In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jane Addams (Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1931), historian and Swat alum. Barbara Sicherman ’55 will talk about her recently published book, Well Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women. The generation of women who grew up in America’s first Gilded Age left an extraordinary record of public achievement-as physicians and scientists, educators and social scientists. Inspired by their reading (not only what they ready, but how and with whom), often lost-and found- themselves in treasured books and worked out a life purpose around them.
Date: Monday, April 19, 2010
Place: McCabe Popular Reading Room
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Reception and book signing to follow the talk
Accompanying exhibit of books which inspired Jane Addams
Contact: Wendy E. Chmielewski wchmiel1@swarthmore.edu
“The mission of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection is to gather, preserve, and make accessible material that documents non-governmental efforts for nonviolent social change, disarmament, and conflict resolution between peoples and nations.”
Flim Viewing & Talk ((w/snacks!)) by Judith Trustone
@ 6:30p in Kohlberg 116
Award winning author, activist and filmmaker, Judith Trustone is the founder and director of Sagewriters, which, in addition to advocating for human rights, has published a dozen books of literary and social merit about America’s justice system. Sagewriters grew out of her creative writing classes in prisons. Her documentaries have been shown on public television and at universities nationally. Judith is leading Community Kindness Circles every month in Swarthmore, PA town hall in addition to in shelters, organizations and corporations. For those in prison or in other locations, she created the Virtual Kindness Circle where every Saturday at 4:00 pm eastern, where participants sit in quiet and visualize their interconnectedness with each other. Her film and talk will center on art, music, profiles, interviews with families and advocates as well as music by those who once were in prison and have now become successful. The talk will be followed by a short (snack) break, after which there will be a Community Kindness Circle to enable participants to ‘soothe their souls’.
— Tuesday, April 20 —
“The War in Iraq: Politics and Personal Experiences”
Talk by Raed Jarrar
@ 7:30 pm, Science Center 199
Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi political analyst and consultant to AFSC’s Iraq Program currently based in Washington, D.C. After the U.S.-led invasion, Jarrar became the country director for CIVIC Worldwide, the only door-to-door casualty survey group in post-war Iraq. He then established Emaar, (meaning “reconstruction” in Arabic), a grassroots organization that provided humanitarian and political aid to Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDPs). Emaar delivered medicine and food as well as helped initiate micro-enterprise projects for IDPs. Additionally, Emaar engaged in political advocacy on behalf of displaced populations. Raed Jarrar will be speaking about his personal experiences during the war in Iraq and his thoughts on the Iraqi elections.
— Wednesday, April 21 —
“A Conversation on Taxes, Peace Making & Conscientious Objection to War”
Talk by Robin Harper
@ 7:30 pm, Science Center 199
Robin Harper is a recently retired carpenter and home repair specialist. He performed civilian alternative service as a Conscientious Objector during the Korean War, has been active in the peace movement during his adult years, and was the head of maintenance on the staff of Pendle Hill for a decade. As a pioneer of the war-tax redirection movement during the 1960s, Robin Harper has twice prevailed in civil cases against the IRS in U.S. district court in Philadelphia and successfully re-directed the portion of his income tax that goes to pay for war to charitable organizations around the world. Why and how has he been successful in his tussle with the fearsome IRS? How can we resist the conscription of our tax money to pay for war? Join us to find out.
— Thursday, April 22 —
“The Iraqi Refugee Crisis in Syria”
Talk by Dr. Mazhar Rishi
@ 7:30 pm, Kohlberg Scheuer Room
Dr. Mazhar Rishi was born in Karachi, Pakistan and emigrated to the U.S. in 1984. After completing his medical education at the George Washington University in Washington D.C. and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Dr. Rishi has served the U.S. Air Force both on active duty and active reserves. Dr. Rishi has taught both civilian and military medical students and physicians at various academic institutions. In addition, he has written several research articles and has received faculty teaching awards. He is currently on the faculty of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland and also practices pathology in Delaware Valley. Dr. Mazhar Rishi is dedicated to humanitarian work, interfaith dialogue and peace activism. He will be speaking about the Iraqi Refugee Crisis in Syria.
— Friday, April 23 —
FILM SCREENING
“Marathon Beirut: For the Love of Lebannon”
@ 7:00 pm, Sci Center 199
For more information, please visit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1316065/
— Saturday, April 24 —
<<TENTATIVE: Star-lit Peace Walk>>
— Sunday, April 25 —
FILM SCREENING:
“Bringing Down a Dictator”
@ 7:00 pm, Sci Center 101
For more information, please visit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799956/
AMAZING T-SHIRTS WILL BE SOLD DURING THE WEEK TO RAISE FUNDS FOR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS.
