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Today

• 12:00am - 11:30pm Advising Period
  Advising Period (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 12:00am - 11:30pm
• 9:00am - 10:00am Grand Rising W/ Karen!
  Grand Rising W/ Karen! (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 9:00am - 10:00am

  Where: Hormel/Nguyen Intercultural Center at Sproul Hall Kitchen 205, Hormel/Nguyen Intercultural Center at Sproul Hall Room 107B Fireplace

  Grand rising w/ Karen! is about cultivating intentionality. By making each part of your morning meaningful and intentional to you and for you, you will begin your day with a completely different kind of innergy (energy). 

• 10:00am - 6:00pm A Conversation With Chester: Student Work Produced in Chester
  A Conversation With Chester: Student Work Produced in Chester (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 10:00am - 6:00pm

  Where: McCabe Library Atrium Exhibits

  This exhibition features student work from Spring 2019 classes: Drawing Architecture, Ceramics II, and Photo I. Led by Randall Exon, Syd Carpenter, and Ron Tarver, respectively, the students created architectural drawings, ceramic pieces, and photography reflecting on and interacting with the city of Chester, PA. The work was made in collaboration with Devon Walls of Chester Made, an artist collective based in Chester along the Avenue of the States with support from the Mellon Foundation and The Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility.

• 10:00am - 6:00pm Exhibition: Black Excellence in the Book Arts
  Exhibition: Black Excellence in the Book Arts (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 10:00am - 6:00pm

  Where: McCabe Cratsley Lounge Exhibits

  Black Excellence in the Book Arts highlights artists’ books in the Libraries’ collection by black artists as part of the year’s celebration of Black Excellence at Swarthmore College.

• 12:00pm - 1:00pm How to Get a Job Saving the Planet: Sustainability Careers in Business, NGOs, & Government
  How to Get a Job Saving the Planet: Sustainability Careers in Business, NGOs, & Government (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 12:00pm - 1:00pm

  Where: Black Cultural Center 108

  This lecture by Eban Goodstein is about how to get a job saving the planet. Eban, the Director of Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College, will discuss sustainability careers in business, NGOs, and government. 

  From Wikipedia: Eban Goodstein is an economist, author, and public educator who directs both the Center for Environmental Policy and the MBA in Sustainability at Bard College. He is known for organizing national educational initiatives on climate change, which have engaged thousands of schools and universities, civic institutions, faith groups, and community organizations in solutions-driven dialogue. He is the author of three books and numerous journal articles. 

• 12:00pm - 5:00pm Sue Hettmansperger/Iterations: Painting and Collage and Jan Baltzell: Drawings
  Sue Hettmansperger/Iterations: Painting and Collage and Jan Baltzell: Drawings (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 12:00pm - 5:00pm

  Where: List Gallery in the Lang Performing Arts Center

  https://www.swarthmore.edu/list-gallery/jan-baltzell-drawings https://www.swarthmore.edu/list-gallery/sue-hettmanspergerThe List Gallery, Swarthmore College is pleased to present concurrent exhibitions: Sue Hettmansperger, Iterations: Painting and Collage and Jan Baltzell: Drawings.

  The Department of Art and Art History is pleased to celebrate Sue Hettmansperger's long career by naming her the 2019 Marjorie Heilman Visiting Artist. She has already been recognized with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for elaborating traditions established by early 20th century American Modernists such as Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Georgia O’Keefe. Using a limited palette, abstracted forms, flattened spaces, and inventive gestures, she creates transcendental and emblematic representations of nature. Her varied sources of inspiration include southwestern deserts, human anatomy, botanical forms, topology and mapping, Photoshopped images, and the by-products of industrial technology. Studying such diverse imagery through the lenses of drawing, printmaking, painting, and collage, she has developed an idiosyncratic vocabulary of forms, textures, and gestures. 

  Comparing her collages with their painted counterparts, we see her ideas evolve through translations of scale, media, and color. Her complex grids of similarly sized canvases simultaneously read as still lifes, landscapes, and successive states of mind. Intimate in scale, but ambitious in scope, her works offers elegies in response to our lost connection to nature.

