Posted November 30, 2011
The "Flash Presentations" are a professional development gathering of the 2011 Hepburn interns where they share their summer internship experiences in a 3 slide PowerPoint presentation with representatives from the Career Development Office, the Dean's Office, and Alumnae Office.
Posted November 15, 2011
Guests include tech entrpreneur Tan Le, singer-songwriter Morley, and documentarian Jennifer Newson
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Posted October 19, 2011
The Hepburn Center provides funding to a number of Bryn Mawr College students so that they may undertake summer internships to obtain practical, hands-on. experience in one of the Center's three mission areas. Some internships will partner students with current or past Hepburn Fellows, but students can also seek out and propose internships of their own devising that involve partnerships with other individuals and institutions committed to the areas of work that the Center encourages. In the year following their internships, Hepburn interns participate in select professionalization activities.
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Posted May 6, 2011
The past several decades have brought world-wide agendas about rights and justice to the forefront of international policy debates. Throughout the 1990s, international United Nations conferences opened space for debate on the environment, human rights, population, and women. While it can be said that the economic and political crises of the new millennium have slowed the pace of commitments to the pursuit of equality for all, debates about how best to promote equality and justice in and through the development process continue. Many organizations at the local, national, and global levels now understand gender to be a central factor in ...
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Posted September 15, 2010
A groundbreaking performance when it premiered in 1973, Education of the Girlchild features Meredith Monk’s exhilarating voice, stirring presence, and the seamless melding of dance, music and visual theater for which she is renowned. Monk’s creation, one of the most influential works in the performance art movement, poetically conjures cycles of growth and change in a woman’s life. MacArthur ‘genius’ Monk will perform her solo from Education of the Girlchild, and with her Vocal Ensemble, music and movement selections from Key(1970) and Vessel (1971), revisiting the source of her prolific and ...
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Posted September 15, 2010
City 276: Mural Arts, Jane Golden and Shira Walinsky
The class will involve discussions of murals historically and through the present day. The class will also explore community-based practice and grassroots organizing through readings, research and volunteering to help high school students with college essay preparation. Students will be involved in the making of a large-scale mural whose concepts reflect intergenerational women's leadership: its past, present and future. This will involve helping the muralist with the content, design and execution of the mural. Additionally, students will create posters (silk-screens and wood cuts), which spread awareness of women's ...
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Posted February 24, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010, 2 - 9:30 p.m.
Bryn Mawr College Wyndham Alumnae House
The conference is dedicated to the life and work of Kevin J. Robinson, Assistant Professor at the Bryn Mawr College
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
This conference brings together members of the Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore College communities with representatives of community-based health organizations in the greater Philadelphia area to discuss collaborations targeted at reducing health disparities in our community. The goals are; a) to analyze the dimensions of health disparities in our nation and community, b) to ...
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Posted February 5, 2010
Bryn Mawr’s Hepburn Center and Haverford’s Center for Peace and Global Citizenship are co-sponsoring a screening of the documentary film “Concrete, Steel, & Paint” about the healing power of the Mural Arts Prison Project at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18th in Stokes Auditorium at Haverford College. Following the screening, there will be a discussion about the criminal justice system, the concept and practice of restorative justice, and the contribution of public art to building and strengthening communities. The filmmakers Cindy Burstein and Tony Heriza, as well as Philadelphia Mural Arts Director Jane Golden (recipient of 2006 Honorary ...
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Posted January 15, 2010
The Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center will offer 12 summer internships in 2010 to undergraduates interested in obtaining practical experience in one of the Center’s three areas of mission: film/theater, women’s health, or civic engagement. Some internships will link students with current or past Hepburn Fellows, or with other colleagues who have an affiliation with the Hepburn Center. Information about these internships can be found by clicking this
link. Undergraduates can also seek out and propose internships of their own devising that involve partnerships with other individuals and institutions committed to the areas of work that the Center ...
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