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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

"among friends" student info session

“among friends” presents a series of four simultaneous, collaborative workshops in Spring 2009 that team contemporary artists William Pope.L, Nao Bustamante, Jennifer Delos Reyes, and Harrell Fletcher with Bi-co students and interested members of the community. HHC seeks to recruit students to assist these artists in creating, organizing, and executing their projects.

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Screening & Conversation with Student Filmmaker Stephanie Dax, NYU '10

Dax, an undergraduate film student at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts, will be screening some of her recent work and leading a conversation about every student’s predicament in reconciling her or his changing interests with her or his chosen major. Organized by Student Arts Fund Grant Recipient Goda Trakumaite '10.

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Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2009-11

The John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center of Haverford College invites applications for a two-year Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities to begin Fall 2009. We seek scholars interested in material and visual culture. Area of specialization is open, but might include performance studies, psychology, cultural history, anthropology, literary, sociology, religious and/or cultural studies. Scholars with broad historical and interdisciplinary concerns are encouraged to apply.

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Photo Movements: Works by Pato Hebert

The Hurford Humanities Center presents Photo Movements, an exhibition of work by Visiting Artist-in-Residence Pato Hebert. December 5 – 14, 2008 & January 20 - March 1, 2009.

Positive: HIV/AIDS in Uganda

The John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center presents a photography exhibit about HIV/AIDS in Uganda. The exhibit brings together the work of photographers Meredith Montague BMC '03 and Jenna Mulhall Brereton BMC '96.

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.