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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Chehi '78 and his wife Johanna, parents of Stephen '11, invite fine arts students to spend summers pursuing their craft in the picturesque Newfoundland village.

Oct. 20 & 21, 2009: "Politics, Africa, and Performance" brings together writers, scholars, performers, and activists in a two-day discussion focusing on the ways in which the visual and performing arts provide crucial links between lived experience and political power.

October 21-25, 2009: Cartoonists Lynda Barry, Eric Drooker, and John Jennings will be joining cultural critics Jared Gardner, Jeet Heer, and Sharon Mizota and members of the Haverford College community for five days of workshops, master classes, lectures, and panel presentations on the role of comics in movements for social change.

Monday, October 19th: The Library, the John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center, and the Office of Alumni Relations present a Young Academic Alumni Lecture Series talk by Brendan Lanctot '00, University of Puget Sound. Tea at 4:15 pm - Lecture at 4:30 pm, Philips Wing, Magill Library.

Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, 4:30 pm, Sharpless Auditorium, KINSC. Moderated by Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Presented by the John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center in collaboration with Spector Projects.

Tuesday, Sept. 15th, Stokes 102, 10 PM: Learn more about student opportunities at the Hurford Humanities Center, including the Student Arts Fund, The E. Clyde Lutton '66 Memorial Fund For The Performing Arts, Student Seminars, Reading Groups and Research Stipends.

The connection between music and quantum mechanics was the subject of a three-day event that brought a trio of renowned artists working at the crossroads of music and technology to Haverford.

Student Seminars are interdisciplinary not-for-credit classes designed and run by students. This year topics range from how film changes the way we perceive music to how Disney's retellings claim ownership of original stories while inflecting complex issues suffusing the contemporary American cultural Imaginary. Application Deadline: Monday, April 27th.