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!
The Peace and Conflict Studies Department is pleased to present this lecture by Dr. Esther Mombo of St. Paul’s University, Kenya.
Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Time: 4:30 – 6:00pm
Location: Intercultural Center, Sproul Hall Room 201 (Dome Room)
Cosponsored by: Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Global Studies, History, Political Science, Religion, Sociology and Anthropology, and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
The Peace and Conflict Studies Department is pleased to present this lecture by Dr. Charles Hirschkind of UC Berkeley.
Date: Monday, September 25, 2023
Time: 4:30 – 6:00pm
Location: Kohlberg Hall, Scheuer Room
Cosponsored by: Global Studies, History, Islamic Studies, Political Science, Religion, Sociology and Anthropology, Spanish, and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
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!