Center for Peace and Global Citizenship

Haverford College students who are interested in beginning or deepening their study of Arabic, linking it with their interest in Middle Eastern Archaeology, and/or embedding their language study within a 5-week externship, should consider applying for the funded, online summer program in partnership with Sijal Insititute and Global Bryn Mawr. https://www.haverford.edu//arabic-language-and-interdiscip

Watch: Reiterating the alliances between South Asian Americans and Irish Americans in early 1900s Philadelphia shows us the power of re-learning an accurate history. On Tuesday, March 16th, 2021, "Remixing Revolution" with South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) highlighted how the lessons from this history could be implemented within the classroom. The event was co-sponsored by PACIE - Pennsylvania Council for International Education and the The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative housed in the Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. https://compact.org/recording-remixing-revolution-with-phi/

Haverford College faculty are invited to hear from some of their peers who have leveraged Center for Peace and Global Citizenship funding into larger successful funding applications and who have utilized CPGC funding to support local initiatives that advance inclusion. Learn how to leverage CPGC opportunities to advance your own community-engaged teaching, service-learning course, or participatory scholarship. Register at the link below. https://www.haverford.edu//mar-25-getting-cpgc-funding-sup

"Thinking globally requires wrestling with the way injustice and inequity stemming from historic exclusion and patterns of colonization is embedded in the very structures of every local place," says CPGC Executive Director Eric Hartman via Generocity

From our friends at Ticha: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec: "Celebrating International Day of Mother Language with Maria Velasco Vasquez's blog: "Building a virtual Zapotec community: a perspective from Koreatown", part of our American Council of Learned Societies funded project, published in partnership with The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative" https://compact.org/building-a-virtual-zapotec-community-a/

The annual CPGC Fellowship Presentation Session is going virtual on Friday, November 6 from 11am-12:30pm EST! RSVP at the link below. All are welcome! During the summer of 2020, CPGC Fellows worked with partner organizations around the world, providing remote contributions to organizations as diverse as UNICEF and Philadelphia's Puentes de Salud. Join us to learn about what they did and how it has affected their academic and professional development. Student participants wil...l also have opportunities to consider how they can apply for CPGC Fellowships for summer 2021. https://www.haverford.edu//nov-6-what-have-they-done-and-w

CPGC Fellow Nuria Benitez '22 worked on the Talking Dictionaries team this summer, supporting language activists and educators in building virtual resources for Zapotec language preservation. Read about the Talking Dictionaries team's work at the link below, and join us online on October 28th for Speaking, Writing, and Resisting: Celebrating Zapotec Language Activism! Registration info is at hav.to/cpgc20. https://www.haverford.edu//talking-dictionaries-work-conti

On today's Indigenous People's Day, join us in: - Acknowledging Haverford College's location on Lenni-Lenape land, recognizing the Lenape Nation of Pa. Cultural Center and learning about the Treaty of Renewed Friendship [tinyurl.com/y26kkudd]. - Learning more about the important work of Cultural Survival. View the page Erica Belfi '21 recently developed on Cultural Survival and Indigenous Rights as part of our Global Solidarity and Local Actions Toolkit [tinyurl.com/yyw94ql...b]. Current students may consider applying for a summer 2021 internship with Cultural Survival. (Application processes will be announced in November). - Registering for an upcoming event on October 28: Speaking, Writing, and Resisting: Celebrating Zapotec Language Activism. Learn more about how the Ticha: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec Project team advances indigenous language activism and provides opportunities for students to learn and intern, while supporting community goals, periodically throughout the year.

After spending years learning principles and examples of community planning in the classroom setting, this place-based praxis allowed an inside access into citizen-driven planning, said Owen Deitcher '20. Experiences like these inspire me to, one day, lead community-driven planning initiatives to make communities safer, healthier, and more environmentally conscious. - Owen Deitcher '20 Through CPGC Summer Fellowships, Owen Deitcher '20 and Matthew Katz '22 worked remotely on the proposed bike route that would offer a more equitable, sustainable, and safe means of transportation through Philly’s western suburbs.

