Publications
Podalot Episode 3: “Universities and Democracy”
with Vineeta Singh, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Donna Murch, and Davarian Baldwin
Call for 2024-25 Aydelotte Foundation Faculty Seminar
Just Art: Feminist Anti-Racist Practice
Call for Aydelotte Student Research Fellows
Applications are Now Open for the 2024-2025 Academic Year, Apply by May 1, 2024
The Role of the College in Sexual Health
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 4:30 – 6:30PM, Scheuer
Jodi Melamed & Chandan Reddy, Operationalizing Racial Capitalism: On Liberalism’s Command Powers
Friday, April 5 at 4:30pm ET, IC Dome and Zoom
Mary Beltrán, Latinx TV: Latina and Latino Storytellers Making an Impact
Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 4:30pm, Scheuer
Projects + Programs
Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts
We are investigating and assembling work on underrepresented histories of how Black people, institutions, and ideas have existed outside of, pushed against, or reshaped from within the ideas and institutions of the liberal arts.
Faculty Research Seminars
AF workshops aim to develop skills and techniques and to enrich our capacity for collaborative inquiry.
Scholarly Promotion
The Aydelotte Foundation and Swarthmore College Libraries can help you plan a launch event for the Swarthmore community, your extended disciplinary interlocutors, and/or the wider public.
Podalot – The Aydelotte Podcast
Podalot is the podcast of the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College, an interdisciplinary research center that supports the creation and dissemination of knowledge about liberal arts education as it exists across the broadest possible range of contexts and institutions.
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Development Grant
This grant program offers funding for interdisciplinary programs and departments to research, develop, and strengthen interdisciplinary curricula within their unit and/or across the College.
Courses
Courses and the curriculum as a whole are at the heart of the Aydelotte Foundation’s mission.
Get Involved
Are you publishing a new book or other significant work? Read how the Aydelotte Foundation and Swarthmore Libraries can support a launch event.
Are you teaching a course with faculty or students from other institutions? Let us know.
Events
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 7 – 8:30pm
Naomi Klein - "Palestine, Zionism, and the Doppelganger Effect"
Lang Performing Arts Center Room (LPAC) 102 Pearson-Hall Theatre - Full
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. She is a columnist with The Guardian. In 2018 she was named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University and is now Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers. In September 2021 she joined the University of British Columbia as UBC Professor of Climate Justice (tenured) and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice.
This event is part of the South Africa to Gaza: World History and the Politics of Accountability series.The series draws its title and framing from the ICJ hearings on the Convention to Prevent and Punish the Crime of Genocide as it relates to Gaza. It is intended to create space for the sorts of thoughtful, informed dialogue on pressing contemporary issues that higher education aspires to produce by bringing internationally-renowned academics, journalists, artists, and legal experts to campus.
The series is sponsored by the Aydelotte Foundation, the President‘s Fund for Racial Justice, Swarthmore College Libraries, Arabic, Art History, Black Studies, Educational Studies, English Literature, French & Francophone Studies, History, the Intercultural Center, Islamic Studies, Modern Languages & Literatures, Peace & Conflict Studies, Religion, and Sociology & Anthropology.
