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The John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center 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

Teach-In on Haiti

February 9, 2010 @ 6 p.m. - An informal dialogue with professors from Bryn Mawr, Penn, Swarthmore, and Haverford who will frame the current crisis from the perspectives of Haitian and World narrative traditions, film, iconography, history, and political economy.

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Apply to the Lutton Fund for Performance

Deadline: Friday, March 19th for Fall 2010 or Spring 2011 performances. Open to performers, technicians, directors, creators, designers, mixed-media installation artists, and anybody else who may be interested in producing crisp, challenging performing arts at Haverford.

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Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers

The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery presents the East Coast premiere of Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers, featuring the photographic prints of internationally acclaimed artist Chris Jordan. The show will run January 22-March 5, 2010. An artist’s reception will be held Friday, January 29, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Gallery.

The Humanities Center Student Advisory Board

The Humanities Center Student Advisory Board is a think tank established to help determine future directions for student work at HHC. Comprised of three students, the AB will consider how student coursework, senior theses, artistic practice, and other projects might best benefit from Center support.

Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse: Sleeping Under Stars, Living Under Satellites

January 31 to June 6, 2010 at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The collaborative team of Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse have based their first major project in the northeast on the sweep of over 200 years of Ridgefield, Connecticut’s, history. The exhibition explores different ways of keeping time and moving through space by presenting the wanderings of legendary historical figures from Ridgefield, Sarah Bishop and the Leatherman.

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Mapping Identity Blog

Janet Yoon '10 and Professor Carol Solomon are co-curating Mapping Identity, an exhibit set to open in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery in Spring 2010. Here, Janet documents her work in preparing for the show.

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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.