Listen: Trailblazers Panel Recounts Founding, Impact of Black Cultural Center
February 28th, 2020
As part of Swarthmore’s yearlong Celebration of Black Excellence, five alumni instrumental in establishing the College's Black Cultural Center returned to campus 50 years later to discuss their efforts.
Listen: Psychologist Jessica Schleider ’12 on Youth Mental Health Interventions
October 18th, 2019
Jessica Schleider ’12 explains her research on depression and anxiety in children and adolescents while explaining how youth mental health interventions work.
Listen: ACLU Director Dan Korobkin ’02 on First Amendment-Based Religious Refusals and the Supreme Court
October 18th, 2019
In this Constitution Day talk, Dan Korobkin ’02 of the Michigan American Civil Liberties Union discusses the claim by some individuals and organizations that their religious objections give rise to a Constitutional right to discriminate.
Patricia Park ’03 Reads From Her Upcoming Novel
May 21st, 2019
Earlier this semester, Patty Park ’03 returned to Swarthmore to read from her new book, El Chino. She also discusses growing up as a Korean-American in Queens, N.Y., and the cognitive dissonance she experienced in reconciling where she came from and what she was becoming while she was a student.
Author Kurt Eichenwald ’83 Discusses A Mind Unraveled, Recounts His Life with Epilepsy
February 21st, 2019
Eichenwald details challenges he faced as a Swarthmore student and his decades-long battle not only to survive, but to thrive.
Anita Mannur Examines What It Means to Eat Alone
February 25th, 2019
Delivering the 2019 Genevieve Lee Lecture in Asian American Studies, Mannur examines what it means to eat alone and how Asian American cultural production encourages us to think more about the social freight of solo dining.
Tedi Asher '05 on Bridging the Gap Between Arts and Sciences
December 19th, 2018
"It's my hope that by studying our visitors responses to the exhibitions, we might be able to understand something more about the brain and contribute to neuroscience itself," says Asher, a neuroscience researcher at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Ursula K. Le Guin Biographer Julie Phillips '86 on Building a Freelance Career
December 13th, 2018
Speaking to English majors and minors, Phillips trace her career path as a writer for The New Yorker, The Village Voice and many other publications.
Political Scientist Peter Andreas ’87 on Interactive Relationship Between Drugs and War
November 21st, 2018
"Drugs, in an important way, made war," Andreas says in a new book, "and war, in turn, shaped drugs and made new drugs."
Listen: Mathematician Emily Riehl Dives Deep on the Meaning of Numbers
November 16th, 2018
In the 2018 Kitao Lecture, Riehl proves, with help from the audience, the distributivity of multiplication over addition—a(b + c) = ab + ac—using unconventional methods.
Political Scientists Frances Lee and Patrick Egan ’92 Clarify the Stakes of the Midterm Election
November 5th, 2018
Egan (left) and Lee explore the 2018 midterm congressional elections with Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science Rick Valelly '75.
Educator Jonathan Rosa '03 on Latinx Languages and Identities Beyond Borders
April 17th, 2018
Rosa draws on ethnographic research to examine borders delimiting Latinx and American identities as well as co-naturalizations of language and race.
Listen: Anthropologist Kwame Edwin Otu on Normative Collusions and Amphibious Evasions
April 2nd, 2018
Otu, an assistant professor at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, discusses the contested politics of queer self-making in neoliberal Ghana.
Listen: Educator Kevin Kumashiro: "Naming the Moment, Building the Movement"
March 8th, 2018
Kumashiro outlines five considerations for engaged scholarship and social justice education: the problems of common sense, the purposes of education, the paradoxes of teaching, the practices of solidarity, and the promises of movement building.
