Past Events

9/9-9/12/07		Arts Residency: Classical Manipuri Dances of India, Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri and her company, in residence at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, sponsored by Leaves of Grass Fund. Sunday, September 9, 4:30 p.m., Public Performance, Marshall Auditorium, Roberts Hall Monday, September 10, 4:15 p.m., Manipuri Dancing: From Temple to Theater, Lecture, Chase Auditorium, Haverford College Tuesday, September 11, 7:30 p.m., Classical Elements of Manipuri Dance, Lecture-Demonstration, Goodhart Music Room, Bryn Mawr College, followed by reception Wednesday, September 12, 7 p.m., The Role of Rhythm in Manipuri Dance and Drumming, Lecture Demonstration, Whitehead Campus Center 313, Haverford College
9/15/07		Performance: Foreigner, a one-woman play, written and performed by Anisa George, that depicts how faith, identity and culture clash as Ms. George reenacts her upbringing and solo journey to Islamic Iran seeking the roots of her faith. Marshall Auditorium at 8 p.m. This performance was co-sponsored by the Baha'i Club at Haverford.
9/17-9/30/07		Arts Residency: V.S. Narasimhan, Composer in Residence An accomplished violinist in both Karnatic and Western classical traditions, Mr. Narasimhan offered workshops to the students at Haverford and Bryn Mawr on South Indian classical music and composition. His performance on Sunday, September 23rd was a traditional South Indian classical concert. On Sunday, September 30th, he led students in a string quartet concert featuring some of his recent and highly original “fusions” of South Indian and Western classical music. MacCrate Recital Hall, Union Building. Sponsored by the Kessinger Family Fund for Asian Performing Arts and Leaves of Grass Fund.
9/29-10/28/07		Three Exhibits Exploring African American History Haverford College presented three exhibits exploring pivotal aspects of African American history through photography and political satire: 1) The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War photography by Haverford Professor of Fine Arts William Earle Williams (To see a slide show on the exhibit, please visit: http://www.haverford.edu/ gallery/unsungheroes/) 2) The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Emancipation and Denigration: Thomas Nast and His Colleagues Picture Black America, wood engravings. 3) Hurford Humanities Center Gallery (Stokes Hall, Room 102) and the Multicultural Center (Stokes, 106) A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio, photography by Coriana Close.
9/29/07		Symposium: Outsourcing Philosophy This Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium symposium highlighted philosophical labor done outside the disciplinary boundary of philosophy, Sharpless Auditorium, 1-5:30 p.m., followed by a reception in Zubrow Commons.
10/10/07		"Beyond the Lens" Film Screening and Conversation: Filmmaker Vicky Funari screened her documentary, Live! Nude! Girls!, about the unionizing efforts of dancers at San Francisco's Lusty Lady, 7 p.m., Sharpless Auditorium.
10/27/07		Symposium: From Slavery to Freedom: The Formation of African American and American Identity, related to the exhibits in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery and the Humanities Center's exhibitions space, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. in Stokes Hall, Room 102. .
11/14/07		Performance: What's Love Got to Do with It?, a public reading and performance of Plato's Symposium, Sunken Lounge, Dining Center, 4 p.m.-??? with refreshments provided by the Humanities Center.
12/5/07		"Beyond the Lens" Film Screening and Conversation: Filmmaker Vicky Funari screened her documentary, Paulina, about a working-class Mexican woman who was traded away for land when she was a child and returns as an adult to confront her family, 7 p.m., Sharpless Auditorium. Also present at the screening was co-creator Paulina Cruz.
1/25-2/24/08		Cantor Fitzgerald Exhibit: *“Selling of Happiness in China,”* Twenty-three advertising posters which played a crucial role during the political change and economic expansion of early 20th-century Shanghai. Opening reception from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, January 25th. “Selling Happiness” exhibit was made possible with the support of the Robert Brown Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Jan-Mar 08		Workshop: Haverford 's Distinguished Filmmaker-in-Residence for 2007-08 Louis Massiah conducted a four session workshop on the making of video documentaries with a group of faculty, students, and staff.
1/28/08		Faculty Seminar 07-08 Guest Speaker: John Mraz of the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, a talk at 4:15 p.m: "Image and Identity in Mexico from the Occupation to the Revolution," in Gest 101.
2/9/08		Student Initiated Arts Event: The Center sponsored a master class with guitarist and Professor of Music David Fiuczynski (Berklee College of Music) at 3 p.m. in Lunt Basement. Open to the public.
