Documentary Screening
organized by Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine (SPJP)
Friday, October 29, 2010
7:00-9:00 pm
Science Center 199
Swarthmore College (maps and directions)
A brief discussion will follow the movie.
**Palestinian Food will be served**
SAC Funded
We are looking forward to a visit and guest lecture by David Hartsough, a Quaker peace and civil rights activist, former Swattie, and Co-Founder of Nonviolent Peaceforce, an unarmed civilian peacekeeping organization with projects in Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Sudan.
Please join us on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 4:15 p.m. in the Scheuer Room of Kohlberg Hall
Maps and directions to campus are available.
A flyer is available for download.
Read more about David Hartsough and his work in this 2004 interview in the New Internationalist magazine.
Sponsored by Peace and Conflict Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, Political Science, and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
Contact:
Lee Smithey or Anna Everetts
Peace and Conflict Studies Program
610-690-2064
peacestudies@swarthmore.edu
To celebrate the International Day of Peace on September 21, Students for a Democratic Society organized a human peace sign on Parrish Beach.
Kathleen Malley-Morrison, Ed.D.
Department of Psychology
Boston University
“Thinking about State Aggression and the Right to Peace”
The Group on International Perspectives on Governmental Aggression and Peace (GIPGAP) has been collecting qualitative responses to the Personal and Institutional Rights to Aggression and Peace Survey (PAIRTAPS) from ordinary people around the world for approximately five years. The survey includes both rating scale and open-ended items designed to assess people’s views concerning such issues as the extent to which governments have a right to invade another country, torture prisoners in times of war, and disobey international laws and agreements. The survey also includes items asking whether individuals have the right to protest against war and in favor of peace, and whether they and their children have the right to live in a world of peace. Thousands of participants from every continent except Antarctica have responded to the survey. In coding their qualitative responses we have been particularly interested in how they frame justifications for war and torture as well as how they frame rejection of government-sponsored aggression. We have found George Lakoff’s work on framing to be quite useful, along with Albert Bandura’s work on moral disengagement and engagement.
In this talk, I will focus on insights from these theoretical approaches, and the extent to which they help us understand the level of tolerance for inhumane behavior that we often find in U.S. responses as compared with those from many other nations.
Wednesday, November 3rd, 4:15 p.m.
Science Center 101. Swarthmore College.
(maps and directions to campus are available)
Co-sponsored by Dept. of Psychology, Intercultural Center, the Alumni Relations, Dept. of Political Science, Dept. of Religion, Educational Studies, and Peace & Conflict Studies
Contact:
Etsuko Hoshino-Browne, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Papazian 224
610-957-6127
Quakers and Slavery, 1657-1865
An International Interdisciplinary Conference
November 4-6
November 5, All day at Swarthmore College
More than two dozen scholars will participate in this conference, which aims to examine the history, literature, and culture of the Quaker relationship with slavery, from the Society of Friends’ origins in the English Civil War to the end of the American Civil War.
In 1657, George Fox wrote to “Friends beyond sea, that have Blacks and Indian Slaves” to remind them that Quakers who owned slaves should be merciful and should remember that God “hath made all Nations of one Blood.” His argument may seem far from radical today, but it initiated more than two centuries of Quaker debate and activism over the problem of slavery that would ultimately see Friends taking key roles in abolition and emancipation movements on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.
It was, however, by no means inevitable that Quakers would embrace antislavery. In the 17th century and most of the 18th century, Quakers were divided on the issue–particularly in the British American colonies–with some denouncing slavery and others owning slaves. In the 19th century, Quakers were more unified in their opposition to slavery but encountered a range of spiritual, political, and personal challenges while taking their antislavery message to a wider world.
Keynote Speakers: Gary B. Nash, University of California??os Angeles, J. William Frost, Swarthmore College James Walvin, University of York. Conference Details:
The event is free and open to the public. See the conference website for registration details.
In 1657, George Fox wrote to “Friends beyond sea, that have Blacks and Indian Slaves” to remind them that Quakers who owned slaves should be merciful and should remember that God “hath made all Nations of one Blood.” His argument may seem far from radical today, but it initiated more than two centuries of Quaker debate and activism over the problem of slavery that would ultimately see Friends taking key roles in abolition and emancipation movements on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.
It was, however, by no means inevitable that Quakers would embrace antislavery. In the 17th century and most of the 18th century, Quakers were divided on the issue??articularly in the British American colonies??ith some denouncing slavery and others owning slaves. In the 19th century, Quakers were more unified in their opposition to slavery but encountered a range of spiritual, political, and personal challenges while taking their antislavery message to a wider world.
Keynote Speakers: Gary B. Nash, University of California??os Angeles, J. William Frost, Swarthmore College James Walvin, University of York. Conference Details: