Local hack Day.  Come together with the Swarthmore community and build awesome technology for 12 hours! Meals and swag provided, snazzy prizes to be won.

No CS experience necessary, we need designers and creatives in addition to coders! Students from Tri-Co and other Universities and Colleges are welcome :)

Dec 2nd, 9 am - 9 pm.

Sunday, 3 December 2017

Concert at 7:30

INNOV GNAWA

Spiritual Music from Morocco

“Innov Gnawa celebrates the ancient, spiritual music of North Africa with an innovative, hypnotic take on the folk tradition.” – Brooklyn Magazine

Sunday, 19 November 2017

Concert at 7:30

RAHIM ALHAJ TRIO

Iraqi oud + santur & percussion

“One of the top oud players in the world” – San Francisco Chronicle

Over the next 10 days, November 9-19, The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival will show 40 feature length and 40 short films.  Please share with your classes---especially classes on film, race, inequality, the American experience, Asian, or Asian America.  It promises to be extraordinary.

KAORU WATANABE with FUMI TANAKADATE

Contemporary music rooted in Japanese traditions

Sunday, 5 November 2017

Concert at 7:30

Free children's program at 6:00

Deej is a documentary about autism and inclusion.  A nonspeaking young man dreams of autistic civil rights.  With its insider view of autism, Deej challenges us all to live inclusion.  

When:  Thursday, October 26, 2017

Where:  Lang Music Building - Lang Concert Hall

4:00 PM Screening (Doors open at 3:30 PM)5:15 PM Panel Discussion - including DJ "Deej" Savarese

Reception to follow

YEVGENIA ALBATS: JOURNALISM IN CRISIS

Hosted by Dick Polman

What happens to the world of journalism under governmental rule like that of Vladimir Putin?

Monday, October 30, 12:00PM

Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk

RSVP to [email protected] or 215-746-POEM

Diversity, demographics and development:

A conversation on immigration and the American city

November 7 at The Mayor's Reception Room | City Hall

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

5:30-7:00pm

Mayor's Reception Room at City Hall

This is event is free. RSVP on our website.

YANKO GONZÁLEZ

Co-sponsored by Writers Without Borders at KWH and The Department of Hispanic and Portuguese Studies

With Sebastián Figueroa and Dana Khromov

Thursday, October 19, 12:00PM

Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk

This event is free & open to the public

THIS WEEK @ LIGHTBOX: DANCE, BLOODTHIRSTY VAMPIRE, JAPANESE ANIME, LOVE & ARROGANCE, DIWALI

Crossroads Music

Sunday, 15 October 2017Concert at 7:30 TRAD.ATTACK!

Exciting Estonian sounds in which the old and new collide and spark “Punchy, rousing, soaring and disarmingly infectious.” – London Jazz

Diwali ~ The Festival of Lights

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 | International House

Ibrahim Theater

Tickets $10-15

DANIEL SALDAÑA PARÍS

Hosted by Laynie Browne

Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program

Tuesday, October 3, 6:00PM

Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk

This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

KWH Calendar: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/1017.php#3

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/360611994350505

Widely described as one of the rising new voices of Mexican literature, DANIEL SALDAÑA PARÍS is an essayist, poet and novelist. His first novel, Among Strange Victims (Coffee House Press), was translated into English by Christina MacSweeney and published to critical acclaim in 2016. Saldaña París has published two collections of poetry: Esa pura materia (That Pure Matter, awarded the “Jaime Reyes” Prize for Young Poets in 2007) and La máquina autobiográfica (The Autobiographical Machine). He currently writes a monthly column for the Latin American edition of Esquire magazine and lives in Montreal, Canada.

topics @ ihp DACA: A Dying Dream?

On September 5, President Trump announced he would let protections for ‘Dreamers’ under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) expire and called on congress to find a legislative solution for the fate of around 800,000 registered recipients who have been living in the US since they were children and are now working or attending college or university. A popular move in some circles and an unpopular one in many others, the decision has enormous legal, economic, political, and diplomatic implications.

International House Philadelphia brings together an interdisciplinary panel discussion on the history of DACA, its arc from inception in 2012 until now, and analysis of and predictions for its future and the destiny of the 1.1 million people eligible for the benefits of the program.  

International House Philadelphia hosts a dialog with experts Held in the South America Room, 2nd Floor

Featured Speakers include:

Alicia Kerber, Head of the Mexican Consulate of Philadelphia

Sarah Paoletti, Director, Transnational Legal Clinic at Penn Law and Practice Professor of Law  

Adam Solow, Attorney with the immigration and nationality law firm Solow, Isbell & Palladino

Anel Medina, DACA recipient

Free and open to the public. RSVP here.

Source: http://www.ihousephilly.org/calendar/daca-a-dying-dream#

Beginning in the Fall 2017 semester, Active Learning classrooms are in the early stages of development at Swarthmore College with a prototype installed in Kohlberg 116. As we gather usage data and identify best pedagogical practices for the room we will be looking to activate additional spaces across campus to meet factulty and student needs. If you are interested in learning more about Active Learning contact acadtech (at) swarthmore (dot) edu!

Students from Professor Jamie A. Thomas’ Spring 2017 linguistics seminar, Language and Identity in the African Experience: From Kenya to Mexico, recently completed a semester long project creating a podcast series titled AFROLATINX PODCAST™ and a informative and media-rich website companion Language & Identity in the African Experience.

AfroLatinx Podcast™ “features the voices of Latinx people, offering a series of podcast episodes and interactive web content that analyzes the interconnected expressions of language and identity in the African Diaspora.” More information on the creation of the project is available on the AfroLatinx Podcast™ about page: http://ds.swarthmore.edu/language-and-identity/about/.

The podcast was recorded in segments both on and off Swarthmore’s campus. Students utilized Garageband and Audacity audio editing applications to trim field recordings, record discussions, and mix final tracks for their podcast. These files were then uploaded to soundcloud for hosting, sharing, and embedding into a website developed with guidance from Swarthmore College Librarians. As mentioned in the ITS blog post, Podcasting in the Academics, Garageband is a powerful, easy to use tool that is a perfect introduction to podcast creation and is assessable on all Mac computers. If you’d like to know more about the technical side of the AFROLATINX PODCAST™ or how to implement a podcasting project within your courses please contact your Swarthmore Academic Technologists at [email protected]! 

Source:https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/2017/05/19/language-identity-in-the-african-experience-podcast-project/