Monthly Archives: December 2012

Web project on Drones

From our friends at the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at Bryn Mawr:

The Solomon Asch Center is starting a web project on drones–how they function in the present and what they may become in the future. This project aims to explore the politics of government use of drones for surveillance and interdiction, private and corporate use of drones; privacy and due process issues raised by use of drones, fifth generation warfare using drones, and any issue relating to how the technology used in drones will play out in the future. The Asch Drone Project seeks contributions from scientists, engineers, social scientists, lawyers, artists, journalists and citizens to provide a multi-faceted online presentation incorporating text essays and visuals relating to drones. An online gallery will display Afghan folk art, fine art, cartoon, and photographic representations of drones. The Project is open to all types of interpretations and opinions, and to any length text from a paragraph to a multipage essay. If you have visuals or links to existing blogs to suggest, or if you are able to write something for the project, please get in touch with Asch Associate Director for Conflict and Visual Culture Initiatives Jonathan Hyman at jhyman@brynmawr.edu and identify your inquiry or submission in the subject field as such: attention Asch Drone Project.

The Asch Drone Project expects to open on the Asch web site (www.aschcenter.org) no later than 1 January 2013. If enough good essays are contributed, authors may be invited to participate in a Special Issue of the journal Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict (www.informaworld.com/dac), edited by Asch Co-Director Clark McCauley.

drone

For a decade the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, now located at Bryn Mawr College, has brought together social scientists from many disciplines-history, political science, psychology, linguistics, economics, law, sociology and anthropology ? to analyze the underlying causes of conflict, how conflict can be managed constructively to avoid widespread violence, and how to ameliorate the refugee problems that flow from intergroup violence.

Dance Lab showing Monday 12/10

Please join the students of DANC 011 for the end-of-semester Dance Lab Showings
Monday, December 10
5:30pm
LPAC Troy Dance Studio
From the students: Throughout Dance Lab I, we worked with various concepts (time, space, rhythm, intention, improvisation) to help us create dance studies throughout the semester . This class has left us with more questions than answers as we sought to find our own unique voices through movement, using these different pathways to spark our discovery. This showing highlights some of the work we created throughout this choreographic process.
Join us Monday to see and discuss the work of students Leanne Browne, Bryan Chen, Daniel Cho, Akure Imes, and Laura Lederman.

Dance Lab showing Monday 12/10

Please join the students of DANC 011 for the end-of-semester Dance Lab Showings
Monday, December 10
5:30pm
LPAC Troy Dance Studio
From the students: Throughout Dance Lab I, we worked with various concepts (time, space, rhythm, intention, improvisation) to help us create dance studies throughout the semester . This class has left us with more questions than answers as we sought to find our own unique voices through movement, using these different pathways to spark our discovery. This showing highlights some of the work we created throughout this choreographic process.
Join us Monday to see and discuss the work of students Leanne Browne, Bryan Chen, Daniel Cho, Akure Imes, and Laura Lederman.

Davis Projects for Peace info session

Davis Projects for Peace

The Davis Projects for Peace award successful recipients — individual students or groups of students — $10,000 to complete a creative, innovative and entrepreneurial project for peace in summer 2013. Funded by Kathryn W. Davis, a lifelong internationalist and philanthropist, the selection process is administered by the Lang Center in association with the Peace and Conflict Studies Program.

In previous years, students have been awarded funds to develop sanitation and hygiene practices in rural Madagascar and to develop an educational program in Bogotá, Colombia.

Students from any class year may apply and projects may be undertaken in Summer 2013, anywhere in the world.

INFORMATION SESSION

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

12:30 PM

Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility

Please RSVP to jmagee1, indicating your pizza preference no later than Monday, December 10.

Directing I Workshop’s Night of Scenes 12/12 & 13

The Department of Theater presents the final projects of directors Swift Shuker-Haines ’14, Anna Russell ’14, Katie Goldman ’14, Josh McLucas ’15,  and Marta Roncada ’14 t (in collaboration with Lighting Design) for the Directing I Workshop Night of Scenes.

Scenes include excerpts from playwrights David Ives, Jan Fosse, Maria Irene Fornes, Jeanette Farr, and David Auburn.
LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater
8PM