for a workshop where he pulls back the curtain around grad school and how to apply!
A huge congratulations to PCS affiliate Dr. Barbara Milewski, a Polish music specialist, who has been awarded the Joyce and Arthur Schechter Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. The fellowship will enable her to spend four months working with the Holocaust Museum’s collections to finish her book on the culture and impact of music-making practices by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps.
As we enter the fall semester, the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies is excited to welcome Dr. L Fahn-Lai (they/them) as our Communications and Creative Consultant. This is an inaugural part-time position for the 2023-2024 academic year.
L comes to us from Harvard University, where they completed a PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in 2021, and more recently a Gates Foundation-funded postdoctoral project looking at hidden structural and behavioral influencing behind tuberculosis and COVID-19 care delivery. As a proud member of the trans/non-binary community who has balanced their academic work with a decade-long freelance career in visual and interactive design, L embodies the department’s commitment to bridging silos of theory and practice in the pursuit of peace.
Prior to their doctorate, L completed their undergraduate education as a double concentrator in International Relations and Human Biology at Brown University, before continuing on to complete an master’s in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, also at Brown. Years working in the spaces between disciplines has impressed on them the importance of openness, curiosity and a willingness to take a step back and re-frame basic norms and assumptions when communicating and collaborating across different communities of practice and inquiry in pursuit of a shared purpose.
L will be supporting the department with communications and creative strategy, and will also be drawing on their experience as a visual designer to advance a series of projects.
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Fahn-Lai to the Peace and Conflict Studies community at Swarthmore!
It is the last week of classes. Peace and Conflict Studies students (and those interested in majoring or minoring) are almost there! Of course, the exam period follows, but it is traditional for us to take a moment to catch our breath together during the reading period. You deserve it!
Let’s gather together on Monday, May 1, to catch up, enjoy some ice cream, and hopefully bask in some fine May weather. Bring a frisbee or beach ball or board game if you like. See you then! (Details below)
Here in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore we are excited to welcome Prof. Sa’ed Atshan back this summer, and students at Bryn Mawr are helping us get warmed up by hosting him on their campus!
Title: Palestinian Christians: Past, Present, Future
Speaker: Dr. Sa’ed Atshan
Date & Time: Monday April 10th at 7:00pm
Location: Bryn Mawr College Carpenter Library Room B-21
Please join Bi-Co Students for Justice in Palestine for a presentation by Dr. Sa’ed Atshan on “Palestinian Christians: Past, Present, Future.” Everyone is welcome and we look forward to seeing you there!
Dr. Atshan is a well-respected professor and public academic. He is a Swarthmore Alum (BA 2006), he earned his Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard-Kennedy School in 2008, his Masters in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 2010, and his PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University in 2013. Dr. Atshan served as an associate professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College (2015-2022) before being recruited to Emory University where he serves as an associate professor of Anthropology and Director of Undergraduate Studies. In the Fall of 2023, Dr. Atshan will return to Swarthmore as the Chair of the Peace and Conflict Studies Department.
Dr. Atshan has also written or co-authored three books: “Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema,” “Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique,” and “The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, and Palestinians.” His research focuses on contemporary Palestinian society, global LGBTQ+ movements, and Christian minorities in the Middle East.
If you would like to learn more about Dr. Atshan’s research and work, consider visiting his website: https://atshan.net/.
Thank you for joining us in giving Dr. Atshan a very warm welcome to Bryn Mawr College!
Registration for the fall semester 2023 is coming up soon, so check out these exciting courses by our outstanding faculty! Flyers with course descriptions for PEAC courses are provided below. Check them out!
