There’s not really a road map for success as a non-classical cello player and composer, so Nick Takénobu Ogawa ’05 has been making his own path, one instinctual step at a time. Ogawa has been playing shows and releasing recordings under the nom-de-music Takénobu since he graduated from Haverford.
Read "Mixed Media: Music" from the Winter 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.
Photo by Gregory Miller.
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This peace, justice, and human rights course is a study of recent work in Latin American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Diasporic critical theory and related resistance movements.
This first-year writing seminar introduces students to the many ways queer lives and theories challenge normative conceptions of linear time.
For the second straight year, the Black Students’ League Fashion Show drew a large crowd to the VCAM for a multifaceted artistic exploration of black experience and identity.
The 2019 Mellon Symposium, organized by Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Aniko Szucs, convened a diverse set of scholars to explore how surveillance has been carried out and undermined across national and temporal contexts.
The physics and astronomy double major from Oakland, Calif., will spend next year conducting research at the Max Planck institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
Both new and experienced players are encouraged to try their hand at the age-old game of strategy and perseverance.
The chemistry major from Seattle will spend next year at Lund University in Sweden, conducting research with his longtime collaborator Sara Linse.
For over 40 years, the Center for Career and Professional Advising has matched alumni working in a wide array of industries with interested Haverford students for hands-on experience in their chosen field.
The comparative literature major will spend next year teaching English classes at Wuhan University of Technology.
Ten Bi-Co students spent spring break experiencing culture in Japan through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan’s Friendship Ties Program.
Apr
22
Monday, April 22, 2019
2:30PM to 4:00PM
Sharpless Auditorium
From flies to mice to humans, organisms use similar cellular and molecular mechanisms to specify and pattern cell types, tissues, and organs. Leveraging research done in the Drosophila (fruit fly) model system, the talk by Distinguished Visitor James B. Skeath will discuss how a number of evolutionarily conserved cellular processes drive nervous system development in organisms ranging from flies to humans.
Apr
22
Monday, April 22, 2019
7:00PM to 10:00PM
Chase Auditorium
Sharkwater: Extinction (2018) is a thrilling and inspiring action packed journey that follows filmmaker Rob Stewart as he exposes the massive illegal shark fin industry and the political corruption behind it — a conspiracy that is leading to the extinction of sharks. Q&A with Ann Lewis, District Leader from the Humane Society of the United States, will follow the screening.
Apr
23
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
Sharpless Auditorium
This talk by Distinguished Visitor Anu Asnaani will explore psychological mechanisms by which anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder are maintained and treated, the integration of technology into bettering detection and targeting of such symptoms, and the importance of using a cross-cultural and diversity lens for this work.
Apr
23
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
6:30PM to 8:00PM
Hilles 109, KINSC
Join us for an overview of climate impacts on Pennsylvania and a discussion of opportunities to mitigate them. Jesse Lytle, Haverford College's chief sustainability officer will lead the way in this two-hour educational presentation. Free for all Arboretum members, Haverford College students, faculty, and staff. Non-members: $5. Registration is required, please call (610) 896-1102 or email jciborowsk@haverford.edu.
Apr
26
Friday, April 26, 2019
7:30PM to 10:00PM
Strawbridge Observatory
Join your friends and neighbors to stare at the stars, contemplate the constellations, and be amazed by astronomy—right in your own backyard. Local astronomers will bring dozens of telescopes to 20+ stargazing sites across the region to educate and inspire us all to better understand our universe. This is a rain or shine event.
Apr
28
Sunday, April 28, 2019
2:00PM to 5:00PM
Stokes Auditorium
This German-Jewish silent film from 1923 is a landmark of cinematic history. The drama contrasts the closed world of an Eastern European shtetl with the liberal mores of 1920s Vienna, as the son of a rabbi leaves his village to become an actor in the big city. The movie paints a complex portrait of the tension between tradition and modernity. Part of Yiddish Culture Festival.
Apr
28
Sunday, April 28, 2019
3:00PM to 5:00PM
Marshall Auditorium
The 120-voice Haverford-Bryn Mawr Chorale and Chorale Orchestra, conducted by Nathan Zullinger, will perform their Spring Concert featuring Chatman’s Proud Music of the Storm and Cherubini’s Requiem in C Minor.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.