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    Don't Be Fooled by the Bonnet: Lucretia Mott and Her Radical Vision
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-06-06) Stiehm, Jamie
    Journalist and scholar Stiehm gave a talk, "Dont Be Fooled by the Bonnet: Lucretia Mott and Her Radical Vision."
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    Advancing the Liberal Arts: Three Projects of Swarthmore's Aydelotte Foundation
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-06-06) Jensen, Eric L. N.; Vollmer, Amy; Jefferson, Philip N.
    A panel discussion by Centennial Professor of Economics Philip Jefferson, Professor of Biology Amy Cheng Volmer, and Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Aydelotte Foundation for the Advancement of the Liberal Arts Eric Jensen.
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    Bathtub Debate
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-06-07) Berger, Ben, 1968-; Ledbetter, Grace M., 1965-; Maxwell, Bruce A.
    As described by moderator Jesse Gottschalk '99, the annual Bathtub Debates is "where we attempt to undermine [the liberal arts] tradition completely. We do this by saying, but really, which one is the best?" Each year, he said, the bathtub debate features an apocalyptic scenario, out of which only one academic division can emerge to remake society in their own image." Ben Berger, associate professor of political science, defended the social sciences; Grace Ledbetter, associate professor of classics and philosophy, advocated for the humanities; and Bruce Maxwell '91, professor and chair of computer science at Colby College, spoke for the natural sciences.
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    What I Learned from Trying to Change the World
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-06-07) Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965-; Rosado, Lourdes; Martin, Nick; Quigley, Kevin F. F.
    This discussion featured Carolyn Rouse '87, professor of anthropology, Princeton University; Lourdes Rosado '85 (left), associate director of Juvenile Law Center; Nick Martin '04, founder and president, TechChange; and Kevin F.F. Quigley '74, country director, Thailand, Peace Corps. Joy Charlton, executive director of the Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility and professor of sociology, served as moderator.
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    Collection: Jed Rakoff '64
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-06-07) Rakoff, Jed S.
    At Collection, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff '64 lauded the College's emphasis on "academic rigor coupled with social consciousness" and reminded the reunion crowd of the importance of free speech. He ended his talk by leading the crowd in singing "We Shall Overcome."
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    Don Mizell '71
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-06-07) Mizell, Don
    For the first time in its history, Swarthmore College is the proud recipient of a Grammy Award. It comes to the College courtesy of Don Mizell '71, winner of the 2005 Grammy for Album of the Year. The annual Album of the Year Grammy is universally recognized as the most prestigious and distinguished award given in the music industry by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to artist(s) and producer(s) as voted by members of the Recording Academy. Mizell won the Grammy as a producer of the Ray Charles album "Genius Loves Company." At a special presentation at a packed Black Cultural Center, Mizell, an anthropology major at Swarthmore, explains why he feels he would not have won the Grammy had it not been for the College.
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    From SWIL-ly to Celebrity: The Unlikely Rise to Game Show Success of a Swarthmore Misfit
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-06-07) Chu, Arthur
    Jeopardy! sensation Arthur Chu '06, whose unorthodox and controversial approach netted him nearly $300,000 on the popular game show earlier this year, presented "From SWIL-ly to Celebrity: The Unlikely Rise to Game Show Success of a Swarthmore Misfit." Chu, who graduated from Swarthmore with a B.A in history, spoke to an enthusiastic, over-capacity crowd in the Admissions Commons.
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    The Legacy and Impact of Brown v. Board of Education
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-09-11) Mack, Kenneth Walter, 1964-; Guinier, Lani
    The year 2014 marks both the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education and the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren read the Court’s decision rejecting the “separate but equal” principle that had governed the Court’s treatment of race matters since the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. Although the Brown decision applied specifically to education, its promise was to undermine the legal foundation upon which systems of segregation and racial inequality rested. Brown struck down the legitimacy of laws that segregated and differentially treated citizens based on race, and this measure opened doors to many previously excluded groups, including women and the differently abled. Our commemoration of this landmark decision is twofold. Through a symposium and following panel discussions, we hope to highlight both the positive social changes resulting from the passage of civil rights legislation and the limitations of judicial solutions to redress inequalities in our social system.
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    Black Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-09-12) Carter, Niambi M., 1977-; Greer, Christina M.; Fogg-Davis, Hawley Grace, 1970-
    The year 2014 marks both the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education and the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren read the Court’s decision rejecting the “separate but equal” principle that had governed the Court’s treatment of race matters since the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. Although the Brown decision applied specifically to education, its promise was to undermine the legal foundation upon which systems of segregation and racial inequality rested. Brown struck down the legitimacy of laws that segregated and differentially treated citizens based on race, and this measure opened doors to many previously excluded groups, including women and the differently abled. Our commemoration of this landmark decision is twofold. Through a symposium and following panel discussions, we hope to highlight both the positive social changes resulting from the passage of civil rights legislation and the limitations of judicial solutions to redress inequalities in our social system.
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    Inequality and Schooling
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-09-12) Jones-Walker, Cheryl; Gadsden, Vivian L.; Gayle, Lee; Davis, James Earl, 1960-
    The year 2014 marks both the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education and the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren read the Court’s decision rejecting the “separate but equal” principle that had governed the Court’s treatment of race matters since the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. Although the Brown decision applied specifically to education, its promise was to undermine the legal foundation upon which systems of segregation and racial inequality rested. Brown struck down the legitimacy of laws that segregated and differentially treated citizens based on race, and this measure opened doors to many previously excluded groups, including women and the differently abled. Our commemoration of this landmark decision is twofold. Through a symposium and following panel discussions, we hope to highlight both the positive social changes resulting from the passage of civil rights legislation and the limitations of judicial solutions to redress inequalities in our social system.
