The Department of Theater and the Dance program now have Facebook pages.
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Theater Department:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Swarthmore-College-Department-of-Theater/167097723340268
Dance Program:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Swarthmore-College-Dance-Program/200840063275757
Join us for a brief look at Shavon Norris’ current work, offered by the Swarthmore Project: Window on the Work on March 1st, 2011 in the Troy Dance Lab at 4:30PM.
Shavon Norris is an artist, educator and performer. Originally from New York City, she received a BA from Manhattanville College where she majored in Biology and a Master of Fine Arts in dance from Temple University. Shavon’s work has been presented at many venues and festivals on the East Coast. As a performer she has worked with a variety of artists including Swarthmore alums and professors, Jumatatu Poe and C. Kemal Nance. Shavon teaches school age children to college students, locally and nationally. Shavon’s artistic and educational philosophies are rooted in the desire to give herself, students, performers and audiences opportunities to deepen the understanding of self and the collective. Shavon loves what she does.
Join us for a brief look at Shavon Norris’ current work, offered by the Swarthmore Project: Window on the Work on March 1st, 2011 in the Troy Dance Lab at 4:30PM.
Shavon Norris is an artist, educator and performer. Originally from New York City, she received a BA from Manhattanville College where she majored in Biology and a Master of Fine Arts in dance from Temple University. Shavon’s work has been presented at many venues and festivals on the East Coast. As a performer she has worked with a variety of artists including Swarthmore alums and professors, Jumatatu Poe and C. Kemal Nance. Shavon teaches school age children to college students, locally and nationally. Shavon’s artistic and educational philosophies are rooted in the desire to give herself, students, performers and audiences opportunities to deepen the understanding of self and the collective. Shavon loves what she does.
Within and Between-Culture Variation: Individual Differences and the Cultural Logics of Honor, Face, and Dignity Cultures
Please join the Psychology Department, the Intercultural Center, and the Peace and Conflict Studies Program for a lecture by:
Dov Cohen, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
4:15 p.m. Science Center 101
Swarthmore College
Maps and driving instructions are available
Culture is important because it helps define psychological situations and creates meaningful clusters of behavior according to particular logics. Individual differences are important, because individuals vary in the extent to which they endorse or reject a culture’s ideals. Further, because different cultures are organized by different logics, individual differences mean something different in each. Central to these studies are concepts of honor-related violence and individual worth as being inalienable vs. socially conferred. I illustrate my argument with two experiments involving participants from Honor, Face, and Dignity cultures. The studies showed that the same “type” of person who was most helpful, honest, and likely to behave with integrity in one culture was the “type” of person least likely to do so in another culture. An integrated approach that considers cultural logics and individual differences allows for a more complete picture of both within- and between-culture variation.
Hosted by the Department of Psychology and Co-sponsored by the Intercultural Center and Peace & Conflict Studies Program
Contact: ktimmon1@swarthmore.edu
Haverford will be hosting a teach-in about Egypt next week:
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Please bring your lunch and join us for a Teach In:
Protest and Democracy Movements: Egypt and Beyond
Friday, February 18, 12-2pm
Haverford College Dining Center, Bryn Mawr Room
Roundtable Discussion with:
The Dance Program is holding its first annual POSTER ART CONTEST. We are seeking visual representations of material relevant to Program’s philosophy of “global embodied social change”. The question we ask is: How does dance cross cultural barriers, contexts, and disciplines?
Size: Finished artwork should be 11” x 17”. Please use RGB, 300dpi if you send a digital image. Emailed images should be less than 8MB compressed (JPG or PDF or Photoshop format) or you can drop off a final printed image or a CD/DVD of your artwork in LPAC 4 to Tara Webb, Arts Administrator for Theater and Dance (x8260 or twebb1@swarthmore.edu).
Parameters: Final submission can be a JPG, PDF, or Photoshop project (of a drawing, painting, photo, sculpture or 3D space), a digital graphic design, a screen-print, a typographic exploration, a collage, a drawing, a painting, a photo, a photo montage, or any combination of techniques or processes that exist or that you can invent for a printed announcement. (For the sake of authenticity and copyright we’re requesting that all imagery be original or used with proper permission and that imagery does not violate any law or copyright, trademark, publicity or privacy right.)
