Haverford’s Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM) facility houses the College’s Interdisciplinary Minor in Visual Studies, the Haverford Innovations Program, and the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities.
Visual Culture, Arts, and Media
Mohamed Ali '22 3D-printed a mechanical arm in the Maker Arts Space and developed code to allow the sensors on his arm to communicate with the robotic arm. Photo: Patrick Montero.
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Stephen Lippard ’62 returned to campus to talk about his time at Haverford and career with Ted Love ’81, students, and faculty.
Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
The English major will spend the year after his Haverford graduation traveling to four continents to explore communities through their barbershops thanks to the $30,000 award.
The College received a record number of applications this year and offered admission to 801 students.
This philosophy course addresses questions such as,“What is technology?” “Do we control technological innovation or does technology in some sense control us?” and “Does our entanglement in a technological world hinder or help us in communicating with one another?”
On May 18, the College will award honorary degrees to GLAD Civil Rights Project Director Mary L. Bonauto and actor, director, producer, and alum Daniel Dae Kim ’90.
Mohamed Ali ’22 created a robotic prosthetic hand in the College's Maker Space.
Jonah Salz ’78 was grappling with end-stage kidney disease, facing 12 hours of dialysis a week and a long wait for a donor kidney. Then classmate Rick Rybeck stepped forward and changed his life.
With plenty of jars and brine to go around, the brand new Bi-Co Pickling Team aims to spread pickling skills and conversation across campuses.
The former astrophysics major, now pursuing a Ph.D. in astronomy, has turned her undergraduate thesis research into a published article.
Upcoming Events
Mar
25
Jason Lutes: "Berlin"
Monday, March 25, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
VCAM 001 Screening Room
Join Distinguished Visitor Jason Lutes for a talk on Berlin. During the past two decades, Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism.
Mar
25
"Affective Justice: Rethinking the Survivor v. Perpetrator Refrain in International Criminal Law"
Monday, March 25, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
Chase Auditorium
Join us for a discussion between Distinguished Visitor Kamari Clarke, professor of international and global studies at Carleton University, and Sara Kendall, senior lecturer in law at the University of Kent.
Mar
25
"Home Fires Burning: Mothers, Motherland, and Return to Postconflict Liberia"
Monday, March 25, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
VCAM 201
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Liberia and over 180 interviews, Distinguished Visitor Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso investigates how women’s intersectional identities together with local and international agencies and systems, co-construct returnee women’s imbricated experiences of "home," and ultimately, shape their lives, their reintegration, and their nation.
Mar
26
People’s Paper Co-op Pop-Up Exhibit + Conversation with Members of the People's Paper Co-op and Reentry Think Tank
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
4:30PM to 6:30PM
VCAM Create Space Lounge
Join members of People’s Paper Co-op and Reentry Think Tank for the opening reception of their pop-up exhibition and conversation about the creative solutions these organizations deploy in transforming the stereotypes, social services, and platforms that impact our lives and communities.
Mar
26
"Empire's Tracks - Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad"
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
VCAM 201
Distinguished Visitor Manu Karuka's book, Empire’s Tracks, boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path.
Mar
26
"The Racist Origins of Christian Education"
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
Chase Auditorium
The number of private schools in the US approximately doubled in the decade after the Supreme Court ruled against public school segregation. Scholars have recently identified this phenomenon as part of the birth pangs of the modern Religious Right: explicitly motivated by anxiety over secularization but implicitly motivated by anxiety over racial integration. This talk by Distinguished Visitor Vincent Lloyd will explore the ambivalent Quaker response to this rapidly shifting landscape.
Mar
27
Introduction to Beekeeping
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
11:00AM to 12:00PM
Facilities Conference Room
Learn the basic principles of beekeeping in this introductory workshop with Eli St. Armour. If you have ever been interested in beekeeping now is the time to start this fun and environmentally sustainable hobby! Registration is required: call (610) 896-1102 or email jciborowsk@haverford.edu. Members, students, and faculty $10 | Non-members $15.
Mar
27
Race, Residential Segregation, and Policing in Philadelphia: A Conversation with NPR’s Gene Demby
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
12:30PM to 2:30PM
Stokes Auditorium
Gene Demby is the lead blogger and co-host of NPR's Code Switch, which explores "the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting."
Mar
27
“Antarctica and the Commons”
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
Hilles 109
Distinguished Visitor Cara Nine received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Arizona and her B.A. in philosophy from Carleton College. Her work mainly focuses on issues in justice and location, or how one's location (residence, territorial citizenship, etc) can affect what is owed to that person as a matter of justice.
Mar
27
Where Are You From? Stories of Belonging and Unbelonging
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
7:00PM to 9:30PM
Chase Auditorium
Join us for a performance and Q&A with writer and storyteller Nimisha Ladva. Her stories have been broadcast on NPR’s Newsworks and CommonSpace programs. In July 2018, her story, “An American Family,” was anthologized in The RISK! Book: True Stories People Never Thought They’d Dare to Share.
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