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    Policing and Racial Justice
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-09-15) Rudovsky, David
    David Rudovsky, Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a founding partner of the public interest law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg, presents the 2014 Constitution Day Lecture.
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    Do the Old Eat the Young?: The False Tradeoff Between Funding for the Young and the Old
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-10-21) Ghilarducci, Teresa
    This talk, which will focus mostly on Social Security and pension funding, aims to generate critical thinking about who, why, and when does "inter-generational equity" get evoked in political economy debate.
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    Todd Haynes Talk
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-10-21) Haynes, Todd
    One of the most praised and innovative directors in world cinema today, Todd Haynes has been making queer films—formally original work about non-normative identities and sexualities—since high school. Made shortly after graduating from Brown, Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story became an instant cult classic, and Poison (1991), his first feature film produced by Christine Vachon launched the movement known as New Queer Cinema and drew fire from the religious right. In Safe, Far From Heaven, Mildred Pierce, and the forthcoming Carol (based on Patricia Highsmith’s lesbian love story The Price of Salt), Haynes, producer Vachon, and stars Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, and Cate Blanchett bring out the feminist critiques and erotic energies implicit in Hollywood melodramas. Haynes is an Academy Award nominee whose films have won awards at major festivals including Sundance, Cannes, and Venice. Haynes will talk about his collaboration with Vachon, his political vision, his aesthetic influences and academic background and above all, his films. Sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Sager Series.
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    Using the Law to Fight for Justice
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-10-21) Bryant, Arthur H.
    The Center for Innovation and Leadership will be kicking off the academic year with a presentation on law and justice by Swarthmore alum, Arthur Bryant, class of ‘76. Please join us to learn more about Bryant’s journey and his experiences as an influential attorney in the realms of consumers’ rights, workers’ rights, civil rights and liberties, environmental protection, the poor and the powerless, and access to justice for all.
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    "We’re Free, But Not Free": Custodial Citizenship in Our Time
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-10-22) Weaver, Vesla M., 1979-
    Vesla Weaver (Yale University) is co-author of the pioneering study, Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control (University of Chicago Press, 2014). It documents the full significance for American democracy of the little-known fact that one-third of America's adult population has a criminal record due to aggressive police surveillance of communities. Contact with the criminal justice system has profoundly shaped these citizens' views of democracy and government. It has created a hidden but deep division in our country between those Americans who have records, even if they have no convictions, and those who do not.
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    Probability Processing, Probabilistic Programming, and Live Chicken Fresh Killed: Stories of Science Entrepreneuring in Graduate School, Industrial Research, and Startups
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-10-24) Vigoda, Ben
    Ben Vigoda (Swarthmore Physics ’96) will talk about his experiences building interesting new things at the MIT Media Lab, industrial research labs, and startups, and will be available for questions and discussion. He and Jake Neely (Swarthmore Physics Class of '13) will also talk excitedly about their newest startup, Gamelan, that combines probabilistic programs, statistical physics, machine learning, and advanced compiler technology to enable “big models”, the next step after big data.
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    Sager Series Presents: Ivan Coyote
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-10-25) Coyote, Ivan E. (Ivan Elizabeth), 1969-
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    Arguing for Justice: Public Opinion, Legal Controversy, and the ‘Chinese Dream’
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-10-27) Rosenzweig, Joshua
    Rosenzweig will address public controversies about criminal justice transforming fundamental assumptions of the constitutional agenda underlying Chinese society. The political challenge posed by the challenge of the emerging rights-centered justice model has led China’s new leaders to launch a coordinated effort to discourage attempts to define justice in terms of autonomous “universal values” and convince the people of China to identify its aspirations for justice with the party-state and its promises to realize the “Chinese Dream.”
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    Why Do We Care for the Dead?
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-10-27) Laqueur, Thomas Walter
    In the beginning there was the dead body: lifeless matter, soon to decay, from which all that was human had fled. Almost three thousand years ago Diogenes the Cynic told his students that when he died he wanted his corpse to be tossed over the wall for beasts to eat. He was gone; it did not matter to him. This talk asks why we have refused his example and it answers the question in two connected registers, first anthropological and then historical. Our species lives with its dead, materially and imaginatively; caring for them is the sign of our emergence from the order of nature into culture. It is the primal expression of our consciousness of temporality. The Dead make civilization on a grand and an intimate scale, everywhere and always but also in particular places, in particular times and in particular ways. The talk moves to the level of historical explanation and offers brief answers to three questions. Where are the dead?: how did the dominant resting place of the dead—the churchyard—come into being during the middle ages and why did the modern cemetery largely supplanted it. Who are the dead?: how and why since the nineteenth century have we come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and conversely why is being buried without a name has become so disturbing. Finally, What are the dead?: how did technologically sophisticated cremation—the rendering of the dead into indistinguishable inorganic matter—begin as a modernist fantasy of stripping death of its history and why did the project ultimately fail. Even the ashes of the Shoah meant to obliterate its victims have been re-inscribed in culture.
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    On Goodness in Education: Disrupting the Discourse
    (Swarthmore College, 2014-11-01) Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara, 1944-
    Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot ’66, a MacArthur prize-winning sociologist and distinguished professor of education at Harvard University, will deliver this year’s McCabe Lecture “On Goodness in Education: Disrupting the Discourse.” In her lecture, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot will challenge some of the prevailing rhetoric, perspectives, and metaphors that tend to dominate—and often distort and mute—the public conversations about schooling. She will offer a reframing and counterpoint to those contemporary discourses that she sees as more inclusive, productive, and promising.