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MOCEAN, the most recent dance video choreographed, videographed, and performed by Associate Professor of Dance Kim Arrow, was shot mostly under the sea off Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The piece evokes drift, shapeshift and shared movement with various forms and the creatures that inhabit those forms.
Time: 3 min
President Rebecca Chopp and Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Suzanne Welsh discuss the state of the College's finances following the Board's approval of an $8 million budget adjustment [PDF].
Time: 2 min
Victor Navasky '54, best known for his illustrious career in journalism as editor and publisher of The Nation, shared his thoughts about political caricatures with the campus community during the annual Thomas B. McCabe Lecture.
Time: 56 min
The Kitao Gallery provided pumpkins and Swarthmore students provided creativity during a recent pumpkin carving party. From spooky to silly, to scary, the full range of the Halloween spirit was captured by campus artists and kids at heart. Ellen Sanchez-Huerta '13 joined in the fun and captured the event on video.
Time: 1 min
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Time: 86 min
Isn't a German Jazz pianist somehow like a Japanese Yodeler? Cornell Visiting Professor Hans Lüdemann discusses the role of a creative musician in society and examines questions of identity. The lecture includes adventurous improvisations and some brand new pieces of music created at Swarthmore College.
Featured Events Podcast
Featured Events Podcast
Time: 46 min
Randy Olson, marine biologist turned filmmaker, spoke about effectively communicating science to the public during a recent visit to the Swarthmore campus. According to Olson, the scientific community's inability to clearly present their arguments to the public often results in too much time being wasted responding to public relations campaigns waged by fringe groups and too little time actually being spent seeking solutions to critical issues facing our planet.
Music Podcast
Music Podcast
Time: 13 min
Listen to the Swarthmore College Orchestra perform Franz Schubert's Symphony in B Minor "Unfinished" (D. 759, Movement I)
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