One finalist will be chosen as the poster designer for the Student Dance Concert (April 29 and 30) and will receive a small honorarium. ALL submitted materials will be considered for future posters and other Dance Program artwork (with the artists’ permissions). We would also like to invite all interested or participating students to sit in on any of our dance classes for inspirational or sketching purposes. For more information, please contact Tara Webb (twebb1@swarthmore.edu) at x8260.
ALL submissions will be displayed in the LPAC Lobby during Arts Weekend April 16 and 17, 2011 as part of a curated cross-disciplinary exhibition.
Posters will be judged based on clarity of concept (does not necessarily mean simplicity), composition and aesthetics (with hierarchy, typography, color, imagery, etc. considered).
You must include somewhere on the poster the following information (in no particular format):
The Department of Music and Dance
presents the 2011 Spring Student Dance Concert
featuring Ballet, Modern, Tap, African, Kathak, Flamenco
Friday, April 29th and Saturday, April 30th
LPAC Pearson Hall Theatre (Mainstage)
Free and Open to the Public
For more information contact Tara Webb at 610.328.8260 or twebb1@swarthmore.edu.
Deadline: Materials must be completed and submitted NO LATER THAN Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 at 5PM.
The Dance Program is holding its first annual POSTER ART CONTEST. We are seeking visual representations of material relevant to Program’s philosophy of “global embodied social change”. The question we ask is: How does dance cross cultural barriers, contexts, and disciplines?
Size: Finished artwork should be 11” x 17”. Please use RGB, 300dpi if you send a digital image. Emailed images should be less than 8MB compressed (JPG or PDF or Photoshop format) or you can drop off a final printed image or a CD/DVD of your artwork in LPAC 4 to Tara Webb, Arts Administrator for Theater and Dance (x8260 or twebb1@swarthmore.edu).
Parameters: Final submission can be a JPG, PDF, or Photoshop project (of a drawing, painting, photo, sculpture or 3D space), a digital graphic design, a screen-print, a typographic exploration, a collage, a drawing, a painting, a photo, a photo montage, or any combination of techniques or processes that exist or that you can invent for a printed announcement. (For the sake of authenticity and copyright we’re requesting that all imagery be original or used with proper permission and that imagery does not violate any law or copyright, trademark, publicity or privacy right.)
One finalist will be chosen as the poster designer for the Student Dance Concert (April 29 and 30) and will receive a small honorarium. ALL submitted materials will be considered for future posters and other Dance Program artwork (with the artists’ permissions). We would also like to invite all interested or participating students to sit in on any of our dance classes for inspirational or sketching purposes. For more information, please contact Tara Webb (twebb1@swarthmore.edu) at x8260.
ALL submissions will be displayed in the LPAC Lobby during Arts Weekend April 16 and 17, 2011 as part of a curated cross-disciplinary exhibition.
Posters will be judged based on clarity of concept (does not necessarily mean simplicity), composition and aesthetics (with hierarchy, typography, color, imagery, etc. considered).
You must include somewhere on the poster the following information (in no particular format):
The Department of Music and Dance
presents the 2011 Spring Student Dance Concert
featuring Ballet, Modern, Tap, African, Kathak, Flamenco
Friday, April 29th and Saturday, April 30th
LPAC Pearson Hall Theatre (Mainstage)
Free and Open to the Public
For more information contact Tara Webb at 610.328.8260 or twebb1@swarthmore.edu.
Deadline: Materials must be completed and submitted NO LATER THAN Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 at 5PM.
Musicians without Borders was founded in 1999 by Laura Hassler, ’70. The organization is building a global network that uses the power of music in conflict areas for healing, reconciliation and building nonviolent community. Read about their mission and view additional videos on their website.
A Musicians without Borders project with musicians from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Bosnia-Herzegovina:
Roses For Srebrenica, a Musicians without Borders project, “From Woman To Woman”:
Swarthmore hosts the only special collection library and archive in the U.S. collecting materials solely on peace issues, providing us with unique access to specialized books, journals, and archival materials. You can read about the history of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, its holdings, and Jane Addams’s papers in particular in this article in the latest issue of the journal, Peace and Change by two of the Collection’s archivists:
Addison, Barbara E. and Anne M. Yoder. 2011. “Jane Addams and the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.” Peace & Change 36(1):90-96.
(photo credit: Mashahed’s Photos’ under a Creative Commons license)
Swarthmore’s Professor Farha Ghannam (anthropology) was interviewed in a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the important symbolism of Tahrir Square as the popular uprising demanding political reforms and Pres. Mubarak’s resignation continues in Egypt.
