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Haverford College
Hurford Humanities Center
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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

"Words on Water" (2002) Screening and Q&A with Film Maker Sanjay Kak - Nov. 9 @ 4:30 p.m.

The film explores the struggle of the people of the Narmada Valley against the big dams that threaten to submerge their lands and displace them from their homes, traditions and cultures.

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Fragmented Bodies of American Lynching: Religion, Politics, and Representation

This November 13 symposium attempts to canvass as well as to expand upon the topics related to American lynching and its multiple representations, understandings of the body as a site for social ideology, and materiality as expressed through literature, visual culture, and performance.

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CANNONBALL!

Wed. November 11th 2009, 8:00 p.m. - Meditation Room, Woodside Cottage: All members of the Haverford Community are invited to join the Poetry Reading Group and the HHC for a lively evening of poetry, fiction, and far-flung works from across the literary canon! Hosted by Thomas Devaney, Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing.

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Imaginative Feats Literally Presented/Three Fables for Projection: Guarded, Flat Land, Lost

Artists Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse explore the visual culture of America’s contemporary wars through three video works that will be exhibited in Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, October 23-December 11, 2009.

Ruti Talmor is the Hurford Humanities Center's 2009-11 Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow

Talmor is a scholar and filmmaker who explores the art world as an "intercultural zone," where art and objects become global representations of specific cultures.

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 HHC

  • Mapping Identity

    Mapping Identity

    Janet Yoon '10 hopes to document all the steps that go into curating a show and what she did as a student research assistant for Prof. Carol Solomon and their upcoming exhibit Mapping Identity.
  • Screening Music

    Screening Music: An Aural Look at Film

    How does music alter and enhance a film? How does film change the way we perceive music? Jane Holloway '11 and Genna Cherichello '11 will be exploring these questions and more through their Student Seminar blog.
  • Hurford Bio

    John B. Hurford '60 Biography

    Who was John B. Hurford '60 and why was the center named in his honor?

Events

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

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Monday, November 9th, 2009

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

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