2/13/08		Documentary Film Screening: Distinguished Artist in Residence at Haverford and award-winning documentary film maker, Louis Massiah screened Power!, from the PBS television series, Eyes on the Prize, at 7 p.m. in Sharpless Auditorium. Screening was followed by a Q&A session. Produced, directed and written by Louis Massiah and Terry Kay Rockefeller, Power! chronicles the call for Black Power in 1966-68 that took various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor of a major American city. The Black Panther Party, armed with law books, breakfast programs, and guns, was founded in Oakland, CA. Substandard teaching prompted parents to take educational control of a Brooklyn school district and led to a showdown with New York City's teachers' union.
2/15/08		Student Initiated Arts Event: In recognition of Black History Month, the Humanities Center and the Women's Center co-sponsored a performance by spoken word poet Roger Nonair-Agard at 7 p.m. in Founders Common Room.
2/16/08		Young Academic Alumni Lecture: Aaron Ritzenberg ’98, Yale University, “A Touch of Miss Lonelyhearts,” Philips Wing, Magill Library, tea at 4:15 p.m., talk at 4:30 p.m.
2/22-4/13/08		Three Exhibitions of Thought-Provoking Photographs by Clarissa Sligh: “Jake in Transition,” “100 Americans: A Presence of the Past In Philadelphia” and “Masculinities.” These exhibits were made possible through the John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center's Leaves of Grass Fund. 100 Americans: A Presence of the Past in Philadelphia was in the Multicultural Center. This exhibit was originally commissioned by the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Sligh took digital portraits of citizens of African descent in the streets of Philadelphia and then hung 100 portraits as an introduction to the museum’s exhibit on African-American histories. The Magill Library Study Gallery presented Masculinities, in which images such as a stay-at-home dad, a burly flower arranger, a “butch” female in repose, and a gun-toting cowgirl challenge gender assumptions and boundaries in order to interrogate them. Jake in Transition was featured in the gallery of the Hurford Humanities Center. This photo essay chronicles a female-to-male transition and interprets transgender identities through narratives of racial “passing.” A roundtable discussion on “Jake in Transition” was held Friday, April 4. Participants included photographer Clarissa Sligh; Israel Burshatin, Barbara Riley Levin Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Spanish, and curator of the exhibit; Gayle Salamon, Costen LGBT Postdoctoral Fellow from the Society of Fellows in Liberal Arts at Princeton University; Heidi Schlipphacke, Visiting Associate Professor of German; and William E. Williams, Professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Photography.
2/ 22/08		Lutton Fund Performance: Caroline Goldstein '08 presented a concert of original compositions and arrangements written by musicians at Haverford and Bryn Mawr College at 7:30 p.m. in Marshall Auditorium, Roberts Hall.
2/29-3/30/08		Cantor Fitzgerald Exhibit: More than 25 landscape paintings and charcoal drawings by Norman Turner. Opening reception on February 29, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. and Artist’s Talk on Wednesday, March 5 at 4:30 p.m.
4/4-5/4/08		Cantor Fitzgerald Exhibit: Spiritual Medicine, a solo exhibition of mixed-media works by Hee Sook Kim, chair of fine arts at Haverford. On April 14, composer Christopher Shultis performed a musical response to the exhibit which included playing an amplified cactus. http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/7751/51
4/10-4/11/08		Student Initiated Arts Project: The Humanities Center co-sponsored the "Hip Hop Academic Panel and Concert" held during Multicultural Prospective Student Weekend.
4/17-4/27/08		Exhibit: I Really Like It But Could You Change the Color and the Design?, an exhibit in celebration of the posters and flyers designed by Bianca Bromberger for Hurford Humanities Center programs and events from 2006-2008. In Stokes 102. Opening reception, April 17 from 4:30-6:00 p.m.
4/18-4/19/08		2008 Mellon Symposium: Shakespeare and the Blending Mind, organized by Michael Booth, 2006-08 Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow
4/25/08		Symposium: Legacies of Civil War & Revolution, Greece, Guatemala, Turkey, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Room 102, Stokes Hall, sponsored by Distinguished Visitors Office and Hurford ’60 Humanities Center.
5/9-5/18/08		Cantor Fitzgerald Exhibit: Senior Fine Arts Majors Thesis Exhibit

Symposium: Legacies of Civil War & Revolution, Greece, Guatemala, Turkey, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Room 102, Stokes Hall, sponsored by Distinguished Visitors Office and Hurford ’60 Humanities Center.