  During the past forty years, Jan Baltzell has exhibited her vibrantly colored paintings in more than twenty solo exhibitions in the Philadelphia region, and her works have been featured in group exhibitions both regionally and nationally. Her masterful compositions reflect varied artistic influences, from the gestural abstractions of Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning to the structured geometries and soft surfaces of frescos by Piero della Francesca. Although she has been rightly celebrated for her compelling use of color, Baltzell's List Gallery exhibition calls attention to the way drawing has been fundamental to her creative practice. Comprised of ten drawings made during the past three years, Jan Baltzell: Drawings and an accompanying catalog offer viewers a chance to understand the expressive immediacy and elasticity of the artist's drawing.

  Since 1985, Jan Baltzell has taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she has served in the B.F.A., Post-Baccalaureate, and M.F.A. programs. She has also taught art as a visiting instructor or critic at diverse institutions, including Towson State University, Drexel University, and Art Institute of Philadelphia.

• 12:15pm - 1:00pm Vinyasa Flow Yoga (Group Exercise Class)
  Vinyasa Flow Yoga (Group Exercise Class) (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 12:15pm - 1:00pm

  Where: Matchbox Tarble Commons Upper Level
• 12:30pm - 1:30pm Extern Etiquette Meeting
  Extern Etiquette Meeting (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 12:30pm - 1:30pm

  Where: Clothier Room TIC-Upper Tarble - Multi Purpose Room

  Extern Etiquette Meeting - Planning for Extern Week

• 12:30pm - 1:15pm Japanese Language Table
  Japanese Language Table (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 12:30pm - 1:15pm

  Where: Sharples Room 104

  Thursday 12:30 - 1:15 Sharples Dining Hall, Room #4, 1st floor

• 1:15pm - 2:30pm Eban Goodstein: How to Solve the Climate Crisis by 2030
  Eban Goodstein: How to Solve the Climate Crisis by 2030 (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 1:15pm - 2:30pm

  Where: Hormel/Nguyen Intercultural Center at Sproul Hall Room 201 Multi-Purpose Room

  This lecture by Eban Goodstein is about how to solve the climate crisis by 2030. Eban, the Director of Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College, will discuss the issue of global climate change and how to avoid its worst impacts through dramatic change in the next 10 years.

  From Wikipedia: Eban Goodstein is an economist, author, and public educator who directs both the Center for Environmental Policy and the MBA in Sustainability at Bard College. He is known for organizing national educational initiatives on climate change, which have engaged thousands of schools and universities, civic institutions, faith groups, and community organizations in solutions-driven dialogue. He is the author of three books and numerous journal articles. 

• 3:30pm - 4:30pm SELF-LOVE & ART with RAE SENARIGHI
  SELF-LOVE & ART with RAE SENARIGHI (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 3:30pm - 4:30pm

  Where: Hormel/Nguyen Intercultural Center at Sproul Hall Room 201 Multi-Purpose Room

  Rae Senarighi is a transgender painter, activist, parent and spouse.  He’s travelled all over the country working to increase trans and non-binary visibility in the fine art world. 

  When he was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 he dedicated his daily art practice to compassion and gratitude and his life was transformed.  Rae hopes to inspire other artists, creators, and compassionate souls to generate self-love by sharing his practices in this program. 

  Join us for an hour of radical self-love, compassionate meditation, and creative play.  Stay for a Q&A with the artist about his practice and journey.

• 4:00pm - 5:00pm Faculty Lecture - Tristan Smith (Department of Physics)
  Faculty Lecture - Tristan Smith (Department of Physics) (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm

  Where: Kohlberg Hall Scheuer Room - Multi-Purpose Room

  Fall 2019 Faculty Lectures

  All lectures begin at 4:30 p.m. in  Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall 

  October 3       

  Erin Bronchetti (Economics)

  Making Plans, Paying Attention, and Following Through: Some Economic Theory and Experimental Evidence

  November 14 

  Tristan Smith (Department of Physics)

  From Precision to Tension: Cosmology at a Crossroads

  December 5

  Alan Baker (Department of Philosophy)

  Mathematics-Free Worlds

  
  For more information, please contact Jean-Vincent Blanchard jblanch1@swarthmore. edu

• 4:00pm - 5:00pm Off-Campus Stud UK Information Session
  Off-Campus Stud UK Information Session (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm

  Where: Intercultural Center Big Room - ICC

  Off-Campus Study Intercultural Workshop.