RSVP by Monday, Oct. 12 - In the name of education that is enriching, engaging and relevant both with respect to students’ trajectories and in terms of understanding and addressing 21st Century Challenges, faculty, staff, students and community partners have worked to better align interdisciplinary global engagement programs. During this opportunity for connection and conversation we will hear from a range of faculty, staff, and administrative voices who have made progress on these efforts at selective liberal arts institutions.

We are now In the context of pronounced racial justice uprising, COVID public health crisis, and pandemic fatigue. As we have all seen, communication, media literacy, and content production is increasingly important to the ways we access and engage information. It will be imperative that the Center develop accessible programming. I look forward to how the CPGC will support existing and new community partners on paths to public scholarship. This moment requires all of us to not only pivot our programming but also to broadly imagine what public engagement and scholarship must look like." - Juli Grigsby, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and CPGC steering committee member https://www.haverford.edu/peace-an//meet-cpgc-juli-grigsby

Wednesday, October 28 7:00-8:30 p.m. EDT Language Lessons at 6:15-6:45 p.m. and 8:30-9:00 p.m. Registration required by Thursday, October 22 [https://haverford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_85QwyVb2U5Q3o0d] Zoom link will be sent to registrants... Join us online to learn from Zapotec language activists and educators about their work to reclaim knowledge and resist anti-indigenous ideologies in Mexico and the diaspora. Learn how dictionaries relate to weaving, hear Zapotec poetry, and listen to Zapotec language in context through a tour of San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca. Sign up to join in with a short Zapotec language lesson before or after this event. (sign ups are filling quickly) Panelists will be in conversation around this international collaboration that seeks to center and celebrate Zapotec knowledge and expertise through research, education, and the creation of publicly available resources, such as Zapotec Talking Dictionaries and Ticha.

As alumni look back on their College experiences, and compare and contrast those experiences with their peers, they gain new perspective. Brooke Bách-Tng Phan '05, Natalie A. Wossene '08, and Chelsea Richardson '18 will join us in dialogue with Professor Anita Isaacs, one of CPGC's co-founders, to consider the CPGC's impact and opportunities moving forward. RSVP by Oct. 2 [https://haverford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJU2oBhS3eE5SrX]

"Another new fellowship launching this summer, the Philadelphia Justice and Equity Fellows, will provide paid summer and academic year internships through the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship (CPGC) at select partner organizations working actively in Philadelphia to address issues of justice and equity and confronting systemic racism. These internships build on existing relationships the CPGC has with organizations including the Abolitionist Law Center, AFAHO, Asian Ar...ts Initiative, the Black Doctors Covid19 Consortium, the City of Philadelphia, Education Law Center, Puentes de Salud, Read by 4th, Shift Capital, and Ujima Peace Center. These fellowships are made possible by a new endowed fund created by the Board and Corporation of Haverford College and seeded by Aleta and Paul Zoidis ’81, P’11." https://www.haverford.edu//haverford-college-announces-fun

October 6, 11am EDT - As alumni look back on their Haverford College experiences, and compare and contrast those experiences with their peers, they gain new perspective. Brooke Bách-Tng Phan '05, Natalie A. Wossene '08, and Chelsea Richardson '18 will join us in dialogue with one of CPGC's co-founders to consider the CPGC's impact and opportunities moving forward. RSVP at hav.to/cpgc20. https://www.haverford.edu//oct-6-why-found-and-fund-center

On September 29, join us on Zoom to hear from Lagim Tehi Tuma-Thinking Together-Fellowship Program (LTT) 2020 Fellows Lauren Lattimore BMC '21, Lisa Adanye BMC '23, and Ibrahim Zengbang Muta-Ali UDS '21 as they share a combined reflection of their experiences with their internships, Dagomba language and cultural learning, and collaborative work on LTT’s Research Committee. They will also share vignettes of their individual inquiry projects, followed by small group discussions... based on the topics they researched (histories of enslavement camps in Ghana, migration from rural to urban areas in Ghana, and familial artifacts). The Fellows will then facilitate a larger discussion on the current political and personal relevance of Black Study/ies and how to protect it from career and media commodification. RSVP by Friday, Sept. 25 for the virtual event at the link below! See more