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Here's a rundown of Inauguration Week activities. Couldn't attend? Check out the multimedia below and here's a link to our coverage of the inauguration itself.
Saturday, September 29:
3 p.m. Ben Wendel 04 and Rachel Nehmer 04 present a trapeze performance with Scotty Walsh, cabaret artist, vaudevillian, and clown provocateur.
5:30-7:30 p.m. Opening reception for three photography exhibits: Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War; Emancipation and Denigration: Thomas Nast and His Colleagues Picture Black America; and A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio. Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Sunday, September 30:
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Lessons in trapeze artistry and juggling with Ben Wendel 04 and Rachel Nehmer 04. Alumni Field House
3 p.m. The John B. Hurford 60 Humanities Centers Residency Program presents a concert by V.S. Narasimhan, violinist. Narasimhan will be performing with students featuring his original fusions of South Indian and Western classical music. MacCrate Hall, Union Building
http://www.haverford.edu/musc/CurrentSeason.html#Narasimhan
Tuesday, October 2:
4:15 p.m. A talk by Physics Distinguished Visitor, Anthony Dinsmore, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Ameherst titled, "How Crystals Melt: Colloids as a Tool for Studying Phase Transitions." Tea at 4:15, Talk at 4:30. KINSC H109
Wednesday, October 3:
6 p.m. Women-Led Firms and the Gender Gap in Top Executive Jobs. Inaugural Talk by Provost Linda Bell for the John Hurford Professorship. Sharpless Auditorium, Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center. Reception immediately following the talk in the KINSC Rotunda. Prof. Bell summarizes her findings in this video clip: http://www.haverford.edu/newpresident/belltalk.php
Watch the entire presentation here, including an introduction by President Emerson.
Thursday, October 4:
4:00 p.m. "Centers of Learning, Discovery and Renewal" Panel Discussion. A Panel Discussion with the directors of the three centers and a student research symposium featuring the work of selected students: Koshland Integrated Natural Science Center, Suzanne Amador Kane Hurford Humanities Center, Kim Benston Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Parker Snowe ‘79.
KINSC Student oral presenters: Hernan Sanchez '08, Chemistry major Emily Hinchcliff '08, Biology major
CPGC oral presenters: Corey Chao '08 "Appalachian Media Made Home" Jenny Rabinowich '08 "Health Care for the Urban Poor in Kenya"
Hurford Humanities Center oral presenters: Mari Christmas '08, Philosophy, Spanish minor Jacob Carroll ’09, English, minors in History of Art & History at Bryn Mawr College
Following the presentation, dozens of student researchers from all disciplines presented their work at a "poster display" reception in Zubrow Commons of the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center. Here are photos from the event.
Staff writer Brenna McBride reports from the presentation.
Friday, October 5:
5 p.m. Norm Pearlstine '64, former editor-in-chief of Time Inc., author of Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources. Marshall Auditorium, Roberts Hall.
Norm Pearlstine '64 spoke to students, faculty, alumni and guests the afternoon before the inauguration ceremony. Highlights of his talk (which included a Q&A Session) include: