Department News

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.

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.

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.

Assistant Professor of English Theresa Tensuan ’89 explores socially relevant themes in contemporary comic books and graphic novels.

Rosen-Long is one of six fellows selected for their commitment to social justice and community action.

A roundtable discussion on the future of the humanities in an age of digital archivalism. Speakers include Laura Mandell, U. Miami- Ohio, Caroline Levander, Rice University, and Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford University. Supported, in part, with a grant for Symposium Speakers.

Professor of English Maud McInerney to give talk on what we can learn from the middle ages about issues today.

How does your experience and point of view influence what you see in photography and film? Visit the exhibit in Magill Library... see it right now on video.

Los Angeles artist Pato Hebert explores art and social justice in a public talk and semester-long residency.

Troubling Minds investigates the idea of genius in 19th c. American literature.

Professor Stephen Finley and Lewis Bauer '06 Explore the Historic Karakung Valley.

Amanda Lannert '94, President of Jellyvision, discusses how her educational and entertainment company attempts to make relationships between computers and their users friendlier.

Emily Taber '07’s backstage background comes in handy at People’s Light and Theatre Company in Malvern, Pa., where she currently interns courtesy of the Hurford Humanities Center.

His Last Night Home, which earned di Canzio a 2006 fellowship in theater from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA), is inspired by the 1997 incident involving the horrific physical and sexual abuse of Haitian security guard Abner Louima by four New York City policemen, chief among them Justin Volpe (on whom Leo is based).

Ben Hickernell '00 gets a leg up in movies.

Frank Conroy '58, Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Edmund Faltermayer '49's children's book, Clouds Go Wild, is posthumously published.

We asked faculty from the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities at Haverford to give us their thoughts about the upcoming year by responding to the following question: "What do you think will be the most significant development or trend in your field of study in 2004 and why?"