PENNIES FOR PEACE BOXES WILL BE PLACED IN SHARPLES, PARRISH & MCCABE DURING THE WEEK TO RAISE FUNDS FOR BUILDING SCHOOLS FOR UNDER-PRIVILEGED CHILDREN IN AGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN.*
For more information, check out http://www.penniesforpeace.org/
About the company: Courtyard Dancers, a diverse body of performers, creates and stages contemporary Indian dance theater based on classical Indian and folk dance forms. Our mission is to explore through our works the interdependence between art, life, and labor. In this, we are interested in developing a socially engaged community of artists and audiences who experience art and culture both in political and aesthetics terms. We juxtapose the beauty of the classical forms with pedestrian movements, everyday gestures, utterances, and text to create our own collage of life. We draw on the expressive power of Indian dances to narrate stories of the under-represented and the marginal, the quotidian, and the mundane to evoke dramatic and powerful images of ordinary life. Through our dance theater, we strive for sustainable and pluralistic communities that can acknowledge and bridge differences.
About the company: Courtyard Dancers, a diverse body of performers, creates and stages contemporary Indian dance theater based on classical Indian and folk dance forms. Our mission is to explore through our works the interdependence between art, life, and labor. In this, we are interested in developing a socially engaged community of artists and audiences who experience art and culture both in political and aesthetics terms. We juxtapose the beauty of the classical forms with pedestrian movements, everyday gestures, utterances, and text to create our own collage of life. We draw on the expressive power of Indian dances to narrate stories of the under-represented and the marginal, the quotidian, and the mundane to evoke dramatic and powerful images of ordinary life. Through our dance theater, we strive for sustainable and pluralistic communities that can acknowledge and bridge differences.
Sponsored by the departments of Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology & Anthropology
/Religious Conflicts and Toleration in Today's Europe
/
Lorenzo Zucca, Ph.D.
School of Law
King's College, London
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
5:00 p.m.
Trotter 303
Swathmore College
Sponsored by the departments of Philosophy, Political Science,
Religion and Sociology & Anthropology
Religious Conflicts and Toleration in Today's Europe
Lorenzo Zucca, Ph.D.
School of Law
King's College, London
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
5:00 p.m.
Trotter 303
Swathmore College
Sponsored by the departments of Philosophy, Political Science,
Religion and Sociology & Anthropology
Everyone is welcome!
Everyone is welcome!
Prof. Andrew Ward serves on the Peace and Conflict Studies committee, in an upcoming lecture, he will address important issues related to our program including aggression and intergroup conflict, prejudice and stereotyping, and prosocial action
Five Big Ideas: Insights from Social Pscyhology
Andrew Ward
Associate Professor of Psychology
4:30 p.m., Wednesday April 21 , 2010
Scheuer Room
The talk will explore five enduring insights of social psychology – foundational lessons relevant to a broad array of human behaviors – both “negative” (aggression and intergroup conflict, overeating and smoking, prejudice and stereotyping) and “positive” (prosocial action, educational achievement, successful impression management). Implications for a host of fields, including those in the humanities and natural sciences, will be discussed.
Please join us as the Department of Theater presents: Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) by Federico Garcìa Lorca
Fri & Sat, April 16 & 17, 2010 at 8 pm
Sun, April 18, 2010 at 3 pm
Frear Ensemble Theater
Lang Performing Arts Center
Free and open to the public
Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) is the Honors Directing Thesis of McFeely Sam Goodman ’10. The production features a new English language adaptation by the director.
Federico Garcìa Lorca’s Bodas de sangre is a play of poetry and passion that draws on traditions of Spanish folklore and Spanish surrealism. When the Bride, engaged to the Groom but in love with Leonardo, the son of an enemy family, runs off with Leonardo on the wedding night, the Groom must pursue them into the forest where the chase reaches its bloody conclusion. The Groom’s Mother, who has already lost a son and a husband to the blood feud between her family and Leonardo’s, predicts the events of the play with a combination of dread and perverse satisfaction.
Set in a bizarre Las Vegas wedding chapel that is both futuristic and evocative of movie theaters of the ‘20s and ‘30s, this production follows a group of punkish neo-flappers driven by the same deadly passions that curse Lorca’s protagonists as they live their own disastrous wedding through Lorca’s text.
McFeely Sam Goodman ‘10 directs the production. Original music is composed and directed by Jamie Birney ‘10. The design team includes: Tara Nova Webb ’94 (set and media); Samantha Panepinto ’13 (costumes); James P. Murphy (lighting); Daniel Perelstein ’09 (sound); and Logan Tiberi-Warner ’11 (hair and make-up). Logan Tiberi Warner ’11 also worked as dramaturg on the production. Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) features Jane Lief Abell ’11, Jamie Birney ’10, Nell Bang-Jensen ’11, Melissa Cruz ’10, Nolan Gear ’12, McFeely Jackson Goodman ’13, Eric Holzhauer ’10, Sirkka Natti ’11, Anna Ramos ’13, Miriam Rich ’11, and Carson Young ’10. The faculty advisor is K. Elizabeth Stevens.