• 4:45pm - 6:00pm ITSA Meeting
  ITSA Meeting (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 4:45pm - 6:00pm

  Where: McCabe Library Room 306-MAC Computer Classroom

  meeting

• 5:00pm - 7:00pm Book Pumpkin Study Break
  Book Pumpkin Study Break (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 5:00pm - 7:00pm

  Where: McCabe Library 100 Atrium

  Turn old books into pumpkins and apples. A super easy craft, no skills necessary! There will be food and all materials provided during this autumnal study break.

• 5:00pm - 7:00pm Kizuna Weekly Dinner
  Kizuna Weekly Dinner (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 5:00pm - 7:00pm

  Where: Sharples Room 104

  Open to Swarthmore students

• 5:00pm - 6:00pm Vinyasa Flow Yoga (Group Exercise Class)
  Vinyasa Flow Yoga (Group Exercise Class) (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 5:00pm - 6:00pm

  Where: Matchbox Tarble Commons Upper Level
• 5:30pm - 6:30pm Multi Dinner
  Multi Dinner (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 5:30pm - 6:30pm

  Where: Sharples Room 209

  Come join Multi for our weekly dinners -- good food, great conversation, and the best people!

• 5:30pm - 6:30pm WiPS Dinner!
  WiPS Dinner! (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 5:30pm - 6:30pm

  Where: Sharples Room 208

  Join WIPS for dinner this week! Tell us about how your classes are going and hear from others as you plan ahead for next semester. See you soon!

• 6:00pm - 10:00pm Sex Toy Bingo
  Sex Toy Bingo (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 6:00pm - 10:00pm

  Where: Hormel/Nguyen Intercultural Center at Sproul Hall Room 201 Multi-Purpose Room

  Come and play the Pride Month edition of Sex Toy Bingo! There are lots of fun prizes, so try your luck!

• 6:30pm - 7:30pm Sunrise Hub Meeting
  Sunrise Hub Meeting (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 6:30pm - 7:30pm

  Where: Science Center Room 183-Classroom

  Sunrise Hub Meeting

• 6:30pm - 8:00pm IC Arthouse Featuring Student Artists
  IC Arthouse Featuring Student Artists (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 6:30pm - 8:00pm

  Where: Intercultural Center Big Room - ICC

  Welcome back to the IC Arthouse! This month we're featuring our own student artists who will present their work and chat with all who participate. Come to see your fellow classmates show off their art in this exciting event.

• 7:00pm - 9:00pm Finding Home: Parallels in Mythology and Bridging Cultures
  Finding Home: Parallels in Mythology and Bridging Cultures (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 7:00pm - 9:00pm

  Where: Kohlberg Hall Scheuer Room - Multi-Purpose Room

  “Finding Home: Parallels in Mythology and Bridging Cultures” is an illustrated presentation by the artist Siona Benjamin. Benjamin is a painter, raised in Mumbai and currently living in the US, whose work reflects having been brought up Jewish in a mostly Hindu and Muslim India. 

  Event is sponsored by the Religion Department, Beit Midrash & McCabe Library, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Asian Studies Program, Deshi, and Religious & Spiritual Life.

• 7:00pm - 9:00pm Senior Class Gift Launch Celebration
  Senior Class Gift Launch Celebration (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 7:00pm - 9:00pm

  Where: Clothier Room TIC-Upper Tarble - Multi Purpose Room

  Seniors! Celebrate your final year at Swat and the launch of your Senior Class Gift with delicious (and free!) pub food and drink. This is your opportunity to hear a special announcement about our class gift, win some raffle prizes, and get your official Class of 2020 pint glass!

• 8:00pm - 9:00pm ORAA Community Conversations: White Environmentalism in API/A Communities
  ORAA Community Conversations: White Environmentalism in API/A Communities (View)

  When: Thursday, November 14th, 2019 8:00pm - 9:00pm

  Where: Lang Performing Arts Center (LPAC) Room 301-Classroom

  Join ORAA for this open community conversation about the impact of white environmentalism in API/A communities! Drawing from case studies such as the price of eco-tourism and the global waste trade, we will discuss the role of white environmentalism’s colonial and racist legacies in displacing “Asian” communities and creating diasporic narratives in the 21st century.

