Our colleagues over at Haverford College have an announcement about an upcoming lecture:
Kickoff lecture for the Perpetual Peace Project, a collaboration between the Slought Foundation, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, and the Hurford Humanities Center
February 10, 2011; 7:00PM
KINSC Sharpless Auditorium
Contact:
Hurford Humanities Center
610-795-6518
For commentary on the ongoing popular resistance in Egypt, visit this interview with a friend of PCS, Professor Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco and chair of the program in Middle Eastern Studies. Juan Cole’s blog, Informed Comment, is also a helpful resource.
Here is a must-see report on the nonviolent organizing behind the uprising.
For global context on the proliferation of strategic nonviolent action:
Prior to and following the Faculty Dance Concert on Saturday February 5th, there will be a sale of tie and dye and batik fabric to benefit Bohee women’s cooperative in Ghana. Tablecloths, napkins, assorted other items as well as fabric yardage will be available. All funds raised return to the women of this cooperative, located in the village of Dodowa, Ghana. This program was begun by alumna Tamara DeMoor, a Lang Scholar in collaboration with Professor Nii Yartey and Professor Sharon Friedler.
Join the faculty of the Dance program (Department of Music and Dance) for an engaging evening of varied choreography in the Pearson Hall Theatre (Mainstage) of Lang Performing Arts Center on February 5 at 8PM. The program includes Ballet, Modern, Kathak, African, and video dances.
For further information please contact Tara Webb at twebb1@swarthmore.edu or 610.328.8260.
Prior to and following the Faculty Dance Concert on Saturday February 5th, there will be a sale of tie and dye and batik fabric to benefit Bohee women’s cooperative in Ghana. Tablecloths, napkins, assorted other items as well as fabric yardage will be available. All funds raised return to the women of this cooperative, located in the village of Dodowa, Ghana. This program was begun by alumna Tamara DeMoor, a Lang Scholar in collaboration with Professor Nii Yartey and Professor Sharon Friedler.
Join the faculty of the Dance program (Department of Music and Dance) for an engaging evening of varied choreography in the Pearson Hall Theatre (Mainstage) of Lang Performing Arts Center on February 5 at 8PM. The program includes Ballet, Modern, Kathak, African, and video dances.
For further information please contact Tara Webb at twebb1@swarthmore.edu or 610.328.8260.
Thomas Mitchell will speak on “Athenian Democracy: Origins and Ideals” in Science Center 101 on Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 7:30 pm for the eleventh annual Helen North lecture, sponsored by the Office of the President and the Department of Classics. Dr. Mitchell was Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, from 1991-2001. He was a member of the Swarthmore Classics Department from 1966 to 1979, after which he was Professor of Latin and then Provost at Trinity College. A reception will follow and all are welcome.
You may have heard David Hartsough (co-founder of Nonviolent Peaceforce) speak in the Scheuer Room last semester about the historical and ongoing development of nonviolent responses to injustice and global and local social, economic, and environmental problems. Several students expressed an interest in the local chapter of Nonviolent Peaceforce, so the local chapter is holding an information session to share more about the work of the organization and how you can get involved.
Thursday, January 27, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
Keith Room
Swarthmore College
This meeting will provide students with an opportunity to learn about Nonviolent Peaceforce and find out how it facilitates peace in conflicted regions.
Nonviolent Peaceforce is an unarmed, professional civilian peacekeeping force that works in conflict zones worldwide (Current projects in Sri Lanka, Philippines, and Sudan).
The organization’s mission is to build a large-scale, trained, international civilian nonviolent peaceforce. Nonviolent Peaceforce is sent to conflict areas to prevent death and destruction and protect human rights, thus creating the space for local groups to enter into dialogue and to seek peaceful resolution to local conflicts.
View short videos, enjoy conversations with local Nonviolent Peaceforce supporters, and consider how to get involved.
For more information about Nonviolent Peaceforce, please visit www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org
Maps and directions to campus are available at http://www.swarthmore.edu/visitordash/dash_visitors.php
A flyer is attached to this email
Sponsored by Peace and Conflict Studies and the local chapter of Nonviolent Peaceforce
Nationalism, Anarchism, Reform: Understanding Political Islam from the Inside Out
A lecture by James Gelvin
How can the United States identify its true enemies in what George W. Bush called the “Global War on Terror”? How useful and accurate are the labels such as “Islamo-fascist” or “violent extremist” in this task? This talk will lay out a framework for understanding political Islam in all its diversity. That framework is based on a close examination of the rhetorical battle currently being waged amongst Islamists themselves from pulpits and television studios, in print and in cyberspace.
January 21, 2011
12:30-2 PM
Science Center 101
Nationalism, Anarchism, Reform:
Understanding Political Islam
from the Inside Out
James L. Gelvin is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include the social and cultural history of Greater Syria during the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries, Islamic movements, and nationalism in the Arab Middle East. He is author of Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (1998), The Modern Middle East: A History (2004, 2007, 2011), and The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (2005, 2007), along with numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes. He is presently co-editing a volume entitled, Circuits and Networks: Islam and Islamic Communities During the First Age of Globalization: 1815-1914.
Hosted by The Department of History Co-Sponsored by the French section of Modern Languages, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology and Anthropology Departments, and the Islamic Studies, and Peace & Conflict Studies Programs at Swarthmore College and the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania