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The healing word-- Deborah Thomas embeds herself in communities stricken by violence to chronicle the humanity revealed during the aftermath.
Deborah Thomas embeds herself in communities stricken by violence to chronicle the humanity revealed during the aftermath.
"The most difficult interviews were the children. It was 2012, and the filming of Deborah Thomas’ documentary, Four Days in May, was underway in Tivoli Gardens, the site of one of the most violent events in modern Jamaican history.
Nancy Hirschmann appointed Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences
Congratulations to Nancy Hirschmann (Political Science and APC Core Faculty Member) on her appointment as the Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences.
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Dawn Teele, APC/GSWS Core Faculty member, discusses women in politics in a new OMNIA Podcast.
In a recent OMNIA podcast, APC/GSWS Core Faculty and Executive Board Member Dawn Teele discusses the historical underrepresentation of women in politics, structural barriers to women's political success, and the recent increase in women running for office.
New Book from the APC/GSWS Community: Ania Loomba, Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism and Feminism in India
Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism and Feminism in India by Ania Loomba, Professor of English and APC/GSWS Core Faculty, examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India, from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured.
Francesca Russello Ammon launches "Preserving Society Hill" website
Francesca Russello Ammon, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning and APC/GSWS Executive Board Member, developed an interactive map featuring the histories of more than 1,500 properties in Society Hill. Read more in Penn News
Beyond Free Speech and Safe Space: Reimagining Open Expression, Inclusion and Argument
APC 2018-2019 Event Series: Beyond Free Speech and Safe Space
In this moment of heightened reactiveness in public discourses and on college campuses about who is permitted to speak and about what topics, it is difficult to create spaces for nuanced discussion. Who decides what is permissible speech? What is at stake when voices are silenced or speakers are subject to social media surveillance?
Kathy Brown interviewed on WHYY's Radio Times
APC & GSWS Director Kathy Brown was interviewed today about the Penn Slavery Project by Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY's Radio Times - listen to the interview
Nancy Hirschmann highlighted in EUI Life about her Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship
Nancy Hirschmann (Political Science & GSWS Core Faculty) spent the spring semester as a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the EUI, in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, working on her book Freedom, Power, and Disability. Read more about what she has been up to in Florence.