Quakers and Abolition, a book just released by the University of Illinois Press, includes essays by Ellen Ross (Religion), J. William Frost, (Professor Emeritus) and Christopher Densmore (Friends Historical Library). The book was edited by Geoffrey Planck (Swarthmore graduate) and Brycchan Carey, with an acknowledgement to the Cooper Foundation for its support of the 2010 Quakers and Slavery Conference.
Pallabi Chakravorty will be speaking about “Affective Labor in Dance: South Asia and Beyond” at the University of Chicago, April 18, 2014.
The symposium also kicks off with a discussion of (her book) “Bells of Change: Kathak Dance, Women, and Modernity in India” with the Critical Dance Studies Reading group at Northwestern University, April 17.
More info about Pallabi’s book available here: http://www.pallabi.com/research.php
Pallabi Chakravorty will be speaking about “Affective Labor in Dance: South Asia and Beyond” at the University of Chicago, April 18, 2014.
The symposium also kicks off with a discussion of (her book) “Bells of Change: Kathak Dance, Women, and Modernity in India” with the Critical Dance Studies Reading group at Northwestern University, April 17.
More info about Pallabi’s book available here: http://www.pallabi.com/research.php
The Department of Theater at Swarthmore College presents an Honors Directing Thesis: PETER PAN OR THE BOY WHO WOULD NOT GROW UP, written by J.M. Barrie in 1928.
Come see the story of the boy who refused to grow up and a world where imagination is the only thing you need. Travel with the Darling children to the magical Never Land, a place where adventure abounds, make-believe rules supreme, and danger lurks in the shadows of pirate ships.
Directed by Katie Goldman with
Nora Batelle
Sarah Branch
Maddie Charne
Cameron French
Cooper Harrington-Fei
Eileen Hou
Allison Hrabar
Stephanie Kestelman
Henry Kietzman
Rosie McInnes
Josh McLucas
Moeko Noda
Ariel Pearson
Michaela Shuchman
Grant Torre
Performances will be:
Friday, May 2nd at 7:00pm
Saturday, May 3rd at 1:00pm and 7:00pm
Sunday, May 4th at 1:00pm
Designs By: Tess Amram (lights), Niki Cousineau (choreography), Sam Swift Shuker-Haines (sound), Adam Riggar (set), Dyan Rizzo-Busack (costumes)
Stage management: Marta Roncada
Jeannine Osayande brings back Intergenerational Drums to campus: http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2014/04/04/intergenerational-drum-and-dance-project-returns-to-swarthmore-community/
Jeannine Osayande brings back Intergenerational Drums to campus: http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2014/04/04/intergenerational-drum-and-dance-project-returns-to-swarthmore-community/
In case you missed it: http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2014/04/08/the-mystery-of-irma-vep-photo-gallery/
and here’s a little preview from the Daily Gazette, too! http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2014/04/04/preview-supernatural-caper-the-mystery-of-irma-vep-is-quick-and-absurd/
Advising for fall 2014 registration is underway, so let us draw your attention to the course offerings that can be counted toward a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. Visit http://bit.ly/1oKHc6Q to see the list of courses. (Please remember that any courses marked with an asterisk require the approval of the instructor and the program coordinator. The necessary form is available at http://bit.ly/1hf9Hob )
Our Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies course (PEAC 015) will meet on Mon/Wed/Fri 9:30-10:20. You can view and download a flyer at http://bit.ly/intropeaceflyer (Click the gear icon at the bottom of the screen.)
Let Lee Smithey know if you have any questions! His office hours during advising are available at http://bit.ly/Smithey_office_hours
P.S. Lee Smithey will be teaching Social Movements and Nonviolent Power (SOCI 035C) on Fridays 2:00-5:00. You can also view and download a flyer for that course at http://bit.ly/socmovsnvflyer
Joshua Evans Event at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Wednesday, April 9, 4:30 PM
Ralph Greene of New England Yearly Meeting will present a program on Joshua Evans (1741-1798). Evans was considered “singular” even by the Quakers. He was an early and active abolitionist, traveling as far South Carolina to bear testimony against enslavement, he worked on behalf of the Native Americans in New Jersey, his scruples against any support of slavery led him to wear undyed clothes, because the dyes used at the time were produced by slave labor, and he criticized the worldliness of Quakers of his time, suggesting among other things that the wearing of shoe buckles, where a simple lace would do, was vanity.
The manuscript Joshua Evans Journals at Friends Historical Library are being digitized and transcribed as part of a Digital Humanities Program.
Ralph Greene is very active in New England Yearly Meeting and the Friends Church in South China, Maine.
All are invited to Friends Historical Library, just inside McCabe Library, to hear more about the life and witness of Joshua Evans. Please forward this invitation to anyone who might be interested.
The William J. Cooper Foundation and the Arabic section of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College invite you to “Debris and Diaspora: On Iraqi Culture”, a lecture by Iraqi writer and filmmaker Sinan Antoon
6:00 pm Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Science Center 101
Swarthmore College
Sinan Antoon, associate professor at the Gallatin School of New York University and fellow of the university’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, has authored The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf and many essays on the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book, In the Presence of Absence, was published by Archipelago Books in 2011 and won the 2012 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators Association. Antoon is also a poet and a novelist. He has published two collections of poetry in Arabic and one collection in English titled The Baghdad Blues. His novels include I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody and The Corpse Washer, nominated for the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. His essays and creative writing have appeared in major Arab and international journals and publications, including The Nation, Middle East Report, Banipal, Journal of Palestine Studies, World Literature Today, Ploughshares, Washington Square Journal, and the New York Times. He is co-founder/co-editor of Jadaliyya.
In this lecture, Antoon will give a bird’s-eye view of Iraqi culture today. This lecture asks: What has become of Iraqi cultural production since the invasion and occupation? What are the major dynamics or cultural institutions, if any, regulating or influencing cultural production? What sort of cultural hegemonies are in place? Have the cultural practices of the previous era disappeared or re-emerged under a new guise?