Swarthmore College - Faculty Lecture News

Listen: Biologist Eva-Maria Collins on the Real-Life Hydra

Swarthmore College — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:00:00 -0500

Listen: Professor of Literature James Porter '77 Examines Homer as Cultural Phenomenon

Swarthmore College — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 14:00:00 -0500

Listen: Mathematician Francis Edward Su on “Voting in Agreeable Societies”

Swarthmore College — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:00:00 -0500

Listen: Mathematician Francis Edward Su on “Mathematics for Human Flourishing”

Swarthmore College — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:00:00 -0500

Dance Professor Pallabi Chakravorty Discusses Research on Yoga, Healing

Swarthmore College — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:23:00 -0400

As part of the Second Tuesday Café Series sponsored by the Aydelotte Foundation, Professor of Dance Pallabi Chakravorty discussed her current research on yoga, dance, healing, and the hybrid intercultural body that is both artistic and scientific in contemporary culture.

Assistant Professor Benjamin Smith Discusses Hikayat al-Mahjar (Stories of Emigration)

Swarthmore College — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 06:16:00 -0500

Smith examines a collection that is the earliest example of Arabic fiction and features a cast of Syrian émigrés living in America and transitioning to life in the diaspora.

Philosopher Richard Eldridge on Imagination, Emotion, and Social Stance in Jane Austen's Emma

Swarthmore College — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 06:00:00 -0500

Eldridge examines Austen's work in hopes of finding a way between triumphalist hero worship and skepticism about the possibility of self-understanding.

Political Scientist Dominic Tierney on Communicating Global Politics to a Public Audience

Swarthmore College — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 19:23:00 -0500

Tierney urges professors to go out and speak intelligently about politics and global issues and take advantage of the knowledge that they possess.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion James Padilioni on San Martín de Porres

Swarthmore College — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:01:00 -0500

Padilioni highlights San Martín de Porres as a threshold figure who stands at the door and holds open the potential for spiritual transformation to his devotees within the traditions of African-American Hoodoo/Rootwork/Conjure, Puerto Rican espiritismo, and Mexican curanderismo.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Joshua Brody Explains How Computation Fits Within the Liberal Arts

Swarthmore College — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:21:00 -0500

Brody discusses his research in communication complexity and makes the argument that computational thinking and theory belong in a liberal arts curriculum.

Assistant Professor of Educational Studies Edwin Mayorga on Helping Latinx Youth Understand and Combat Their Own Trauma

Swarthmore College — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:32:00 -0500

Listen: Mathematician Elizabeth Drellich Explains a Story of Animation and Algebra

Swarthmore College — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:01:00 -0500

The surface of your favorite Pixar character’s face is made up of a collection of polynomials that fit together smoothly called a spline - algebraic objects that can be added and multiplied.

Psychologist Cat Norris on the Good and Bad of Ambivalence

Swarthmore College — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:58:00 -0400

In her faculty lecture, Norris explores how ambivalence can both be an unpleasant, conflicted state and a catalyst for changing behavior.

Listen: Chemist Christopher Graves on Constructing Through Chemistry

Swarthmore College — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:15:00 -0400

"As chemists, we take these building blocks and we transform them," Graves says, "so we can also make beautiful structural motifs that have a very specific purpose."

Psychologist Stella Christie on Why We Must Fail

Swarthmore College — Mon, 14 May 2018 05:46:00 -0400

In this Aydelotte Foundation talk, Christie argues that failure can be a logical necessity in psychology.