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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.
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Elizabeth Cohen-Scheer ’12 is the first recipient of an award from the President of Haverford College and the Hurford ’60 Humanities Center for student research in English literature; she’ll be in London, studying William Wordsworth at the British Library.
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Andrew Lanham ’10 has won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. Lanham, one of 32 winners from a field of 800 candidates, was one of only three U.S. Rhodes winners from a liberal arts college. Lanham described the rigorous application process as “a journey of self discovery.”
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The coveted award, given by the Cave Canem Foundation, goes to exceptional first books by African-American poets. Cave Canem faculty member Elizabeth Alexander, who was selected by President Obama to compose a poem for his inauguration, chose Pollock’s Spit Back a Boy for the award. The University of Georgia Press will publish the book in spring 2011.
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Natalie Zych '11 is spending this summer in Paris, interning with two organizations that work together to promote equality in France.
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Andrew Bostick '12 will be working with the CPGC on two agricultural projects over the summer: the maintenance of a student garden at Haverford and the writing of a proposal to make the garden a permanent program.
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Eleven English majors receive Humanities Center and Center for Peace and Global Citizenship internships this summer.
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A collaboration between Haverford’s Arboretum Association and Thomas Devaney’s Advanced Poetry Workshop led to “Under an Oak: A Tree Poetry Tour,” in which Devaney’s students read their original poems dedicated to campus trees.
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Bock drew on her experience as a student from a working-class, rural background to influence her paper, which was honored at the Geis Student Research on Women Conference.
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Join us for a symposium on Thurs., March 25 and Friday, March 26, 2010.
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A scale model of Canterbury Cathedral, some meat pies, and a witty video on Medieval sexual mores were just a few of the creative final projects conceived by students in Associate Professor of English Maud McInerney's Chaucer class.
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Professor of English Theresa Tensuan and filmmaker and bookstore buyer Mary DiLullo are shooting a documentary about the innovative writing workshops led by bestselling author and artist Lynda Barry.
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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.
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Assistant Professor of English Theresa Tensuan ’89 explores socially relevant themes in contemporary comic books and graphic novels.
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Andrew Lanham '10 will be working with the Pennsylvania Humanities Council
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Rosen-Long is one of six fellows selected for their commitment to social justice and community action.
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The following English majors will be interning both domestically and abroad this summer.
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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.
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Professor of English Maud McInerney to give talk on what we can learn from the middle ages about issues today.
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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.
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Bisceglio will pursue a master's degree in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick. He is among a handful of winners selected from nearly 600 applicants for U.K. Fulbrights.
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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.
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This seminar will explore the complex interchange between text and illustration, beginning with the glories of anonymous manuscript illuminators through late Medieval illustrations of Chaucer and early printings of the Bible.
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Los Angeles artist Pato Hebert explores art and social justice in a public talk and semester-long residency.
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The Philly Inquirer writes about Tom Devaney's poetry project,
ONandOnScreen, which marries poems to videos.
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English and fine arts double major Natasha Cohen-Carroll ‘13 spent the summer at a performing arts academy in Ahmedabad, India.
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We seek student researchers who are excited about the field, interested in developing and presenting projects of their own, and willing to encourage enthusiasm at their home campuses. Deadline: November 11, 2011
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Friday, Sept. 23, 4:30 PM, Chase Auditorium: Iain Pollock’s acclaimed collection of poetry was published by The University of Georgia Press this year, and won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize in 2010. Sponsored by Distinguished Visitors Fund, the Department of English, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the John B. Hurford ‘60 Humanities Center. OMA Passport Event.
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Hannah Miller ’13 is spending the summer working at a school and orphanage in Guatemala through a CPGC funded internship.
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Jacob Horn and Jenny Sanford (both class of ’13) are spending the summer interning at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Michael Franklin '12 is spending the summer with the Mapping Du Bois Project at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, developing a high school curriculum about race relations in the 7th Ward of Philadelphia.
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The recent grad will take home $1000 for her story, “The New Neighbor.”
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For their John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center sponsored Student Research Assistantship, Kyle McCloskey ’11 and Karina Puttieva ’11 will be at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) in Los Angeles, a non-profit, tax-exempt educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and circulates domestic and international political posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change.
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On February 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Woodside Cottage, Anya Krugovoy Silver '90 will read from her recently published collection of poetry, “The Ninety-Third Name of God”
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November 11 - 12, 2010: Join us for our first student-run undergraduate symposium! Exploring topics as diverse as digital archivalism, pop media, and the (re)tooling of textual analysis in undergraduate scholarship. Organized by students at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges.
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Monday, October 18 from 6-7:30 p.m. in the HHC’s Seminar Room, Stokes 102. Winner of the Marten Toonder Prize and The Irish American Culture Institute Prize for Literature, his work has been compared by some to Dante, John Milton and Patrick Kavanagh,but most often to John Donne. Hearty refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Humanities Center through its Leaves of Grass Fund.
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Sharada Tolton '11 is interning with Shakespeare in Clark Park in Philadelphia to assist with this summer's production.
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Eisenberg's winning short story, originally published in the Haverford Review, is featured in the online anthology Plain China: Best Undergraduate Writing 2009.
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Troubling Minds investigates the idea of genius in 19th c. American literature.
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Professor Stephen Finley and Lewis Bauer '06 Explore the Historic Karakung Valley.
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Colette Freedman '90, playwright and producer, introduces a new play called "Sister Cities."
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Amanda Lannert '94, President of Jellyvision, discusses how her educational and entertainment company attempts to make relationships between computers and their users friendlier.
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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.
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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).
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Ben Hickernell '00 gets a leg up in movies.
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Frank Conroy '58, Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop
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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?"
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Kim Benston, Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center, will be the faculty mentor for next year's Humanities Center Student Seminar, "Musical Sampling and Cultural Appropriation in Hip-Hop", which is designed and run by English major James Kittler and Growth & Structure of Cities major Duncan Cooper.
The segment explores the work of poet Thomas Devaney and his collaboration on the book The Picture That Remains with photographer Will Brown.Watch the segment on Vimeo