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Bi-Co Orchestra to perform Friday

Posted November 19, 2008

photo of orchestra performing On Friday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m., the Haverford-Bryn Mawr Orchestra will perform its annual fall concert in Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium, on the Haverford campus. Read more »

 

Antiracist pioneer Peggy McIntosh to speak, lead workshops

Posted November 14, 2008

photo of McIntosh Feminist and antiracist activist Peggy McIntosh will offer three workshops at Bryn Mawr on Tuesday, Nov. 18. McIntosh is best known for her essay "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies," an exploration of ... Read more»

 

Catherine Slusar brings Faith, Hope, and Charity to BMC

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poster image of woman clinging to soldier In the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Theater Company's innovative production of the rarely performed German Expressionist play Faith, Hope, and Charity, five Bryn Mawr and Haverford students take on the roles of the playwright's descendants, who take turns playing the lead character in each of the original ... Read more»

 

Conference on port cities and global networking to draw scholars from around the world

Posted November 11, 2008

photo of an industrial port. Scholars from all over Europe and North America will convene at Bryn Mawr this Sunday, Nov. 16, for a conference focused on port cities and how the international exchange of ideas has affected their development ... Read more»

 

Bryn Mawr in the Media: The New York Times blog

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photo of Lucy Friedman Trustee Lucy N. Friedman '65, the founder and president of The After-School Corporation, is taking readers' questions about New York City after-school programs.

 

GSSWSR Reaccredited Through 2016

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photo of Marcia Martin After a comprehensive review, the Council on Social Work Education has reaccredited Bryn Mawr College's Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research through 2016. In its Accreditation Review Brief, the CSWE site team noted many of the GSSWSR's strengths, including the integration of diversity content ... Read more»

 

Amy Hempel, master of short fiction, to read Nov. 13

Posted November 10, 2008

photo of Amy Hempel Award-winning short-story writer Amy Hempel will give a reading at Bryn Mawr on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room at Wyndham Alumnae House. Hempel's The Collected Stories, which gathers her four ... Read more»

 

Altruism and public policy: two lectures by political scientist Deborah Stone

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photo of Deborah Stone Is it government's role to help those in need? Or does a guarantee of aid sap individuals' ambition and self-reliance? On Wednesday, Nov. 12, Deborah Stone, a senior fellow at the Demos policy center, research professor of government at Dartmouth College, and author of the ... Read more»

 

Bryn Mawr in the Media: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted November 6, 2008
Molly Parzen '10 tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that the election of Barack Obama is "a massive historic moment."

 

Bryn Mawr in the Media: The State

Posted November 3, 2008
Victoria Middleton ’71 was appointed executive director of the ACLU’s South Carolina office. Middleton most recently served as the director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Asia and Western Hemisphere Affairs, where she led a team of regional experts who implemented democracy strategies ... Read more»