  ORAA= Organizing to Redefine "Asian" Activism 

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Tomorrow

• 12:00am - 11:30pm Advising Period
  Advising Period (View)

  When: Friday, November 15th, 2019 12:00am - 11:30pm
• 8:30am - 12:00pm Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union (FMFCU) On Campus
  Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union (FMFCU) On Campus (View)

  When: Friday, November 15th, 2019 8:30am - 12:00pm

  Where: Science Center - Eldridge Commons

  A representative from the Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union will be available in the Science Center, Eldridge Commons from 8:30 a.m.–12 p.m. on the following days: September 6, September 20, October 4, October 18, November 1, November 15, December 6, December 20, and January 17.

  The representative will be on hand to assist Swarthmore faculty, staff, and students with:

  • Establishing memberships
  • Opening new or additional accounts
  • Submitting loan applications
  • Transferring funds between memberships
  • Scheduling a free appointment with a Mortgage or Wealth Management professional
  • Demonstrating how to use Mobile Banking

  Please note they will not be able to process any transactions related to cash and checks.

  For your convenience, there are several FMFCU ATMs on campus, in Kohlberg Coffee Bar and in the lobby of the Inn at Swarthmore. You can find a complete list of FMFCU branches and hours at fmfcu.org/branch-locations.   

  Swarthmore faculty and staff enjoy 0.25% rate discount on Home Equity, Auto, and Personal loans! Learn more at fmfcu.org/swarthmore/.

• 10:00am - 6:00pm A Conversation With Chester: Student Work Produced in Chester
  A Conversation With Chester: Student Work Produced in Chester (View)

  When: Friday, November 15th, 2019 10:00am - 6:00pm

  Where: McCabe Library Atrium Exhibits

  This exhibition features student work from Spring 2019 classes: Drawing Architecture, Ceramics II, and Photo I. Led by Randall Exon, Syd Carpenter, and Ron Tarver, respectively, the students created architectural drawings, ceramic pieces, and photography reflecting on and interacting with the city of Chester, PA. The work was made in collaboration with Devon Walls of Chester Made, an artist collective based in Chester along the Avenue of the States with support from the Mellon Foundation and The Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility.

• 10:00am - 6:00pm Exhibition: Black Excellence in the Book Arts
  Exhibition: Black Excellence in the Book Arts (View)

  When: Friday, November 15th, 2019 10:00am - 6:00pm

  Where: McCabe Cratsley Lounge Exhibits

  Black Excellence in the Book Arts highlights artists’ books in the Libraries’ collection by black artists as part of the year’s celebration of Black Excellence at Swarthmore College.

• 11:00am - 1:00pm Queer Game Day - gaming
  Queer Game Day - gaming (View)

  When: Friday, November 15th, 2019 11:00am - 1:00pm

  Queer Game Day

   

• 12:00pm - 5:00pm Sue Hettmansperger/Iterations: Painting and Collage and Jan Baltzell: Drawings
  Sue Hettmansperger/Iterations: Painting and Collage and Jan Baltzell: Drawings (View)

  When: Friday, November 15th, 2019 12:00pm - 5:00pm

  Where: List Gallery in the Lang Performing Arts Center

  https://www.swarthmore.edu/list-gallery/jan-baltzell-drawings https://www.swarthmore.edu/list-gallery/sue-hettmanspergerThe List Gallery, Swarthmore College is pleased to present concurrent exhibitions: Sue Hettmansperger, Iterations: Painting and Collage and Jan Baltzell: Drawings.

  The Department of Art and Art History is pleased to celebrate Sue Hettmansperger's long career by naming her the 2019 Marjorie Heilman Visiting Artist. She has already been recognized with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for elaborating traditions established by early 20th century American Modernists such as Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Georgia O’Keefe. Using a limited palette, abstracted forms, flattened spaces, and inventive gestures, she creates transcendental and emblematic representations of nature. Her varied sources of inspiration include southwestern deserts, human anatomy, botanical forms, topology and mapping, Photoshopped images, and the by-products of industrial technology. Studying such diverse imagery through the lenses of drawing, printmaking, painting, and collage, she has developed an idiosyncratic vocabulary of forms, textures, and gestures. 

  Comparing her collages with their painted counterparts, we see her ideas evolve through translations of scale, media, and color. Her complex grids of similarly sized canvases simultaneously read as still lifes, landscapes, and successive states of mind. Intimate in scale, but ambitious in scope, her works offers elegies in response to our lost connection to nature.

