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Allegheny’s Jackson Center interns and Center for Political Participation fellows meeting with the late civil rights leader, Julian Bond.
Gator Group Studies and L&P participants discuss a film on inequalities in legal representation
The International Humanitarian Law Dialogues, hosted by the Robert H. Jackson Center, are regularly attended by Allegheny students and faculty. It is one of the only opportunities for the prosecutors of international criminal tribunals to gather annually.
Allegheny CPP Fellow Aurora Arop (right) meeting with Fatou Bensouda (left), the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
Caroline Kaeb, of Northwestern Law School, speaking on the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Kiobel case.
From left to right Peter Schwartz ’64, June Fair ’64, Rev. James Lawson, and Rick Momeyer ’64 gathered for the first time since their days together at Fisk University in 1962. At that time, Allegheny had an exchange program with Fisk, a program in which Schwartz, Fair, and Momeyer participated. Rev. James Lawson was a key leader in the civil rights movement and provided important non-violent protest training to students like Schwartz, Fair, and Momeyer at Fisk.
Filmmaker Dawn Porter discusses her film, Gideon’s Army. We also hosted a screening of her recent documentary, Spies of Mississippi.
Prof. Duane Windsor (Rice University) with President Clinton’s Ambassador for War Crimes, Davis Scheffer of Northwestern University (right). The two panelists discussed multinational corporations and human rights as part of a mini-conference hosted by Allegheny College.
Gabe Sanchez is associate professor of political science and executive director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico. He is also director of research for Latino Decisions, the leading survey firm focused on the Latino population in the U.S.
John Aldrich (Allegheny class of 1969) speaking with students during the conference on Voting Rights and Democratic Participation. Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University.
50 years later, Allegheny students visit with participants in Freedom Summer as part of a travel seminar on the legacies of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The class traveled through GA, AL, MS, TN, and NC in the fall of 2014.
A few members of Allegheny’s political science department enjoy a lecture
In anticipation of an exciting 2016 election cycle, we revisit election night 2012.