February 8: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict as Reflected in Propaganda Images

The long, drawn-out Ethnopolitical conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians has long been waged through a war of words and images. In an illustrated lecture, Professor Angus Kress Gillespie of Rutgers University reviews how the battle of propaganda has been played out. Both sides have tried to implant the most beneficial images into western media in order to win over western minds.

This lecture is part of the Asch series on Conflict and Visual Culture.

4:15-5:30pm, February 8, 2010
Carpenter Library, Room 21
Bryn Mawr College

Poster

Directions

Join us for the Faculty and Friends Dance Concert this Sat, Feb 6!

The Swarthmore College Department of Music and Dance invites you to join us for:

The Faculty and Friends Dance Concert
Saturday, February 6, 2010
8 pm
Pearson-Hall Theatre
Lang Performing Arts Center

The concert is in honor of the people of Haiti. Donations will be collected for earthquake relief efforts before and after the concert. The performance will feature an exciting variety of works by faculty and alumni.

Group work includes a female quartet choreographed by Sharon Friedler, inspired by the sculpture of Phillip Stern ’84, with live harp music played by Johanna Bond ’10. C. Kemal Nance ’92 will surprise us with a new duet based in the Umfundalai African dance tradition, while Jumatatu Poe ’04 and Joe Small ’05 have crafted a duet melding post-modern dance techniques and Taiko rhythms. The Lenny Seidman Tabla Choir offers a new composition based on a nearly extinct North Indian drumming tradition. Dancer Liza Henty-Clark ’03 will join pianist Christopher Henty-Clark in a dance homage to pregnancy and birth.

Solos include a work depicting the aesthetic and political dimensions of Kathak dance and Ghazal poetry, choreographed and danced by Pallabi Chakravorty. Sally Hess will treat us to a solo inspired by the ceremonial actions of a Japanese tea ceremony. And Jeannine Osayande offers an excerpt from a dance-theater work that uses the communicative power of dance to share her experiences as a fourth generation African-American raised in Swarthmore. Finally, Kim Arrow will share a dance film created during his residency in Australia.

The performance is free and open to the public without advance reservations. For more information contact Liza Clark at (610)328-8260 or lclark1@swarthmore.edu.

Join us for the Faculty and Friends Dance Concert this Sat, Feb 6!

The Swarthmore College Department of Music and Dance invites you to join us for:

The Faculty and Friends Dance Concert
Saturday, February 6, 2010
8 pm
Pearson-Hall Theatre
Lang Performing Arts Center

The concert is in honor of the people of Haiti. Donations will be collected for earthquake relief efforts before and after the concert. The performance will feature an exciting variety of works by faculty and alumni.

Group work includes a female quartet choreographed by Sharon Friedler, inspired by the sculpture of Phillip Stern ’84, with live harp music played by Johanna Bond ’10. C. Kemal Nance ’92 will surprise us with a new duet based in the Umfundalai African dance tradition, while Jumatatu Poe ’04 and Joe Small ’05 have crafted a duet melding post-modern dance techniques and Taiko rhythms. The Lenny Seidman Tabla Choir offers a new composition based on a nearly extinct North Indian drumming tradition. Dancer Liza Henty-Clark ’03 will join pianist Christopher Henty-Clark in a dance homage to pregnancy and birth.

Solos include a work depicting the aesthetic and political dimensions of Kathak dance and Ghazal poetry, choreographed and danced by Pallabi Chakravorty. Sally Hess will treat us to a solo inspired by the ceremonial actions of a Japanese tea ceremony. And Jeannine Osayande offers an excerpt from a dance-theater work that uses the communicative power of dance to share her experiences as a fourth generation African-American raised in Swarthmore. Finally, Kim Arrow will share a dance film created during his residency in Australia.

The performance is free and open to the public without advance reservations. For more information contact Liza Clark at (610)328-8260 or lclark1@swarthmore.edu.

Taller de Paz aids displaced Colombian children

“In response to the current drug war in his home country, Colombia, Deivid Rojas ’11 decided to begin a program, Taller de Paz — meaning “workshop for peace” in Spanish — that would provide internally displaced youth with a safe space to use art as a means of expression and empowerment.

A team of four Swarthmore students, Rojas, Alex Frye ’11, Camila Leiva ’09 and Andres Freire ’10, along with the organization Conciencia Social — Spanish for “social conscience” — launched Taller de Paz in Bogotá, Colombia last summer.

The project has three specific goals: Give refugees access to safe spaces and educational tools, teach them specific skill sets in the areas of technology and teamwork, and guide them through the development of a final project that uses all the skills they’ve learned.” … Read the full story by MENGHAN JIN at the Phoenix Published January 28, 2010

Inspired Pasta & Peace Talks

Inspired Pasta & Peace Talks

a series of monthly talks at Providence Friends Meeting,

FREE and open to the public

Jan 24, Feb 28, March 21, April 18, and May 23, 2010

Guns, Bombs, and Global Warming . . . is violence catching up with us?

Join us on January 24, 2010 at Providence Meeting for the first in the series
1:00 INSPIRED PASTA lunch by Francesco Bellini
1:30 TALK by Sam Caldwell

Bad Karma: Why the human race is running out of time and what you can do about it

“Is this ‘bad karma’ catching up with us? Why haven’t we solved the problem of evil in the world? What was Jesus saying about how to solve it? Is there anything I can do?”

Come join us as SAM CALDWELL shares some provocative reflections about faith, inspiration, and practice in these challenging times.

A Quaker business owner and grandfather of five, Sam spent a year protesting gun violence with others in front of Colosimo’s gun shop in Philadelphia. Colosimo’s, as a result of the protests and subsequent investigations, closed its doors and is out of business. He will speak about his inspiration for this action, one victory against violence, and his vision for a new world order.

“Conscience is the root of all true courage;

if a person would be brave, let her obey her conscience.”

PROVIDENCE FRIENDS MEETING

105 North Providence Road

Media, PA 19063

Coming next

Feb 28: Why Go Inside Prison?

Mar 21: Can We Stop Paying for War?

Apr 18: Free Trade or Fair Trade?

May 23: Why Did They Refuse to Fight?

Sponsored by the Peace and Social Action Committee of Providence Meeting.

War Discourse, Peace Discourse: More of the Same?

Dov Shinar

Ben Gurion University

“War Discourse, Peace Discourse: More of the Same?”

Analysis of media coverage of war leads to some conclusions and open questions on the role of the media in peace-building. Suggestions are offered for development of peace journalism and “common ground discourse.”

Monday, 25 January, 2010

4:15-5:30 pm

Benham Gateway Conference Room (Admissions Building)

Bryn Mawr College

Free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be served.

Directions: http://www.brynmawr.edu/campus/visiting.shtml

For more information, visit  www.aschcenter.org.