All performances are free and open to the public without advance reservations. For further information about the production, contact Liza Henty-Clark at (610) 328-8260 or lclark1@swarthmore.edu.
Please join us for Open Door Classes in the Dance Program, Wednesday-Friday, April 14-16, in the dance studios on the ground floor of Lang Performing Arts Center. These classes are meant to give current and prospective students a peak into Dance Program offerings. Students and interested faculty and staff are welcome to take full classes, or stop by and watch for however long your schedule permits. The schedule is as follows:
WEDNESDAY
11:30AM – 1PM, Yoga, LPAC 2, K. Arrow *
11:30AM – 1PM, Ballet III, LPAC 3, J. Sherman *
1:15- 4PM, Anatomy for Performers, LPAC 2, S. Hess **
4:30- 6PM, Modern I, LPAC 3, K. Arrow *
4:30- 6PM, Modern II, LPAC 2, J. Poe *
6 – 7PM, Tap, LPAC 3, L. Davis *
7 – 8:30 PM, African Dance I, LPAC 2, J. Osayande *
8:30 – 10PM, African Dance II, LPAC 2, K. Nance *
THURSDAY
11:30AM – 1PM, Ballet II, LPAC 3, J. Sherman *
11:30AM – 1PM, Contact Improv, LPAC 2, L. Stein *
1:15 – 2:30PM, Dancing Desire in Bollywood Films, Lang Music Building 204, P. Chakravorty **
3 – 4:30PM, Ballet I, LPAC 3, J. Sherman *
4:30 – 6PM , Kathak (Indian Dance), LPAC 2, P. Chakravorty *
4:30 – 6PM, Modern III, LPAC 3, J. Poe *
6 – 9PM , Kathak (Indian Dance) Repertory, LPAC 2, P. Chakravorty **
FRIDAY
12:30-2PM, Modern Rep Laboratory, LPAC 3, J. Poe **
2:15 – 5PM, Taiko, LPAC 2, K. Arrow **
*Open for participation or observation
**Open for observation only
We look forward to seeing you in class! If you are planning to participate in a class, please contact the instructor about appropriate attire.
Please join us for Open Door Classes in the Dance Program, Wednesday-Friday, April 14-16, in the dance studios on the ground floor of Lang Performing Arts Center. These classes are meant to give current and prospective students a peak into Dance Program offerings. Students and interested faculty and staff are welcome to take full classes, or stop by and watch for however long your schedule permits. The schedule is as follows:
WEDNESDAY
11:30AM – 1PM, Yoga, LPAC 2, K. Arrow *
11:30AM – 1PM, Ballet III, LPAC 3, J. Sherman *
1:15- 4PM, Anatomy for Performers, LPAC 2, S. Hess **
4:30- 6PM, Modern I, LPAC 3, K. Arrow *
4:30- 6PM, Modern II, LPAC 2, J. Poe *
6 – 7PM, Tap, LPAC 3, L. Davis *
7 – 8:30 PM, African Dance I, LPAC 2, J. Osayande *
8:30 – 10PM, African Dance II, LPAC 2, K. Nance *
THURSDAY
11:30AM – 1PM, Ballet II, LPAC 3, J. Sherman *
11:30AM – 1PM, Contact Improv, LPAC 2, L. Stein *
1:15 – 2:30PM, Dancing Desire in Bollywood Films, Lang Music Building 204, P. Chakravorty **
3 – 4:30PM, Ballet I, LPAC 3, J. Sherman *
4:30 – 6PM , Kathak (Indian Dance), LPAC 2, P. Chakravorty *
4:30 – 6PM, Modern III, LPAC 3, J. Poe *
6 – 9PM , Kathak (Indian Dance) Repertory, LPAC 2, P. Chakravorty **
FRIDAY
12:30-2PM, Modern Rep Laboratory, LPAC 3, J. Poe **
2:15 – 5PM, Taiko, LPAC 2, K. Arrow **
*Open for participation or observation
**Open for observation only
We look forward to seeing you in class! If you are planning to participate in a class, please contact the instructor about appropriate attire.
Kim Arrow’s videography MOCEAN received an award for the “Most Creative” category from films selected to be screened for Earth Hour 2010 on March 27th in Cairns, Australia. Sponsors include World Wildlife Fund, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Cairns Regional Council, and Ergon Energy.
Earth Hour was a global effort involving an estimated one billion people who came together with recognition of climate change by turning off their lights for one hour.
The award winning entries are now available to view on YouTube via the Earth Hour FNQ channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/EarthHourFNQ
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jane Addams (Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1931), historian and Swat alum. Barbara Sicherman ’55 will talk about her recently published book, Well Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women. The generation of women who grew up in America’s first Gilded Age left an extraordinary record of public achievement-as physicians and scientists, educators and social scientists. Inspired by their reading (not only what they ready, but how and with whom), often lost-and found- themselves in treasured books and worked out a life purpose around them.
