David Amponsah is an assistant professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2015. He is a historian who researches the intersection of religion and society in Africa and its diaspora, with…

This new exhibition—part art installation, part memorial, and part call to action—sheds light on the “Tivoli Incursion” through compelling video and audio footage featuring firsthand accounts of people directly impacted by the violence.

Is there a “feminist peace?” Are states that exhibit domestic gender equality more peaceful internationally? Seemingly with little engagement with existing literature on women, peace and security, recent quantitative work has looked to evaluate the relationship between gender…

As an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, Chelsea Manning disclosed classified documents to WikiLeaks that revealed human rights abuses and corruption connected to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in a…

The Graduate Workshop at The Mitchell Center presents two papers dealing with the interplay of politics and gendered identities. Sarah Khan (Columbia University, Political Science) Making Democracy Work for Women: Evidence from Pakistan (PDF) Joseph Wuest (University of…

The United State of Women (USOW) invites you to their Host Committee Informational Meeting to discuss the Galvanize Program coming to Philadelphia, PA in November. Launched at the United State of Women Summit in June 2016, USOW is committed to being the megaphone for the gender…

Discussants: Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and Professor of Africana Studies; and Grace L. Sanders Johnson, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Zakiya Luna…

This event is sponsored by Cinema and Media Studies. Join us for the screening and discussion with Editor and Producer Inbal Lessner of Brave Miss World. Inbal Lessner produced and edited Brave Miss World, an independent documentary about Israeli beauty queen Linor Abargil, who…

This event is sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop, The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, and the Political Science Department at Swarthmore College Please join us for a lecture by Sara Farris, which draws on her recently published book, "In The Name Of…

This panel brings together feminist scholars across the disciplines to discuss the histories of anti-black violence in a range of locations, the ways these histories are connected, and the strategies people are using to counteract them.