  During the past forty years, Jan Baltzell has exhibited her vibrantly colored paintings in more than twenty solo exhibitions in the Philadelphia region, and her works have been featured in group exhibitions both regionally and nationally. Her masterful compositions reflect varied artistic influences, from the gestural abstractions of Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning to the structured geometries and soft surfaces of frescos by Piero della Francesca. Although she has been rightly celebrated for her compelling use of color, Baltzell's List Gallery exhibition calls attention to the way drawing has been fundamental to her creative practice. Comprised of ten drawings made during the past three years, Jan Baltzell: Drawings and an accompanying catalog offer viewers a chance to understand the expressive immediacy and elasticity of the artist's drawing.

  Since 1985, Jan Baltzell has taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she has served in the B.F.A., Post-Baccalaureate, and M.F.A. programs. She has also taught art as a visiting instructor or critic at diverse institutions, including Towson State University, Drexel University, and Art Institute of Philadelphia.

• 12:00pm - 1:30pm Housing Advisory Committee
  Housing Advisory Committee (View)

  When: Friday, November 15th, 2019 12:00pm - 1:30pm

  Bi-Weekly Meeting for students to discuss pertinent housing issues with Office of Student Engagement Staff

• 12:15pm - 1:00pm Group Circuit Training (Group Exercise Class)
  Group Circuit Training (Group Exercise Class) (View)

  When: Friday, November 15th, 2019 12:15pm - 1:00pm

  Where: Matchbox Lower Level Lewis Reynolds Performance Center
• 12:30pm - 2:00pm Biophysics Colloquium - Eva-Maria Collins, Swarthmore College
  Biophysics Colloquium - Eva-Maria Collins, Swarthmore College (View)

  When: Friday, November 15th, 2019 12:30pm - 2:00pm

  Where: Science Center Room 199-Cunniff Hall Tiered Classroom

  Eva-Maria Collins
  Associate Professor of Systems Biology
  Department of Biology
  Swarthmore College

  The Serpent’s Maw: A physics perspective on mouth function and the dynamics of Hydra regeneration

  Named after the monster from Greek mythology, the freshwater polyp Hydra is famous for its regenerative abilities. While the real Hydra is a few mm small, inconspicuous looking animal, it outperforms the fictional creature by its ability to regenerate from small tissue pieces or from cell aggregates after disintegration into individual cells. This process of self-organization of an initially near-uniform cell ball into an animal with a well-defined head-foot body axis poses fundamental questions regarding the cross-talk of biochemical and physical signaling driving organismal patterning.

  Hydra’s self-organizing properties following disintegration into individual cells were first recognized more than 40 years ago. However, what drives cell sorting during regeneration remained debated as existing studies failed to distinguish between different driving mechanisms. Using a combined experimental-theoretical approach, we have recently settled this debate and shown that tissue interfacial tensions drive cell sorting. Furthermore, once sorting is complete or excised tissue pieces have rounded up, the Hydra sphere hollows out and undergoes osmotically driven shape oscillations. The sphere eventually breaks shape symmetry to form an ellipsoid, defining the future head-foot polarity of the adult polyp. It has been proposed that the shape oscillations are necessary for symmetry breaking and successful regeneration. Existing mathematical models assume that a shift in the frequency of shape oscillations of regenerating Hydra spheres coincides with symmetry breaking and axis specification. Recent work in my group breaks this link and suggests that the oscillation pattern is not indicative of symmetry breaking. Instead, the oscillation pattern shift is a direct consequence of mouth function and its use in osmoregulation. As the link between oscillation dynamics and axis specification was a key assumption in current mathematical models of Hydra regeneration, our results require that we reexamine the mechanisms driving pattern formation.

  Pizza lunch for those attending starting at 12:20 pm

  November 15, 2019 - 12:30 pm - Cunniff Lecture Hall (SC 199)

• 12:30pm - 1:30pm Chinese Language Table
  Chinese Language Table (View)

  When: Friday, November 15th, 2019 12:30pm - 1:30pm

  Where: Sharples Open Meeting Room, 2nd floor

  Join us on Tuesdays in Sharples Dining Hall Room #4, 1st floor, and on Fridays in the Sharples Open Space Meeting area, 2nd floor, from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

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