Due to weather conditions, this event has been rescheduled for April 22, 2010.

Black Power Panel

7:00 p.m. Science Center 101

“Black power represents one of the most enduring and controversial stories of racial tumult, social protest, and political upheaval of our time, complete with a cast of tragic and heroic historical characters: Black Muslims, FBI agents, Martin Luther King Jr., Black Panthers, Carmichael, Lyndon B. Johnson, the New Left, and Fidel Castro all play major and minor parts in the era this movement helped define. Black power’s reach was global, spanning continents and crossing oceans.”

– Peniel Joseph, The

Chronicle Review 2006

Panel Participants:

• Prof. Robyn Spencer, History, Lehman College
  • The Black Panther Party’s Evolution in Oakland (work in progress)
• Prof. Christopher Strain, American Studies, Florida Atlantic University
  • Pure Fire: Self?Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era
• Prof. Rhonda Williams, History, Case Western Reserve University, The
  • Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles Against Urban Inequality
• Prof. Yohuru Williams, African American History, Fairfield University,
  • Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven

Sponsored by Black Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Department of Political Science, the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, the Black Cultural Center, and the Dean’s Office for Multicultural Affairs

contact:  Anna Everetts, Programs Office, Swarthmore College, aeveret1@swarthmore.edu

President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and delivered his lecture on 10 December 2009.   You can read the text of the lecture or view a video.

From the Daily Gazette

by ALEX FRIEDFELD, STAFF REPORTER December 3, 2009

Photo by Se Eun Gong

In a lecture Tuesday, Kourouss Esmaeli discussed the Iranian election that occurred on June 12, 2009, its aftermath, and the role technology played in this demonstration of opposition. The lecture, titled “Tweeting in Tehran: Lessons on How to Win (or Lose) a Revolution in the 21st Century,” was sponsored by the History department, in conjunction with Political Science and Religion Departments, Film & Media Studies, Islamic Studies, and Peace & Conflict Studies Programs.

Read the full story in The Daily Gazette.

A podcast of the event is available

Students participating in the college’s off-campus study program in Northern Ireland have had a unique opportunity to work with Swarthmore Visiting Instructor Teya Sepinuck on Theatre of Witness productions at the Playhouse in Derry/Londonderry. An enthusiastic review has been written about the play in the Derry Journal, and you can read more and listen to a podcast with Teya Sepinuck at culturenorthernireland.org Caitlin O’Neill ’10 worked on the production last semester. Samia Abbass ’11 (PCS special major) and Sarah Brajtbord ’11 are working on the production this semester. Devon Novotnak ’11 will be working on a new Theatre of Witness production in the spring.

True stories of silence, secrecy and healing.Theatre of Witness presents ‘We Carried Your Secrets’

By Eamon Baker

‘We Carried Your Secrets’ is a multimedia production which unites a group of fathers who are ex-combatants and who were on the front lines during the Troubles.

Together they share their shadow stories of the conflict, their reasons for actively joining their political group and of their transformation. In his review of this innovative production, local writer EAMONN BAKER says it’s a performance that ‘richly deserves nightly standing ovations’

Read the full story at the Derry Journal website.

The Swarthmore College Bulletin published a feature article last month on The Genocide Intervention Network and alum Mark Hanis ’05.  You can read the full story here.

The Honduran Golpe and Obama’s Latin America: Cuba, the School of the americas, and the Hugo Chavez Socialist Revolution

Dr. Larry Birns

Director, Council on Hemispheric Affairs

SCIENCE CENTER 104

SWARTHMORE COLLEGE

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH AT 4:30

SPONSORED BY STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY,

THE FORUM FOR FREE SPEECH, AND THE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

Guest Lecture: “Tweeting in Tehran: Lessons on How to Win (or Lose) a Revolution in the 21st Century”

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

4:30 PM Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall

by Kouross Esmaili

Recent events in Tehran have revolutionized our use of technology. The city has become an unlikely site to maximize the instantaneous connection that the internet and satellite technologies provide. What was this moment following June 22, 2009 that has become known as Tehran’s Twitter Revolution. What does the recent political unrest in Iran tell us about our own uses of technology, politics, organizing and fighting for justice?

Kouross Esmaili is an Iranian-American filmmaker, producer and independent journalist whose work ranges from documentaries about Iraq, Lebanon and Iran to domestic work about the Jena Six and post-Katrina New Orleans. He has worked for a series of news agencies, including al-Jazeera, Democracy Now, Current TV, and Press TV among others. Additionally, Kouross won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Television Network Documentary from the Radio-Television News Directors Association in 2005 for his work on Iraq for MTV. Kouross is one of the premier voices covering the Iranian elections as well as a producer of the recently launched BoomGen TV, a website dedicated to ????ews for the internationally inclined.

Borderline Belonging: Religious Settlement, Neo-Nationalism and the Politics of Exclusion on the Israeli ‘Frontier’

a talk by

Tamara Neuman

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Peace and Conflict Studies

Bryn Mawr College:

Thursday, November 19

4:30 PM

Science Center 101

The talk is sponsored by the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Program in Peace and Conflict Studies and Islamic Studies Program.

The Solomon Asch Center for study of Ethnopolitical Conflict

Presents a lecture by

Marc Howard Ross

William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor

Department of Political Science

Bryn Mawr College

Cultural Contestation, Visual Culture and Ethnic Conflict in the Contemporary World

To examine the dynamics of culture and conflict, we need to consider the narratives, metaphors and visual representations that frame a group’s worldviews in general and understanding of specific conflict events in particular. Group narratives and a society’s symbolic landscape vary in terms of their inclusivity/exclusivity and serve multiple functions in conflict as reflectors, exacerbaters or inhibitors and causes of conflict.

Tuesday, 17 November, 2009

Refreshments will be served

A downloadable poster is available.

Directions.

For more information visit www.aschcenter.org, or email aschcenter@brynmawr.edu

“THE U.S. MILITARY HAS NOT RECENTLY INTERVENED IN LATIN AMERICA”: FALSE

SCI 199

Tuesday 3rd November

7:00-8:30 pm

Speaker: Linda Panetta, Representative of the Philadelphia SOA Watch

The School of the Americas (SOA) in 2001 renamed the “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC),” is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers located in Ft. Benning, Georgia.

Over its 59 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers.

Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the SOA.

The recent military coup in Honduras was lead by SOA graduates.

(Info adapted from www.soaw.org)

Sponsored by SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)