For Faculty: Working & Reading Groups
Working Groups
The Center provides up to $3,500 per year for Faculty Working Groups of local scholars focusing on a common research interest. Groups should be led by a Haverford faculty member and generally be constituted by at least five members, several of whom should be drawn from Haverford's faculty.
Current Groups
- American Studies–Gustavus Stadler, English, gstadler@haverford.edu
How to Apply
Proposals for Working Groups should include a description that includes format, possible participants, timing, and schedule, and projected budget, as well as an explanation of the intellectual scope of the project and its relationship to Haverford's academic program.
Curriculum Grant Applications Form 
Deadlines: Please email your application by 5 p.m., Friday, October 21, 2011 to Associate Director Emily Cronin at ecronin@haverford.edu The next deadline will be Friday, March 30, 2012.
Reading Groups
The Center sponsors ongoing Faculty Reading Groups which gather regularly to study texts of mutual interest. Up to $500 is available for books and refreshments.
Note: Students and staff may be included, but only when faculty organizers choose to invite them into the group.
Current Reading Groups
Works of Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is an accomplished and widely respected writer whose fiction and non-fiction have reliably won high praise from reviewers and prize committees. The winner of several honors in India and Europe, he has taught in several Literature Departments in the U.S. His novels are best known for their astute grasp of the cultural contexts of quotidian human interaction, quite likely revealing his training as a social anthropologist. Since 2000, Ghosh has written a series of historical novels that circle around shards of information from colonial archives and build up an epic narrative sweep through meticulous historical research.
Led by Raji Mohan (rmohan@haberford.edu), the group to discuss a book a month, starting in September:
- September: In an Antique Land (1992)
- October: Shadow Lines (1988)
- November: The Calcutta Chromosome (1995)
- December: Essays from The Imam and the Indian (2002)
- January: The Glass Palace (2000)
- February: The Hungry Tide (2005)
- March: The Sea of Poppies (2008)
- April: River of Smoke (2011)
- May: Essays from Incendiary Circumstances (2006)
Poetry Reading Group
Thursdays, Woodside Cottage 9 -10 PM
PRG discusses poetry the way we all found it first: outside of the classroom. Open to students, faculty and staff. Bring a few copies of a poem that you like/don't like/want to talk about by a poet other than yourself. We promise hummus.
Contact: anikolis@haverford.edu, agangi@haverford.edu
Proposing a Reading Group
Proposals for Reading Groups should include a description that includes format, possible participants, timing, and schedule, and projected budget, as well as an explanation of the intellectual scope of the project and its relationship to Haverford's academic program.
Curriculum Grant Applications Form
Deadlines: Please email your application by 5 p.m., Friday, October 21, 2011 to Associate Director Emily Cronin at ecronin@haverford.edu The next deadline will be Friday, March 30, 2012.
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2010-11
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Organized by JP Bowditch. Open to students, staff, and faculty; stop by an info session at 4:00pm in Gest 101 on Wednesday, 5/4, or contact jbowditc@haverford.edu or kwright@haverford.edu for more information. -
Michel Foucault is one of the mostly widely cited figures in the humanities, one of the most influential philosophers of the past one hundred years, and one of the most challenging to read and comprehend. Join us this summer in HCA 30 1B to untangle Foucault's classic text Discipline and Punish over food and drink. -
Monday, January 24, 4:15 PM, Stokes 102: Given the dire urgency of our current economic and ecological crises, perhaps some new insights can be gained from both classic and contemporary accounts of the nature and possible futures of capitalist society. This reading group, open to all bi-co students and faculty, proposes to study the works of Karl Marx's Capital (Volume 1).Learn More > -
Thursdays, Woodside Cottage 9-10 PM The Poetry Reading Group discusses poetry the way we all found it first: outside of the classroom. Bring a few copies of a poem that you like/don't like/want to talk about by a poet other than yourself. We promise hummus. Contact: anikolis@haverford.edu, agangi@haverford.eduLearn More >
2009-10
- Islamism for Beginners: Reading and Critiquing What Contemporary Islamists Say Reading Group
View Group Description | News Article: Islamism for Beginners - Poetry Reading Group
- Talmud Reading Group
2008-09
- House of Leaves Reading Group
View Group Description - Poetry Reading Group
- Speech Acts: Across Media and Around the World
View Group Description | Visit the blog - Talmud Reading Group
2007-08
- Poetry Reading Group
- Talmud Reading Group
- Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry Reading Group
- Wittgenstein Reading Group
2006-07
- Talmud Reading Group
- Bible as Literary Text Reading Group
- Against the Day Thomas Pynchon Reading Group
- Derrida Reading Group
- Death of a Discipline Gayatri Spivak Reading Group
2005-06
- Literary House
- Epic Books
2004-05
- Finnegans Wake