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.
Learn more>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.
Learn more>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.
Learn More >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
Drawing the Line: Comics & the Art of Social Transformation
Members of the public are invited to take part in the workshops, master classes, lectures, and panel presentations on the role of comics in movements for social change that will be taking place on Haverford's campus from October 21-25, 2009.
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.
John B. Hurford '60 Biography
Who was John B. Hurford '60 and why was the center named in his honor?
Events
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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11:00Imaginative Feats Literally Presented / Three Fables for Projection: Guarded, Flat Land, LostImaginative Feats Literally Presented / Three Fables for Projection: Guarded, Flat Land, Lost http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/112471/1257350400 WCC Art Gallery 2009-11-04T11:00:00 2009-11-04T20:00:00
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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11:00Imaginative Feats Literally Presented / Three Fables for Projection: Guarded, Flat Land, LostImaginative Feats Literally Presented / Three Fables for Projection: Guarded, Flat Land, Lost http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/112461/1257436800 WCC Art Gallery 2009-11-05T11:00:00 2009-11-05T17:00:00
Friday, November 6th, 2009
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11:00Imaginative Feats Literally Presented / Three Fables for Projection: Guarded, Flat Land, LostImaginative Feats Literally Presented / Three Fables for Projection: Guarded, Flat Land, Lost http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/112461/1257523200 WCC Art Gallery 2009-11-06T11:00:00 2009-11-06T17:00:00
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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12:00Imaginative Feats Literally Presented / Three Fables for Projection: Guarded, Flat Land, LostImaginative Feats Literally Presented / Three Fables for Projection: Guarded, Flat Land, Lost http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/114721/1257613200 WCC Art Gallery 2009-11-07T12:00:00 2009-11-07T17:00:00
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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12:00Imaginative Feats Literally Presented / Three Fables for Projection: Guarded, Flat Land, LostImaginative Feats Literally Presented / Three Fables for Projection: Guarded, Flat Land, Lost http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/112761/1257699600 WCC Art Gallery 2009-11-08T12:00:00 2009-11-08T17:00:00













