The John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities seeks to enhance the intellectual and cultural life at Haverford by fostering challenging exchange among faculty, students, and diverse communities of writers, artists, performers, thinkers, activists, and innovators. The Center sponsors programs that promote relationships between classic humanistic study and contemporary intellectual, artistic, and ethical currents in the wider public world.
Current Features
Submit a proposal for RE:HUMANITIES 2013
Organized by students at Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore Colleges, Re: Humanities is a two-day symposium featuring presentations by undergraduate scholars from across the country interested in the effects of digital media on academia. DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday, December 7th, 2012 (Midnight GMT)
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Blind Field Shuttle with Mellon Tri-Co Creative Resident Carmen Papalia
Reserve your spot NOW! December 5, 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. starting at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery: Mellon Tri-College Artist-in-residence Carmen Papalia will lead registered participants on a Blind Field Shuttle, a non-visual walking tour around the Haverford campus. Limited to 40 participants. Reserve a spot by emailing hcexhibits@gmail.com.
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The Poetry of John Rybicki: Reading & Workshop
Reading: Thursday, 12/6, 8:00 p.m., Woodside Cottage Meditation Room *Book-signing to follow; the Poetry Reading Group invites you to join in its weekly meeting directly following the signing. Workshop: Friday, 12/7, 4:00 p.m., James House Bring some of your writing, with copies, to workshop in a group with the poet and others.
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Submit to Body Text. You’ve got papers, we’ve got pages.
When you write a paper for a class, why let your professor be the only one to enjoy it? Body Text is Haverford's student-written, student-edited academic journal sponsored by the HCAH. We are accepting papers through the end of the semester.
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Spring 2013 Courses
Memory, History, Anthropology with Zainab Saleh, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow; The Theory and Practice of Conceptual Art with John Muse, Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Studies; Religion, Emotion, and Global Cinema with Donovan Schaefer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow; Advanced Documentary Production with Vicky Funari, Artist in Residence.
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Submit to Margin.
Margin Topic for Spring 2013: Deploying Terror. Deploying Terror asks scholars, writers, and artists to consider the languages and images generated and deployed by the events of September 11, 2001. Deadline for submission: December 14, 2012.
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Call for Two Minute Presentations: SAVE AS Lightning Talks 2
SAVE AS cabal invites you to pitch a 2-minute presentation on your own digital scholarship, the germ of an idea, an app, a game, digital notation, twitter etiquette, something you’ve done, something you want to do.
What Can a Body Do?
October 26–December 16, 2012, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery: What Can a Body Do? impels us to imagine a generative interplay between disability, creativity and beauty. Curated by Amanda Cachia, the show features the work of nine contemporary artists who invent and reframe disability across a range of media. haverford.edu/whatcanabodydo
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Poetry Reading Group
Thursdays, 9 - 10pm, Woodside Cottage: PRG discusses poetry the way we all found it first: outside of the classroom. Bring a few copies of a poem (your own or someone else's) that you like/don't like/want to talk about. More info: Cole Fiedler-Kawaguchi, cfiedler@haverford.edu
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Introducing: Decentered
Decentered is the new blog of the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities. Return and return again this summer for the aggregated highs and lows; trials and tribulations; and annotated bibliographies and corrected drafts of Center-sponsored student interns and researchers.
Visit the blog >The Center supports scholarship, teaching, arts, and public forums. We strive to offer a broad range of innovative programming for both faculty and students that is well-integrated with the curriculum. The general public is invited and welcome to attend the public forums and arts events as our guests.
Inside the HCAH
Events
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
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8:00PMThe Poetry of John Rybicki: Reading & WorkshopThe Poetry of John Rybicki: Reading & Workshop http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/222631 Woodside Cottage Meditation Room 2012-12-06T20:00:00 2012-12-06T21:00:00
Friday, January 25th, 2013
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4:30PMTalk by OPP: Other People's Property artist Hank Willis Thomas and curator Kalia BrooksTalk by OPP: Other People's Property artist Hank Willis Thomas and curator Kalia Brooks http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/219051 WCC Art Gallery 2013-01-25T16:30:00 2013-01-25T17:30:00
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5:30PMOpening Reception for "OPP: Other People's Property," featuring the work of Hank Willis ThomasOpening Reception for "OPP: Other People's Property," featuring the work of Hank Willis Thomas http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/212611 WCC Art Gallery 2013-01-25T17:30:00 2013-01-25T19:30:00
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
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4:30PMHurford Center Student Seminar Speaker: Fr. Apostolos HillHurford Center Student Seminar Speaker: Fr. Apostolos Hill http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/223251 Stokes 102 - Humanities Center 2013-01-29T16:30:00 2013-01-29T18:00:00
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
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7:00PMSAVE AS: Lightning TalksSAVE AS: Lightning Talks http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/223261 Magill Philips Wing 2013-01-31T19:00:00 2013-01-31T20:30:00
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
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6:00PMHurford Center for the Arts and Humanities Spring Student Info FairHurford Center for the Arts and Humanities Spring Student Info Fair http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/223421 Stokes 102 - Humanities Center 2013-02-05T18:00:00 2013-02-05T20:00:00
Friday, March 22nd, 2013
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4:30PMTalk by "White Boys" exhibition co-curators Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha LoganTalk by "White Boys" exhibition co-curators Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Logan http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/219061 WCC Art Gallery 2013-03-22T16:30:00 2013-03-22T17:30:00
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5:30PMOpening Reception for "White Boys," curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha LoganOpening Reception for "White Boys," curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Logan http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/212641 WCC Art Gallery 2013-03-22T17:30:00 2013-03-22T19:30:00
Friday, March 29th, 2013
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10:00AMShades of Occupation: Iraq After 10 Years - 2013 Mellon SymposiumShades of Occupation: Iraq After 10 Years - 2013 Mellon Symposium http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/220841 Stokes 102 - Humanities Center 2013-03-29T10:00:00 2013-03-29T17:00:00